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Winston
Churchill, exterminatio-nist, racist and anti-Semite was yet
voted the "greatest Briton". |
The Churchill you didn't know
Thousands voted him the
greatest Briton - but did they know about his views on Gandhi, gassing
and Jews...
[Churchill
in favour of gassing 'lower grade' of races]:
"I do not understand the
squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using
poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes."
-- Writing as president of the Air Council, 1919
[Churchill
the racist]:
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr
Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a
type well known in the east, striding half naked up the steps of the
viceregal palace, while he is still organising and conducting a campaign
of civil disobedience, to parlay on equal terms with the representative
of the Emperor-King."
-- Commenting on Gandhi's meeting with the Viceroy of India, 1931
[Churchill
the racist]:
"(India is) a godless land of snobs and
bores." -- In a
letter to his mother, 1896
[Churchill
in favour of exterminating lower grade of races]:
"I do not
admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America,
or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a
higher grade race... has come in and taken its place."
-- Churchill to Palestine Royal Commission, 1937
[Churchills
views on communist Russia, more extreme than Hitler's]:
"(We
must rally against) a poisoned Russia, an infected Russia of armed
hordes not only smiting with bayonet and cannon, but accompanied and
preceded by swarms of typhus-bearing vermin."
-- Quoted in the Boston Review, April/May 2001
[Churchill
on the Irish spectre, horrid and inexorcisable]:
"The choice
was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to
give them what they want. These were the only alternatives and most
people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre -
horrid and inexorcisable."
-- Writing in The World Crisis and the Aftermath, 1923-31
[Churchill
wanted to sterilize the mental ill]:
"The unnatural and
increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes,
coupled as it is with a steady restriction among all the thrifty,
energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger
which it is impossible to exaggerate... I feel that the source from
which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed up
before another year has passed."
-- Churchill to Asquith, 1910
[Churchill
in praise of Adolf Hitler]:
"One may dislike Hitler's system
and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated,
I hope we should find a champion as admirable to restore our courage and
lead us back to our place among the nations."
-- From his Great Contemporaries, 1937
[Churchill
condemns the Polish exile government]:
"You are callous
people who want to wreck Europe - you do not care about the future of
Europe, you have only your own miserable interests in mind."
-- Addressing the London Polish government at a British Embassy meeting,
October 1944
[Churchill
handing over whole nations to Stalin]:
"So far as Britain
and Russia were concerned, how would it do for you to have 90% of
Romania, for us to have 90% of the say in Greece, and go 50/50 about
Yugoslavia?" --
Addressing Stalin in Moscow, October 1944
[Churchill
the anti-Semite]:
"This movement among the Jews is not new.
From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to
Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and
Emma Goldman (United States)... this worldwide conspiracy for the
overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the
basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible
equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every
subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band
of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities
of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of
their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that
enormous empire."
-- Writing on 'Zionism versus Bolshevism' in the Illustrated Sunday
Herald, February 1920
Research by Amy Iggulden
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