churchill was not a bad student. he simply did not take any interest in subjects that didn't tracked him. it is true, however, that he was put in what is called the lowest form, the lowest class, at harrow. the younger churchill earned further rebuke from his father when he passed an entrance exam at the military academy at san hearst, only after the third try. in one of his most stinging letters, lord randall said his son, that he risked becoming a mere social wasteful, whose life would degenerate into a shabby, unhappy, and futile existence. he then signed, your affectionate father, randolph. it is evident that winston never had any desire to make the military a lifelong career. and his goal was to distinguish himself in the army, on the battlefield, and then entered politics at his father side. by the time churchill had left his father's career was already in eclipse. a few years earlier, it seemed that randolph churchill might someday become prime minister. a young conservative minister parliament, he led a group

churchill seem to be everywhere.rliament, inspecting military units, and the newspapers, on radio, and not least in the streets. the historian richard ovary said of 1940 that it is one of those instances when the hour fanned the man. churchill made the british people believed they could win the war, and this is backed up by a canadian eyewitness who was in london at the time and said that he reported a connection between the people and their prime minister. he wrote that churchill makes them feel they are living their history. they were indeed scenes like this we -- despite help from the empire, despite the fact that they have awarded of invasion at least for the time being, british people were then on the front lines for that long year, with no end in sight to the war, and with little victory. for londoners, many of them did find shelter in the london underground. at night, only to wake up the next morning to scenes like this. -- it was bombed for 76 nights in a row. during one of the worst raids during the 29th of

churchill was an ardent free trader. we also was being focus on the need for social reform, especially to alleviate the deplorable conditions in britain's industrial cities. in 1904. he dramatically crossed the floor of the house of commons and joined the liberal party. he would be a liberal for the next 20 years before he managed to then rejoin the conservative party. churchill once said anyone can rat that is joined jump from one political party to another but he added it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to rewrap. he pulled it off barely. though he's supposed to have once remarked that because the conservative party have always hated me. if jumping parties was wasn't bad enough churchill compounded the anger of his first while conservative friends by choosing to decide the man. they most detested on the liberal benches david lloyd george. this is the beginning of a political friendship that lasted the better part of 40 years between one man race in a poor welsh cottage and another born in a palace. violet asked wit

so churchill was admired. he had won the war for them, but they did not believe he was going to win the peace and that largely explains election defeat for churchill that many americans still have a hard time wrapping their heads around. now out of office with aptly at potsdam instead churchill was leader of the opposition. and with the dropping of the atomic bomb the ending of a war britain faced a new future this cartoon again by david low, i think sums up many feelings about churchill as a party leader. he could be very disagreeable as a statesman. he had been in the words of david lowe here leader of humanity after the war churchill embarked on his war memoirs. he would be reelected in 1951 to to again be prime minister in between he warned the west of the coming cold war in his famous speech at fulton, missouri in which he used the image of the iron curtain to sending across europe. the speech was not well received time. there are many critics of it in both the united states and britain. they felt that th

each other churchill set of bevin that he had the right stuff in him churchill needed to recreate a war economy and that job mainly fell to bevin during the nightly raids and later in the war during the v1 and v2 attacks on southern england. it was bevin who mobilized not just all men but women to wage the war women were conscripted in world war two other churchill's government. they can either sir in the land army. they could work in the war factories or they could join the forces. as it was called and it worked. and that was largely down to bevin himself which churchill rightly gave credit to for that feat. from january 1941 until the us entered the war really in december that year churchill's war strategy boiled down to three words keep buggering on. the best that he could expect was to keep the war against hitler alive until the americans somehow joined the struggle that included bombing german cities. um, but there's no really foreseeable or realistic. hope that the british could take the war back into europe any foreseeable future. the churchill did create the commandos as i m

churchill did not remember the meeting and fdr did. he felt the churchill had been very dismissive. called him a real stinker. so this next meeting was going to be crucial. it was important for both men that they get on. and churchill took the step crossing a the u-boat infested waters to make it to the coast of canada. on a new british battleship, hms prince of wales. his bodyguard said he was so excited he was like a little schoolboy. the two men met for four days. and this gathering also allowed the meeting of their military chiefs. in particular, those two men standing over churchill's left shoulder, the american army chief of staff george c. marshall in the then chief of the imperial general staff, field marshal sir drawn dill. these two men, the american war secretary, henry simpson, later said it made possible legal prosecution of war. and it was at this first meeting that they got to know one another. at these meetings, fdr told churchill that he could not declare war on his own. pointed out to him. but he said he would wage war. he would not declare, but he would wager. it

finally, the ghost despite himself, looks at churchill in size, churchill. he says, winston, the story you told me is amazing. i would not believe it if it had not come from you. after a pause he says, you could have done quite a bit to help matters. you could've got into politics. but then he pauses again. because. and he looks at churchill and he says, but you are told for that now. and at that, churchill looked over at him as he goes to a match to land a cigarette and disappears. the ghost was gone. and churchill rounded off the article with an attempt at which, saying that he could not carry on the rest of the day because the ashes of his cigar had fallen into his paints. it is an amazing story. it is a revealing story. that after all those years, after all the accolades, after being prime minister when his father had not and after leading his country through a world war, after receiving a nobel prize for literature, none of that seems to matter. in his own heart, he still want to use most the recognition from his father. fortunately for us, fortunately

winston churchill is the reason why churchill's announce the onset of the cold war which would continue for 43 years. as he did in the 1930s 1940s churchill saw things early and said things clearly. i haven't amiable long distance disagreement as a child of central illinois i insist lincoln is the greatest figure in the history of world politics. and everyone insists it is churchill. this much is indisputable. the only remaining argument he did something that great hoarders can do cap the imagination, anxiety, puzzlement, a phrase that riveted attention, is into two syllable words the high stakes of the politics, it was of course iron curtain. the word iron suggested the danger of permanence as did the beginning of august of 1961 the concrete of the berlin wall. but part of churchill's realism which is my subject today is the knowledge that nothing necessarily lasts. nothing. the only political things that last work tirelessly to make permanent or to get rid of. the second phrase iron curtain, the phrase which itself has lasted is the word curtain. curtains are put up to prevent people

churchill knew this. he knew the tragic dimension of history, which is that intense human desires will always exist and will always conflict. four months after the u.s. invasion of iraq in july, 2003, a british prime minister, tony blair told a joint session of the u.s. congress that it is a myth that quote our attachment to freedom is a product of our culture and quote. blair added, quote ours are not western values, they are the universal value of the human spirit and anywhere, anytime that ordinary people are given a chance to choose, the choice is the same. freedom not tyranny. democracy not dictatorship. and quote. well, churchill himself, a historian of distinction and a keen student of history knew better. he knew that not everyone everywhere shares our attachment to freedom or even our definition of freedom. some people prefer piety. or they prefer social solidarity, or they prefer order. there are lots of competing values. freedom is but one. churchill knew our attachment to freedom and the insti

our prime minister then was winston churchill there . he is. winston churchill there. he is.member him? the bloke said, where is our fight on the beaches his grandson is chap called rupert. so who's the chief exec of serco and therefore has no desire to fight them on the beaches. instead he welcomes them to the beaches . a welcomes them to the beaches. a thousand a night through the border force rnli express check in which is pretty sweet for serco because they have the contract to provide accommodation for quote unquote asylum and that's just tough. me hate me snuff when it's a —, ,, ,,,,,,,, business that's a gang business model serco also cleaned on the covid because they had contract because they had the contract for the stupid waste of time contact tracing. so you can't say they're not a versatile company . covid is track and company. covid is track and trace open borders is . no track, trace open borders is. no track, no trace . we'll get into no trace. we'll get into a particularly shameful of that with leilani dowding , but from with leilani dowding, but from winston

our prime minister then was winston churchill there . he is. winston churchill there. he is.member him? the bloke said, where is our fight on the beaches his grandson is chap called rupert. so who's the chief exec of serco and therefore has no desire to fight them on the beaches. instead he welcomes them to the beaches . a welcomes them to the beaches. a thousand a night through the border force rnli express check in which is pretty sweet for serco because they have the contract to provide accommodation for quote unquote asylum and that's just tough. me hate me snuff when it's a couple asylum seekers here and there but at a thousand at night that's a gang business model serco also cleaned on the covid because they had the contract for the stupid waste of time contact tracing. so you can't say they're not a versatile company . covid is track and company. covid is track and trace open borders is . no track, trace open borders is. no track, no trace . we'll get into no trace. we'll get into a particularly shameful of that with leilani dowding , but from with leilani dowding, but

document interesting not only because churchill was cunning with hitler and was in no hurry to fulfill is interesting in that churchill made such promises, and if it were not for the selfless resistance of the soviet troops, joining the uk on the side of hitler could have been a reality, but there were other negotiations, the contents of which are still classified. rudolf hess on may 10, 1941 , he sat at the helm of the messerschmitt and flew to great britain, what was the essence of the proposals, with which, if the bodies met with representatives the highest political circles of great britain, despite numerous investigations for many years, the answer to this question was not the materials of the british hess mission, classified by london, so far, meanwhile, the answer to the question. what was the mission of the ges exists? here are documents from the archives of the fsb and this document is a sensation, this is a report from the first department of the nkvd of the ussr dated november 30, 1941, a soviet intelligence officer from london to moscow conveys the essence of hess's proposa

only stalin can save the world. winston churchill, ah, once the world was saved, churchill changed his mind. any attempt by the soviets to compete against the anglo saxons had to be crushed forever. the usaa has to be eliminated immediately. general george s. patton, commander of the u. s. 3rd army demands that the troops do not stop at the old, but move on toward stalingrad with on june 29th. 1945 stolen. who already knows about the operation orders. marshall shook off to move troops to combat positions in the west. mm. it is now clear to the allies that a surprise attack is no longer possible then charger. the conclusion, deduction, creeks, government, and started our mobility. tut, dean di chanda annoyed the buffalo chapter genie chavo my story in not iceland. yeah too, but some of our vans conte, starting in for october eastern. does she east austin bus. matthew dodd, on charges. are you had that beneath anything for me or damaging the info on these as garbage be like a dish? diverse? mr. that's enough. we're no longer interested in a union with the russians, so we don't have to ab

>> i think churchill got really mistreated by roosevelt and stalin at yalta. they treated truman with great deference. he was, after all, the president of this wealthy, powerful, emerging nation. it was something that churchill really depended on him for the future of england. the united kingdom was dead broke. he said at one point, we are going to need your help. it almost sounds like a senator from a state hit by a tornado asking for a national emergency. i don't think stalin much liked him or had a great deal of respect for him. particularly during the potsdam, that was the only time they ever met. he certainly got angry with him from afar. after his confrontation with his prime minister, molotov. also, he got very upset with truman, understandably so, when truman invited churchill to come to the states and sat on the stage and applauded when churchill basically attacked russia. they were deferential to him. they understood the world had changed. and they also understood that america had -- for a while, america was the power, america was the only nation to

whoever said we didn't say it said it, churchill would seem to have already caught it.his is the inner quality of this polish soul, i don’t want to say anything about the whole people. well, here is the soul of the gentry, it is very bad. yeah, that's such a mean snatch quietly piece, and everyone owes more ironically, it was the soviet union that had to save poland from german occupation and complete extermination, and its new borders were created by the leaders of the ussr, the usa and great britain. as you know, the issue of new polish borders was one of the most difficult during stalin's meetings roosevelt and churchill, for example, churchill stated that for england poland was a matter of honor, to which he replied that for russia it was not only a matter of honor, but also of security. when the allies began to say that lvov must be given away to the poles, stalin said that this issue was not discussed, without restraining churchill exclaimed, but after all, lvov was never a russian city. but warsaw was answered by stalin after that the question of lvov was no long

i think churchill churchill really really found on truman for the future of england england with the united kingdom was dead broke and he actually said at one point, you know, we're going to need your help. it's i say i say it almost sounds like a senator from a state hit by a tornado asking for that asking asking for national emergency and stalin stalin. it's tough stalin. basically, i don't think stalin much liked it or had a great deal of respect for him, but he didn't he wouldn't become impatient with him particularly particularly during the prosper during the pot. that was the only time they ever met and he definitely got angry with him from afar because of after the his confrontation with his foreign minister malikov, and also he got very upset with truman understandably so in truman invited churchill to come to the states and and sat on the stage and affordable basically attack, russia, but job, but they were very but they were differential to them. they understood that the world had changed. and and they also understood that that that america had for a while america was the w

churchill wrote glowingly about chaplain's early work as a young entertainer during churchill's own early days as journalist. churchill in fact was a frequent flyer in the chaplain orbit visiting him in hollywood and meeting with him during chaplain's various trips back to the uk. but conservatives beyond churchill could have found more to like about chaplain had they been looking more carefully for things to like about his work. in many of his films chaplain's character is a striving capitalist figure trying with all his might to find and keep a job in difficult circumstances. in many of the tramps films chaplain's character is trying very hard to escape poverty by his wits and to find a way to settle down in a conventional marriage with a secure one might even say a suburban dream of financial security in modern times of 1936, which has my vote for the most interesting film to consider in this conversation about chaplain's politics the little tramp runs off to apply for a job every time that he hears a factory is hiring and he even pushes his way to the front of the line to make s

, ah, once the world was saved, churchill changed his mind. any attempt by the soviets to compete against the anglo saxons had to be quashed forever. the usaa has to be eliminated immediately. general george s. patton, commander of the u. s. 3rd army demands that the troops do not stop at the elbow, but move on toward stalingrad with on june 29th. 1945 stone. and who already knows about the operation orders. marshall shook off to move troops to combat positions in the west. mm. it is now clear to the allies that a surprise attack is no longer possible then charger beckon. clifton. he died in creek, scotland and started our mobility tut. dean died annoyed to buffalo chapter genie r. dondo my story in north iceland once a day or 2, but some of my friends calmed starting for arca resistant se so astounded and buzz mafia dar on charges. are you had that been eaten anything for me or damaging the info on your knees as garbage. b, like, and dish. divest mr. that's enough. we're no longer interested in a union with the russians, so we don't have to a

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churchill's greatest legacy is a simple truth.hat one person can matter immensely which is why today, it is common and correct to apply the man we honor today the adjective, churchill he and. awarding the metal to president zelenskyy is a way of saying thank you. thank you for reminding us of many things. as samuel johnson said, people need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed. the man we honor today is our error is great reminder -- our era's great reminder. he has reminded us how thin is the crest of civilization of the rule of law rather than a war -- a raw force. he has reminded us of how sturdy this is and how it can be defended by its dirty people, unwilling to feet and crumble. for several centuries, mankind has been belabored proving that history is a proper noun. an autonomous force working out its own logic. human beings are just passively swept along like corks bobbing and it turned that they cannot substantially influence. these theories which disparage the ideas of human agency can be slain by fac

mr churchill was coming out again. is playing land of hope and glory and the crowd is singing. and this suddenly has become a very moving moment. will you listen, please? crowd sings here is the news. in the 19505, we saw the first regular television news bulletins. ..after manchester united's air crash at munich this afternoon. and amid snow flurries, when this ba elizabethan, which had been chartered by manchester united... these blurry black and white pictures following the 1958 munich air disaster in which eight manchester united players were among 23 who died showed just how quickly moving pictures could be broadcast. stories from abroad also arrive here from the bbc�*s we are trusted around the world. i was completely overwhelmed. not always welcome... thank you very much, mr president. where are you from? bbc. here's another beauty. but there at critical moments. i've worked for the bbc for over half the time it's existed and i've spent almost all my career covering international news. this is kyiv in ukraine. t

churchill's greatest legacy is a simple truth.one person can matter immensely which is why today, it is common and correct to apply the man we honor today the adjective, churchill he and. awarding the metal to president zelenskyy is a way of saying thank you. thank you for reminding us of many things. as samuel johnson said, people need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed. the man we honor today is our error is great reminder -- our era's great reminder. he has reminded us how thin is the crest of civilization of the rule of law rather than a war -- a raw force. he has reminded us of how sturdy this is and how it can be defended by its dirty people, unwilling to feet and crumble. for several centuries, mankind has been belabored proving that history is a proper noun. an autonomous force working out its own logic. human beings are just passively swept along like corks bobbing and it turned that they cannot substantially influence. these theories which disparage the ideas of human agency can be slain by fact. t