Comments on: Churchill’s Potent Political Nicknames: Adm. Row-Back to Wuthering Height http://localhost:8080/opposition-nicknames Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Sat, 29 May 2021 20:22:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Richard M. Langworth http://localhost:8080/opposition-nicknames#comment-35314 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:22:50 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=9572#comment-35314 In reply to Peter Badenoch.

Good one, I’ll add it to the list!

]]> By: Richard M. Langworth http://localhost:8080/opposition-nicknames#comment-35313 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:22:01 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=9572#comment-35313 In reply to A. Capet.

Wonderful! Added to the list.

]]> By: Richard M. Langworth http://localhost:8080/opposition-nicknames#comment-35312 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:20:03 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=9572#comment-35312 In reply to Jeff Morris.

Thanks for that! Or even better, “Corporal Schicklgrüber.”

]]> By: Jeff Morris http://localhost:8080/opposition-nicknames#comment-35304 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 03:18:46 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=9572#comment-35304 I think my favorite nickname he gave Hitler was not so much a nickname, but a reminder of Hitler’s highest rank achieved in the army. “They have of course the consolation of knowing that they have been commanded and led, not by the German General Staff, but by Corporal Hitler himself.” —World Broadcast, 29 November 1942.

]]> By: Richard Cohen http://localhost:8080/opposition-nicknames#comment-35301 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 21:14:54 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=9572#comment-35301 Highly amusing superb research

]]> By: Peter Badenoch http://localhost:8080/opposition-nicknames#comment-35300 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 20:48:46 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=9572#comment-35300 Holy Fox for Lord Halifax?

]]> By: A. Capet http://localhost:8080/opposition-nicknames#comment-35297 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:37:00 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=9572#comment-35297 Excellent list – many thanks.
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One of my favourites (particularly thorny when you have to translate it into French, as I had to do on at least two occasions, since a French eye does not perceive the joke) : “Useless” Percy for Eustace Percy (attested in published letters to Clementine).

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