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Churchill's Evolution As a Statesman-Writer • Belloc at Large Spring 2013 | Volume 4 | Issue 1 The Magazine of the National Churchill Museum churchill's evolution as a statesman-writer belloc at large annual enid and r. crosby kemper lecture the writer's colleagues Board of Governors of the Association of Churchill Fellows James M. Schmuck MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Chairman & Senior Fellow Wildwood, Missouri A.V. L. Brokaw, III St. Louis, Missouri Greetings from a distinctly Robert L. DeFer chilly Fulton. For the first Chesterfi eld, MO time in my eight years at the Earle H. Harbison, Jr. St. Louis, Missouri Churchill Museum, our William C. Ives Churchill weekend in early Chapel Hill, North Carolina March was framed by heavy R. Crosby Kemper, III snow on the ground. Kansas City, Missouri Barbara D. Lewington undeterred, however, in true St. Louis, Missouri Churchillian fashion the Richard J. Mahoney weekend went ahead and St. Louis, Missouri Jean-Paul Montupet laid down a marker to be one St. Louis, Missouri of the best in recent memory. William R. Piper St. Louis, Missouri A packed Church of St Mary Suzanne D. Richardson St. Louis, Missouri for Professor Peter Clarke’s The Honorable Edwina Sandys, M.B.E. lecture and a similarly well New York, New York attended brunch bore ample Lady Mary Soames L.G., D.B.E. testimony to what really was London, U.K. Linda Gill Taylor a wonderful weekend all Edgerton, Missouri PHOTO BY DAK DILLON around. The induction of John C. Wade new Churchill Fellows and Wildwood, Missouri Hjalma E. Johnson, Emeritus large turnout of Westminster students — many thanks especially to the Dade City, Florida Delta Tau Delta and Kappa Alpha fraternities in particular — added an John R. McFarland, Emeritus extra dimension to the celebrations. More details of the Churchill weekend St. Louis, Missouri and photographs of the occasion can be found on page 28. Harold L. Ogden, Emeritus Seal Beach, California William H. Tyler, Emeritus Professor Clarke’s lecture this year explored a side of Churchill we are all Pebble Beach, California familiar with, in some sense, but which has long deserved a more focused George B. Forsythe, Ph.D. examination. Based on his scholarly discussion of the ‘statesman as author’ President, Westminster College G. Robert Muehlhauser this year’s Kemper lecture added to greatly to our knowledge of Churchill. Chairman, Board of Trustees In celebration of this trajectory this, the spring edition of The Churchillian, Churchill Institute & Memorial continues to explore the theme of the statesman- writer and we are delighted Committee of the Board of Trustees, to hear from eminent Churchillian Richard Langworth on this very topic. Westminster College Linda Gill Taylor, Chair As we look ahead to the spring proper, please mark your calendars for an Edgerton, Missouri James M. Schmuck, Vice Chair array of exhibitions and programs, more details on pages 34 and 35 St. Louis, Missouri respectively, and also for our Churchill Medal event to be held in April in Heather A.T. Biehl Acton, Massachusetts St. Louis where we will honor former united States Ambassador Stephen Ron J. Kostich F. Brauer in what is already shaping up to be a magnificent Churchillian Upland, California Jerry N. Middleton event. St. Louis, Missouri C. Robert Monroe As ever, I look forward to seeing you all here in Fulton, at the national Overland Park, Kansas John C. Panettiere Churchill Museum on the campus of Westminster College! Eclectic, Alabama William H. Roedy London, England Dr. Rob Havers Ronald D. Winney Executive Director, Edwardsville, Illinois National Churchill Museum George K. Parkins Prairie Village, Kansas Suzanne D. Richardson St. Louis, Missouri Rob Havers Executive Director Spring 2013 | Volume 4 | Issue 1 Churchill As Writer 4 by Richard M. Langworth A Giant Bowed In Anxious Thought: 6 Churchill's Evolution as a Statesman-Writer The Writer's Colleagues: 16 Churchill and Belloc Belloc At Large 22 — Page 28 — Book Review: The Churchill Companion The National Churchill Museum is 24 by James Mack located on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, and designated by Congress as America's Message From The Director Of Development National Churchill Museum. 573-592-5369, 25 by Kit Freudenberg www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org Copyright material by Winston S. Churchill From The Archives is reprinted within The Churchillian with 26 by Liz Murphy the permission of Curtis Brown, London, on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston Churchill. Educational and Public Programming Cover: "The Dream," 1947, oil on canvas 27 by Mandy Plybon by Sal Asaro, originally commissioned for the first edition of The Dream in volume form, published by The International Churchill The 2013 Churchill And The Society 1987, reproduced by kind 28 Enid And R. Crosby Kemper Lecture permission of the artist. Photo above: Cambridge Professor Peter The Churchillian Crossword Clarke, guest speaker at the Enid and R. Crosby 30 by Richard J. Mahoney and Brendon Emmett Quigley Kemper Lecture in March. Photo by Dak Dillon. Letters to the Editor CORRECTION: In “Churchill’s Relevance” by Justin Lyons (The Churchillian, Winter 2012), footnote by Dr. Rob Havers 32 numbers were inadvertently omitted, and certain long quotations were not distinguished from the main text. Our apologies to the author and to Calendar of Events our readers. For a correctly formatted copy of this 35 article, please email the editor. Our author at work at his first stand-up desk, a crude affair which rested on a chest in his study. Later his son Randolph presented him with a fine mahogany version that stood on the floor but reached the same convenient height. the Parliamentary debates of the past forty years. “It was,” he wrote afterwards, “a curious education…I approached it with Churchill As an empty, hungry mind and with fairly strong jaws; and what I got I bit.” All his life Churchill was capable of reeling off vast tracts of inspiring WRITER words words. In 1943 Roosevelt, BY RICHARD M. LANGWORTH driving with him to what is now Camp David and passing through apturing all of here two aspects of his work: his Frederick, Maryland, recited the Churchill the writer is development as a writer, and one deathless line, “Shoot if you must an impossible task. of his most influential writer- this old grey head”—only to hear There are so many colleagues. the Prime Minister reel off every Cfacets to the subject that whole There is no doubt that word of Whittier’s “Barbara books written about it still come Churchill had the gift of a Freitchie.” here was the same mind up short. (The best of them all, memory approaching the photo- that had regurgitated 400 lines of and still available on the graphic. As a schoolboy he Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome as secondhand market, is Manfred devoured Shakespeare, the King a harrow schoolboy over half a Weidhorn’s Sword and Pen.) James Bible, Macauley, Gibbon century earlier. This issue contains about 9,000 and Kinglake, key passages of Churchill put his self-education words (including some of his own) which which he never forgot. As to work in 1897-1900, reporting on Churchill the writer, but Sir a young officer, idling away the and lecturing on Queen Victoria’s Winston himself wrote 15 long Indian afternoon, he “Little Wars” on the Indian north million—counting only those absorbed Malthus, Shoepenhau- West Frontier, in the Sudan and published in books, articles, er, Kant, Plato’s Republic, Adam South Africa, in the fashion of his speeches and private papers. Smith’s Wealth of Nations, classical mentors: “I affected a herein we can profitably consider Darwin’s Origin of Species, and combination of the styles of 4 the Churchillian | Spring 2013 Macaulay and Gibbon, the for those who had some staccato antithesis of the former pretension to legal knowledge.” he and the rolling sentences and was on his way. genitival endings of the latter; and We can learn much about a I stuck in a bit of my own from writer by the colleagues he time to time.” associates with. Within and Aged 25, with five books and without Parliament, Churchill over 200 articles and reports from cultivated a wide spectrum, often battlefields already behind him, including those whose politics he Churchill entered Parliament, detested: Beatrice Webb, Arthur taking on the challenge of the Balfour, George Bernard Shaw, house of Commons. Michael h.G. Wells, Lord Rosebery, Dobbs, the historical novelist, Somerset Maugham, Joseph wrote that no sooner do new MPs Chamberlain, hilaire Belloc. begin speaking in the Chamber Churchill’s literary assistants “A Family Visit” in Punch, “than they discover that the green included Eddie Marsh, an admired 2 November 1938, as the clamor rose for Churchill to be carpet they are standing on has patron of literature and the arts; appointed to the Cabinet in the turned to sand. Sometimes they and Bill Deakin, who began with wake of Munich. His ghostly are able to make an impression in Marlborough, was still helping ancestor says, “It was a great the parliamentary sands that will draft The Second World War. In his work, and I wish you could now endure, some mark that will linger choice of literary colleagues and add another chapter to your after them for their children and collaborators, Churchill was “quite own career.” Cartoon by Ernest H. Shephard grandchildren to admire. More easily satisfied with the best of often, however, the footprints are everything.” washed away with the evening In 1940 we had dramatic proof as it proved unconquerable. It fell tide. And sometimes politicians that individuals do make a to me to express it, and if I found discover they’ve stepped into difference in history.
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