Washington Post Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Assault on Winston Churchill, 2018: A Reader’s Guide

22 March 2018 Comments 2 Comments

Assault count: Since I am losing track, I thought it would be convenient to create an index to smears of Winston Churchill following the film Darkest Hour. Note the similarity of topics. Many writers feed off each other, repeating the same disproven arguments. Never do they check Churchill quotes or The Churchill Documents —which prove them irretrievably wrong. The order is most recent first. . Update for 2019 Assault of 29 March: The Ezine Scroll-in reported that Churchill’s policies caused the drought that caused the Bengal Famine. (Not enough to be Prime Minister, he must also be a farmer, since he needed to know Irrigation.)…

Churchill-Syria Analogies: A “Syrious” Situation

8 September 2013 Comments 0 Comments

Interesting Churchill-Syria hits on Google Alerts for September 8th:

Will Durst, in “Pied Piper of the Potomac” (Summit Daily):

Everyone pretends not to be knee-deep in the icky, tricky, sticky Syria situation. You might say Washington is in a Semi-Syrious mode right now. And a Semi-Not-So-Syrious mode. Simultaneously. Because this whole affair is riddled with enigmas and mysteries enough to make Winston Churchill spin his conundrums right off. And rumor has it, he harbored huge conundrums.

He has that right. I don’t know if Will Durst is a Churchillian, but he certainly has Churchill’s knack for coining words.…