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What Good’s a Monarchy? “To Separate Pomp from Power” -Churchill

10 May 2021 Comments 0 Comments

Excerpted from “What Good’s a Monarchy? Churchill’s Case for an Anachronism,” for the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. For the original text including endnotes please click here.

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Churchill said: “It is wise in human affairs, and in the government of men, to separate pomp from power.” —Winston S. Churchill1

In an age of lampooning anything which smacks of tradition, the question arises: what good is monarchy?…

James Humes 1934-2020: Irrepressible Admirer of Old Excellence

26 August 2020 Comments 0 Comments

James Calhoun Humes … has died at 85. From his celestial perch, he is probably wondering about this little tribute. He was convinced, I heard, that he had given “mortal affront” by his impersonations of Sir Winton Churchill. Or, in my case, by publishing a book of Churchill quotes, many of which he mangled, some of which he made up. I guess in later life, he thought we’d written him off. Not quite. = Humes was born in Pennsylvania to Samuel Hamilton Humes and Elenor Kathryn Graham. He was descended from early settlers of Virginia and Tennessee.…

HM’s Nazi Salute: Relevant to What?

18 July 2015 Comments 0 Comments

Stiff-Arm Salute: Must We Know Everything?

Claiming it is “historically relevant,” the Sun defended publication of a six-year-old Princess Elizabeth, coached by her mother the future Queen Elizabeth and her uncle the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII, still later the Duke of Windsor) raising her arm in the stiff salute now identified with the Nazi party. It’s “in the public interest,” wails the Sun.

It’s in the interest of selling newspapers. Buckingham Palace responded:

“Most people will see these pictures in their proper context and time. This is a family playing and momentarily referencing a gesture many would have seen from contemporary news reels. No…