March 2021 - Richard M. Langworth

“The Packard”: Ne Plus Ultra of Automotive House Organs (1)

31 March 2021 Comments 0 Comments

The Q&A column ended with a confessional: "After this severe mental strain the Query Editor is working on the higher mathematics and differential calculus as a mild form of relaxation." And that was the whole idea, wasn't it? The Packard was a celebration—of all that was best in a young, dynamic company. The grand marque couldn't have had a better champion.

Harold Begbie: “The Man Who Did God for the Westminster Gazette”

26 March 2021 Comments 0 Comments

“Harold Begbie” is excerpted from an article for the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. To view the original, click here. To SUBSCRIBE for fresh articles weekly from the Churchill Project, reaching 60,000 readers worldwide: Click here, scroll to bottom, enter your email address in the box entitled “Stay in touch with us.” Your email address is never given out and will remain a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

“The hand of destiny”

The Hillsdale College Churchill Project’s updated bibliography of works about Churchill has produced gratifying interest in early biographies.…

Foreword to a Review of “The Racial Consequences of Mr. Churchill”

20 March 2021 Comments 1 Comment

“The Racial Consequences of Mr. Churchill”: A Review

The following is my foreword only to an analysis of the recent Churchill College panel, by Zewditu Gebreyohanes and Andrew Roberts. They followed a maxim of Randolph Churchill in the official biography: “I am interested only in the truth.” Every Churchill scholar is in their debt.

Foreword

Eighty-eight years ago Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and the Oxford Union passed a resolution: “That this House refuses in any circumstances to fight for King and Country.” A week later Winston Churchill said: “We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Union.…