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  Why War? Keywords: Winston Churchill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Winston's politician father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough: Winston's mother was Jennie Jerome (née Jeanette Jerome) of Brooklyn, New York, a daughter of American millionaire Leonard Jerome.
Winston Churchill was an early supporter of the pan-Europism that eventually lead to the formation of the European Common market and later the European Union (for which one of the three main buildings of the European Parliament is named in his honor).
Churchill is believed by several writers to have suffered from bipolar disorder and in his last years, Alzheimer's disease; certainly he suffered from fits of depression that he called his "fl dogs", Some researchers also believe that Churchill was dyslexic, based on the difficulties he described himself having at school.
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/Winston_Churchill   (3654 words)

  
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Winston Churchill lead Great Britain for most of World War Two and Churchill’s ‘bulldog’ spirit seemed to summarise the mood of the British people even during the bad times, such as Dunkirk, and the inspirational victories, such as the Battle of Britain.
Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
Winston Churchill put a strong emphasis on modernisation and he was an early supporter of using planes in combat.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /winston_churchill.htm   (1372 words)

  
 Four Bells: Remarks on Naval Affairs - The Churchill Centre
Winston Churchill was aptly described as "half-American but wholly British." Through his mother, Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn, New York, he had American, indeed Revolutionary blood in his veins.
Churchill's achievement, which was crucial, was to ensure that the war was not lost, thereby making it possible for the Anglo-American alliance, once America joined the fray in December 1941, to go forward to Victory, together with our ally Soviet Russia.
That was the Winston Churchill of 50 years before, when he was your age: Winston Churchill the man of action, the young soldier who saw action across four continents, seeking fame and glory in the cannon's mouth.
www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=324   (1542 words)

  
 Winston Churchill (grandson) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
is a retired British Conservative Party politician and the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Churchill was born in London, the son of American socialite Pamela Harriman and her first husband Randolph Churchill, the only son of Winston Churchill.
Since leaving Parliament, Churchill has been a sought after speaker on the lecture circuit and has written many articles in support of the the fight against Islamic terrorism and the Iraq War.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winston_Churchill_(grandson)   (440 words)

  
 biographies: Winston S. Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, a direct descendant of John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough, was born on November, 30 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
Winston lived in Ireland with his parents (after his grandfather, the 7th Duke of Marlborough, was made Viceroy) from the time he was 2 years old; he returned to England when he was 5.
Churchill in 1924 he was elected to Parliament as a Constitutionalist and rapidly became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's government.
histclo.com /bio/c/bio-church.html   (4361 words)

  
 Winston Churchill III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Churchill, a correspondent for British media during conflicts in Vietnam, Angola and the Middle East, spoke on the dangers of the rise of fundamentalist Islamic terrorism.
Churchill spoke to nearly 150 businessmen and women, Texas Tech faculty members and Lubbock residents at the luncheon.
Churchill's presentation dealt with the history of conflicts in the Middle East.
www.texastech.edu /news/churchill.html   (253 words)

  
 The Spectator.co.uk
Churchill looms far larger in the mythology of neoconservatives than in the minds of mainstream Americans, who think of him as the brave and witty ally of President Franklin Roosevelt in the war against Hitler.
He wrote, ‘It was my grandfather, Winston Churchill, who invented Iraq and laid the foundation for much of the modern Middle East.’ This is not an accomplishment of which to be proud, one might think.
Citing Churchill to support Bush’s war to rid Iraq of alleged weapons of mass destruction was particularly ironic in light of Churchill’s own record with respect to WMDs in Iraq.
www.antiwar.com /spectator/spec280.html   (1612 words)

  
 Winston Churchill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire on 30th November 1874.
Churchill himself, however, was captured and held in a POW camp in Pretoria.
In 1915, Churchill was one of the political and military engineers of the disastrous Gallipoli landings on the Dardanelles during World War I. Churchill took much of the blame for the fiasco, and, when Prime Minister Asquith formed an all-party coalition government, the Conservatives demanded Churchill's demotion as the price for entry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winston_Churchill   (8058 words)

  
 Churchill on Islamic Fundamentalism
Winston S. Churchill III speaking at the John Locke Foundation's 16th anniversary dinner in Raleigh on Feb. 10.
In a speech on Feb. 10 at the John Locke Foundation's anniversary dinner, the grandson of Winston Churchill urged the West to stay the course in the fight against extremist Islam.
In Churchill’s day, of course, the viciousness and cruelty of the Wahabis was confined to the Saudi Arabia peninsula, and their atrocities were directed exclusively against their fellow Muslims, whom they held to be heretics for not adhering to the Wahabi creed — but not anymore.
carolinajournal.com /exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=3158   (2145 words)

  
 Press Release
Winston S. Churchill II, the grandson of former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, will present a lecture on the language and speeches of his grandfather next month at Colorado State University-Pueblo.
A journalist, former war correspondent, and a member of the British Parliament from 1970-97, Churchill II is the author of the best-selling Six Days of War and the more recent Never Give In: The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches, a recently release compilation of some of his grandfather’s most famous oratories.
Churchill’s appearance is made possible by the generosity of Jarvis and Mary Jo Ryals.
www.colostate-pueblo.edu /news/releases05/021.htm   (503 words)

  
 Winston S. Churchill.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Winston was educated at the English public school of Harrow, excelling in english and becoming fencing champion but otherwise failed to apply himself.
Still a war correspondent, Churchill obtained a commission in the South African Light Horse, fought at Spion Kop and was one of the first into Ladysmith and Pretoria; receiving, with his cousin The Duke of Marlborough, the surrender of fifty two Boer prison camp guards.
Winston Churchill succeeded in entering parliament as a conservative MP and proved a controversial figure with a mind very much of his own.
www.clarkscript.com /churchill.html   (1322 words)

  
 Winston Churchill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Churchill clearly saw the looming disaster of capitulation...
Churchill, billed as author, journalist and parliamentarian, is the grandson of the heroic Sir Winston Churchill.
Churchill clearly saw the looming disaster of capitulation, but was labeled a "war-monger." As Churchill’s grandson recounts, "the British public came to see they had been duped and that Churchill was right all along." They insisted he return to office.
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 BookPage Interview October 1999: Winston S. Churchill
When the young Winston identified himself to two burly, disbelieving Chicago police officers amidst the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention, he got a swift nightstick on the noggin for his trouble.
Churchill lived there until he died in 1965 at the age of 90.
Winston S. Churchill remembers his grandfather not as the awesome personage of history, but as "wonderfully warm and approachable, intensely human, with a lively sense of humor." He adds, "I learned quite a bit as a journalist from my grandfather and various things as a politician from him.
www.bookpage.com /9910bp/winston_s_churchill.html   (916 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Featured Article
As leader of the opposition in the British parliament, Churchill was gravely alarmed at the prospect of the Soviet Union acquiring atomic, and eventually nuclear, weapons of its own.
Aware of the dangers ahead, Churchill believed that the U.S.--while it still had a monopoly of atomic power--should require the Soviet Union to abandon the development of these weapons, if need be by threatening their use.
Churchill, a former British member of Parliament, is the editor of "Never Give In!," a collection of Winston Churchill's speeches, due in November from Hyperion.
www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110003205   (1172 words)

  
 ABC News: Grandson Blasts Winston Churchill Statue
Grandson Calls Statue of Winston Churchill in Straitjacket 'Absurd and Pathetic'
LONDON Mar 11, 2006 (AP)— A grandson of Winston Churchill criticized a charity Saturday for erecting a statue of the wartime prime minister in a straitjacket.
Churchill's grandson, Nicholas Soames, called the statue "absurd and pathetic," according to The Sun newspaper.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1714874   (144 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Great Republic: A History of America (Modern Library Paperbacks): Books: Winston S. Churchill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As a young man, writes his namesake and grandson in his introduction, Churchill toured some of the battlefields of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and it is in writing of these two epochs and the expansionist years between them that Churchill is strongest.
Churchill's reflections on the Second World War are also of much value, and he provides an insider's view of the defeat of Nazism and the birth of the cold war.
Churchill was a great admirer of what he affectionately called 'the Great Republic' (thus, the title), and so his endearment of our country is also the result of embracing his own heritage.
www.amazon.com /Great-Republic-America-Library-Paperbacks/dp/0375754407   (1792 words)

  
 uwnews.org | University of Washington News and Information
Winston S. Churchill, grandson of the former British prime minister, will deliver a speech entitled, Public Leadership in Times of Crisis, at 6:30 p.m.
The speech is the sixth annual Churchill Centre Lecture sponsored by the the UW Alumni Association and the Evans School of Public Affairs.
Like his father and grandfather before him, Winston S. Churchill was for many years a journalist and war correspondent, reporting on conflicts around the world.
uwnews.washington.edu /ni/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?articleID=27345   (363 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | Bush 'no Churchill' says grandson
The MP grandson of Winston Churchill has said America's policy over Iraq stands no comparison with the British war leader's stance against Hitler.
Churchill would also have thought more about the wider consequences an attack on Iraq could bring, said Mr Soames.
George Bush keeps a bust of Churchill in the Oval Office and during his visit to London last year made it a priority to tour the cabinet war rooms he used during the Blitz.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/2223188.stm   (731 words)

  
 Read More About It (Winston Churchill and the Great Republic, Library of Congress)
You can continue to enjoy the richness of the Library's collections by going to these suggested links that will be of special interest to kids and families!
Churchill, Winston S. The Great Republic: A History of America.
Chasing Churchill: The Travels of Winston Churchill by His Granddaughter.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/churchill/wc-readmore.html   (137 words)

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