No no no. Randolph Churchill was Lord Brain in disguise and Lord Moran forgot his "Ps" & "Qs" with his hidden stethoscope while Anthony Eden was only there in spirit as he was recovery in Boston from serious repeat gallbladder surgery and OMG only one Amazon nurse to lift WSC to prevent bedsores. Let's have a good laugh and not do reviews that purport to be serious. OK for drama but a BIG fat zero for any teaching tool for the next generation. Oh wait a minute maybe this "rubbish" might just catch their imagination . Horrors!!!
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 14, 2016, at 9:16 PM, Stan A. Orchard <bullfrogcont...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > 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 >>> >>> >> -- >> 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 churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > *************************************** > BullfrogControl.com Inc. > 69A Burnside Road West > Victoria, British Columbia > CANADA V9A 1B6 > > 250-858-3764 (FROG) > bullfrogcont...@shaw.ca > www.bullfrogcontrol.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 churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. > 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 churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
