The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (47 page)

The Dervishes
 . . . twelve deep
For Churchill’s account, see Winston Churchill, ‘The Sensations of a Calvary Charge’,
My Early Life,
pp. 182–96.

‘rode up to individuals
 . . .
one very doubtful’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 97.

‘the most dangerous
 . . . to see’
Winston Churchill to Ian Hamilton, 16 Sept 1898; BRDW V 1/1, Broadwater Collection, Churchill College, Cambridge.

He later cycled
 . . . Diamond Hill
See Winston Churchill,
The Boer War: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
and
Ian Hamilton’s March
(London: 2008 edition), p. 287.

served with the troops
 . . . hear them talking
See A. Dewar-Gibb, ‘Captain X’,
With Winston Churchill at the Front
(London: 1924).

‘Being in many ways
 . . . personal courage’
Winston Churchill to Jack Churchill, 02 December 1897; CHAR 28/152A/122.

6.
T
HE
G
REAT
D
ICTATOR

‘Master of sham-Augustan prose’
Martin Stannard,
Evelyn Waugh
(London: 2013), p. 440.

‘No specific literary talent
 . . . self-expression’
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, ‘Winston Churchill, the Author of Victory,’ review of Peter Clarke,
Mr. Churchill’s Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer’
in
Times Literary Supplement
, 18 July 2012.

‘Shifty barrister’s case
 . . . literature’
Evelyn Waugh,
Letters of Evelyn Waugh
(London: 2010), p. 627.

‘He had an ignorance
 . . . staggering proportions’
J. H. Plumb, taken from Michael Cohen,
Churchill and the Jews, 1900–1948
(London: 2013), p. 4.

‘Curiously old-fashioned
 . . . 5th avenue’
See J. H. Plumb, ‘The Historian,’ in A.J.P. Taylor et al., eds.,
Churchill: Four Faces and the Man
(London: 1969), p. 130.

‘Rarely can an author’s
 . . . 1953’
Peter Clarke, ‘Prologue,’
Mr. Churchill’s Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer
(London: 2012),
p. ix.

‘It was from the very beginning
 . . . double sixes again’
Winston Churchill, ‘The Morning Post’, from F. Woods, ed.,
Winston S. Churchill: War Correspondent, 1895–1900,
pp. 300–2.

His description
 . . . 400 yards a day
Winston Churchill, 10 September 1898, Camp Omdurman; Woods,
War
Correspondent
, pp. 143–47.

‘the wounded dervishes
 . . . ridiculous’
Winston Churchill,
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan
, vol. II (London: 1899), p. 225.

‘financially it is ruinous
 . . . a blunder’
Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph, 21 October 1897. C.V. I, part 2, p. 807.

‘It is with regret
 . . . barbarism unrelieved’
Winston Churchill, dispatch from Nowshera, 16 October 1897, in Woods,
War Correspondent,
p. 85.

‘Hope
 . . . he won’t write’
Lady Jeune to H. Kitchener, 1898; Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p. 90.

‘cannot really tell lies’
Norman Rose,
Churchill: The Unruly Giant
(London: 1995), p. 154.

his first ever essay at Harrow
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 19.

‘suspiciously round’
Roy Jenkins,
Churchill: A Biography
(New York: 2001), p. 80.

his income from writing
Clarke,
Mr. Churchill’s Profession
, Appendix: ‘Churchill and the British Tax System’.

‘The old Whig claptrap
 . . . chapter’
J. H. Plumb,
The Making of an Historian: The Collected Essays of J. H. Plumb
(New York: 1988), p. 240.

‘The past is a pasteboard
 . . . signpost the future’
J. H. Plumb, quoted in A.J.P. Taylor,
Churchill Revised: A Critical Assessment
(London: 1969), p. 169.

7.
H
E
M
OBILISED
T
HE
E
NGLISH
L
ANGUAGE

‘I thank the House for having listened to me’
For the entire ordeal, see Virginia Cowles,
Churchill: The Era and the Man
(London: 1953)
,
p. 102; Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p. 163.

‘defective cerebration’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life,
p. 164.

‘Ladies
 . . . I stand for liberty!’
Douglas Russell,
Winston Churchill, Soldier: The Military Life of a Gentleman at War
(London: 2005), p. 65. See also Cowles,
Churchill: The Era and the Man
, p. 40. However, Churchill himself says that ‘no very accurate report of my words has been preserved.’ Winston Churchill,
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
(New York: 1930), p. 71.

‘Sometimes a slight
 . . . attention of the audience’
See Winston Churchill, ‘The Scaffolding of Rhetoric,’ November 1897, https://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/pdfs/for_educators/THE_SCAFFOLDING_OF_RHETORIC.pdf. Accessed 29 August 2014.

‘The cheers become louder
 . . . all direction’
Ibid.

‘scholarly and limp’
Michael Sheldon,
The Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill
(London: 2014), p. 31.

‘Mr Churchill does not inherit
 . . . help him’
H. W. Massingham,
The Daily News
; Roy Jenkins,
Churchill: A Biography
(New York: 2001), p. 75.

‘Mr. Churchill and oratory
 . . . ever will be’
Quoted from Richard Toye,
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Winston Churchill’s World War Two Speeches
(London: 2013), p. 18.

‘What was there to say
 . . . a coward’
Winston Churchill,
Savrola: A Tale of Revolution in Laurania
(London: 1897), pp. 88–91.

‘rhetorician
 . . . influence crowds’
Colin Cross, ed.,
Life with Lloyd George: The Diary of A. J. Sylvester, 1931–45
(London: 1975), p. 148.

‘Winston is not yet
 . . . said’
Edwin Montagu to H. H. Asquith, 20 January 1909; Toye,
Roar of the Lion
, p. 21.

‘I do not care
 . . . words produce’
Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, 1898, quoted from Norman Rose,
Churchill: An Unruly Life
(New York: 1998), p. 45.

‘terminological inexactitude’
Winston Churchill, 22 February 1906,
Hansard
, HC Deb, vol. 152, cc531–86.

‘foul race
 . . . their due’
Jock Colville,
Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955
(London: 2004), p. 563.

‘Rallied
 . . . despised his orations’
Evelyn Waugh to Ann Flemming, 27 January 1965; Toye,
Roar of the Lion
, p. 70.

‘radio personality’
Ibid.

‘he gives the impression
 . . . fails miserably’
Ibid., pp. 69–70.

‘fucking liar’ or ‘fucking bullshit’
Ibid, pp. 95, 131.

‘He’s no speaker, is he?’
Ibid, p. 126.

‘The ceremony at Gettysburg
 . . . Lincoln’
Ibid, p. 69.

‘There are two people
 . . . I am’
Ibid, p. 28.

‘The winning formula
 . . . never fails’
Harold Nicolson to Ben and Nigel Nicolson, 21 September 1943; Nigel Nicolson, ed.,
Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1939–1945
(London: 1967), p. 321.

‘Audiences prefer
 . . . Latin and the Greek’
Winston Churchill, ‘The Scaffolding of Rhetoric.’ November 1897, https://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/pdfs/for_educators/THE_SCAFFOLDING_OF_RHETORIC.pdf. Accessed 29 August 2014.

‘finest hour’ speech
See
Hansard
, HC Deb, 18 June 1940, vol. 362, cc51–64.

‘liberated
 . . . freed’
Winston Churchill speech notes, CHAR 9/172.

‘I felt sick
 . . . so many to so few’
Lord Ismay,
The Memoirs of Lord Ismay
(London: 1960), pp. 179–80.

‘the end of the beginning’
For the whole speech, see http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/1941-1945-war-leader/987-the-end-of-the-beginning. Accessed 29 August 2014.

8.
A
P
ROPER
H
UMAN
H
EART

‘Where were you educated
 . . . book’
Elizabeth Nel,
Winston Churchill by His Personal Secretary
(London: 2007), p. 40.

‘I want to see Buffalo Bill
 . . . too much for that’
Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, 11 June 1886; Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p. 13.

‘orientalism’
Lady Gwendoline Bertie to Churchill, 27 August 1907; Randolph Churchill, ed.,
Winston S. Churchill Companion,
vol. 2, part 1 (London: 1969), p. 672.