Comments on: Churchill on Duty: Representatives of the People, Please Note http://localhost:8080/constitutional-duty Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:09:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Jim Schmuck http://localhost:8080/constitutional-duty#comment-67836 Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:17:19 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=16012#comment-67836 Thank you so much. I enjoy and avidly look forward to your comments.
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Jim

]]> By: Jim Schmuck http://localhost:8080/constitutional-duty#comment-67832 Sat, 26 Aug 2023 14:07:42 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=16012#comment-67832 Do you find Churchill remarks on his relationship with General George C. Marshall during their times together during the Second World War, particularly the times they shared during the several conferences with the United States and the Soviet Union? Thank you, Jim.
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Jim: Yes indeed. Here are two remarks about Marshall (the first quoting Shakespeare), from the 5th edition of my quotation book Churchill by Himself, to be published in 2024: “That is the noblest Roman of them all. His work in training the American armies has been wonderful. I will pay tribute to it one day when the occasion offers.” (16 July 1945, Potsdam. WSC is quoting Mark Antony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act 5, Scene 5, line 68.) The occasion was offered in the fourth volume of his war memoirs…
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“Hitherto I had thought of Marshall as a rugged soldier and a magnificent organiser and builder of armies—the American Carnot. But now I saw that he was a statesman with a penetrating and commanding view of the whole scene.” (1950, The Hinge of Fate, 726–77. Lazare Nicolas Marquerite, Comte Carnot (1753–1823), known as the “Organizer of Victory” in the French revolutionary wars. He left public life in 1804, but returned loyally to serve Napoleon in 1812–15.)
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Subscribe to the Hillsdale College Churchill Project (see paragraph 1) and you will shortly be reading “Great Contemporaries: George Catlett Marshall,” by Professor Raymond Callahan. Also, if you haven’t already, do watch Orson Welles’ impressions of Hitler, Marshall and Churchill (the last very funny) with Dick Cavett on YouTube. RML

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