Month: November 2024

Bust
Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama admiring “Epstein #1,” the Churchill bust that’s been in the White House since 1965. (Official White House photo.)
It’s Baaaack! The Epstein Churchill Bust Kerfuffle, Round 4

It’s Baaaack! The Epstein Churchill Bust Kerfuffle, Round 4

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Since 1965 has been an Epstein Churchill bust at the White House, uninterrupted now for six decades. Current media confusion surrounds the SECOND Epstein, which makes regular visits on loan from the British Embassy, where it is in the Embassy’s art collection. Epstein #1 is part of the permanent White House collection. Epstein #2 is an “optional extra” at the White House, depending on the whim of the occupant. Every President is entitled to the totems of his choice.

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Benson
Tim Benson and the Cartoonists’ Churchill

Tim Benson and the Cartoonists’ Churchill

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Benson devotes himself mainly to the Second World War. The uplifting spirit of British cartoonists in the black days of 1940-41 is at once evident. A glow of resolve swept Britain; there were no carping media midgets such as we hear from today. That was a time, as Churchill put it, “when it was equally good to live or die.” The pace picks up as Hitler invades Russia. The Daily Sketch pictures Roosevelt leading a sailing race in a boat marked “Lend-Lease.” Melbourne’s Herald adds Aussie humor: Tojo being fed a cigar (lit end first), and wrestler Churchill putting a toe-hold on a screaming Mussolini. This is a first-class work of scholarship in addition to high entertainment.

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Comparisons
Picasso’s “Guernica,” reproduced in ceramics. (Photo by Zarateman, Creative Commons)
Stop the Churchill Comparisons! (Part #1,234)

Stop the Churchill Comparisons! (Part #1,234)

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Really, these Churchill comparisons need to stop. We cannot postulate what Churchill would do about any issue or problem today. It doesn't seem far-fetched to suggest that in today's Middle East. his focus would be on the main danger. Figure out what that is, and you too can may find comparisons Winston Churchill. But, in a larger sense, there is nobody so far in the 21st century who is comparable to WSC. Nobody.

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Diesel
Meeting of great minds: Rudolf Diesel (left) with Thomas Edison (seated) in Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory, with (from left) Ellen Rice, Edison engineer J.W. Lieb Jr. and Martha Diesel, 1912. (U.S. National Park Service, public domain)
Unanswered Questions: Churchill and Rudolf Diesel

Unanswered Questions: Churchill and Rudolf Diesel

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It is known that Rudolf Diesel boarded the “Dresden” that fatal October in 1913 intending to meet with the British about licensing his invention. By then Churchill and Fisher were well along on the conversion from coal to oil for capital ships, and WSC had secured an oil supply through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. How far Diesel developments had affected designs for submarines or Churchill’s “landship” (the tank) bears further investigation. 

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