Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill
Founder of	The Other Club
Member of	Galton Institute, The Other Club
Perpetrator of	Zinoviev Letter
Interest of	John Cadman, Henry Strakosch
Subpage	•Winston Churchill/Chemical warfare

The wikipedia article is missing some criticism but is probably fairly accurate. It says of him: A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

Criticism

... Churchill was a man who met a moment, and the moment was much shorter than he's given credit for - about six months. He made four speeches, all of which were derivative of Shakespeare and Macaulay. Everything else about his wearyingly long public life was self-serving and disastrous: he was a terrible self-publicising hack; he was a loathed soldier; he was the worst First Sea Lord we ever had. A staggeringly inept Home Secretary, he was wrong about absolutely everything he set his sights on. He was responsible for the Dardanelles, the worst disaster of the First World War. He sent soldiers to shoot Welsh miners. He put field guns on to the streets of the East End of London. During the General Strike, he was so rabid that he had to be kept out of government, because he wanted to machine-gun bus drivers. Later, he was the worst sort of empire loyalist, desperate to hold on to India, and racist about Gandhi, that naked little fakir (frankly, if you had to choose the greater man between Gandhi and Churchill, there's no contest). He sent the Black and Tans into Ireland. He'd have bankrupted the country by returning us to the gold standard; he gave away large areas of eastern Europe to Stalin. And he was responsible for the disgraceful but forgotten war of intervention to support the White Russians at the end of the First World War. Altogether, he represents everything I find most dispiriting, snobbish, philistine, proudly anti-intellectual and stubbornly backward-looking about Britain.

The quote is from a News Statesman article by prominent British commentator, A A Gill.

In an article entitled Cromwell and Churchill for "Worst Briton" he says: As someone who championed Shakespeare for the greatest Briton, I would have to vote for Cromwell as my worst - a man who closed down theatres, banned dancing and cancelled Christmas.... My other nomination is Churchill.

Chemical Weapon Use

Full article: British use of Chemical weapons in Iraq

Churchill was in no doubt that gas should be employed against the Kurds and Iraqis (as well as against other peoples in the Empire):

"I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poison gas against uncivilised tribes."

Links

• Winston Churchill and Chemical Weapons
• De-classified memos/minutes concerning use of poison gas against Iraqi Kurds and Germany.

 

An event carried out

Event	Description
Zinoviev Letter	MI5 fake letter published in the Daily Mail to destroy the 1924 Labour government

 

A Quote by Winston Churchill

Page	Quote
School	“schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.”

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
1948 Hague Congress	7 May 1948	11 May 1948	The Hague Netherlands	Landmark conference which had a profound influence on the shape of the European Movement. Many of the groups organizing the conference received covert funding from the CIA.

 

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