When it saw our White Ensign it cruised alongside. An Admiral’s barge was speeding around the harbour. A fleet assembled in Naples -ships of all descriptions flying the Stars and Stripes or the White Ensign. In 1944 my ship prepared for the invasion of the south of France. RICHARD STEVENSON, FH 5, JAN-FEB 1969 PERSONAL GLIMPSE Does it make much difference whether the design is applied before or after the postmark? This method has the added advantage of allowing you to select only undamaged FDCs for the final artwork. Several friends who are handy with a paint brush hand-painted cachets for me, and these are very attractive. I have a number of First Day Covers that were made up on plain envelopes. – EVELYN ZIRKIND, FH 4, NOV-DEC 1968 CUSTOM COVERS And this is the way of all great artists. Sir Gerald Kelly of the Royal Academy recalled that when Churchill came to view an exhibit he would head straight for his own paintings to see if they were hung to his satisfaction, and then leave without so much as glancing at the other paintings. RE SOVIET INVASION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA CHURCHILL AS ARTIST This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless, by a supreme recovery or moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom, as in the olden time.” “Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness …And do not suppose this is the end. – RICHARD LANGWORTH, FH 2, JUL-AUG1968 PRAGUE SPRING 1938-1968 Britain can once again be proud she had a family called Churchill, from which to draw infinite resources of talent, patriotism and indomitable spirit. Despite his misfortunes he will be long remembered. It is startling to consider how the family motto, “Faithful But Unfortunate,” applies to him, now through his inability to finish what must become one of the world’s finest biographies. He gained a seat in 1940, lost it in 1945, and was never reelected. Handsome, brilliant, well tailored, witty, he left Oxford amid confident predictions that he would one day become prime minister. WSC, QUOTED IN FH 1, MAY-JUNE 1968 IN MEMORIAM: RANDOLPH CHURCHILL “We were considered such dunces that we could only learn English … Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.” Kansas City, October 6-8, 2022 THIS BULLETIN WILL BE IN ENGLISH Join us at the National WWI Museum for the 39th International Churchill Conference. On the following pages we recall some of the highlights of our journal, where it has been, where it is going, through its voyage of discovery over the years. Indeed the whole enterprise from the outset was based on securing new information and bringing it to the light of day. From the beginning we had only one rule: “It must be Churchill-related.” On Churchill we were of course positive but not, one hopes, too uncritical. But despite vast changes in our goals and projects, Finest Hour remained as clear a representative as we could make it of what has become an international focus of interest in Churchill’s life and times, the only publication devoted entirely to him. Churchill Study Unit, became the International Churchill Society in 1970 the Societies subdivided into separate American, British and Canadian organizations in 1989, and ICS/USA became The Churchill Center in 1997. Yet it was impossible to avoid historical parallels: “Study history, study history,” Churchill famously exclaimed: “In history lie all the secrets to statecraft.”įinest Hour‘s first publisher, the Winston S. Early on, his daughter warned us never to speculate on how he might react to this or that modern situation, and after being warned we never did. Through the Churchill prism it viewed a more formidable world than any we had known since 1945, considering the changing scene of history as he might have. Starting with a narrow focus, it quickly expanded to inquire into Winston Churchill’s life, thought, word, deed, books, politics, paintings and family. Like a child it grew into adolescence, then into adulthood. Yet the enterprise we brought into the world had a strong kick to it, a purpose in life that somehow kept it going, even though that purpose was not apparent for many years. In the beginning there was little more than a newsletter, and for six years during its early life there was nothing at all.
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