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AUTUMN 2008 • NUMBER 140 • FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY 1968-2008 PAUL ADDISON • ANDREW ALEXANDER • PAUL ALKON LARRY P. ARNN • RANDY BARBER • PIERS BRENDON GEORGE W. BUSH • JOHN CHARMLEY RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL • BILL CLINTON • DAVID DILKS MICHAEL DOBBS • DAVID FREEMAN • LAURENCE S. GELLER MARTIN GILBERT • DOUGLAS HALL CAMERON HAZLEHURST • WILLIAM C. IVES WARREN F. KIMBALL • NIGEL KNOCKER • JAMES LANCASTER RICHARD M. LANGWORTH • JOHN LUKACS WILLIAM MANCHESTER • JOHN MAURER DALTON NEWFIELD • ALLEN PACKWOOD ROBERT L. PFALTZGRAFF JR. • ROBERT PILPEL JOHN G. PLUMPTON • INDER DAN RATNU • PHIL REED ANDREW ROBERTS • MARY SOAMES • DAVID STAFFORD IAN STEELE • HERBERT VIVIAN • MANFRED WEIDHORN
Number 140 • Autumn 2008 ISSN 0882-3715 www.winstonchurchill.org ____________________________ Barbara F. Langworth, Publisher barbarajol@gmail.com Richard M. Langworth CBE, Editor malakand@langworth.name Post Office Box 740 Moultonborough, NH 03254 USA Tel. (603) 253-8900 Dec.-March Tel. (242) 335-0615 ___________________________ David A. Turrell, Deputy Editor daturrell@verizon.net 19955 Alexandra’s Grove Drive Ashburn VA 20147-3112 Res. Tel. (703) 724-4928 ___________________________ Editor Emeritus: Ron Cynewulf Robbins Senior Editors: Paul H. Courtenay James R. Lancaster James W. Muller News Editor: John Frost Contributors Alfred James, Australia Terry Reardon, Canada Antoine Capet, France Paul Addison, Winston S. Churchill, Robert A. Courts, Sir Martin Gilbert CBE, Allen Packwood, United Kingdom David Freeman, Ted Hutchinson, Warren F. Kimball, Michael McMenamin, Don Pieper, Christopher Sterling, Manfred Weidhorn, United States ___________________________ • Address changes: Help us keep your copies coming! Please update your membership office when you move. All offices for The Churchill Centre and Allied national organizations are listed on the inside front cover. __________________________________ Finest Hour is made possible in part through the generous support of members of The Churchill Centre and Museum, the Number Ten Club, and an endowment created by the Churchill Centre Associates (listed on page 2). ___________________________________ Published quarterly by The Churchill Centre, offering subscriptions from the appropriate offices on page 2. Permission to mail at nonprofit rates in USA granted by the United States Postal Service, Concord, NH, permit no. 1524. Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. Produced by Dragonwyck Publishing Inc. FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY NUMBER, 1968-2008 1968 1983 1988 1998 COVER “To Winston, with affectionate birthday greetings from his old friend and castigator—Low.” First published in Illustrated, 20 November 1954. Australian-born cartoonist David Low had produced Churchill-skewering political cartoons for the Star and other left-wing papers since the early 1920s. But victim and victimizer retained an abiding respect for one another and WSC wrote fondly of Low in his essay “Cartoons and Cartoonists” in Thoughts and Adventures. As Sir Winston turned eighty, David Low returned the compliment. FORTY YEARS ON: VIEWS OF CHURCHILL SINCE 1968 14 Part I: Paul Addison, Paul Alkon, Larry P. Arnn, Piers Brendon 18 Part II: John Charmley, David Dilks, Michael Dobbs, David Freeman 28 Part III: Martin Gilbert, Cameron Hazlehurst, Warren F. Kimball, John Lukacs 38 Part IV: John Maurer, Allen Packwood, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr., Robert Pilpel 49 Part V: Phil Reed, Andrew Roberts, David Stafford, Manfred Weidhorn FROM THE PAGES OF FINEST HOUR 12 FH 51: Churchill and Family: “Command the Moment to Remain” • Mary Soames 21 FH 66: Churchill and History: Generational Chauvinism • William Manchester 32 FH 77: Churchill and Achievement: A Nation of Churchills • Bill Clinton 41 FH 123: Churchill and Liberty • George W. Bush 52 FH 40: Churchill and the Media: “Come Come, Mr. Churchill...” • Andrew Alexander ARTICLES 22 The Fifty Best Books of the Last Forty Years • Paul Addison and the Editor 33 The Hundred Best Finest Hour Articles in the Last Forty Years • Michael Richards 44 Past Glories: Churchill Conferences of the Last Century • Richard M. Langworth 54 Climacterics in the Life of Finest Hour: Turning Points in the Story of a Small Journal 58 Churchill and the Future • Laurence S. Geller at the 2008 Boston Conference 59 The Last Memory, 1965 • Edmund Murray in 1992 CHURCHILL PROCEEDINGS 66 Nimitz, MacArthur, and Coalition Warfare in the Pacific • Craig L. Symonds 74 Election 1945: Why Winston Churchill Lost • Gordon W. Walker QC BOOKS, ARTS AND CURIOSITIES 60 David Jablonsky reviews perhaps the best book yet on Churchill and his Generals 62 FH 16: Churchill and Stamps: Cuba, 1895 and Maximo Gomez • Dalton Newfield 64 FH 37: Churchill in Wedgwood: Barlaston’s Churchilliana • Michael Richards DEPARTMENTS 5/ Editor’s Essay • 6/ Despatch Box • 8/ Datelines • 10/ Around & About 11, 20/ Leading Churchill Myths • 17/ Wit & Wisdom • 37/ Riddles, Mysteries, Enigmas 42/ Action This Day • 61/ Churchill Quiz • 78/ Ampersand • 79/ Regional Organizations FINEST HoUR 140 / 4
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