That same week, on distant Lake Nyasa, in central Africa, a British naval officer, Commander E.L. Rhoades, sailed his gunboat, the Gwendolen, with its single 3-pounder gun, across the lake from the Br...
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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...
Churchill later recalled, of his near meeting with Hitler: ‘In the course of conversation with Hanfstaengl, I happened to say Why is your chief so violent about the Jews? I can quite understand being...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
I am aiming at is a substantial diminution in actual burden on the direct taxpayer. I believe that this burden is at the present time a grave discouragement to enterprise and thrift and a potent facto...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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