This might be of interest primarily to Washington Post subscribers. Full-week Post subscribers who sign up for the free "PostPoints" program are entitled to 50 retrievals per year from the Post's archives at no cost. The archives date from 1877 and return over 10,000 articles on a search for "Winston Churchill". For example:
"Young Churchill as Orator: Advises the Government Not to Yield in the Fashoda Matter" (26 October, 1898) "Winston Churchill Safe: Dispatch from Pretoria Says He Is Only Slightly Wounded" (20 November, 1899--followed up by several others with titles such as "About Churchill's Escape", and "Prayer Saved Churchill") "Churchill Takes Over" (11 May, 1940: "For the hard-hitting, tense, and ruthless period which lies ahead, Mr. Churchill is obviously the appropriate chief. It is not merely that he will have the support of Labor and other elements critical of Chamberlain's direction. Winston Churchill is also the type of leader, determined, courageous, energetic, and willing to take chances, which are necessary to match Hitler at his own game. The new prime minister has a united nation behind him. He has the ardent goodwill of every civilized people.") Post subscribers can sign up for PostPoints at www.washingtonpost.com/postpoints. (Nonsubscribers can, I believe, search the archive but must pay to retrieve the articles.) One of the earliest references is a brief mention in a column titled "Balfour in Disgrace" dated 28 June, 1896. The column appears to be a general compendium of British goings-on. (The Post in this era had a regular column titled "The Gossip of London", but this is not one of those.) The Churchill-related portion of the column reports on the Fourth Hussars scandal described by Gilbert in "Churchill: A Life" (see: http://tinyurl.com/c7gl3c for the text). There are some interesting differences between Gilbert's version of the events and that of the Post's writer. -------------- "The Fourth Hussars ("Queen's Own") are being raked by the press and frowned upon by the public in general. For several weeks, Truth has been airing the scandals in connection with that regiment, and the matter has finally reached Parliament, and is likely to have a most serious effect upon the regiment. "Some time ago, it appears, the officers of the Fourth Hussars bullied a subaltern named Hodge, to such an extent that he resigned and went to Africa. This caused some comment in the press, but the matter was allowed to drop. "Later, it transpired that when a young man named Bruce Price was gazetted to the Fourth Hussars he was invited to dine at the Nimrod Club by five subalterns, who, after making inquiries as to his means, told him he was not wanted in the regiment and that unless he retired gracefully he would be made to resign. The young Lieutenant declined to resign, and reported the matter to the Adjutant. But, it seems, all the officers of the regiment from Col. Brabazon on down, boycotted and bullied him until he was finally compelled to resign on the ground that he was too familiar with privates." ... "The father of the latest victim of the Fourth Hussars scandal intimates that his son was driven from that regiment in order to make a vacancy for Lieut. Winston L. S. Churchill, son of the late Lord Randolph Churchill." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ChurchillChat?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
