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Winston Churchill and the German Question in British Foreign Policy 1918-1922
D.G. Boadle
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
It was in the early summer of 1906 that Violet Bonham Carter first met Winston Churchill: an encounter which left an "e;indelible im- pression"e; upon her. "e;I found myself,"e; she recalled, sitting next to this young man who seemed to me quite different from any other young man I had ever met. For a long time he remained sunk in abstraction. Then he appeared to become aware of my existence. He tumed on me a lowering gaze and asked me abruptly how old I was. I replied that I was nineteen. HAnd I,"e; he said almost despairingly, "e;am thirty-two already. Younger than anyone else who counts, though,"e; he added, as if to comfort himself. Then savagely: "e;Curse ruthless time! Curse our own mortality! How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!"e; And he burst forth into an eloquent diatribe on the shortness of human life, the immensity of possible human accomplishment - a theme so well exploited by the poets, prophets and philosophers of all ages that it might seem difficult to invest it with a new life and startling significance. Yet for me he did so, in a torrent of magnificent language which appeared to be both effortless and inexhaustible and ended up with the words I shall always 1 remember: "e;We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow worm.
