Josip Broz Tito Archives - Richard M. Langworth

The Macleans at Strachur, ca. 1960. Sir Fitzroy and Lady Veronica née Fraser with their two sons, Charles (now the 2nd Baronet) and Alexander. (Ccab2bb, Creative Commons)

Wit and Wisdom: Fitzroy Maclean, 1911-1996

30 June 2023 Comments 2 Comments

"Today, looking back over a long life, I can honestly say that almost the only things in which I take any conscious pride or esteem in one way or another is my association with Winston Churchill. After the war I was lucky enough to be a member of his Government and also, with my wife, to be asked every now and then to Chequers or Chartwell to join him and his family in their noisy, affectionate, hilarious, often uproarious family life. That, as a friend said to me the other day, was something that left you both wiser and also warmer at heart." —Sir Fitzroy

Present at the Creation: Randolph Churchill and the Official Biography (1)

8 August 2019 Comments 0 Comments

“Randolph Churchill: Present at the Creation,” is taken from a lecture aboard the Regent Seven Seas Explorer on the 2019 Hillsdale College Cruise around Britain, 8 June 2019.

Most everybody has an inkling of who Winston Churchill was. But how many know of his son Randolph? How many British schoolchildren do you think have heard of him? Do they know that Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, who some think was a real person? They should, Sir Arthur was a great writer. Like Randolph Churchill, who founded the longest biography ever written. In the words of Dean Acheson, he was “present at the creation.”…

Churchill Qualities: Leadership, Judgment, Humanity

26 May 2017 Comments 0 Comments

Qualities

Written for a colleague who asked various contributors for 300 words on the qualities of Winston Churchill they most admire.

Leadership

Few great leaders are also great writers; none who were both compare with Winston Churchill. In 1940 he saved civilization by keeping Britain in the fight until those “who hitherto had been half blind were half ready.” His historical and biographical eloquence won a Nobel Prize. Uniquely for a politician, he thought and wrote deeply about the nature of man. He hated and tried to prevent war. He fought to preserve constitutional liberty.…