65 years ago today

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Richard Notton

Incidentally, do not view the popular and offered image of Churchill as a kindly and rotund old uncle; he was as crafty as a cart load of monkeys, devious, manipulating, bombastic, dictatorial and the match of Hitler and Joe Stalin put together.

Just the right man for the job.


R.

Getting off topic a tad . I recently heard a radio interview with a well known UK author of WW2 history... He changed my mind totally on Churchill. He was not a good strategist, lets face it .. the Dardenelles and Greece were not by any measure , good ideas.

But , during early 1940, he had been PM for two weeks .. a huge critical decision was to be made.. Five people ..only 5 , yes 5, would decide the fate of the free world . Churchill, Lord Halifax, Chamberlain ,Attlee and some other guy were locked away and they debated .. do we go for appeasement and terms or do we fight til the death... Guess what, four of them wanted and strongly argued for appeasement and a truce , of course under German terms ... Churchill was the only desenter of the five .... fight on til the last . It was that close ..he held the fort alone .

Mike