| Winston Churchill and the German Question in British Foreign Policy, 1918-1922 1973 Edition Contributor(s): Boadle, Donald Graeme (Author) |
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ISBN: 9401504539 ISBN-13: 9789401504539 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1973 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy |
| Dewey: 320 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.67 lbs) 193 pages |
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| Publisher Description: It was in the early summer of 1906 that Violet Bonham Carter first met Winston Churchill: an encounter which left an "indelible im- pression" upon her. "I found myself," 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 turned on me a lowering gaze and asked me abruptly how old I was. I replied that I was nineteen. "And I," he said almost despairingly, "am thirty-two already. Younger than anyone else who counts, though," he added, as if to comfort himself. Then savagely: "Curse ruthless time Curse our own mortality How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it " 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 remember: "We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow worm. |