THE PRIME MINISTER'S
SILK KNICKERS?
When during a session of University Challenge the television show's host, the top television presenter Jeremy Paxman, asked, "Which statesman during the 1920s found he was in debt because he liked to buy women's pink silk pantaloons" the normally erudite students were stumped for an answer. There was considerable consternation when he revealed (if you will excuse the terminology) that it was none other than Winston Churchill.
Keith Moss, a member of the International Churchill Society 'gasped at any suggestion that his idol could have been a fetishist.' Historian Kenneth Rose said that it might have been a reference to Churchill investing in firms that made women's clothing, in which case the question was perhaps indelicate.
Both pundits might have been better informed by referring to the book, Winston Churchill, as I Knew Him, Violet Bonham Carter. In it she concedes that 'Churchill's pale pink underclothes were made in very finely woven silk.' She added that he spent something like £80 on them.
Even today such a sum of money would be considered expensive for all but the most self indulgent. At the time £80 was the equivalent to about sixteen weeks of a working man's hard life. Questioned by Miss Bonham Carter Churchill had replied that the 'garments were essential to my wellbeing. "The delicate skin on one small part of my anatomy demanded the finest covering." Such then is the 'man' so many gave their lives for, whose decisions and calamities brought death and misery to millions and whom a few sycophants today revere.
AND THOSE CHURCILLIAN SPEECHES?
How many of you are old enough to remember the glove puppet Larry the Lamb
and the Mayor of Toy Town who featured in the BBC's Children's Hour
programme? The hand in the glove was that of one Norman Shelley. It was the
same Shelley who broadcast those riveting 'Churchillian' BBC speeches such
as 'If the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years
men will say, this was their finest hour!' Correction, it was Larry the
Lamb's finest hour.
Winston Churchill during the evenings at his country bunkers was far too
bladdered to make speeches other than slurred ones.
WE SHALL FIGHT THEM ON THE BEACHES
Fine, but whose beaches and when? Churchill's stirring words were lifted
almost word for word from a rallying call by Garibaldi, the Italian
nationalist, during the mid-19th Century.
THAT GERMAN-SOVIET PACT
Much has been made of the German-Soviet Pact and the apparent hypocrisy of
Hitler's Germany in signing it. As usual it is half the story. The Reich,
then encircled by belligerent France, Britain, Poland and Czechoslovakia,
forged the pact with the USSR to cover its back against a British attack,
which at the time was imminent.
It was in fact one of the richest pieces of sour grapes in the history of
international relations. The British leaders had been just as eager as the
Germans to negotiate a deal with Stalin up to the outbreak of war in
September 1939.
If the deal struck first by the faster thinking German leader was such an
ignoble act why had the British tried so hard to achieve the alliance
themselves?
THE PEOPLES WAR?
The architects of the Second World War talked it up as 'The Peoples' War'.
This was the politicians' crafty way of making sure that those who did the
working, the paying, the bleeding and the dying were – the people.
Those who could see through it and resisted went off to the gaols and the
internment camps under the 'Regulation 18b' rule. If indeed it was the
peoples' war then it failed spectacularly. Apart from the privations and
sacrifices suffered by the people of all the nations dragged into World War
Two, at the close of the conflict eleven formerly free nations were
unceremoniously handed over to the USSR (The Union of Soviet Slave Republiks)
and their elected representatives were hanged or summarily shot to pieces.
So much for its war aims of bringing democracy to Europe. So much for the
people!
"This war is a mistake; we will only bring disaster if we enter it; we
will do no good to either Europe or ourselves. No one, not even in Germany,
was more responsible for the conditions, which caused this war than England
and France. They declared war without consulting us." – Charles A.
Lindbergh, American flying ace.
THE SOVIET UNION'S UNPREPAREDNESS LIE
"The Soviet Army was not taken off guard as is often believed. Stalin had
amassed approximately four and a half million men in the western frontier
area – a million and a half more men than made up the German attack forces.
Whole Russian units surrendered almost without fighting and thus enabled
other units, divisions, and corps to be surrounded and captured." – Thomas
J. Haas.
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PERCEPTIVE PREDICTION Sefton Delmer, head of British research for propaganda broadcasts, told his staff: "Above all, precision! We should never lie accidentally or out of carelessness, but always intentionally and deliberately." |
ETHNIC CLEANSING POLISH STYLE
When Germany retaliated against Polish aggression untold numbers of innocent
people were arrested or killed on little or no evidence. In the Polish town
of Thorn 34 people were shot for allegedly signaling with mirrors and flags.
Despite the fact that there were Germans fighting in the Polish armed forces,
an estimated 7,000 German civilians, many of them children, were slaughtered
for no other reason than their being German.
MARILYN MONROE v WINNIE CHURCHILL
At the last count there have been 312 books written on movie star legend
Marilyn Monroe. This puts her well ahead of Winston Churchill in terms of
popularity for bookshelf space.
W.C – THE APT INITIALS
Winston Churchill group of first name friends included the notorious
homosexual playwright Noel Coward and other equally notorious promiscuous
and predatory homosexuals. They were regular guests at the home of English
writer Somerset Maughan.
The pair often visited the English writer's Cote d'Azur home. There, nude
bathing in the company of naked young men was encouraged and a blind eye
turned to the inevitable romps and other debaucheries. Somerset Maughan was
also an agent and was on The German Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels
death list for his spying activities. Churchill was despised at Marrakesh in
Morocco where he was delivered of small Arab boys for his pleasures.
ALCOHOLICS BUT HARDLY ANONYMOUS
None of Europe's leading Fascist leaders, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini or
General Franco, smoked. The German Leader was a committed anti-tobacco
activist. Being an ascetic, Hitler says: 'I like to have my enemies smoke as
much as possible, but I do not like to have my friends smoke.' But their
allied tormentors all smoked and did so and very heavily.
Nor did the Fascist leaders drink alcohol. Hitler never drank anything
stronger than his private near- beer at 1.5% alcohol content.
Yet Franklin D. Roosevelt was an exceptionally heavy drinker, favouring
Manhattan and Martini cocktails. Stalin was never far from a bottle and
often drunk. But unlike Winston Churchill, who was a notorious sot the
Soviet dictator did so only when he wasn't working.
NAZI GERMANY PIONEERS HEALTHIER CITIZENS
Adolf Hitler's government also took measures to stop their citizens'
exposure to lead, petrochemical dyes, preservatives and pesticides. They
were the first to link asbestos with cancer and published the first manuals
on how women could perform breast self-examination decades before the 'democracies'
did so.
| "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election." – Otto von Bismarck, German Chancellor |
HONOUR THINE ENEMY
Having secured Germany's borders Adolf Hitler paid a personal visit to the
tomb of Marshall Pilsudski, the renowned Polish President. The Fuhrer, bare
headed and with military cap in hand, paid silent respect for several
minutes. In 1940 after the fall of France the German leader made a similar
chivalrous gesture when visiting the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte.
As a remarkable further gesture of reconciliation Adolf Hitler ordered that
the remains of Napoleon's son, the ill-fated Napoleon 11, be removed from
its burial chamber in Vienna and re-interred at Les Invalides in Paris.
RUDOLF HESS
There has never been much of a secret as to why Adolf Hitler's deputy,
Rudolf Hess, flew solo to England to offer peace terms. The reason he was
denied freedom and then murdered by British agents after forty years in
captivity was because he alone could reveal the real reason for his amazing
flight.
All was revealed recently on German NTV television in the programme 'Technik
and Trends.' During the interview with the English Historian Martin Allen,
it was disclosed that according to documents he had discovered in British
Archives, Rudolf Hess flew to Great Britain with Hitler's knowledge and with
a 7 Point peace plan from Hitler in his pocket. The German Leader's Peace
Plan included:
a) The withdrawal of all German Troops from Poland, Belgium, France &
Holland.
b) Reimbursement for war damage to those countries
c) Total German disarmament
d) The destruction of all German war weaponry.
This offer threw the British Government into turmoil. Churchill's hastily
improvised government had by then reached the point of no return. They were
already hell bent on destroying a system superior to their own and which
presented itself as a major competitor for Britain's markets. As in the war
against Iraq the hand of Israel was also holding the baton.