“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
Above: Paris, 11 November 1944. From Diana in Algiers, 12 August 1944: “Duckling’s telegram announcing his arrival added a message to Wormwood to the effect that he would be happy to shake his hand.... No good; Worm would rather not. So Duckling arrived and walked across the beautiful morning-lit court in khaki with harlequin chest, heavy and weary, a little infirm and unsmiling, but in ten minutes the talk began to flow and, with the flow, the grins and fun, the youth and strength.” Th...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
De Gaulle said Churchill was leading Britain “towards the heights of one of the greatest glories in the history of the world.” Speaking in English with tears in his eyes, Churchill recalled his broadcast to France in October 1940: “I did not fear to address the French people in French to tell them that a day would come when France would take her place at the head of the great nations and play her part as the champion of liberty and independence.” The post Eighty Years On: Churchill in...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
“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
