Averell Harriman Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman 1920-1997

10 February 2021 Comments 0 Comments

Excerpted from “Great Contemporaries, Pamela Harriman,” Hillsdale College Churchill Project. To read the full-strength original with more illustrations, click here. Better yet, join 60,000 readers of Hillsdale essays by the world’s best Churchill writers. by subscribing. You will receive regular notices (“Weekly Winstons”) of new articles as published. Visit https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/, scroll to bottom and fill in your email in the box entitled “Stay in touch with us.” Your email will remain a riddle wrapped a mystery inside an enigma.

Pamela: she got there on her own

In December 1941 Winston Churchill. disarming whatever critics he still had, told the U.S.…

Churchill on Trial: Washington, 1953

19 February 2016 Comments 1 Comment

In early 1953, Winston Churchill was placed on trial by his peers, with President Truman the presiding judge, for complicity in the use of atomic bombs. To anyone who may write to say that he and Truman were making light of events causing thousands of deaths, the answer is twofold: 1) How do you know they were making light?; and 2) This is in answer to a historical query. Sources: Clark Clifford, recollection, to Richard Langworth, 1988. Margaret Truman, “After the Presidency,” in Life, 1 December 1972, 69-70. Also recorded in her book, Harry S. Truman.

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Margaret Truman wrote: “During our last weeks in the White House, Prime Minister Churchill arrived for a visit.…