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...
It is a real pleasure to me, who have known the difficulties of such things, to read of so great a success; and when that is due to a man for whom one has feelings of personal friendship, it adds to t...
In 1909 a Jewish town was established on the sand dunes just north of Jaffa—it was called Tel Aviv, the Hebrew for ‘Hill of Spring’. It came to be known as ‘the first all-Jewish city’. The Jewish popu...
His finest hour was the leadership of Britain when it was most isolated, most threatened and most weak; when his own courage, determination and belief in democracy became at one with the nation.
He alone had been held responsible for the failure of the British naval attack of the Dardanelles, and many people had blamed his lack of judgement for the suffering and slaughter of the Gallipoli cam...
From the earliest successes of the Nazi movement, even before 1933, he expressed his repugnance of Nazi excesses, and he continued to do so after 1933, despite repeated German protests at his articles...
From 1933 the problems of defence, and of the Nazi danger, were uppermost in Churchill’s mind, dominating his Parliamentary speeches, his literary work, his newspaper articles and much of his private...
For Churchill, the only way to halt the onward march of Nazism was for all the threatened nations to arm, and to join together under the collective security clauses of the Covenant of the League of Na...
Em 1º de outubro, o exército alemão preparou-se para ocupar Varsóvia. Antes, porém, exigiu doze reféns – dez cristãos e dois judeus – que responderiam com suas vidas por quaisquer distúrbios que ocorr...
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The twentieth century, Churchill wrote, had witnessed ‘with surprise, not merely the promulgation of these ferocious doctrines, but their enforcement with brutal vigour by the Government and by the po...
Such reconnaissance duties became a major feature of the war in the air. There were also new devices to be tested: on December 6 a metal arrow dropped from a French plane mortally wounded a German gen...
Due settimane dopo, il 30 maggio [1904],[...] criticò apertamente il più controverso tra i nuovi provvedimenti legislativi discussi in parlamento, il disegno di legge sugli stranieri. Il provvedimento...
Although the Government and the Air Ministry sought to weaken the impact of Churchill’s warnings by accusing him of exaggeration, within four years they were forced to recognize that the true situatio...