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Winston Churchill enjoyed one of the longest and most interesting lives of any person who has ever lived. ... Myths about Churchill Churchill was an Alcohol Abuser Any discussion of this subject absent John H. ... Most historians reject the commonly held belief that Churchill was an abuser of alcohol. ... Professor Warren Kimball of Rutgers, editor of the WSC-FDR correspondence and several erudite books on the two leaders, maintains that Churchill was not an alcoholic -"no alcoholic could drink that much! ... ) Churchill did not nurse a bottle, as an alcoholic would, and occasionally remarked to those who took whisky neat, "you are not likely to live a long life if you drink it like that," or words to that effect. Drinking at meals may be less deleterious than drinking at random, but in any case no colleague who can be taken seriously ever reports seeing Churchill the worse for drink. ... " When encountered by Bessie Braddock MP with the famous "youre drunk" remark in 1946, his bodyguard, Ron Golding, was with him at the time, insisted that Churchill was not drunk, just tired and wobbly - hence his famous, devastating response. ... Churchill’s speech impediment was stuttering The Baltimore Sun Sunday November 17,2002, raises the issue as to whether Churchill was a stutterer or simply had a lisp. ... Fiona Reynoldson’s book Winston Churchill, which seeks to capture the imagination and attention of younger readers comments that, “Churchill came home on leave in 1897 and went to see a doctor in London about his lisp. ... All his life Churchill had an impediment of his speech, not unlike his father’s speech defect, in which he also had difficulty in pronouncing the letter ”s”. Just before Churchill returned to India in 1897 he consulted Sir Felix Semen, a noted specialist in speech problems, who was also an appointed Physician-in-Ordinary to the Court. He told Churchill that there was no organic defect and that “practice and perseverance are alone necessary” for him to overcome his impediment. ... Later on Churchill was advised by an American masseuse that his tongue was “restrained by a ligament which nobody else has”. ... Semon about cutting the ligament, he refused to do so and Churchill told his mother that he was still tongue “tied”. Churchill did persevere and worked on his pronunciation rehearsing such phrases as “The Spanish ships I cannot see for they are not in sight”. ... And so Churchill continued to practice. ... One thing we probably know about Churchill is that he had little or no problem with asserting himself: a very secure ego! ... On June 4th, 1940 in the House of Commons, at the darkest moment in British history, Winston Churchill made one of the greatest speeches in the annals of oratory. ... Churchill had made, and was to make, much greater speeches; but none of them had the impact of this brief peroration. ... The whole nation thrilled, not knowing that Churchill had refused to repeat it before the microphone. ... For one thing, there was no Churchill broadcast on June 4th; the newsreader read extracts on the evening radio news. ... Problems then arise from the records, Harold Nicolson lamenting that it was necessary to bully Churchill into broadcasting, and, referring to a June 18th broadcast, "he just sulked and read his House of Commons speech over again. ... Churchill never liked broadcasting, but there is no evidence whatever that he was replaced by anyone, and speech researchers have confirmed this. ... Shelley, whom Rolph regarded, but with some affection, as something of a mountebank, fancied his Churchill impersonation, although Rolph thought it compared poorly with the real thing. ... Churchill was consulted: "He wasnt much interested," Rolph recalled, "but said he would raise no objection. ... His Churchill impersonation was never quite as good as he thought it was, and I recognised (for the umpteenth time) the spots where he failed." "This is the true version about the Shelley-Churchill thing," Rolph wrote. ... Churchill originally delivered the speech over two years earlier, and did not broadcast it (portions were read by a BBC announcer). Churchill did record the speech himself -- at Chartwell after the war -- and it was ultimately released by Decca Records. ... It is a huge leap to say that, just because there is evidence he recorded this Churchill speech in 1942, that he delivered BBC broadcasts in the summer of 1940. ... I have tried, using Rhodes Jamess Complete Speeches, to match the text to an actual speech by Churchill, but have been unable to do so. ... In Finest Hour 112, Stephen Bungay notes that "Churchill was asked by the British Council later in the war to make a recording for the U. ... Shelley did the recording, Churchill heard it, was much amused and gave his approval. ... Rolph was wrong in thinking that the story was "not very important," because it has become part f the ugly tapestry of denigration of Churchill, of which Irving was the first practitioner, his lead followed by others who also claim to be reputable historians. ... Witnesses to the truth include a secretary who was with him for 30 years; and Desmond Morton, whose association with Churchill went back to the First World War, during the inter-war years, and throughout the Second. Churchill was indeed fallible, and part of his fascination for historians and biographers lies in this very fact. ... The Churchill-Fleming Non-Connection: The story that Sir Alexander Fleming or his father (the renditions vary) saved Churchill’s life has been roaring around the Internet lately. ... " According to Bays/Oakbery, Churchill is saved from drowning in a Scottish lake by a farm boy named Alex. A few years later Churchill telephones Alex to say that his parents, in gratitude, will sponsor Alex’s otherwise unaffordable medical school education. ... In 1943 when Churchill becomes ill in the Near East, Alex’s invention, penicillin, is flown out to effect his cure. Thus once again Alexander Fleming saves the life of Winston Churchill. ... John Mather writes: "A fundamental problem with the story is that Churchill was treated for this very serious strain of pneumonia not with penicillin but with ‘M&B,’ a short name for sulfadiazine produced by May and Baker Pharmaceuticals. ... "Kay Halle, in her charming book Irrepressible Churchill (Cleveland: World 1966) comments (p. 196) that Churchill ‘delighted in referring to his doctors, Lord Moran and Dr. ... ’ Then, when Churchill found that the most agreeable way of taking the drug was with whisky or brandy, he commented to his nurse: ‘Dear nurse, pray remember that man cannot live by M and B alone. ... Also, Churchill did consult with Sir Alexander Fleming on 27 June 1946 about a staphylococcal infection which had apparently resisted penicillin. See Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran (Boston: Houghton Muffin 1966), p. ... " Official biographer Sir Martin Gilbert adds that the ages of Churchill and Fleming (or Fleming’s father) do not support the various accounts circulated; Alexander Fleming was seven years younger than Churchill. If he was plowing a field at say age 13, Churchill would have been 20. There is no record of Churchill nearly drowning in Scotland at that or any other age; or of Lord Randolph paying for Alexander Fleming’s education. Sir Martin also notes that Lord Moran’s diaries, while mentioning "M&B," say nothing about penicillin, or the need to fly it out to Churchill in the Near East. < Pearl Harbour Attack Did Churchill know of the impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but did nothing so as to draw the United States into the war? ... Nave, with the late James Rusbridger, wrote Betrayal at Pearl Harbor, a book claiming Churchill hid what he knew about the attack from Roosevelt. ... As late as 15 October 1941 Roosevelt wrote Churchill, “I think they [the Japanese] are headed north.” (See Kimball’s Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence. ... Helgemo is President of the Washington Society for Churchill, a Churchill Center Affiliate. Churchill bombed Dresden as payback for Coventry Firebombing Dresden It is oft repeated that Churchill "ordered" the firebombing of Dresden as a "vicious payback" for the German bombing of Coventry (which Churchill is often accused of allowing to burn rather than reveal his access to the German codes -see FH 35). ... " Churchill on the Moral Question of World War II "Area Bombing. ... "Churchill did not think well of area bombing but began to believe it could be a grim necessity after (1) he watched devastating German air attacks on Warsaw, Rotterdam, and other places full of noncombatants; and (2) he could see precious few ideas for hitting back. ... "Churchills head of Bomber Command, Air Marshal Harris, seemed to think German morale might still be broken by bombing, but Churchill rebuked him after Dresden, and again, just as strongly for bombing Potsdam shortly thereafter. ... Churchill had frequently pressed Harris to use his bombers to aid the Russians, but they never talked about Dresden particularly, to my knowledge. ... An address to The International Churchill Society London, England, 17 September 1985 Ladies and Gentlemen. ... Three weeks ago exactly I was in Moscow, walking through the town house where Churchill met Stalin in October 1944; a magnificent building. ... " Well, your tour of Churchill’s England, and my little tour of Churchill’s world tonight, have no security classification. ... Churchill lived such a long life that he had many London residences: it would be nice to feel that, as a result of interest such as yours, blue plaques will one day be put on all of them. For example, in the same street where Churchill spent several years as a child, there is a blue plaque on another house informing passers by that "from this house Chopin went to give his last concert. ... When Churchill purchased Bolton Street, his father had been dead for more than a decade, and he had no one to look after him. ... He also looked after Churchill’s small earnings financially and, in due course, turned them into quite substantial holdings. Twelve years later Churchill found himself being denounced all over England by a brilliant lecturer, Lord Alfred Douglas, the poet friend of Oscar Wilde. Douglas claimed that Churchill had been in the pay and pocket of Sir Ernest Cassel, a Jew, to such an extent that after the Battle of Jutland in 1916, Churchill had concocted an incredible plot: the Government would announce a naval defeat (which indeed it did), British stocks would collapse on the New York stock market (which indeed they did), and Winston Churchill, centrepiece of this swindle, would then issue a statement (as indeed he did) saying, in effect, "Well, you know, it wasn’t such a defeat; our fleet is still on the seas and has a good chance of beating the German navy next time. ... ) One result of Churchill’s reassuring statement was that the stocks went up in New York and several hundreds of millions were made by speculators. Lord Alfred Douglas claimed it was Churchill who had mastered this whole financial episode, which he portrayed as a deliberate swindle. ... In 1924 the newly elected Conservative Government decided to bring a criminal libel action against Lord Alfred Douglas: the Prime Minister of the day, Stanley Baldwin, had just appointed Churchill Chancellor of the Exchequer, and did not like him being denounced all over the country for a major financial swindler. A case was brought, and Churchill told the court: ". ... " Churchill added, in connection with another of Lord Alfred Douglas’s accusations: "I did not spend the week-end with Sir Ernest Cassel before the Battle of Jutland occurred. ... In 1940 Alfred Douglas was to send Churchill a poem of praise and of hope for his war leadership. Churchill accepted this tribute with magnanimity. ... " As to Sir Ernest Cassel the "co-conspirator," on Cassel’s death in 1921 Churchill wrote to his granddaughter (Lord Mountbatten’s wife): Your grandfather was a great man & he made a mark on his generation & on the world that will last long. ... This was one of the very spots Churchill was so concerned about at the height of the international crisis in 1911, when it suddenly appeared that Germany and Britain might be at war over Agadir, a small and hitherto insignificant port on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Churchill was at a garden party at 10 Downing Street when he happened to meet Sir Edward Henry, the Chief Commissioner of Police. To Churchill’s surprise, he learned from Henry that as Home Secretary he, Churchill, was technically responsible for the safety of all the reserves of naval cordite, some of which were stored in magazines in London, including this magazine hard by the Serpentine. Churchill at once returned to the Home Office and telephoned to the Admiralty. ... Accordingly, Churchill telephoned Lord Haldane at the War Office and persuaded him to send a company of infantry to each magazine. This was "the first of many actions," Randolph Churchill has commented, "which in a long life was to gain for Churchill the reputation in pussyfoot circles of being an alarmist. ... " In his mind’s eye - and this was one of his great attributes - Churchill had immediately conjured up during that garden party at No. ... Churchill was now deeply absorbed in the Agadir crisis, and perturbed by it. ... One result of this garden party conversation was that Churchill emerged as a leading advocate of adequate defence. ... So, when you go past this magazine in Hyde Park, it is worth looking at, and thinking what a change in Churchill’s fortunes, perhaps in Britain’s fortunes, arose from that place’s vulnerability. In those days, Churchill was not only a liberal, but a pillar of the Liberal Party. ... One day before the First World War, Churchill’s friend Lord Birkenhead, who, as you know, co-founded the celebrated Other Club in the Pinafore Room at the Savoy, was walking from the Temple, where he had his legal chambers, to the House of Commons. ... " Now inside this Club, for it was indeed a Club, was a superb portrait of the great Liberal Winston Churchill, painted by Ernest Townsend in 1915, paid for by an anonymous donor. It was ready for presentation on 20 December 1915, when Churchill was already serving in the trenches of the Western Front. It was therefore hung temporarily in a Club Committee Room until such time as Churchill could unveil it. ... In 1921, when Churchill was no longer persona grata with the National Liberal Club, the Club decided that his portrait should be "packed and stored in some dry place. |
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