Comments on: Churchill and George Bernard Shaw: Less than Meets the Eye http://localhost:8080/george-bernard-shaw Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Sun, 24 Jul 2022 19:46:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: LEE BENHAM http://localhost:8080/george-bernard-shaw#comment-58479 Sun, 24 Jul 2022 19:19:23 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=9608#comment-58479 If Shaw was lying in the initial denial, would Churchill have called him out? I think unlikely.
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A good point, but Shaw’s emphatic denial, threatening to sue anybody who quoted it, suggests he was fairly determined to claim it never existed. Lacking any further proof, we have to take them at their word. -RML

]]> By: Richard M. Langworth http://localhost:8080/george-bernard-shaw#comment-35406 Sat, 21 Mar 2020 14:33:45 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=9608#comment-35406 In reply to Richard Mahoney.

I feel your pain. I’ve dined out on that one a score of times. Here’s what to do. Say they both hotly denied it, but if it isn’t true it is so much in character for them both that it ought to be.

]]> By: Richard Mahoney http://localhost:8080/george-bernard-shaw#comment-35404 Sat, 21 Mar 2020 13:52:01 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=9608#comment-35404 I believe this exchange. It has always seemed totally in character—- denial just reinforces it. What proof do I have? None! I like it too much to give it up. If we believed every denial by notables— “I was quoted out of context” for example— we would be left with no public and controversial statements by politicians.

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