Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "How Winston Churchill's Speeches helped to win WW2" video.

@msreviews5576 'Save his own island' was quite an achievement. Presumably you aren't able to grasp the obvious fact that a nation with a smallish population, which has the largest navy on earth, cannot also have a large army. Britain was never a major land power.
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Political speeches were often printed in full in daily newspapers the following day. Portions were sometimes read out by newsreaders. The full text was, of course, recorded in 'Hansard.' Nobody was re-writing anything.
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@nukni4225 Churchill would have known about a similar phrase used by Garibaldi. Between the wars, Churchill contemplated writing a biography of Garibaldi. The phrase Garibaldi used was ' "I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battle, and death," which was hardly stolen by Churchill. However, that wasn't what you claimed. You wrote ' Remember his "we shall fight in the mountains, we shall fight on the beaches ..." Stolen from Garibaldi,' and you cannot produce a source to justify your statement. Therefore, you should not muddy the waters. You should apologise for your false claim, or concede that you are a liar.
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Actually, Churchill was opposed to the withdrawal from Norway, but, in view of events in France, the French insisted.
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@msreviews5576 Actually, Churchill had significant influence on the strategy of the Western Allies throughout to war. One of his major achievements was to dissuade George Marshall from forcing through his ideas about a landing in France in 1942 or 1943. The Island he saved, by the way, together with the Commonwealth & Empire, remained the dominant force in the west until the last nine months of the war in the west. Certainly, D-Day would never have been possible without the British & Canadians. He didn't, by the way, 'win the war,' which is why I have never claimed that he did. The war was won by a great alliance, with the Soviet Union playing the major part on land. Churchill, and the British resistance in 1940-41, made possible that resistance. Churchill didn't 'fade away' after the war, either. He was Prime Minister again from October 1951 until April 1955, when he stepped down at the age of eighty. Finally he didn't make any reference to a "shall reign a thousand year " empire. He actually said, 'if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour." Did the words 'Commonwealth' & 'if' pass you by?
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@nukni4225 So it appears that you lack the integrity to confirm that your first post was entirely false? I rather expected that that would be the way you would respond. You aren't really worth the time of any honest person, but to correct one or two of your additional falsehoods: First lie, Churchill was not in any government position when Britain & France declared war, and hadn't been since 1929. Second lie, he was not a serviceman when imprisoned by the Boers, and was not asked to give any 'word of honour' to anyone. Third lie, he stole nothing from Garibaldi. Garibaldi died when Churchill was four years old. Churchill admired Garibaldi, as I said earlier. Fourth lie, that he forged the signature on his own paintings. Perhaps to be fair that isn't so much a lie as merely an infantile comment. Fifth lie, his speeches were, in the main, recorded after the war, but their texts were recorded at the time in 'Hansard,' often read out on the radio by BBC newsreaders, and usually printed in full within a day or two of them being made in national newspapers throughout the Empire. Nothing was edited or changed. Fifth lie, he was never called a 'war hero' but he served at the Battle of Omdurman, left the army to become a journalist in 1899, but later commanded a Scots regiment on the Western Front for nine months in WW1. You may not consider serving in the military in wartime gallant, but frankly your opinion is of no merit. So yes, I do indeed call you a liar.
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@krugerfuchs Whatever you have been taking, it is probably both illegal and dangerous.
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@janesda Just a small point, but how was evacuating Norway when things had begun falling apart in France damn near to surrendering?'
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Really? Source please.
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@nukni4225 You mean the BBC programme 'Fake or Fortune' which in 2015 tried to prove that a painting attributed to Churchill was a fake? Actually, the programme failed to prove anything of the sort. Even so, where is the sin on Churchill's part if someone tried falsely to claim that a picture was painted by him in order to boost the sale price? That is rather like saying Rembrandt should be blamed because someone falsely attributed a 19th century fake to him. In point of fact, Churchill described his paintings as 'daubs' ang gave away far more to friends then he ever sold. Tell me which 'good and honest' history books claim that Churchill stole from Garibaldi, or that 'fight them on the beaches' or 'blood, toil, tears, & sweat' was stolen from him, or that his wartime speeches were edited, or that he gave any word of honour to the Boers, or that he turned a local conflict between Poland & Germany into a World War, or that he had no military decorations? I have asked you for your sources before, and you have consistently failed to provide them. In short, you have demonstrated yourself to be a liar, and, to use a phrase many of my American friends tend to use about people like you, a complete 'horse's ass' with nothing to say worth listening to.
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@msreviews5576 Don't you think that posting obscenities rather than arguments is a less than credible approach?
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Having first supplied the Germans with raw materials since 1939.
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@nukni4225 Churchill, like many great men in history, had a sense of humour. So what? You write as if Churchill was the only person who has ever written about WW2. You are the liar, and you haven't challenged anything I wrote in my previous post.
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Really? Why didn't the Germans invade in 1940 then, when the United States was not involved?
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is the 'Scumbag' meant to be your signature?
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