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Vor 2 Tagen · Churchill's response to the Bengal famine was criticised by some contemporaries as slow (see § Bengal famine), a controversy later increased by the publication of private remarks made to Secretary for India Leo Amery, in which Churchill allegedly said that aid would be inadequate because "Indians [were] breeding like rabbits".
Vor 2 Tagen · Winston Churchill (born November 30, 1874, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England—died January 24, 1965, London) was a British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister (1940–45, 1951–55) rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory.
- As prime minister (1940–45) during most of World War II, Winston Churchill rallied the British people and led the country from the brink of defeat...
- Through his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, a Tory politician, Winston was directly descended from John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, the he...
- At Harrow School, Winston Churchill’s conspicuously poor academic record provoked his father’s decision to enter him into an army career. On his th...
Vor 3 Tagen · Shortly after I joined the International Churchill Society (ICS), I received a booklet containing the text of then Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger’s address to a 1985 ICS conference in Boston. It was titled “Churchill: An Uncomfortable Hero.”. Secretary Weinberger had served in the US Army during the Second World War and remembered ...
Vor 3 Tagen · 02:39. 1940: Winston Churchill Broadcast - Finest Hour Speech. In one of his most famous broadcasts to the nation, Prime Minister Winston Churchill outlines the seriousness of the situation after ...
Vor 3 Tagen · The artist Graham Sutherland’s infamous 1954 portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, commissioned by Parliament for his 80th birthday so enraged its subject, his faithful secretary burnt it two years later. B ut while the original portrait was reduced to ashes, 70 years on from its creation, Sotheby’s is presenting for the first time at auction ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Winston Churchill delivered the Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946. In it he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “iron curtain” across Europe.
Vor 4 Tagen · Antisemitismus. Pro-Palästina-Proteste an deutschen Unis: Antisemitismus oder legitime Kritik? DER SPIEGEL. Pro-Palästina-Proteste an deutschen Unis Antisemitismus oder nur Kritik? Ist »Free...
