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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

THE CULT OF CHURCHILL

Yes, Churchill was a British imperialist and a white supremacist.

No, he did not defeat Hitler. Russia did that.

But did he know the Japanese fleet were steaming towards Pearl Harbor and keep quiet?

Even his contemporaries found his views on race shocking. In the context of Churchill’s hard line against providing famine relief to Bengal, the colonial secretary, Leo Amery, remarked: “On the subject of India, Winston is not quite sane … I didn’t see much difference between his outlook and Hitler’s.”

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