Q&A: Churchill’s Philosophy of Life and Living - Richard M. Langworth
With style and panache, Winston Churchill lived a life of adventure through the worst storms that ever rocked civilization.| Richard M. Langworth
“The conversation turned to the French Fleet, and Clementine said she hoped that its ships and crews would carry on the fight with us. De Gaulle curtly replied that what would really give the French Fleet satisfaction would be to turn their guns ‘On you!’ (meaning the British). Winston tried to mediate but Clementine interrupted him, and said in French: ‘No, Winston, it is because there are certain things that a woman can say to a man which a man cannot say, and I am saying them to yo...| Richard M. Langworth
At Christmas 1932, Churchill received as a present “a huge bottle of brandy, and decided to paint it, accompanied by lesser bottles," Johnnie Churchill remembered. "He sent us children scurrying around Chartwell to find them: 'Fetch me associate and fraternal bottles to form a bodyguard to this majestic container.'"| Richard M. Langworth
With style and panache, Winston Churchill lived a life of adventure through the worst storms that ever rocked civilization.| Richard M. Langworth
“Clementine from the first had liked and respected this dour man, but she found this remark too much to bear and, rounding on him, she rebuked him soundly, in her perfect, rather formal French.... The General was much upset, and apologised profusely.... Later on in the war he was to give her a beautiful Lalique cock—the emblem of France—which she greatly treasured.” —Mary Soames The post Chartwell’s Lalique Cockerel: A Rare Gift of Gaullist Penance appeared first on The Churchill ...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
