Winston Churchill

You had to be recommended and invited.

The principal members on the books that year include Viola Chesterfield, Major General Churchill, and then poet laureate, Collie Kibber MP, and possibly a spy, Sir John Cope, and the latter would face military disaster early in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 when he was the military commander of Scotland and his force was defeated by Bonnie Prince Charlie, thus leading to the Scots full classic, Hey Johnny Cope, are you waking yet? So this is like, this is big dogs.

Yeah, I'm not getting in there, let's be honest.

None of us are.

That's got an amazing list of people who, you know, used to frequent like Henry Kitchener and stuff.

In time, the Almachack Club, as it was called, but it was informally named after the tavern the landlord, William Almach, split in two.

One part of the division involved into Chris's favourite hangout, Boodle's Club, which came to be identified with the Conservative Party and could count Ian Fleming, David Niven, John Profumo, Winston Churchill and Chris Scullerman, yes, later on.

Yeah.

I, I, I love feeling optimistic.

This was, this would have been a great one for Brian to, to be on and talk about, uh, Winston Churchill.

Um, he loves, he loves that quote.

Um, You know, I do want to get into some of the other players who didn't maybe get all the flowers.

Operation Sunrise ultimately came to nothing.

Winston Churchill once referred to it as Operation Crossword, stating that he found it puzzling, as in a crossword puzzle, as to what Dulles was actually trying to achieve with it.

That being said, the negotiations did point towards the manner in which the resolve of Wolf and others was failing on the Italian front, as the futility of the war became apparent to all.

One wonders why Wolf was not replaced by Hitler during two months of negotiations with the Allies.

It needed that support, yet as we saw, it had fatally and unavoidably developed a hostility toward the Jews, and later it was not able to prevent pogroms.

As Secretary of State for War, Winston Churchill was the major advocate of the Allied intervention in Russia and military aid to the White armies.

Because of the pogroms, Churchill appealed directly to Denikin, "My goal of securing the support in the parliament for the Russian national movement will be incomparably more difficult if the pogroms are not stopped." Churchill also feared the reaction of powerful Jewish circles among the British elite.

Jewish circles in the USA had similar opinions on the situation in Russia.

Yeah, it's, it's, it's more the, it's more the same.

Uh, Churchill, you know, had some conception, despite the fact that his family was very philosemitic and was very much in debt, um, to Jewish bankers.

His father especially was very degenerate.

Um, he was getting in his newspaper these irrational pogroms all the time Now, there was a, at this point, there was at least one attempt to reach the white forces from the West, from the Entente, and they said, if you eliminate all anti-Semites from your ranks, if you take on all war debt, including the debt, which is very small, from the Czarist era, engage in a disarm, engage in a constituent assembly election with the Marxists, we will consider aiding you.

As a matter of fact, though, Joe, I thought the horror show was yesterday in the fourth quarter.

No, Miss Sherry's a decorator now.

Even in our fourth quarter of our life, she's very much a decorator.

We got witches up with floodlights at night.

My favorite tree, and we have a million trees.

So if we miss a big story, I want people to know we're talking on Wednesday for broadcast on Friday.

Larry Arnn, let's start with where we were together this weekend at the International Churchill Society.

And I want to get your initial reaction to the fact Mrs. Arnn was there and Mrs. Hewitt was there.

Mrs. Hewitt is a connoisseur of military uniforms.

He did look good.

And he was articulate.

And everything I noted that he said about Winston Churchill seemed to be true, which is rare.

and then he talked about the modern hussars, and it made me think there's still some spirit in the British Army.

So if we miss a big story, I want people to know we're talking on Wednesday for broadcast on Friday.

Larry Arnn, let's start with where we were together this weekend at the International Churchill Society.

And I want to get your initial reaction to the fact Mrs. Arnn was there and Mrs. Hewitt was there.

Mrs. Hewitt is a connoisseur of military uniforms.

He did look good.

And he was articulate.

And everything I noted that he said about Winston Churchill seemed to be true, which is rare.

and then he talked about the modern hussars, and it made me think there's still some spirit in the British Army.

That's a really good book, really about that theme that open societies, whether you call them republics or liberal democracies, they just do better by every measuring stick.

We make mistakes in the meantime, but as Winston Churchill said, the United States does the right thing after it has exhausted all the alternatives.

And so I do tend to be an optimist in the very long run.

The pendulum swings, and right now things, I think, don't look great.