http://localhost:8080/pocahontas Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/pocahontas#comment-41280 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 14:27:08 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=10851#comment-41280 Apparently some believed in the story, and even went one up on it. See Andrew Roberts’ Walking with Destiny p.175: “Lord Crawford, who was in 1912 the Conservative Chief Whip, naturally put the worst possible construction on Churchill’s involvement [in a supposed ‘pogrom’ against Ulster]. ‘There was clear evidence of an elaborate conspiracy,’ he wrote, ‘hatched I doubt not by Churchill, and probably not communicated to Asquith and the respectable members of the Cabinet.’ Crawford put it down to ancestry and ‘the Indo-Mexican* strains in Churchill’s blood which explains the unaccountable fits of madness’.”
* The Jeromes were (wrongly) reputed to have Native American blood; where the Mexican idea came from is not known.
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Wish I’d known that on the drive back from Plimouth Plantation. There’s a Mexican restaurant with a special hidden menu for Mexicans offering far superior enchiladas. Winston could have talked them into serving us if he’d known. RML

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