笔记

Eloquent writing. Most interesting to me:

- William II - The Ex-Kaiser - I’m more impressed by Churchill’s writing rather than by the monarch.

- Bernard Shaw - the chameleon

- Lawrence of Arabia - a hero Churchill holds the highest regard

- Alfonso XIII - interesting perspectives of the Spanish king

- Hitler - Written in 1935. Hitler was the one person that Churchill was too optimistic about, or rather, hoped for the brighter alternative even though he saw the darker possibility. He underestimated Hitler’s fervor.

- Charles Parnell - “He dedicated himself to a single goal, the goal of Ireland a nation, and he pursued it unswervingly until a rose thrown across his path opened a new world, the world of love. And, as he had previously sacrificed all for Ireland, so, when the moment of choice came, he sacrificed all, even Ireland, for love.”