Churchill was an important anti-Nazi (duh), but he built his career
as an imperialist. Not a "cultural imperialist" or anything like
that, but the real old-school, nasty kind. He was an advocate of
fighting Nazism, but he was also an advocate of mustard gassing
"uncivilized tribes", men, women and children, and ordered the gas
deployed, although not used, against the Kurds in (I believe) 1945
or 1946. (I'm remembering from James' "Rise and Fall of the British
Empire", which I've misplaced, if somone wants to check my dates. I
can't remember the page, but it's in the decliney bit.) He's also
got to be held somewhat accountable for the division of the Middle
East and the Indian subcontinent, which wasn't exactly a triumph of
long-range planning. Gave good speech, and rose to the occassion
brilliantly, but not top 20.
I think the Beatles are clean, though.
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