7/1/2023 0 Comments The last lion manchester![]() Join us for the 40th International Churchill Conference. Select bands of unemployed from the depressed areas marched on London, where they demonstrated to little purpose….” Wal Hannington, their nominee for leadership, hit on the device of “hunger marches”– an echo of the old Blanketeers. It also provided an opening through which Communist influence broke into the middle classes….The Communists stepped eagerly into the vacant place. Taylor’s English History, 1914-45, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965) states: “….Unemployment was the spur towards a more aggressive socialist policy. ![]() Manchester offers no footnote to his assertion. ![]() I asked myself: could Manchester be trying to oversell his product, my childhood hero, Winston Churchill? I decided to take a closer look at Manchester’s work, particularly its many historical inaccuracies.įor example, Manchester describes the 1932 London hunger riots as playing “…a role in the formation of the most disastrous foreign policy in the history of Britain and its empire.” (40-41). This was exhilarating at first, but later on it became troubling. When I first read this book, I was struck by its rhetorical brilliance. ![]()
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