Layout 8 - Winston Churchill

wrote about what it was like to be hit
by a motorcar (Finest Hour 136).
• Painting correspondence with
Walter Sickert and Sir John Lavery.
There are also letters from George
Bernard Shaw, T.E. Lawrence and
Vivien Leigh.
—MARK BROWN IN THE GUARDIAN
WSC NEVER HESITATED
WASHINGTON, JULY 2ND— Longtime
Churchillian Charles Krauthammer
ridicules the current fashion of not
calling Muslim extremists Muslim
extremists: “The Pentagon report on
the Fort Hood shooter runs 86 pages
with not a single mention of Hasan’s
Islamism. It contains such politically
correct inanities as ‘religious fundamentalism
alone is not a risk factor.’
“Of course it
is. Indeed, Islamist
fundamentalism is
not only a risk
factor. It is the risk
factor, the common
denominator
linking all the great
terror attacks of this
Krauthammer
century—from
9/11 to Bombay,
from Fort Hood to Times Square, from
London to Madrid to Bali. The
attackers were of varied national origin,
occupation, age, social class, native
tongue, and race. The one thing that
united them was the jihadist vision in
whose name they acted.”
Krauthammer quotes Faisal
Shahzad, the Times Square attacker:
“One has to understand where I’m
coming from….I consider myself a
mujahid, a Muslim soldier.” Well, said
the columnist, “that is clarifying. As
was the self-printed business card of
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort
Hood shooter, identifying himself as
‘SoA,’ Soldier of Allah.
“Why is this important” Mr.
Krauthammer asks. “Because the first
rule of war is to know your enemy. If
you don’t, you wander into intellectual
cul-de-sacs and ignore the real causes
that might allow you to prevent recurrences.
“Churchill famously ‘mobilized
the English language and sent it into
battle.’ But his greatness lay not just in
eloquence but in his appeal to the
moral core of a decent people to rise
against an ideology the nature of which
Churchill never hesitated to define and
describe—and to pronounce
(‘Nahhhhrrzzzzis’) in an accent dripping
with loathing and contempt.”
Charles Krauthammer admits he is not
expecting anyone “to match Churchill’s
rhetoric—just Shahzad’s candor.”
Krauthammer knows. During the
“Person of the Century” hoopla in
1999, he nominated WSC, saying,
“Only Churchill carries that absolutely
required criterion: indispensability.”
(FH 105:15-16, Winter 1999-2000.)
ANOTHER COVER-UP
LONDON, AUGUST 5TH— The Telegraph
divulged breathlessly that “Churchill
was accused of ordering a cover-up of a
WW2 encounter between a UFO and
a RAF bomber because he feared public
‘panic’ and loss of faith in religion.”
Is the news so slow that they have
to regurgitate stuff that was taken care
of years ago
Finest Hour 115, Summer 2002
Datelines: London, October 21st—
“What does all this stuff about flying
saucers amount to”....WSC’s advisers
produced a six-page report [which]
played down the phenomenon....later
an order went out expressly banning
all RAF personnel from discussing
sightings. —THE OBSERVER
Finest Hour 129, Winter 2005-
06, Around & About, page 10: [Sir
Henry] Tizard saw no threat from
UFOs. All sightings, he reported, were
explainable by natural events such as
the weather or meteors, or were
normal aircraft. But Britain followed
the American lead in underplaying the
sightings, and a few months later an
order went out expressly banning all
RAF personnel from discussing UFO
reports with anyone not in the military.
Roberts and Clarke believe that
the UFO sightings were the product of
“mass hysteria”.....
Some cover-up. Almost makes us
pine for a resurrection of the much
more amusing fables that WSC knew
about Pearl Harbor and engineered the
1929 Wall Street crash.
FINEST HOUR 148 / 7
ANGUS HAMILTON R.I.P.
LENNOXLOVE,
SCOTLAND, JUNE
5TH— Angus
Hamilton, as
he preferred
to be known,
inherited his
dukedoms
from his
father in
1973,
becoming the
15th Duke of
15th Duke of Hamilton
Hamilton and
the 12th Duke of Brandon, as well as
22nd Earl of Arran.
In 2008, Angus and his wife Kay
were our hosts at Lennoxlove on the
final Churchill tour conducted by the
editor and publisher. They entertained
us affably at lunch while showing us
around their exhibition on the 1941
flight to Scotland by Rudolf Hess. The
Deputy Führer was intent on reaching
Angus’s father, the 14th Duke, whom
he knew and thought had access to the
King. The Duke promptly locked him
up and rang Downing Street.
As senior descendant of the
ancient lords of Abernethy, Angus
carried the Crown of Scotland to the
first reopening of the Scottish
Parliament since its departure to
London in 1707. Shy and academically
intelligent, he never relished his public
duties, but addressed them loyally. He
preferred designing off-road vehicles,
driving racing cars, and flying his
Bristol Bulldog biplane. He wrote a
fine biography of his ancestor, Mary
Queen of Scots: The Crucial Years.
Mary’s death mask is one of
Lennoxlove’s exhibits.
In 1973, Angus inherited
Lennoxlove Castle, which his father
had purchased in 1947. With its 460
acres of parkland and gardens, it
became the Hamilton ducal seat in
addition to being open to the public.
He married the current Duchess of
Hamilton in 1998, and shared her love
of animals and music. His heir is his
eldest son, Alexander Douglas-
Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas and
Clydesdale, who now becomes the
Duke of Hamilton and Brandon. >>