"There are three kinds of people in the world: those who are worked to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death." ...opening of "Art as a Passtime." Quite a nice little book on oil painting as a hobby. Very, very short. 50pp or so.
Joanna
Doug Henwood wrote:
> [via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>]
>
> THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW THAT CHURCHILL SAID
>
> [From the Idler, UK <http://www.idler.co.uk/archives/?page_id=44>]
>
> 1909: As president of the Board of Trade, he nails his colors to the
> mast with the following statement. "There is no reason at all why
> people should wander about in a loafing and Idle manner; if they are
> not earning their living they ought to be put under some sort of
> control."
>
> 1910: Churchill's time as Home Secretary was marred by Industrial
> unrest. His hard-line response to the strikers is still remembered
> with bitterness in many working class communities - none more so that
> the Welsh town of Tonypandy in the Rhondda Valley where, it has been
> said, Churchill used soldiers against striking miners. Contemporary
> evidence shows that it was the police and not the army who were used
> at Tonypandy, but the troops were ready. Two miners are reported to
> have died in the ensuing violence. This year, Churchill also orders
> the breaking of the suffragettes. "The women's suffrage movement is
> only the small end of the wedge," Churchill proclaimed at the time.
> "If we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure
> and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well
> represented by their fathers, brothers and husbands."
>
> Churchill perhaps inherited these attitudes from his fearsome mother.
> "Lady Churchill was an ardent opponent of women's suffrage and
> appeared at anti-suffrage meetings, "reported the New York Times at
> the time of Churchill's death in 1965. "She was often accompanied by
> her son Winston at meetings where both were heckled and booed by
> suffragettes."
>
> 1929: Writes the following letter to his son Randolph. His sentiments
> weakly echo those voiced by his own father about him forty years
> earlier. "My dear Randolph, Your Idle and lazy life is v(er)y
> offensive to me. You appear to be leading a completely useless
> existence. You do not value or profit by the opportunities wh(ich)
> Oxford offers for those who care for learning. You are not acquiring
> any habits of industry or concentration. Even in Idleness you find it
> trying to pass the day."
>
> 1930: As foreign secretary, Churchill orders the use of mustard gas
> against Kurdish Villages, "I do not understand this squeamishness
> about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using gases against
> uncivilised tribes."
>
> 1940: Far from being hero-worshipped by the people of England, the
> working classes hated him as a lackey of the ruling classes. "Come
> World War Two most working class people's feelings were that the Nazis
> had to be defeated," writes Frank Henderson, a young soldier during
> the Second World War. "But that did not mean we lost our hatred of
> Winston Churchill. The general view was that, while we were stuck with
> him during the war, we would get him out once it was over."
>
> 1945: Defeated in the post-war general election.
>
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