Category: Winston Churchill
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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. 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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Churchill’s Sinking of the French Fleet (July 3, 1940)
On June 13, 1940, Winston Churchill took one of several trips to France during Hitler’s Blitzkrieg. After convincing the French not to sign a separate armistice with Germany just two months prior, Churchill was now being begged to release them from the obligation. When a country loses its will to fight, there’s not much you…