FINEST HOUR - Winston Churchill

AMID THESE STORMSFINEST HOURISSN 0882-3715Richard M Langworth, EditorPost Office Box 385Hopkinton, New Hampshire03229 USATel. (603) 746-4433Senior EditorsJohn G. Plumpton130 Collingsbrook Blvd.Agincourt, OntarioM1W 1M7 CanadaH. Ashley Redburn, OBERosemere, Hollands MeadOvermoigne, Dorchester,Dorset DT2 8HX EnglandNews EditorJohn Frost8 Monks Ave, New Barnet,Herts. EN5 1D8 EnglandFeatures EditorDouglas J. Hall183A Somerby Hill, GranthamLines. NG31 7HA EnglandContributorsSir Martin Gilbert, United KingdomGeorge Richard, AustraliaStanley E. Smith, United StatesRon Cynewulf Robbins, CanadaJames W. Muller, United StatesDavid Boler, United KingdomWm. John Shepherd, United StatesFINEST HOUR is published quarterlyfor Friends of the InternationalChurchill Societies, which offer severallevels of support in their respectivecurrencies. Membership applicationsand changes of address should be sentto the appropriate national offices onpage 2. Permission to mail at non-profitrates in the USA granted by the USPostal Service, Concord, NH, Permitno. 1524. Copyright 1995. All rightsreserved. Designed and produced forThe Churchill Societies by DragonwyckPublishing Inc. Printed byReprographics Inc. Made in U.S.A.FFINEST HOUR OFFICE EQUIPMENT NEEDEDinest Hour is growing! We need both another computer and a new copy machine.If you are able to donate either a Macintosh Powerbook or a copier capableof image reduction and collation, it would be a major help to us in improvingour services and the timeliness of our issues. For U. S. citizens the funds or value ofequipment are fully tax-deductible.For some time now ICS (USA) has paid for the services of an editorial andadministrative assistant. The relative dearth of typos in recent issues is owed to theeagle eye of Gail Greenly of Contoocook, New Hampshire, who now works forICS two days a week. Our only regret is that she is not here more often. Not only isshe a capable editor, but she speaks French, a discipline that has eluded me evenmore than it did Churchill.A Macintosh Powerbook, mating up with our present Macintosh systems,will speed Gail's work and travel with me when I am on the road, somethingwhich one of our directors was recommending four years ago and which is now seriouslyneeded. A new copy machine with collating abilities to replace the oldModel T version we've had since 1983 would be an equal step forward in processinggalleys, proofs, Finest Hour and ICS circular letters and messages. If you canprovide either, or the equivalent funds, or part of the funds, I would certainly beglad to hear from you.LAST WEEK HE WAS PARIAHTHIS WEEK THEY WANT TO MAKE HIM PHARAOHLondon, The Independent, September 20th — "A giant head of Churchill, the sizeof a house and perched on the banks of the Thames, could become Britain's answerto the Statue of Liberty. The project is the inspiration of Falcon Nemon Stuart,son of sculptor Oscar Nemon, who found plans for the statue among papers of hislate father, who created Churchill statues at Parliament, the Guildhall andChartwell... Mr. Nemon Stuart has already won some powerful supporters. His alliesinclude Lady Soames, Sir Winston's daughter, and his grandson, the MP WinstonChurchill. He also has backing from the Churchill Society ..."TO THE EDITOR, THE INDEPENDENT:I wish to state that neither I nor my nephew, Winston Churchill MP,have at any time been either informed or consulted about the project for a fortyfoot bust of my father, Sir Winston Churchill, to be installed on the South Bank orother locations. The project has neither my support nor that of Winston Churchill.-The Lady Soames, DBETO THE EDITOR, THE INDEPENDENT:Contrary to your article, the International Churchill Society (United States)knows nothing of plans for a forty-foot bust of Sir Winston on the Thames, and thisproject certainly does not have our support.Asked what he thought about monuments to him in London, Sir Winstononce remarked that if anything was created in his honour he would much prefer apark for children to play in. Alas we are still waiting for the park.We seem caught these days in a crossfire between "historians" who defineChurchill as a power-mad megalomaniac and "worshippers" wishing to build giganticstatues of him. To paraphrase Sir Winston, there is surely some middleground between these two scarecrow extremes. -Richard M. Langworth, President,ICS (United States)RICHARD M. LANGWORTHFINEST HOUR 88/4