The slave labour system, already applied to Jews, was extended to Poles, just as it already applied to Czechs. ‘A hundred thousand Czech workmen’, Churchill told a public audience in Manchester on Jan...
Assisti hoje a uma cena reveladora, acrescentava o oficial. Um cavalo foi atingido por uma bomba e caiu na rua. Quando, uma hora mais tarde, passei pelo mesmo lugar, restava apenas o esqueleto. A carn...
At the same time, in an attempt to calm Arab fears, he approved a proposal from Samuel that Jewish immigration would henceforth be limited by the ‘economic capacity’ of Palestine to absorb the newcome...
Churchill had long been fascinated by Jewish history, by the Jewish involvement with the events of the time, and above all by the Jews’ monotheism and ethics. These seemed to him a central factor in t...
Churchill’s article ended with a reference to his undiminished fear of Jewish Bolshevism, but on a positive, enthusiastic note: ‘So long as the Zionist leaders keep their ranks vigilantly purged of th...
Churchill’s views on Zionism were well known. A year later, in an article in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, denouncing those Russian Jews who had taken a leading part in the imposition of Communist ru...
Churchill’s work took him to the scenes of Marlborough’s battles, including Blenheim, in Bavaria. It was a Jew, Solomon de Medina, the first practising Jew in England to receive a knighthood, who was...
Clementine was uneasy about leaving London for the country; she felt no special attraction to Chartwell and was worried about the expense of so large a house.
Democracy, I say, is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting other people’s rights as well as their ambitions.
Em 14 de setembro, os bombardeamentos foram particularmente intensos. Para os 393 mil judeus de Varsóvia, um terço da população da cidade, esse era um dia santo e, em geral, festivo, o ano-novo judeu....
Even if the tutoring was only for one hour a day, he told his mother, ‘I shall feel that I have got to be back at a certain time and it would hang like a dark shadow over my pleasure’.
Hatred of him was aflame’, and he added: ‘No insults were too gross to hurl at him. One, of course, the Dardanelles fiasco, regarded as his particular crime, was always brought up…. The opposition wer...
He rejected the policy of seeking a direct accommodation with the Nazis at the expense of the smaller states of Europe. The full extent of Nazi persecution was evidence, as he saw it, that there would...
Hitler’s entourage quickly learned what he had in mind. On September 9 Colonel Eduard Wagner discussed the future of Poland with Hitler’s Army Chief of Staff, General Halder. ‘It is the Führer’s and G...
I think the rich, whether idle or not, are already taxed in this country to the very highest point compatible with the accumulation of capital for future production.
I watched the daylight slowly creep in through the windows, and saw before me in mental gaze the vision of Death.
If the war was to be over by Christmas, as many believed, or at the latest by Easter 1915, tens of thousands of soldiers might be killed or wounded before the guns fell silent. Every army believed tha...
In his continued forecasts of the potential German air strength, Churchill has often been accused of exaggeration.
It was through Leonard Montefiore, a member of the Central British Fund set up to help German Jews after 1933, that Churchill received the reply to a query he had made of the Baroness. On 9 December 1...
It would be a ‘tour de force’ to do the two jobs, Clementine continued, ‘like keeping a lot of balls in the air at the same time. After all, you want to be a Statesman, not a juggler.’ Churchill had n...
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