Friday, March 6, 2015

So Near and Yet So Far (1913)

From the December 1913 issue of the Socialist Standard

On Saturday, November 29th, Capt. G. V. W. Lushington took Winston Churchill up in an aeroplane: on the following Wednesday he was killed. The accident might have happened at a much more opportune moment.

4 comments:

Imposs1904 said...

Ouch. So much for the 'Small Party of Good Boys' gibe.

Of course, it was only three years before that the Socialist Standard was referring to Churchill as an "assassin":
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1910s/1910/no-76-december-1910/remember-tonypandy

Wee note" For some reason, in the original snippet in the Standard, Winston was spelt with an e at the end. A typo? Probably.

Imposs1904 said...

More on Captain Lushington here:

http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/churches/st_andrews_eastney/wildman-lushington-gv.htm

ajohnstone said...

i recall a Bill Knox from Edinburgh Br article about the murder of Airey Neave was criticised by some as being too gloating.

Imposs1904 said...

That 1913 snippet almost qualifies as a tweet.

Just another reminder of how loathed Churchill was in many working class quarters for the the majority of his political life.

I'll need to reread the Knox article. For a bloke who ended up writing so many books, he never did write that many articles for the Standard.