re: #146 ausador

His utter disdain of the “fuzzies” was one of the less enlighted aspects of his character, but again, different times. His racism was not particularly remarkable in the society he inhabited, it was pretty much the status quo.

I see your point, but must disagree. Churchill had many friends who told him he was a backward-thinking colonial dinosaur. Not everyone in his day was a moron; far from it in Great Britain.

Which, come to think of it, is one of the things I like about Churchill, in that he had and kept friends who would say that to his face, unlike a lot of folks in his class.