Winston Churchill The Spendaholic
David Lough - Daily Mail (Britain)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3231410/Winston-spendaholic-teetered-brink-bankruptcy-saved-secret-backhanders-new-book-Chuchill-s-finances-reveals-spent-40-000-year-casinos-54-000-booze.html
... In the Thirties, when he was a
married man with four dependent children and already borrowing more
than £2.5 million in today's money, he would gamble so heavily on his
annual holiday in the South of France that he threw away the equivalent
of on average £40,000 every year. In my own career, advising families
on tax affairs and investments, I have never encountered addiction to
risk on such a scale as his ... His inventive efforts at tax avoidance
would spell scandal if attempted by any politician today ... Salvation
came from an unexpected quarter ... Sir Henry Strakosch ... a
naturalised Briton born in Austria, regarded Churchill as the one
politician in Europe with the vision, energy and courage to resist the
Nazi threat. He had no hesitation in paying off £12,000 (about £660,000
today) of his share-trading debts.
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Irving on Churchill: Dismantling Churchillian Mythology
Theodore J. O'Keefe - Institute for Historical Review
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v07/v07p498_Okeefe.html
... Irving went on us describe
several sources of secret financial support enjoyed by Churchill. In
addition to money supplied by the Czech government, Churchill was
financed during the "wilderness years" between 1930 and 1939 by a slush
fund emanating from a secret pressure group known as the Focus ...
Irving then revealed further details of Churchill's financing by the
Czechs, as well as the facts of Churchill's financial rescue by a
wealthy banker of Austro-Jewish origins, Sir Henry Strakosch ... Irving
then gave a detailed account of the cynical maneuverings of Churchill
to escalate the aerial campaign against Germany's civilian population
...
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Churchill, Hitler and 'The Unnecessary War'
Patrick J. Buchanan -- Book available from IHR
http://ihr-store.com//ihrstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_6&products_id=135A carefully researched and persuasive debunking of the widely-accepted "official" story of the origins of World War II, by one of America's most astute and influential public affairs commentators. In this masterful and provocative book, Buchanan draws on the work of more than a hundred historians to trace the fateful failures of judgment that consigned millions to decades of subjugation under Soviet Communist tyranny, and ended Europe's central role in world affairs. This is also an important dissident treatment of the origins and consequences of the First and Second World wars, and a devastating critique of the "cult" image of Winston Churchill. Buchanan concludes with timely warnings about US foreign policy today. With 36 photos, source references, bibliography and index.
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