No doubt it is not popular to say these things,’ Churchill had written to his wife on 26 September 1935, ‘but I am accustomed to abuse and I expect to have a great deal more of it before I have finish...
Is there the right to free expression of opinion and of opposition and criticism of the Government of the day? Have the people the right to turn out a Government of which they disapprove, and are cons...
In the Commons, Churchill defended his cutting back on the imprisonment of young offenders by drawing Members’ attention to the fact that ‘the evil only falls on the sons of the working classes. The s...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Don’t imagine I am running away from the Dardanelles. I glory in it.’41 On
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.
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...
Bernard Lewis, a lifelong student of Jews and Islam and himself a Jew, reflected on the fourteen centuries of Jewish life under Islamic rule, eight centuries after Maimonides’ damning verdict. Lewis w...
A calm and dispassionate recognition of the rights of the accused against the State, and even of convicted criminals against the State, a constant heart-searching by all charged with the duty of punis...
Would make ‘a fatal bargain’ if they allowed ‘the moral force which this country has so long exerted to become diminished, or perhaps even destroyed, for the sake of the costly, trumpery, dangerous mi...
With extraordinary prescience, Churchill then made another point, full of foreboding. ‘There is a danger,’ he warned, ‘of the odious conditions now ruling in Germany being extended by conquest to Pola...
When Hogg asked Churchill directly: ‘Is there a shadow of truth in any of the accusations made against you,’ Churchill replied: ‘Not the slightest. From beginning to end it is a monstrous and maliciou...
We can avoid all this trouble by throwing up the sponge, by sitting still and putting up with being fleeced. Then there will be lots of compliments about the good feelings which we have established in...
The British offered Herzl a territory in Uganda, to be under the sovereignty of the British crown, into which a million Jews could immigrate and settle. The territory would be administered by the Jews...
That winter the son’s need for his father’s love was again disappointed. On November 10, three weeks before his twelfth birthday, he wrote to him, ‘You never came to see me on Sunday when you were in...
Para Hitler, a própria vida não importava. Conduzi o povo alemão a grandes feitos, muito embora sejamos objeto de ódio do mundo exterior, disse ele, decidido a viver de forma a não se envergonhar caso...
Of course’, Churchill told Linlithgow, ‘my ideal is narrow and limited. I want to see the British Empire preserved for a few more generations in its strength and splendour,’ and he added, ‘Only the mo...