Dear Wolfgang, Thank you very much for your most interesting enquiry. I am sure that Churchill must have referenced Garibaldi in some of his writings and I am copying this email to the Archives Centre reading room team, to Churchill expert Richard Langworth in North America, and to our Churchill listserv to see what people can turn up. All very best wishes, Allen Director Churchill Archives Centre Churchill College Registered Charity: 1137476 (0)1223 336175
Churchill College 50th Anniversary - Building the future Personal data supplied in the course of an enquiry will be kept within Churchill College and may be used for administrative purposes within the terms of the Data Protection Act (1988). ________________________________ From: Wolfgang Richter [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 27 February 2014 19:29 To: [email protected] Cc: Garibaldi-Hibbert Francesco; Kurt Huebner; diTrolio Rocco Subject: Garibaldi & Churchill: quotes for Giuseppe Garibaldi Legacy Pavilion Dear Professor Packwood: I recently saw your commentary in a documentary about Winston Churchill in WWI... I am writing you from Vancouver, British Columbia, where we have a mountain and provincial park (see map below....) dedicated to Giuseppe Garibaldi and, in commemoration of Garibaldi's contribution to the Unification of Italy 150 years ago, as well as his triumphal visit to London in April 1864, am involved with the family of Garibaldi in Europe in creating a Giuseppe Garibaldi Legacy Pavilion along the highway between Vancouver and Whistler to provide much needed historic information about this great Italian "Hero of Two Worlds". We are certainly aware of Winston Churchill's interest in Garibaldi and the compliment Churchill provided him by parphrasing paraphrase Garibaldi's July 2, 1849 war-cry when rallying his revolutionary forces in Rome, ("Offro fame, sete, marce forzate, battaglie e morte" / "I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battle, and death.") with "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat..." My question is if you may be aware of the existence any direct quote or opinion Mr. Churchill might have made about Garibaldi in his writings or speeches. For example, The distinguished English historian, A.J.P. Taylor, went so far as to state that "...Garibaldi is the only wholly admirable figure in modern history" adding, he "... pretty well carried out half of the unification process on his own." We would be grateful for any assistance you could provide us with in this regard, as well as any other quotes or reference you might be familiar with from other great men of History such Ghandi, Nehru, Madela, etc. Thank you, Wolfgang Richter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
