October 3, 2003
WELL, HE COULDN'T WORK FOR ESPN OR RUN FOR GOVERNOR IN 2003:
The Churchill you didn't know: Thousands voted him the greatest Briton - but did they know about his views on Gandhi, gassing and Jews... (The Guardian, November 28, 2002)
I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between communism and nazism, I would choose communism.
-Speaking in the House of Commons, autumn 1937 [...]It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience, to parlay on equal terms with the representative of the Emperor-King.
-Commenting on Gandhi's meeting with the Viceroy of India, 1931(India is) a godless land of snobs and bores.
-In a letter to his mother, 1896I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place.
-Churchill to Palestine Royal Commission, 1937 [...]One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as admirable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations."
-From his Great Contemporaries, 1937You are callous people who want to wreck Europe - you do not care about the future of Europe, you have only your own miserable interests in mind.
-Addressing the London Polish government at a British Embassy meeting, October 1944
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 3, 2003 5:51 PM