The young imperialist Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
At the moment, the babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, is all a glow over Churchill. We are continually being told what a wonderful man he was, a great leader, a towering figure of courage, morality, and intellect. Like so many of those who are handed the reigns of power in this country, like the Cameron/Osborne cabal, he came from an aristocratic family, the Dukes of Marlborough. Like most of that ilke, he had a dysfunctional family life, farmed out to a "nanny", hardly spoke to his father and while at Harrow, wrote repeated letters to his mother begging her to come and visit him. It is also commonly known that he was overly keen on alcohol, to put it mildly, and among other repugnant beliefs, he was an outspoken supporter of Mussolini right up to 1937.
1st. Duke of Marlborough. His family still exerts power over us.
What the babbling brook of bullshit will omit from their sickening syrupy spew about this rather blood thirsty aristocrat is his Gallipoli disaster, which saw him removed from is post as First Lord of the Admarlty. I also doubt if they will mention any of the facts listed below.
The voice of a man born into wealth, power and privilege
Another account said the police had the
miscreants—Latvian
anarchists wanted for murder—surrounded in a house, but Churchill
called in the Scots
Guards from the Tower
of London and, dressed in top hat and astrakhan collar greatcoat,
directed operations. The house caught fire and Churchill prevented
the fire brigade from dousing the flames so that the men inside were
burned to death. "I thought it better to let the house burn down
rather than spend good British lives in rescuing those ferocious
rascals."[79]
A major preoccupation of
his tenure in the War
Office was the Allied intervention in the Russian
Civil War. Churchill was a staunch advocate of foreign
intervention, declaring that Bolshevism
must be "strangled in its cradle".[97]
He secured, from a divided and loosely organised Cabinet,
intensification and prolongation of the British involvement beyond
the wishes of any major group in Parliament or the nation
Churchill as Chancellor of the
Exchequer oversaw Britain's disastrous return to the Gold
Standard, which resulted in deflation, unemployment, and the
miners' strike that led to the General
Strike of 1926.
That Commission solved nothing and the miners' dispute led to the
General
Strike of 1926. Churchill was reported to have suggested that
machine guns be used on the striking miners. Churchill edited the
Government's newspaper, the British
Gazette, and during the dispute he argued that "either the
country will break the General Strike, or the General Strike will
break the country" claiming that the fascism of Benito
Mussolini "rendered a service to the whole world,"
showing "a way to combat subversive forces"—that is, he
considered the regime to be a bulwark against the perceived threat of
communist revolution. At one point, Churchill went as far as to call
Mussolini the "Roman genius ... the greatest lawgiver among
men
Churchill opposed Gandhi's
peaceful disobedience revolt and the Indian Independence movement in
the 1930s, arguing that the Round
Table Conference "was a frightful prospect".[116]
Later reports indicate that Churchill favoured letting Gandhi die if
he went on a hunger strike.[117]
During the first half of the 1930s, Churchill was outspoken in his
opposition to granting Dominion
status to India. He was a founder of the India
Defence League, a group dedicated to the preservation of British
power in India. Churchill brooked no moderation. "The truth is,"
he declared in 1930, "that Gandhi-ism
and everything it stands for will have to be grappled with and
crushed."[118]
At a meeting of the West Essex Conservative Association, specially
convened so that Churchill could explain his position, he said "It
is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle
Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir
of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of
the Vice-regal palace ... to parley on equal terms with the
representative of the King-Emperor."
In response to an
urgent request by the Secretary of State for India, Leo
Amery, and Viceroy of India, Wavell,
to release food stocks for India, Churchill responded with a telegram
to Wavell asking,
if food was so scarce, "why Gandhi
hadn't died yet. In July 1940, newly in office, he welcomed reports
of the emerging conflict between the Muslim League and the Indian
Congress, hoping "it would be bitter and bloody".[118]
Churchill's attitude towards the
fascist dictators was ambiguous. After the First World War defeat of
Germany, a new danger occupied the political consciousness—the
spread of communism.
A newspaper article penned by Churchill and published on 4 February
1920, had warned that world peace was threatened by the Bolsheviks,
a movement which he linked through historical precedence to Jewish
conspiracy.[136]
He wrote in part:
"This movement among Jews is not new ... but a
"world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for
the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development,
of envious malevolence, and impossible equality
Churchill expressed a hope that Hitler, if he so chose, and
despite his rise to power through dictatorial action, hatred and
cruelty, might yet "go down in history as the man who restored
honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation and brought it
back serene, helpful and strong to the forefront of the European
family circle.
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