Mohandas Gandhi Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Mr. Gandhi — L-R: Muslim leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah, pro-unity theologian Abul Kalam Azad, Archibald Wavell and Mohandas Gandhi negotiating at Simla Bazaar, 1940s. (Indian copyright expired; public domain)

“Why Hasn’t Gandhi Died Yet?” Another Churchill Non-quotation

9 August 2022 Comments 0 Comments

Wavell did write this, but it was not a quote—and fairly peevish itself. Why don’t the critics publish what Churchill actually said? Here it is: "Surely Mr. Gandhi has made a most remarkable recovery, as he is already able to take an active part in politics. How does this square with the medical reports upon which his release on grounds of ill-health was agreed to by us? In one of these we were told that he would not be able to take any part in politics again."

In Defense of Churchill (2): Precepts -Surrender Nothing, Honor the Whole

31 May 2021 Comments 0 Comments

Text of my Zoom address to the Chartwell Society of Portland, Oregon on 10 May 2021, 81st anniversary of Churchill taking office as Prime Minister. “Current Contentions: Precepts” is part of as an iTunes audio file. For a copy, please email rlangworth@hillsdale.edu.

Precepts for defenders (continued from Part 1)

Here are two precepts for us to follow when confronting perversions of the truth surrounding Winston Churchill.

First, “Surrender nothing”

In protecting his good name we cannot dissemble. As Mark Steyn says in another context[13], “Unless you’re prepared to surrender everything, surrender nothing.…

Churchll’s “Aryan Stock” Quotation: Principles, Facts and Heresies

30 November 2020 Comments 4 Comments

An essay on Churchill’s 146th birthday. “The Aryan stock is bound to triumph”

Sufferers from “Churchill Derangement Syndrome” hold “Aryan stock” high among Winston Churchill’s appalling utterances. The remark rose again in correspondence with a journalist. I dug out for him the background of that remark, but his report omitted it. Out of context the quote is misleading, so I guess that’s just as well. But rather than write off several hours’ research, the facts might here serve to advance reality.

Wales in its Welsh Wisdom is thinking of moving statues of Churchill, Nelson and Gandhi to a museum, the Daily Telegraph informs us.…