churchill

This is during the 'phony war' when Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty, and not yet PM.

My God, why didn't Roosevelt and Churchill think of giving billions in relief to the Third Reich.

Winston Churchill is somebody interesting in this regard, because there's quite a bit of his stuff available online for free.

UK Labour Party elected in 1945 removing Churchill from office - they founded the NHS.

Both Churchill and FDR were products of organizations (Navy) that made these ruthless and cold calculations based on technology and pragmatic geopolitics.

By those criteria Winston Churchill would be deemed a fascist.

They love to mis-quote Churchill and claim their is no better way than the current system, but they are none too keen to try any alternatives.

I think you would have to admit that the 1945 general election that removed Churchill from being PM and that went on to introduce the NHS was most definitely a swing to the left.

--Winston Churchill Captures a bit of it I suppose.

The Soviet military refused to back the Communist Party in 1991; Churchill wrote that the German military was planning to overthrow Hitler in 1938 in what they thought was the likely scenario of his policies resulting in the UK and France entering into a war with Nazi Germany.

Obviously, I disagree entirely with your response, and hold Lee Kuan Yew to be one of the most honest and skilled politicians that ever lived, perhaps on par with Churchill or even Washington, but I am always open to new data and reexamining my positions.

To be precise it's by Churchill and goes: "If you're going through hell, keep going." Which does it a bit more justice.

This makes me think of the quote (maybe it was Churchill), "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other forms that have been tried".

Here's another take on it: [1]"As the war’s outcome became apparent, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to return Greece to the prewar rule of the monarchy and the old regime.

Basic English uses approximately 850 words, and produced this communication between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt: Churchill (so much for automatic text recognition): " When I was with you in the United States last August you expressed to me your interest in Basic English.

Churchill tried to get the Anglo-American army that was getting ready to invade Italy to attack Greece instead.

The last time the Government got the majority of the popular vote was 2010, and before that Churchill's wartime coalition.

Churchill considered his return to the gold standard the greatest mistake of his life.