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Winston Churchill Audio The Hour of Armistice The Follies of the Victors The Locust Years The Causes of War The Loaded Pause Meeting with Von Ribbentrop Mr. Eden's Resignation Royal Academy Banquet Munich Winter Broadcast to the United States The Soviet Enigma War! The First Month of War Ten Weeks of War Sinking of the Graf Spee Liberation is Sure The Navy is Here Before the Storm A Sterner War Narvik, Norway Frustration in Norway The National Coalition Speech to the House of Commons Be Ye Men of Valor The Battle of France The French Agony Dunkirk Unknown Warriors Crux of the Whole War The Battle of Britain Secret Session in London Canadian House of Commons Give Us the Tools Until Victory is Won War Production Masters of our Fate These are Great Days With Great Resolution War with Japan From the White House Prime Minister for Two Years End of the Beginning Speaking to Congress Before the Autumn Unity Anglo-American Unity Rebuilding the House of Commons The Fruits of 1944 Thanksgiving Day, 1944 Unconditional Surrender of Germany |
KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RA 1874—1965  Photo by Yousuf Karsh The axles creak, and the couplings strain— For the pace is hot, and the points are near, And Sleep hath deadened the driver's ear; And the signals flash through the night in vain— For Death is in charge of the clattering train! Originally published c. 1900 in Punch Magazine to commemorate a railway accident, this short poem was quoted by Winston Churchill in the first volume, The Gathering Storm, published in 1948, of his six-volume history, The Second World War. On page 110, he recalls a debate in the House of Commons on 19 March 1935 on the air estimates (i.e. money to pay for the production of aircraft) when as a back bencher he challenged the government's assurances that the budget was adequate to meet the growing threat from Nazi Germany, which had reached parity with Britain in the number of aircraft. Why Study Churchill? It is said that fighting evil is the noblest thing that a person can do with their limited time on earth. Mr. Churchill fought evil. But to fight evil, one must first recognize evil. In the late 1920s, Winston Churchill had already foreseen the military potential of a resurgent Germany. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Churchill again warned the world of the catastrophic dangers posed by the German corporal. Already a member of the British parliament when Hitler was a mere teenager, Mr. Churchill proved himself to be Hitler's unconquerable, insurmountable foe. Had Britain crumbled in 1940, the result would have been a world "made more sinister by the lights of perverted science." Sir Winston Churchill's matchless oratory and leadership inspired Britain to stand alone against German aggression until "the New World, with all its power and might, [stepped] forth to the rescue and liberation of the Old." Churchill wrote that all his life until 1940 was merely a "preparation for this hour." He was a man who truly walked with destiny. Listen to one of Mr. Churchill's speeches, or readings from his memoirs, by clicking on the links on the left. Thank you for visiting this page. Return to my home page. |
Winston Churchill on Islam Churchill wasn't a racist and didn't commit atrocities against indigenous populations. It's pretty sad that anyone has to write this but in today's world where the Left is feared more than anything else, it is necessary. Left-wing claim: Churchill said that the Bengal Famine of 1943 was the Indians' fault for "breeding like rabbits." Truth: This is overwhelmingly, if not entirely, left-wing smear. Regarding Churchill's attitude toward Indians "breeding like rabbits," Andrew Roberts writes in his just-published 1,000-page authoritative biography of Churchill: "Churchill had previously long instanced the astonishing population growth in India in the first four decades of the twentieth century as a mark of the success of the Empire and in November 1942 he was still boasting to the Spanish Ambassador, the Duke of Alba, 'Since the English occupation of India the native population has increased by a hundred million. Since the American War of Independence, the Red Indian population has practically died out.'" Churchill was using demographics to demonstrate the superiority of English rule over American rule. Left-wing claim: Churchill was a racist. Truth: Historian Andrew Roberts writes of Churchill as early as 1900: "Churchill had no sympathy for the aggressive white supremacism of the Afrikaner, from which his own paternalistic instincts were entirely different. He wrote of a future South African society in which 'Black is to be proclaimed the same as white...to be constituted his legal equal, to be armed with political rights,' a prospect that infuriated Afrikaners no less than would be 'a tigress robbed of her cubs.'" Left-wing claim: Churchill was responsible for the Bengal Famine of 1943 Truth: "Churchill was not responsible for the Bengal Famine. I have been searching for evidence for years: none has turned up. The 1944 Document volume of the official biography (Hillsdale College Press) will resolve this issue finally." — Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer to Sir Winston Churchill. |