Churchill Not a Zionist?

January 12, 2012

The ideas peo­ple have about Churchill never cease to amaze. The Churchill Soci­ety of Israel will serve Israelis with an inter­est in Sir Win­ston Churchill, accord­ing to Rus­sell Roth­stein, quoted by Tim Walker in the Jan­u­ary 9th Daily Tele­graph: “Churchill’s long-standing sup­port of Zion­ism and friend­ship with the Jew­ish peo­ple make it par­tic­u­larly appro­pri­ate that the modern [...]

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Oldest Vessel Named for Churchill

January 4, 2012

The 15-meter sloop Win­ston Churchill is one of sev­eral Churchill name­sake ves­sels to have car­ried an heroic crew. The ven­er­a­ble sail­boat, the old­est ves­sel named for Sir Win­ston, sank dur­ing the chal­leng­ing Syd­ney to Hobart Yacht Race in 1998, but all hands were rescued. The hero­ism of her crew matches that of the USS Win­ston S. Churchill, the [...]

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Driving Ms. Nancy

January 2, 2012

MODBURY, DEVON, JANUARY 1ST— The Daily Mail reports restora­tion of a 1923 Rolls-Royce Sil­ver Ghost “once used by Sir Win­ston Churchill” by Devon restorer Char­lie Tope: “The vin­tage motor is said to have served the for­mer British Prime Min­is­ter when he used it to give dri­ving lessons to the first female Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, Lady Astor, on a Kent [...]

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Churchill and the “Feeble-Minded,” Part 2

December 18, 2011

con­tin­ued from part 1… Churchill’s early atti­tudes toward British “moral supe­ri­or­ity” were unfounded—but he was born into a world in which vir­tu­ally all his coun­try­men believed the same thing, from the Sov­er­eign to a Covent Gar­den gro­cer. And yet it was Churchill, the aris­to­cratic Vic­to­rian, who argued that Sudanese had a “claim beyond the grave…no less good [...]

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Churchill and the “Feeble-Minded,” Part 1

December 17, 2011

We pub­lished in Finest Hour an account of Churchill’s youth­ful (circa 1910) fling with Eugen­ics, a pseudo-science pop­u­lar at the turn of the cen­tury, that favored ster­il­iz­ing or con­fin­ing the “feeble-minded” to “main­tain the race” (race being what­ever race the Eugen­ics enthu­si­ast hap­pened to be). This drew an irate let­ter from a man who said he will never [...]

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