tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910188492873665563.post5423058486186700160..comments2023-07-21T09:17:17.142-07:00Comments on Test 25636: Churchill's Powell-like comments about immigration 14 years before "Rivers of Blood"Paul Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525444717679391831noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910188492873665563.post-88352308707638481332007-08-05T21:07:00.000-07:002007-08-05T21:07:00.000-07:00Thanks Andy - agreed. But that in many ways is Chu...Thanks Andy - agreed. But that in many ways is Churchill all over. His career was so long and varied that he was able to have his great moments but also his rather shaming moments. For every "We shall fight them on the beaches"....there was something like his Black and Tans misadventure in Ireland. For every "This was our finest hour" there was something like his Gallipoli obsession and the unnecessary slaughter of about half a million young men there.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00525444717679391831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910188492873665563.post-67957559097388156302007-08-05T14:33:00.000-07:002007-08-05T14:33:00.000-07:00Hmm. Sad to read of people you think highly of say...Hmm. Sad to read of people you think highly of saying indefenceable things. This particular one doesn't surprise me too much; after hearing that Churchill advocated the slogan "Keep Britain White" for the Tory campaign of 1955, I struggle to imagine anything that might lower Churchill's views on race any further in my eyes.Andyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15432543456476489561noreply@blogger.com