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| c631221 | The war could not be won 'unless we are supported by the great masses of the labouring classes of this country'. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| b6ddf1b | Churchill was in his element; work and a clear plan. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 51e7172 | That same week, on distant Lake Nyasa, in central Africa, a British naval officer, Commander E.L. Rhoades, sailed his gunboat, the Gwendolen, with its single 3-pounder gun, across the lake from the British port of Nkata Bay to the tiny German port of Sphinxhaven, thirty miles away. There he opened fire on, and captured, the German gunboat Wissman, whose commander, Captain Berndt, had not yet heard that war had broken out between Britain and.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 177baa9 | would make 'a fatal bargain' if they allowed 'the moral force which this country has so long exerted to become diminished, or perhaps even destroyed, for the sake of the costly, trumpery, dangerous military playthings | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 83a925f | for the first time in British history, gave votes to women; six million women gained the vote as a result of the new Act. | Martin Gilbert | ||
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| 06d7844 | At Joncherey, near the German-Swiss border, a French soldier, Corporal Andre Peugeot, was killed, the first French victim of a war that was to claim more than a million French lives. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| afb202a | Churchill's article ended with a reference to his undiminished fear of Jewish Bolshevism, but on a positive, enthusiastic note: 'So long as the Zionist leaders keep their ranks vigilantly purged of the vicious type of Russian subversive they will have it in their power to revive the life and fame of their native land. They are entitled to a full and fair chance. All the great victorious Powers are committed in their behalf and Great Britain.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 1f2b9f3 | Churchill had long been fascinated by Jewish history, by the Jewish involvement with the events of the time, and above all by the Jews' monotheism and ethics. These seemed to him a central factor in the evolution and maintenance of modern civilisation. He published his thoughts about this on 8 November 1931, in an article in the Sunday Chronicle about Moses. Noting that the Biblical story had often been portrayed as myth, Churchill declared.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 7d56b88 | This meant there could be no German rearmament; that meant there could be no equality of arms, and that in turn, by the convoluted logic of politics, meant there could be no disarmament. | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| f8329df | Hanfstaengel told Churchill that, as Hitler came each afternoon to that same hotel, 'nothing would be easier' than for the two men to meet. Hanfstaengel hoped that Hitler would join Churchill after dinner. 'I turned up at the appointed hour,' Hanfstaengel recalled. 'Mr Churchill taxed me about Hitler's anti-Semitic views. I tried to give as mild an account of the subject as I could, saying that the real problem was the influx of eastern Eur.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 839f522 | Churchill later recalled, of his near meeting with Hitler: 'In the course of conversation with Hanfstaengl, I happened to say "Why is your chief so violent about the Jews? I can quite understand being angry with Jews who have done wrong or are against the country, and I understand resisting them if they try to monopolise power in any walk of life; but what is the sense of being against a man simply because of his birth? How can any man help.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 6bffeb6 | On 3 September 1937, as the Jewish leaders debated for and against Partition, Churchill wrote an article in the Jewish Chronicle that came down firmly against. He began, however, with a sympathetic account of Weizmann's desire to accept, reluctantly, the truncated Jewish State. He could 'readily understand', he wrote, Dr Weizmann, and others with him who have borne the burden and heat of the day, and without whose personal effort Zionism wo.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 4246732 | With extraordinary prescience, Churchill then made another point, full of foreboding. 'There is a danger,' he warned, 'of the odious conditions now ruling in Germany being extended by conquest to Poland, and another persecution and pogrom of Jews being begun in this new area.'6 There were six hundred thousand Jews in Germany in 1933, and more than three million in Poland. At a time when most British politicians doubted Germany's aggressive .. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| c4a9598 | The conference began on March 12. Among the experts were Lawrence, Cox and Gertrude Bell; for ten days they passed in review every aspect of the future of the Middle East. Economy was the goal, political stability the means. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| b01e531 | Churchill's views on Zionism were well known. A year later, in an article in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, denouncing those Russian Jews who had taken a leading part in the imposition of Communist rule on Russia, he had called Zionism an 'inspiring movement', telling his readers, 'If, as may well happen there should be created in our own lifetime, by the banks of the Jordan, a Jewish State under the protection of the British Crown, which m.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 8c1f684 | so that his formal appointment, made on 9 January 1919, was that of Secretary of State for War and Air. He | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 6b9562c | At the same time, in an attempt to calm Arab fears, he approved a proposal from Samuel that Jewish immigration would henceforth be limited by the 'economic capacity' of Palestine to absorb the newcomers. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 2ffaf41 | It would be a 'tour de force' to do the two jobs, Clementine continued, 'like keeping a lot of balls in the air at the same time. After all, you want to be a Statesman, not a juggler.' Churchill had no intention of giving up his Air portfolio. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 8e63b03 | If I had two lives I would be a soldier and a politician. But as there will be no war in my time I shall have to be a politician. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| acb9489 | The Russian delegation, led by Maxim Litvinov, proposed complete and immediate disarmament for everybody; this was rejected out of hand as a Bolshevik trick. | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 1b5b8b8 | The fact that France and Britain did go on to win the war preserved their great-power status, but to a very considerable extent they were great powers by default, and their appearance of strength and solidity was no more than an illusion. | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 792acb7 | Is it too imaginative to say that if the Schlieffen Plan had worked, Adolf Hitler might have remained a private in the List Regiment and Joseph Stalin a Georgian peasant? | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 12f5b85 | The Battle of the Marne was the end of the Schlieffen Plan, the end of the era of short wars, and the end of the old Europe as well. | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 0df1605 | Actually, she had now made it extremely likely that, if Germany developed any expansionist tendencies at all, the French would be dragged into another war--exactly what the alliances were all supposed to avoid. | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 3baab6f | None of the treaties could disguise the basic fact of European life--a united Germany was potentially the strongest power on the Continent. France began to rearm. | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 7601834 | independent | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 7cb9542 | So beautiful was that summer that those who survived it invested it with a golden haze; it assumed a retrospective poignancy, as if before it, all had been beautiful, and after it, nothing ever was again. It became the summer that the world ended, and it was somehow fitting that it should therefore be the most glorious summer ever. | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 4af9459 | Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was to dominate one's fellows; | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| bf33a98 | Three Best Ways to Start a Speech The third best way to start a speech is by using an 'imagine' scenario. 'Imagine a big explosion as you climb up 3000 ft. Imagine a plane full of smoke. Imagine an engine going clack, clack, clack. It sounds scary. Well, I had a unique seat that day. I was sitting on 1D.' This is how Ric Elias started his TED talk--'3 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed'1--on the Hudson river landing. This true story wa.. | Indranil Chakraborty | ||
| f5874d6 | Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. --LORD HALIFAX | J.D. Robb | ||
| c7abf8e | mood out of her. He slipped | J.D. Robb | ||
| 3bf9669 | When you love somebody, they've got to know who you are, even if you're not exactly who you were. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 3129c29 | but that's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top. | David Sedaris | ||
| f801c69 | Watch this. 'Buenos Dios, Miguel.'" A small, dark-eyed man looked up from his wood splitting, alarmed. | David Sedaris | ||
| 0c391ed | You can take him, right?" he asks a couple minutes later. | humor | Rodman Philbrick | |
| 4ef711c | Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root. | education encouragement mentoring | Stefan Fatsis | |
| 09f737d | It's far fetched previous light heavyweight ruler Jon Jones needs any additional certainty or motivation in front of his Ultimate Fighting Championship title rematch with abhorred match Daniel Cormier. In any case, he got a few, and from a kindred, previous pound-for-pound ruler, no less. Watch here (just remove spaces from the link below: youtube . com/channel/UCpO1_0isxwuWruD1AyIdfNg On July 12, Jones expressed by means of Twitter that h.. | ufc-214-live-stream ufc-214-online watch-ufc-214 | Calixto Kaskas | |
| a2c137e | Meanwhile, angered by white violence in the South and inspired by the gigantic June 23 march in Detroit, grassroots people on the streets all over the country had begun talking about marching on Washington. "It scared the white power structure in Washington, D.C. to death," as Malcolm put it in his "Message to the Grassroots" and in his Autobiography.6 So the White House called in the Big Six national Negro leaders and arranged for them to .. | Grace Lee Boggs | ||
| d69bbe5 | in Canada, Hawaii, Chicago, or Washington, D.C., police are unable to point to a single instance of gun registration aiding the investigation of a violent crime. In a 2013 deposition, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said that the department could not "recall any specific instance where registration records were used to determine who committed a crime."1 The idea behind a registry is that guns left at a crime scene can be used to trace back t.. | John R. Lott Jr. | ||
| e0e46e5 | When high expectations are communicated to members, the unchurched are attracted to these churches that have meaningful membership. One such church among the churches we have received information on is Carron Baptist Church, an African-American church in Washington, D.C. They actually require their members to agree to a church covenant that mandates the following: To read the Bible daily. To pray with and for members of your family daily. T.. | Thom S. Rainer | ||
| 30b05ad | Washington, D.C., to see her family one last time before they are deported back to Senegal. Now we're told she can't see them because of paperwork." The ICE boys looked at the three clerks. The first one said, "You know the rules. No visitors until they have been processed." Gibson looked back at Mark and said, "Well, there you have it. Rules are rules." "Can I see the supervisor?" Mark demanded. "You can stop yelling, that's what you can d.. | John Grisham | ||
| 7b5d95b | P lanning a wedding can be murder. Planning weddings for a living is nothing short of suicide. "Is there a patron saint for wedding consultants? Because I think after this wedding, I just might meet the requirements." I stood near the top of the wide marble staircase that swept down the middle of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's central foyer. Below me, dozens of tuxedo-clad waiters scurried around the enormous hall filled end to end with tabl.. | Laura Durham | ||
| 31a9c3d | Norman Cousins, author of Anatomy of an Illness and The Healing Heart, divides the human race into "positive" and "negative" people: The positive people work miracles, accounting for the evolution of human performance. I add another division, productive and nonproductive people: those who can do things and those who only talk about things (especially talk about why they can't do things). As far back as I can remember, I was determined to co.. | Kenneth Atchity |