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Churchill – Who Saved the Western WorldBoris Johnson’s “The Churchill Factor” proves beyond reasonable doubt that Winston Churchill (1874-1965), more than any other man, literally saved the 20th Century from becoming the blackest hole ever created by a human being – the savage beast, Hitler: a vast wasteland, prostituted and rapined by a robber-barron of unparalled proportions, a wanton torturer and murderer of six million Jews and untold numbers of homsexuals and non-Ayrians (such as Asians and blacks). In addition to this monumental saving of the Western World from tyranny, Churchill was a superb writer, gaining fame as journalist and authoring 43 books in 72 volumes, and he served as Prime Minister of Great Britain twice (1940-1954 and 1951-9155) and held countless other major titles in government. After fighting in a half dozen colonial wars and being wounded four times, he was elected to Parliament in 1900 and served thereafter, almost continuously, until he retired in 1955. It would require pages to list Churchill’s achievements and honors, for which you must read the well-written Churchill Factor.Said by many to be the 20th Century’s greatest orator, he is sometimes compared to the crowd-fomenting Hitler; Hitler made you believe that he/Hitler could do anything; Churchill made you believe that YOU could do anything. Churchill’s laconic, profound and unforgettable speeces on many topics should engraved in marble in every legislature on the planet. For example, consider a few snipets of his wisdom: Communism repressed liberty, replaced individual discretion with State control, curtailed or quashed democracy, and was, therefore, tyrannous. Those who saw behind the Iron Curtain before it fell in 1989, heard its evil whispers, read the ludicrous propaganda of a failed system that couldn’t supply basic needs, and observed that it controlled the population by dening the elementary freedom to travel, while imprisoning or exiling to Siberia or murdering those who raised their voices in opposition. Nazis preach war and instill in their children a frightening bloodlust. Capitalism, for all of its imperfections, was able to satisfy the wants of most human beings. Democracy, he dubbed “the worst form of government, until you compare it with the alternatives”. Duringn war, “A nation should show resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnimity; in peace, goodwill. No one said (or wrote) more with less words than the eloquently sagacious Sir Winston.As to saving the Western World from The Third Reich, the facts leave little doubt about it. In the 1930’s, Britain’s then leaders and citizens favored “peace”, more or less at any price. Even then Ambassador Joseph Kennedy (Jack Kennedy’s father) publically supported a British peace treaty with Hitler, as did most Americans at that time. Had Churchill not been there, at the helm, Britain would have capitulated and agreed to a treaty that would have placed Britain under puppet-control of Hitler, a de facto enslavement of Great Britain. Churchill realized that had Hitler not needed to fight Great Britain, he could have thrown all his forces and might against the Russians, leading to a virtually certain conquest of Russia, and all of Europe would have then been Hitler’s. As one, solid trading block, all of Europe would have posed many economic issues for the U.S. as well. Hitler’s airforce was more advanced than any other; his unmanned rockets were far ahead of their of time and nearly descimated England; and his scientists were close to creating an atomic bomb. All of this power in the hands of megalomaniac, a Satanic imposer of genocide and “racial cleansing”. Without Churchill, the world as we know it would be a very different place, perhaps in a form of New Dark Ages. To this day, you, I and everyone in the Western World owe their greatest homage to Winston Churchill.As must all leaders, he had many detractors, and his views often seemed dichotymous. He was accused of “holding all views on all questions” and of “having no convictions”. He changed political parties when it seemed wise; he was a capitalist and free-trader, but he founded Britain’s welfare state and reformed the prisons, and fought for women’s rights. He wasn’t “a Christian”, as he couldn’t believe the Bible’s stories/myths, but he lived a Christian ethic better than most of religion’s clergy. He enjoyed a long and happy marriage to Clementine, a bright beauty who defended him with the ferocity of savage. In the end, he earned the adulation of the masses and the devotion of those closest to him, a rare feat for such icons. Winston Churchill’s feats continue to boggle the mind: a skilled horseman, oil painter, author, and by consensus history’s greatest politician and statesman. In the 20th Century, no one came close to rivaling this giant, and, in fact, all of recorded history may well not offer his peer. We stand in awe of such achievements, and we owe Boris Johnson our profound thanks for compiling Churchill’s feats in such a delightfully written biography, giving us the key facts about this titan, while revealing the human side of this great man and the love of his life, his wife, Clementine. The book rings with truth, while enabling the reader to feel and breathe the ethos of WWI and WWII. It is a history, too, and well worth reading. As a biography, it deserves five stars. BookAWeekMan (leeglovett.com)
