http://localhost:8080/randolph-churchill-official-biography-3 Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:23:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/randolph-churchill-official-biography-3#comment-66268 Wed, 21 Jun 2023 18:32:41 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=8975#comment-66268 Your excellent article mentions Evelyn Waugh in passing but not his very close association with Randolph during and oon after WW2, as revealed in Waugh’s published Diaries and Autobiography. Randolph and Waugh trained together as Commandos in Scotland, and then soldiered together in North Africa and Yugoslavia.
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Randolph-Waugh repartee is world famous, notably Waugh’s announcement (to the bar at White’s, after Randolph’s operation for a benign tumor: “Leave it to modern medical science to cut out of Randolph the only bit that was not malignant.” RSC, amused as always, sent the devout Catholic Waugh an Easter card, wishing him a “Happy Resurrection.” Sir Fitzroy Maclean, who served with them both in Yugoslavia, told me many other anecdotes, mostly unprintable. Hoping to get Randolph to stop dominating the conversation, they bet him that he couldn’t read the Bible through without saying a word. Randolph didn’t get through Genesis before exclaiming, “God–isn’t God a s—!” (My remembrance of Fitzroy is here.) -RML

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