Author: Scott Manning
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“Friendship with Germany” by Winston Churchill (Sep 17, 1937)
The following is one of many articles written by Winston Churchill for the Evening Standard. This is an often quoted article used by critics of Churchill to give the impression that at one point he held uncharacteristic admiration for Hitler. These critics will quote portions from the second-to-last paragraph with no other context in order to…
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What Did Churchill Mean by “Unnecessary War”?
Patrick J. Buchanan’s Churchill, Hitler, and the “Unnecessary War” gets part of its title from a quote by Winston Churchill. Buchanan has brought the term up in several interviews a statement made by Winston Churchill in his memoirs. One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be…
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Buchanan’s Source on Churchill’s “Starvation Blockade”
This is a follow-up article to Buchanan is Wrong. Churchill Had No “Starvation Blockade” published last month. In that article, we showed how in Patrick J. Buchanan’s new book Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, he incorrectly portrayed the blockade of Germany during World War I as something devised and executed entirely by Winston Churchill. Buchanan also incorrectly…
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“Human Smoke” on Churchill and the Blockade of Germany
Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke was released this year and aimed to be a provocative book containing a series of little-known quotes and events between World War I and World War II. The structure of the book is interesting in the sense that there is no real cohesion from page to page except that it’s all…
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Did Buchanan Plagiarize this Map of Germany After Versailles?
In Patrick J. Buchanan’s Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, he uses a map to show how Germany was carved up after the Treaty of Versailles, which is similar to another map in Martin Gilbert’s Routledge Atlas of the First World War. Similarities Similar topic: “Germany After Versailles” and “Germany in Defeat” both showing how Germany…
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Did Buchanan Plagiarize this World War I Blockade Map?
Did Buchanan plagiarize a map from Martin Gilbert? In Patrick J. Buchanan’s Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, he uses a map to show the food riots in Germany during World War I of which he blames Winston Churchill as the cause. There is another map in Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of the First World War that is very similar. Similarities…
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Buchanan on Churchill and the Entente Cordiale of 1904
In Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, Patrick J. Buchanan identifies the Entente Cordiale of 1904 as one of Great Britain’s avoidable milestones on the road leading to World War I. The Entente Cordiale (translated as “cordial agreement”) was a series of agreements signed by Great Britain and France. While these agreements were seen as non-binding,…
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Buchanan is Wrong on Germany’s 1939 Strength
In Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, Patrick J. Buchanan argues that Hitler did not want to conquer France, Great Britain, or the world, because he did not have the troop strength for a “total war” in 1939. Buchanan aims to debunk this contention to prove his larger point which is World War II was an…
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Buchanan is Wrong. Churchill had No “Starvation Blockade”
While reading Patrick J. Buchanan’s new book Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, I realized that a better title would have been Twisted Highlights from the World Wars that Make Churchill Look the Most Incompetent and Sadistic. While not all of Buchanan’s highlights are twisted, he tends to leave out just enough information to force…
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Year-by-Year World Population Estimates: 10,000 B.C. to 2007 A.D.
There are numerous world population estimates out there. These estimates can differ greatly from one to the next and some are more thorough than others. Finding estimates for the world’s population in the past 50 years is easy. Moving further back in time, it becomes more difficult. Determining population estimates is the science of educated…
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Fonthill Castle and Mercer Museum
Henry Mercer was rogue anthropologist, a control freak, and had an extreme case of obsessive compulsive disorder. And he has left a fascinating legacy in Bucks County, Pennsylvania that My wife and I had the pleasure and touring this summer. Fonthill Being funded by his aunt who was worth approximately $1,000,000, Mercer built a 44-room…
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Process of copying the Old Testament by Jewish Scribes
In 586 B.C., Jerusalem was captured by the Babylonians. The Temple was looted and then destroyed by fire. The Jews were exiled. About 70 years later, the Jewish captives returned to Jerusalem from Babylon. According to the Bible, Ezra recovered a copy of the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) and read it aloud…