Comments on: Assault on Winston Churchill, 2018: A Reader’s Guide http://localhost:8080/assault-winston-churchill-readers-guide Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:59:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Richard Langworth http://localhost:8080/assault-winston-churchill-readers-guide#comment-27956 Sat, 30 Mar 2019 16:04:50 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=6634#comment-27956 In reply to Frederick Guy.

I’m not sure what you are asking. The famine was exacerbated by three main things: the weather, the Japanese invasion of Burma, and hoarding by local merchants. British policy was to win a world war. The documents are conclusive that the British did all they could, in that context, to relieve the starvation, and eventually did. Of course Churchill (and the War Cabinet) were responsible. So was the Viceroy, Field Marshall Wavell. Without them, the Bengal Famine would have been worse.

]]> By: Frederick Guy http://localhost:8080/assault-winston-churchill-readers-guide#comment-27915 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:52:37 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=6634#comment-27915 Those documents prove what: that the Bengal famine of 1942 was not exacerbated by British policy, or that Churchill was not responsible for the policy, or that British policymakers could not have known that their policies were having this effect?

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