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1 day ago · Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955.
1 day ago · Winston Churchill - WWI Prime Minister, Statesman, Orator: War came as no surprise to Churchill. He had already held a test naval mobilization. Of all the cabinet ministers he was the most insistent on the need to resist Germany.
3 days ago · Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower at the White House on June 25, 1954. George Tames/The New York Times. In an extraordinary gesture of trust, the American president left Washington, D.C., on ...
5 days ago · Who would you choose? Most likely prefer the latter, assuming these habits reflect a superior moral and ethical compass. Yet, historically, the former describes Winston Churchill, the indomitable leader who inspired Britain during World War II, while the latter is Adolf Hitler, whose regime orchestrated the horrors of the Holocaust.
2 days ago · Churchill Leadership Medal Award for Bill Roedy. Friends and supporters of America’s National Churchill Museum (ANCM) at Westminster College, gathered in London’s historic Guildhall on 12 June to present Bill Roedy with the Winston Churchill Leadership Medal Award, ANCM’s highest honor. Roedy joins the likes of Walter Cronkite, Sir John ...
4 days ago · Churchill, India and Independence (35 minutes) The 1942 Cripps Mission offered India postwar Dominion status and the right to secede from the Commonwealth in exchange for supporting the war effort. “India would have had that right had it achieved a central, federal government. The Congress agonized over the Cripps offer.
3 days ago · As much as Churchill turned out to be right, there is a good explanation as to why he was generally not taken seriously in the 1930s: he’d spent most of the previous twenty years blotting his copy book, in addition to having ‘ratted and re-ratted’: not for nothing did Rhodes-James write a book entitled Churchill 1900-1939: A ...
