“The Prophet Churchill”: Paris 2015
January 10, 2015— ”Watching the horrifying events in Paris this week,” wrote Scott Johnson, “I have found Churchill’s great speech of November 12, 1936 coming to mind. It is one of Churchill’s prophetic speeches—I believe in the Prophet Churchill—decrying the complacency of the government in the face of the gathering storm in Germany”….
“So they go on in strange paradox,” Churchill asserted in Parliament of those responsible for the defense of the land, “decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.…