December 2022 - Richard M. Langworth

Munro in the Civil & Military Gazette, Lahore, 1 January 1942

Happy New Year: “May we all come through safe and with honour”

30 December 2022 Comments 2 Comments

Churchill entered the dining carriage amid cheers and applause, raising his glass to the company. “It was with no illusions,” he wrote, “that I wished them all a glorious New Year.... 'Here’s to 1942, here’s to a year of toil—a year of struggle and peril, and a long step forward towards victory. May we all come through safe and with honour.'"

Churchill, Wells, and Government by “Experts”

26 December 2022 Comments 1 Comment

Churchill shared Wells’s faith in science, but he never lost his reservations about experts. Four months after they met, he declared in Parliament: “It was a principle of our Constitution not to employ experts, whether business men or military men, in the highest affairs of State.” Four decades laster he reiterated: “Expert knowledge, however indispensable, is no substitute for a generous and comprehending outlook upon the human story with all its sadness and with all its unquenchable hope.”

Bull in a China Shop: John Foster Dulles? Not Churchill’s Line

20 December 2022 Comments 0 Comments

"This fellow preaches like a Methodist Minister, and his bloody text is always the same: that nothing but evil can come out of meeting with Malenkov. Dulles is a terrible handicap. Ten years ago I could have dealt with him.... I have been humiliated by my own decay."