A figure at the center of so many of these debates now is Churchill. How should—. He saw three things—the rise of Prussian militarism, the rise of the Nazis, and then the domination of Eastern Europe by Soviet Communism—that very few other people saw at the time.
He warned against those things as soon as he saw them. And he was eloquent, he was brave. He was very often the only person who was saying them, and all three of them together completely eclipse the things that he got wrong. There has been a lot of controversy about his racial attitudes, how he dealt with the Bengal Famine and talked about Indians—. And these are appalling comments, and no one would for a moment defend them nowadays. Of course not. He did believe in a hierarchy of the races, with whites on top and the British on top of the whites.
But the idea of the hierarchy of the races was considered a scientific fact when he was a young man. Yes, although you yourself have said that Churchill was more profoundly racist than most of his era. He saw everything in terms of race, and then you break down race internationally.
We needed that sense of superiority. It was a time of existential crisis. Did I write that? So apologies. When I came down from Cambridge, I got a job in the city as an investment banker, where it turned out, after a couple of years, that I was functionally innumerate. I chucked it and started writing history books. But, at the beginning, you sort of needed to make your name, and the way you did it was to be extreme. I have sort of grown out of trying to shock people.
I think I might have been a bit presumptuous. No, not the attack on Hollywood so much as in saying anything about what was behind that appalling, appalling moment. I am considered among my friends as a huge Yankophile, so I hold my head in shame on the sixth of January, because so many anti-Americans were using it as a stick to beat America with, and it was a profoundly depressing moment, really.
Let me ask you about speaking at this Springbok dinner, in The group is closely associated with a number of white supremacists. I turned up and I gave a speech solely about Lord Salisbury, because the capital of Rhodesia was Salisbury.
One anecdote provides the following:. It will be remembered that a reward was offered for the head of John Hancock. There is no evidence that Britain ever offered up a bounty on John Hancock.
No such example appears in any newspapers, letters, or documents of that time and King George III would have surely broadcast that information to the colonies. There is one glaring problem with this story, and that is that the Continental Congress had no intention of dispatching the parchment off to George III. The declaration of independence is the soul of numerous American people who passionately hold the courage to defiance tyranny with bold patriotism.
They are our heroes and will be remembered so; always. John Hancock was clearly willing to stand up and become a citizen of this new republic, rather than remain a subject of the crown. And he wanted all to know it, regardless of the consequences, knowing full well he could be hanged for such an act. It will remain a lesson for all Americans to stand up for their beliefs and not hide behind the veil of a crowd and anonymously grumbling for change or justice.
John Hancock is the person whose signature is so valuable and significant. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich. See a photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a photo of John J. Fitz Gerald. This site is edited by Barry Popik. January 12, ] — October 8, was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.
He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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