TIMES NEWSPAPER. London.
September 23, 2004
From Professor Emeritus Thomas Stapleton
Sir,
' Churchill's tears'
Richard Morrison (T2, September 20) writes that Churchill is said
to have been a bit of a sobber, though never in public.
Professor Robert Debr, the father of French paediatrics, told me
that when in 1944 Churchill received the freedom of the City of Paris
in the Hotel de Ville, on opening the casket, found it contained not
a scroll but the Hakenkreuz (Nazi flag) that had flown over the town
hall during the Occupation, the tears poured down his cheeks.
Yours faithfully,
THOMAS STAPLETON,
The Foundry Cottage,
Lane End, High Wycombe,
Buckinghamshire HP14 3JS.
thomas.stapleton@btinternet.com
September 22.
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THE
CHURCHILL SOCIETY
London.
The Editor
The Times Newspaper
London
October 1st 2004.
Sir
(From France)
'Churchill's tears'
Letter 23rd Sept 2004
Professors Stapleton's account of Churchill's reception of the
Nazi flag presented to him in France in 1944 was moving.
It represented the French nation's tribute to Churchill and all
his comrades in arms who lost their lives and the grief and pain of
their
widows and orphans, plus the many who suffered appalling injuries.
The flag belongs to them and now to the nation.
Where is it now?
Yours faithfully
The Secretary.
Norman Harvey Rogers.
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The Daily Telegraph
Re: Unsocial society
Date: 3 October 2004
SIR
Despite being hugely and patriotically English, I can only endorse
the prescience of Kevin Myers in opting to live in Ireland.
What he says about us is completely accurate, and is tremendously
dispiriting for those of us who can remember that other England, the
one where care, courtesy, respect and manners were part of everyday
life.
Again quite correctly he identifies the culprits as the
intelligentsia (although the noun is in many respects a misnomer),
who have conducted a merciless and unrelenting assault on all those
things that made us what we were.
Now, from the top down, we have a yobbish culture which prevails,
and we have become a society motivated by spite, envy, greed,
gloating, filth and voyeurism.
The England in which I was raised and educated, and for which I
would gladly have laid down my life, has been stolen from us, and we
are now an awful country, probably in terminal decline, ruled over by
an elite who are self-serving, duplicitious and hugely incompetent.
It is time, I think, to summon back King Arthur, or bang Drake's
Drum or whatever it is that we are supposed to do in time of peril.
From: Arthur Mead, Dereham, Norfolk.
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The Times Newspaper
London
September 7th 1998
(abbreviated)
Mr Mark Thomas has accepted a position advising Chancellor Gordon
Brown about reforming the tax system to ensure that rich people
cannot cheat.
Mr Thomas was invited after his television programme revealed that
Nicholas Soames (Churchill's grandson and Conservative MP and former
Minister) avoided paying inheritance tax on family heirlooms he had
been left, by listing them as available to public inspection when
they were not.
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February 13 2000
The Sunday Times Newspaper
London. A
copyright article.
Lottery-funded Churchills'
charge academics £50 a letter.
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust's failure
to honour the original Trust Deed and the need for
reform.
Because of his record Mr W S Churchill's appointment as Chairman of the Winston Churchill
Memorial Trust
is as astonishing as it is improper and he must resign.
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Dalton Newfield writes in an article published in the USA re the
sordid history (and inevitable failure) of the Churchill family's
promotion of the fantastically expensive The
Collected Works in 1974.
"I am more than a little surprised that the Churchill family gave
their support to this money-grubbing project".
"It would be wonderful to own such a work".
"It would be wonderful if my - or even any US library - could own
the set, let alone risk using it".
"It would be wonderful if greed were not always the family's
motive".
"WSC was not unconscious of money - quite the contrary - but he
did put out abridgements, cheap editions, etc., so that people at all
levels could enjoy his works".
"What pains most is that the idea was all so un Churchillian", Mr
Newfield concluded.
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The
story
of the
Churchill family and their friends - some in the Winston
Churchill Memorial Trust - promotion (in 1988) of the West
End Musical with 'Winnie' singing in his bath! After three
performances it was taken off. It was reputed to have lost
£3 million pounds and was described by a Buckingham
Palace courtier as:_
"just
done for
money,
money, money . . . .
vulgar
vulgar vulgar!"
Mary Soames. Churchill's daughter,
Nicholas Soames MP, Churchill's
grandson.
Winston Churchill minor. Churchill's grandson.
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The Churchill
family to pay back The Lottery Money.
The
High Court (London) proceedings. Who
owned the Chartwell Papers?
From:-
Professor
Charmley. An Award for Stupidity!
Churchill's
Medals.
How
safe are the contents of Chartwell?
Copy of correspondence
with The National Trust.
Churchill's daughter
Mary Soames,
Churchill's grandson
Nicholas Soames,
Churchill's grandson
Winston Churchill minor.
Important
information.
Conservative Party
corruption fuelled the continuing collapse of moral standards in the
UK.
From 1983 onwards it gathered pace and led to the national uproar
caused by the the story
of the Churchill family threatening to sell Sir Winston and Lady Churchill's
gift to Churchill College
of The Chartwell
Papers.
Lord
Rothschild's
letter.
The very sad press chronology of Winston S Churchill
Jnr.
Professor Charmley writes: Is
there no end to the making of money by the family our of Sir
Winston?
Commercial
advertising.
Cashing in on
Churchill.
Who received money for
this crude example?
Criticisms of the book 'Churchill's Private
Letters'
selected, edited, and published by his daughter Mary Soames.
May 1999. Important
information.
Correspondence.
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