Very good.posted something on this not that long ago, citing the same documents
as Herman, however, although it is not a Churchill point, I couldn't help but
notice that the mythology that the famine was man made is repeated. Actually
there was a disease of the rice crop which produced quite a significant
shortfall of rice.
S.Y. Padmanabhan, "The Great Bengal Famine", Annual Review of Phytopathology
vol II 1973 p11-24
O. Goswami 'The Bengal Famine of 1943: Re-examining the Data' in, The Indian
Economic and Social History Review, Vol 27, No. 4, 1990.
> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:37:08 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:
> [ChurchillChat] 'Rubbish and Lies'> To: [email protected]> > >
> In the spirit of David Kyle's notion of exposing some of the demons of the>
> internet to the cleansing sunlight of reason, we have just posted on the>
> Churchill Centre website a rebuttal to an article which appeared on November>
> 18th in 'Media with Conscience', in which Gideon Polya attempts to lay the>
> guilt for the Bengali Famine firmly at Churchill's feet. In doing so he also>
> manages to regurgitate almost every one of the other tired old Churchill>
> myths, with a degree of vituperation which makes Clive Ponting sound like a>
> man at peace with himself.> > Just follow the "We Read Them So You Don't Have
> To" link from the home page> > www.winstonchurchill.org> > or go directly
> there via> > http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1215>
> > Best> > Dave Turrell> Deputy Editor, Finest Hour> Webmaster, The Churchill
> Centre> > > > > > -----Original Message-----> From:
> [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Behalf Of Kyle,
> David J. (CDC/CCEHIP/NCEH) (CTR)> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:12 PM>
> To: [email protected]> Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: Dan Brown's
> Angelic Demonology> > > Thank you to the Langworths, always dependable to put
> things into> context.> > :-) strange what one has to do to get this group to
> discuss and defend> Churchill.> > I did indeed find the passage selectively
> taken and posted on a web site> dedicated to fear of the Illuminati.> > And
> yes my postings were tongue in cheek, but since I came to the USA I> have
> found dedicated Churchilians who will sit for hours and discuss the> man in
> great detail and to a degree of minutia that is wonderful> ......... But they
> are mostly old men and women (with greatest respect> to the ladies present)
> and truth be told their knowledge will die with> them. I see it already.> > I
> am not a rich person so cannot fund to any significant amount the> Churchill
> Centre youth education work. Yet I still manage to get the> great man into
> conversations at dinner, at breaks in business meetings,> and in general day
> to day life, without ( I hope anyway) of being a one> pony show.> > Many
> people read what is on these postings and I am sure they take away> snippets
> here and there, maybe even use them one day.> > So with the forbearance of
> the list censors/moderators I will continue> to post stuff from sites that
> are promoting what Mr. and Mrs Langworth> are too polite to call rubbish and
> or lies.> > David> > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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