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3 July 1937 – During a speech to his constituents at Wanstead, Churchill reminded the crowd of his then well known admiration for fascism. “If I had been an Italian,” he confessed, “I should have been on Mussolini’s side fifteen years ago when he rescued his country from the horrible fate of sinking into violent…

CHURCHILL ADVOCATES A NUCLEAR STRIKE AGAINST MOSCOW. On 8 August 1946, over lunch with his physician Lord Moran at Chartwell, Winston Churchill enthusiastically answered Moran’s question regarding how a nuclear war might be waged against the Soviet Union.  “We ought not to wait until Russia is ready,” Churchill explained, adding “America knows that fifty-two per…

THE AUTHOR Alisdare Hickson is a graduate of the London School of Economics, with an MSc in Economic History. He also holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Essex. After a period working as a researcher, he returned to his true passions of history, politics and photography. As an amateur photojournalist, he covered…

HAROLD MACMILLAN PRAISES SOUTH VIETNAMESE DICTATOR DIEM [ 7 May 1962 ] On 7 May 1962, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan wrote a personal letter to President Ngô Dình Diệm, the dictator of South Vietnam, lauding his murderous regime. ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT GUNMEN MURDER  A CATHOLIC COUPLE [ 7 May 1974 ] On 7 May 1974,…

LORD CORNWALLIS EXPELS HIS BLACK TROOPS FROM YORKTOWN [ 14 October 1781 ] In October 1781, the British army at Yorktown in Virginia was besieged by American rebels and French troops and rapidly running out of supplies.  UK AMBASSADOR ON OUR ‘FRIENDLY’ BUT ‘BARBARIC’ SAUDI ALLY [ 14 October 1964 ] On 14 October 1964,…