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  • Finest Hour11 min read
    “Look At The Londoner!”
    If he had not been so impatient, Winston Churchill would have been a Londoner born and bred. Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill resided at 48 Charles Street in Mayfair. It was there that their first child was to have been born. Anxious, however, to get
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    Finest Hour
    Founded in 1968 by Richard M. Langworth CBE Fourth Quarter 2023 • Number 204 ISSN 0882-3715 www.winstonchurchill.org Publisher The International Churchill Society info@winstonchurchill.org Editor David Freeman dfreeman@winstonchurchill.org Depa
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    “A Remarkable Boy in Many Ways”
    When Elizabeth I became Queen of England in 1558, she was well aware of the disastrous effects that the Dissolution of the Monasteries perpetrated by her father King Henry VIII between 1536 and 1541 had had on the educational establishments of the co
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    Action This Day
    Churchill was in love in early October 1898 when he returned to England for two months’ leave. His preoccupation was Pamela Plowden, to whom even his wife Clementine always referred as “your Pamela.” He also began to write The River War, a two-volume
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    The Full African Journey
    Canadian historian C. Brad Faught sets out “to show that [Winston] Churchill’s knowledge and understanding of Africa and Africans was more nuanced and of greater sophistication than is often believed.” By the end of the book, he largely succeeds in p
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    MP for Epping, 1924–45
    The statue of Sir Winston Churchill on Woodford Green commemorates that he was an Essex MP from 1924 through to his retirement from politics in 1964, a period that equates to more than half his public life. He originally came to the county to represe
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    “A New Idea of Themselves”
    Loyal readers of this journal will need no instruction on its proud title, Finest Hour. The allusion, of course, is to the historic speech that Winston Churchill delivered as wartime Prime Minister on 18 June 1940. Its context was grim, with the coll
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    The Royal Yacht Britannia
    The Royal Yacht Britannia served as the venue for the opening night reception of the 2023 International Churchill Conference. Built on the banks of the Clyde and commissioned in January 1954, when Sir Winston Churchill was Prime Minister for the seco
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    Round Up The Usual Suspects
    Best remembered today for the dramatic announcement at its conclusion of the policy demanding the “unconditional surrender” of the Axis powers, the ten-day meeting between the British and American high commands in Casablanca in January 1943 has been
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    Letters
    Email: info@winstonchurchill.org Excerpts from a speech to the Royal Society of Saint George, 24 April 1933 LONDON— I am a great admirer of the Scots. I am quite friendly with the Welsh, especially one of them [David Lloyd George]. I must confess
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    “Their Houses Are Low, but Their Hearts Are High.”
    The strategic naval port city of Plymouth suffered immense destruction through a series of fifty-nine bombing raids by Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe between 1940 and 1944. Outside of London, Plymouth was one of the most heavily bombed cities in Britain. B
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    From the Editor
    Winston Churchill would have been a Londoner born and bred if he had not been so impatient to enter onto the grand stage of life. Preparations were underway for the first child of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill to be born at their house in London.
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    The Leadership Paradigm
    “The story of the human race is war.” Winston Churchill’s doleful conclusion has not been disproven since he made it in 1929. The answer to this omnipresent blight on the human condition is a counterintuitive one; it is not to embrace pacifism and is
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    Jean-Paul Montupet
    Winston Churchill’s stirring wartime broadcast to the French people underscored the statesman’s lifelong admiration for France. In return, French-born executive Jean-Paul Montupet has spent decades expressing his deep admiration for, and support of,
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    From the Editor
    Leadership: no other word is more closely associated with the memory of Winston Churchill. With a changing of the guard in the leadership of the International Churchill Society (ICS), we take the opportunity to salute our retiring leaders, hail our n
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    “I Lead Like Winston Churchill”
    It all began with the Bismarck—specifically the sinking thereof. While cruising one morning in the music land that is Spotify, we found ourselves listening to Johnny Horton’s 1960 warhorse Sink the Bismarck and were surprised to remember that Churchi
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    “All History Stood Still”
    They were arguably the most charismatic figures of their respective eras. As we approach the sixtieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, it seems appropriate to examine the relationship between Winston Churchill and JFK. Churchill was bo
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    Reasoned Appeasement
    The historical debate over Britain’s attempt to appease the Third Reich started even before the first German bombs fell on London in the summer of 1940, and, unlike the Blitz, the conflict over it has never ended. The battle lines and combatants have
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    Cheers, Mr. Chairman!
    Laurence Geller is late. But that is understandable given the numerous commitments of his intertwined life, where business is personal and the personal is passionate. After moving back to the United Kingdom, following a thirty-year stay in the United
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    Epistolary Profile
    With this new and noteworthy selection of letters, editors James Drake and Allen Packwood have made a unique contribution to the vast existing literature about Winston Churchill. Many of the letters appear in book form for the first time, including s
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    Action This Day
    In June, Churchill had three months’ leave coming to him. He hoped to go to Egypt, where Lord Kitchener was involved in a campaign against the Dervishes. Unsuccessful at getting the posting, Churchill departed India for England, arriving in London ea
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    Georges Clemenceau
    During the First World War, Winston Churchill had the opportunity to observe at close quarters the man to whom France turned in her most desperate hour. He subsequently wrote a sketch of Georges Clemenceau published in his book Great Contemporaries.
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    Finest Hour
    Founded in 1968 by Richard M. Langworth CBE Third Quarter 2023 • Number 203ISSN 0882-3715www.winstonchurchill.org Publisher The International Churchill Societyinfo@winstonchurchill.org Editor David Freemandfreeman@winstonchurchill.org Departme
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    Churchill Sur La Côte D’Azur
    On June 16 the International Churchill Society (ICS) and the village of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat unveiled a new statue of Sir Winston Churchill in the scenic town on the French Riviera that Churchill enjoyed for its “paintacious” views of the Mediterran
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    Queen Elizabeth I
    Speaking as Prime Minister at the start of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, Winston Churchill spoke of a “new Elizabethan Era.” Fifteen years before, on 30 April 1937, he had written about the first Queen Elizabeth in the Evening Standard. Th
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    Jane Williams 1939–2023
    Jane Williams (Lady Williams of Elvel, to provide her formal title) died peacefully at her London home on July 15. She was a longtime friend of the International Churchill Society (ICS) and the society’s senior honorary member. Her death marks a fina
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    Letters
    Email: info@winstonchurchill.org Letter to the Daily Telegraph: Report by Lt. Winston Churchill about the night of 15 September 1897 before his first engagement as a combatant the following morning. NORTH-WEST FRONTIER—I realize that if I have to
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    “These Priceless Messages”
    At the beginning of the Second World War, Winston Churchill quickly learned that successfully decrypting German messages, including those to and from Adolf Hitler, would be instrumental in defeating the Third Reich. Churchill also understood the dipl
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    “A Proud and Memorable Day”
    In his Memories and Adventures, the namesake grandson of Sir Winston Churchill wrote about the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953, which, for the Churchills, was very much a family occasion. It is reprinted here with permission. Towards th
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    A Churchill for Our Time
    “Reputation,” Shakespeare makes one of his characters remark, “is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving”—an observation that should be pondered by anyone or any group in our own time who wants to pull sta

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