Thank you Mr Langworth, for this timely reminder. Modern dramatisations of this period in history, whatever their technical merits, are depressingly consistent in their zeal to misrepresent British 'greats' like Churchill and to construe them in the light of devious or maladjusted men whose contribution to history was to have been stubborn and benighted obstacles to the general march towards 'sweetness and light' that would otherwise have prevailed - of course under the guidance of 'benign' and 'enlightened' people and powers (individual Americans, and even US policy, is often cast in that role by revisionist-minded movie makers). It's unfortunate that the extent of ignorance and unfamiliarity there will exist (in the world in general) - about the era during which these great events were played out and men like Churchill lit the world stage - will increase as those times recede farther into the past. Thus will an increasingly fertile field of uninformed people emerge, with virgin minds ripe for the toxic seed of the Revisionist historian and vulgar press.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the mire-dipped mind of the revisionist 'historian' has the power to rob us and the generations to come of the inheritance that should be ours - of knowing that our history glitters with people (like Churchill) whose thoughts and deeds and ideals were among the noblest and most sublime ever to issue from our species, and in whose debt we (and the generations that follow) will remain everlastingly. Let us therefore, like Richard here, never ignore the opportunity to point it out when we see or read or hear something from a modern pen that departs from the truth as we, with our deeper knowledge of our history, know it. It is right to do this - with sternness and without remorse - because it is Our Heritage that they besmirch. -- 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.
