Richard Carroll on Nostr: I’m hardly a Churchill fan, but this vignette he wrote imagining a meeting with his ...
I’m hardly a Churchill fan, but this vignette he wrote imagining a meeting with his father in 1947 is pretty interesting since he’s surprisingly ambivalent about things we’d assume he feels strongly about. For instance, on democracy, supposedly “the worst form of government, aside from all the others,” he says, “We have had nothing else but wars since democracy took charge.”
About the world wars, he writes this exchange:
“Yes, we won all our wars. All our enemies were beaten down. We even made them surrender unconditionally.”
“No one should be made to do that. Great people forget sufferings, but not humiliations.”
On France in the wars:
“Ah, so they won. They had their revanche. That must have been a great triumph for them.”
“It cost them their life blood,” I said.
Overall, worth reading, regardless of how one feels about Churchill.
About the world wars, he writes this exchange:
“Yes, we won all our wars. All our enemies were beaten down. We even made them surrender unconditionally.”
“No one should be made to do that. Great people forget sufferings, but not humiliations.”
On France in the wars:
“Ah, so they won. They had their revanche. That must have been a great triumph for them.”
“It cost them their life blood,” I said.
Overall, worth reading, regardless of how one feels about Churchill.