Comments on: “Churchill’s Unmerited Nobel Prize”

By: Or

Or — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:53:08 +0000

Sometimes I can’t believe how a generation could be so ungrateful. Regardless of his beliefs or character, I don’t think anyone ever lived saved more human lives. A true hero.

By: Richard Langworth

Richard Langworth — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:42:53 +0000

In reply to Peret. Thanks to the late Bill Rusher for this quatrain by the 19th century poet Coventry Patmore: ”For want of me the world’s course will not fail. When all its work is done the lie shall rot. The Truth is great and shall prevail, When none cares whether it prevail or not.”

By: Peret

Peret — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 02:01:42 +0000

It saddens me to see generations that seek to tear down the great to fit their own beliefs, especially when the great are no longer around to defend themselves. We are fortunate to have people like the writer of this article. He uses the historical record to defend Churchill, who deserves to be defended, especially in this case.

By: Richard Munro

Richard Munro — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 18:04:23 +0000

As one who has read Churchill's canon almost in entirety I find it incredible that anyone who has read his works could doubt the worthiness of his Nobel Prize for Literature. In oratory he is a Pericles or Cicero; in history and biography he is a Thucydides or Plutarch; in quantity and quality of prose he is a Dickens. In essay he is a Montaigne or Orwell. In fact, Churchill is one of the few indispensable authors of the modern age. His greatness as an author endures as ephemeral authors fade away. I have said nothing of his humanity or statesmanship, two of his most important and enduring qualities. The real omission for Churchill was that he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize. But as far Literature is concerned all I can say is "what took them so long?"