Egads! You mean I've been duped by the Churchill Centre's myth
busters!!...and that bounder Randolph!!! I do think that it is always
perfectly legitimate to identify the historical errors in a theatrical
production in the same way that we would for a revisionist historians
subjective rant. So in the currently circulating spirit of celebrating
the spontaneous generation of historical fictions I propose that in an
explosive fit of family-fueled petulance Randolph ripped a case of
Winston's beloved pinned butterflies off of the wall, stormed out on the
balcony, and squashed them all!! It sounds plausible to me...
Stan
On 2016-09-14 10:27 AM, Richard M. Langworth wrote:
Stan, alas, Churchill /did/ authorize the use of troops in the miners
strikes, though there were extenuating circumstances. The story forms
a chapter in my next book, /Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality: Tall
Tales, Lies, Fables, Distortions and Things That Go Bump in the Night
/(McFarland, 2016). A post on the subject, "Guilty with an
Explanation," is in two parts beginning at:
https://richardlangworth.com/strikers1
It would have been a fairly normal thing for a spirited nurse like
Millie, with a Welsh father (despite her Lancashire accent) to say to
WSC in passing, "he was no fan of yours." And for WSC to quip to CSC,
"Her father was a literary trade unionist."
Churchill did occasionally present people with a current volume of a
multi-voume workâthough (whoops) /English-Speaking Peoples /did not
begin publishing until 1956. If they were going ignore the date, it
should have been /The Great Democracies/ (1958), since since Millie
was bound for Australia.
Thanks for your many erudite comments over the years.
On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 5:10:31 PM UTC-4, Stan A. Orchard
wrote:
Of greater concern to me was when Churchill's nurse tells him that
he was not highly regarded by her father after Churchill had sent
troops in to crush striking Welsh miners and Churchill says
nothing in response. This is where injecting a bit of historical
accuracy could have helpfully clarified a persistent slander
against Churchill that still routinely crops up in the media. In
the background piece that followed the production the author spoke
of his concern for historical accuracy which simply reinforces the
notion that this slander is accurate as presented.....Churchill
presents his nurse with only one volume of a four-volume set of
his History of the English-speaking Peoples. Would anyone
actually do that?
Stan
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