1940-1949 | Churchill's crimes | Italy

Churchill refuses to consider urgent food aid for Italy

ByAlisdare Hickson

13 February 1945 On 13 February 1945, during the closing weeks of the Second World War,  Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander was attending a lavish lunch on board the luxurious ocean liner SS Franconia with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a few senior government officials. As his fellow diners gorged themselves on the extravagant spread,…

1920-1939 | 1970-1979 | Backing dictatorships | Backing terror operations | Churchill's crimes | Italy | Northern Ireland

3 JULY

ByAlisdare Hickson

CHURCHILL PRAISES MUSSOLINI AND FASCISM [ 3 July 1937 ] Today in 1937, during a speech to his constituents at Wanstead, Winston Churchill reminded the crowd of his 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…