No cards, no flowers: Churchill on Stalin’s Death
Joseph Stalin 1878-1953
A correspondent to the Financial Times has slipped a red herring into the store of Winston Churchill quotations.
In a letter to the FT on April 14th, Mary Ellen Synon was defending Irish Taoiseach Eamon de Valera’s 1945 letter to the German Embassy in Dublin expressing condolences on the suicide death of Adolf Hitler. Ms. Synon suggested that this was just a formality; after all, Churchill sent condolences to Moscow on the death of Stalin.
For the record, Winston Churchill sent no condolences, made no speeches, didn’t even send a sympathy card, on the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953.…