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This comes up now again on the list as an issue of the minuses of Western Allies in terms of the US and UK being "better" or "worse" than the Nazis. I've been reading up on the millions-dead famine in Bengal. I hadn't known there was even a debate about this. I was very surprised. We have no one here on this list defending Churchill, of course, but yet it's important to read counter-points to what is commonly accepted on the left to wit: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/in-the-media/churchill-in-the-news/966-without-churchill-indias-famine-would-have-been-worse This piece argues that contextually, Churchill (and the British) were not responsible for this famine and that "in fact" the author argues, he greatly mitigated it and effectively ended it. Of course the author here doesn't answer the charge (and fact) that Churchill ordered the shipments of grain away from India. Nevertheless, make for interesting history. David ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
