Dear Richard Many thanks for writing this. I hope they publish it.
Is there any news on when the next Churchill Documents volume will be released? Cheers. Sandy ------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Sandy Finlayson Director of Library Services & Professor of Theological Bibliography Westminster Theological Seminary Philadelphia, PA "Google can bring back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.~ Neil Gaiman On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:31 AM Richard Langworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Letter to the Editor, WSJ (if anybody sees it in print, let me know; not > holding breath) > > FYI: Noonan's article is at > https://www.wsj.com/articles/england-needs-a-slap-and-so-does-china-11560465724 > > ---------- > > A fine writer like Peggy Noonan should not blithely repeat such empty > canards about Winston Churchill as she offered on June 15th ("England Needs > a Slap, and So Does China.") > > Churchill had flaws, but he did not write "a masterpiece of the English > language while drunk." Nor is it true that he "went to war hung over." > > His alcoholic capacity was considerable, and he fanned the image. But his > legendary highball was a tumbler of water with an ounce of of whisky, > "Scotch-flavored mouthwash." His champagne was diluted by stretching his > habitual pint over a three hour dinner. > > One doesn't conduct 900 meetings of the War Cabinet and Defense Committee > drunk. In forty years of research I found just one instance where anyone > found him the worse for drink. That was at Teheran in 1943, when a > bodyguard helped him back to the British Embassy after a late night of > toasts with the Russians. Even then, he said, "the PM was still walking, > and upright." > > Ms. Noonan is right to say that Boris Johnson is not Churchill. (Perhaps > there should be an article, "Stop Comparing Churchill to *Everybody." *No > one else served in four wars and wrote five books by age 25, held all but > one major office of state, was twice prime minister, wrote 50 books and won > a Nobel Prize.) > > That makes him quite *incomparable*, despite the ignorant plaints of > muckraking authors and social media. Ms. Noonan is not among those. > > Respectfully > Richard Langworth > > Richard M Langworth CBE > Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College > Churchill Project > winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu > Moultonborough, New Hampshire > richardlangworth.com > > > > > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/churchillchat/fa1289ae-3c9e-4b1d-9644-3800af6bc4e5%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/churchillchat/fa1289ae-3c9e-4b1d-9644-3800af6bc4e5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/churchillchat/CAB6-JBFPpiKSY%2BRFsTaFdCNwjjaHDkV%3DPzfvpFEaXu86NB447g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
