Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Churchill

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War Leaders versus Press ..
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40-5-13 Churchill Victory House of Commons Speech > .
Winston Churchill . 1940-1945

41-12-22 Mr Churchill goes to Washington > .

43-1-14 Casablanca Conference > .

43-11-16 WWII: Tehran Conference - 1943, 28 Nov 16 > .
43-11-16 Big Three in Tehran > .

45-5-7 Winston Churchill with his chiefs of staff in the garden of No. 10 Downing Street on the day Germany surrendered to the Allies, 7 May 1945.

45-5-8 VE Day - Churchill's speech ..
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Fruits of Victory > .

45-7-5 UK general election ..How did Churchill lose the 1945 general election? > .

55-4-7 Churchill Resigns > .

Winston Churchill Got a Lot of Things Wrong, But One Big Thing Right: He contemplated using poison gas on German civilians. He wanted to keep England white. And more. But he had the quality Britain needed most at exactly the moment it was needed.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/winston-churchill-got-a-lot-of-things-wrong-but-one-big-thing-right

Winston Churchill - First Lord Of The Admiralty - WW1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMz3dO4EqiM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibst6OYUY88
"History Detectives - Red Herrings: Famous Words Churchill Never Said"
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-141/history-detectives-red-herrings-famous-words-churchill-never-said .

Tom Hiddleston "The Gathering Storm" >
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC1TjAQ9GCo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7I1X0Com_U
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years > .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTzyAuFR60o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlO_0b5WHug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCLiZxvQAYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ymaigVpXgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn2_U6MAn2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9-U0hPIoo8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmsaki9Yr_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvjIxxkBNfk

Winston & Brendan Bracken > .

War Leaders versus Press ..

Throughout the war, Churchill took little interest in government propaganda from a strategic point of view, since he believed that Hitler could be beaten only by armed force, not by words. However, he took an intense interest in how the press was depicting the government and him personally, amounting to an obsession.

Churchill would often phone the Ministry Of Information at midnight and demand that copies of the next day’s newspapers be sent over to Downing Street or Chequers for him to read in bed. He would scour each page for reporting that he considered disloyal and complain bitterly to Minister of Information Brendan Bracken – his former Parliamentary Private Secretary – who would then have to smooth things over with editors.

Churchill shared this dislike of the press with other members of his coalition War Cabinet, including Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Home Secretary Herbert Morrison. On several occasions Churchill and Morrison threatened full blown government regulation and censorship and on one occasion threatened to close down the Daily Mirror completely.
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Would one like to verbally spar with Churchill? None dared.

Not all his insults were as thought provoking. Some were barbed curmudgeonly execrable retorts such as those directed at Neville Chamberlain. His decency and unwillingness to subject Britain to another world war, led him on the vain path of appeasement. In this approach, Hitler perceived weakness which he exploited.

Instead Churchill through inspired foresight recognised the rise of Nazism as a dire threat. To counter Chamberlain’s endeavours, he maligned Chamberlain mercilessly.

Here is a sample of those barbed sardonic comments: “He looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.” On another occasion he noted, of Neville Chamberlain, “At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender”. Finally Churchill quipped, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.

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