Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 8., 23 Nov 1941 - 28 Dec 1941
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "My adventures with the guerrilla fighters" on WSC's experiences during the rebellion against the Spanish in Cuba; "First things I remember" on his earliest memories of Ireland, Elizabeth Everest, his mother [Lady Randolph Churchill], Ventnor [Isle of Wight], [William] Gladstone's election victory in 1880, and his schooling at Brighton [Sussex]; "The man who gave me my first cabinet post" on WSC's memories of Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]; "Japan's dream of conquest" on events leading up to and the Japanese invasion of Manchuria [China], and Japanese policy towards the western powers at that time; "'Westward Ho!' by Charles Kingsley, retold as a short story"; "How I learnt" on WSC's first serious reading of philosophy, history, and religion.
Dates
- 23 Nov 1941 - 28 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access
Open.
Extent
1 item(s) (1 file (34 loose folios).)
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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