jmalter
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recently, i've read more pungent criticism of WSC that eclipses his supposed 'indifference' to the Coventry raid - viz., that he ignored warnings of famine in Bengal, yet still demanded that foodstuffs from India be shipped to England in support of the European war effort. what can i say? WSC was faced everyday w/ decisions of dire consequence. As a son of 19th-C British imperialism, he made his choices & stood behind them, while history rolled its dice. There's only a half-dozen men (FDR, George Marshall, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini) that could stand beside him as national leaders, & none of them could match his eloquence.
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