journal of the churchill center and societies - Winston Churchill

Churchill s World
HOTEL LA MAMOUNIA,
MARRAKECH, MOROCCO
" This is a wonderful place, and the
hotel one of the best I have ever used."
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LA MAMOUNIA & DAVID DRUCKMAN
Mr. Druckman of Arizona, who travels widely, wrote about his visit to South Africa in
FH47 and to Gallipoli in FH9Q. This year he and we persuaded "La Mamounia" to
allow him to visit the Churchill Suite. Written material courtesy Hotel La Mamounia.
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t is the most lovely spot in the
whole world." So said Winston S.
, Churchill to Franklin D. Roosevelt
about Marrakech in 1943. The Prime Minister,
who had persuaded the President to visit
his favorite haunt after the Casablanca Conference,
made this remark while they gazed at
one of the beautiful sunsets for which the
city is famous, the setting sun tinting the distant,
snow-capped peaks of the Atlas Mountains
velvet red. Such scenes often inspired
Churchill to take up his paintbrush in Marrakech,
though during World War II he
found time to paint only one picture: it was
done on this occasion. Invariably on his visits,
Churchill chose to stay at the luxurious
Hotel La Mamounia not least because the
views from the roof were incomparably
"paintaceous."
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