Churchill : Charles (1731-64) English poet & satirist who wrote in heroic couplets.
... surrender of France] and neither did Great Britain collapse, as was generally expected. The reason was one man: Winston Churchill … ‘In Churchill Hitler found something more than an antagonist. To a panic-stricken Europe the German dictator had appeared almost like invincible Fate. Churchill reduced him to a conquerable power.’ (Joachim Fest) “Before the invasion of France Sri Aurobindo had already said... whose name was Walter Thompson. His years with Churchill are recorded in Churchill’s Bodyguard – The Authorised Biography of Walter H. Thompson, written by Tom Hickman (Headline Book Publishing Ltd, 2006). Thompson was appointed Churchill’s bodyguard in 1921 and would remain so, with one interval, till 1944. At the time of his appointment Churchill was Minister of Air and Secretary of State for... for the Colonies. The young policeman accepted his task with little enthusiasm, for he knew from colleagues that “the impossible Mr Churchill” was a fickle and egotistical man, a headache for anybody who had to look after him or work for him. What made Churchill still more difficult to protect was his love of danger. “He longed to confront danger,” and “appeared to have no permanent sense of personal ...
... the end of World War II, brings me to your reference to Churchill in Page 222 connection with the order to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima. There's a slip here on your part. The atom bomb was made by America and it was dropped by the order of Truman, not Churchill, though it had the approval of Churchill - and not only Churchill but also Stalin who had been told at Potsdam about its... allowed to continue in the teeth of America coming into possession of a super-weapon which might terminate the war. Even so, in late July a warning was issued to Japan from Potsdam where Truman, Churchill and Stalin had conferred. Radio Tokyo broadcast that the Japanese government would treat with "silent contempt" any call for "unconditional surrender", It was then resolved to bring the atom bomb ...
... Cannadine, David (ed.): The Speeches of Winston Churchill, p 134. Chamberlain, Lesley: Nietzsche in Turin – An Intimate Biography Châtellier, Hildegard: Entre religion et philosophie: approaches du spiritisme chez Hanns von Gumppenberg, in: Mystique, mysticisme, etc. Churchill, Winston: The Speeches of Winston Churchill Churchill, Winston: The Second World War Cohn, Norman: ...
... and he can utilise a Churchill, or a Roosevelt, if it suits Him, to carry some work through. But the advantage of the yogic life is the consciousness of the Divine grace. One is in contact while a great Churchill may not be in contact. He is ignorant while a yogi can be a man of knowledge whose small work for the divine done consciously is greater than the work which Churchill does unconsciously... for the Divine. The unconscious work of a Churchill is good from the divine point of view, for the world but this work which the yogi does is necessary to raise the world to the Divine. Man has awakened only his reasoning faculty and developed his sciences to-day but when he is tired of it, perhaps, he will try to go into other fields and perhaps then he will find that there are realms of experience ...
... . Churchill. Hitler did not invade England and neither did Great Britain collapse, as was generally expected. The reason was one man: Winston Churchill, who had become Prime Minister on 10 May, the very day of the German attack. “In Churchill Hitler found something more than an antagonist. To a panic-stricken Europe the German dictator had appeared almost like invincible fate. Churchill reduced... delighted to accept. Hitler seems to have felt instinctively that Churchill would be the big obstacle for the realization of his plans and hated him wholeheartedly. He called him “an incompetent, alcoholic demagogue”, “a Yid-ridden half-American souse”, “a political whore”, “a characterless pig”, and much more of the kind. Was Churchill aware of the spiritual support provided to him? In the House of... the town of Dunkirk. Altogether 338 226 men were evacuated, of whom 123 095 were French and 16 816 Belgian. 1122 “If the British Expeditionary Force had been lost, it is almost inconceivable that Churchill would have survived the growing pressure from those powerful forces within Britain that were ready to seek terms with Hitler.” 1123 Sri Aurobindo would later write about himself, once more in the ...
... one parliament^ one people. Monnet convinced Horace Wilson, who in turn persuaded Chamberlain to speak to Churchill. The British Prime Minister was startled and not really convinced. But, as he later said, "in this crisis we must not let ourselves be accused of lack of imagination". Churchill accepted to bring the proposal to the War Cabinet, whose members to his utter surprise were quite enthusiastic... French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud over the Phone. Reynaud was in Bordeaux where the government had withdrawn. The text was read aloud. Reynaud Page 15 asked whether Churchill had approved it. Churchill grabbed the telephone and said something like "Hold on! De Gaulle is leaving now; he will bring yon the text. Everything can change with this proposal. Let us meet tomorrow in Concarneau"... Germans. Then he wrote to Churchill, "I wish you to know ... that I should be extremely happy if the British government would give me the opportunity of serving it, and by doing so, of continuing to serve the true interests of my country. "I therefore place my services at the disposal of the British government in such capacity as they can be most useful." Churchill sent him to the United States ...
... In the meantime, there was an all-party attack in the British Parliament on Chamberlain's conduct of the war, and accordingly he resigned as Prime Minister, making way for Churchill. Sri Aurobindo thought Churchill had formed a strong Government, and on 15 May he remarked: It is a remarkable Ministry. Most of the ablest men of England are there, except Hore-Belisha and Lloyd George... helped him to follow happenings in India and outside, and after the war started, arrangements were made to enable Sri Aurobindo to listen to news broadcasts, the war speeches of Allied leaders like Churchill, Roosevelt and General de Gaule, and also war commentaries, from a radio installed in Pavitra's room and relayed to Sri Aurobindo's room. The meteoric rise of Hitler in Germany and the dire po... Europe brought under the Nazi control or sphere of influence, and the East secured (as he thought) from Russian attack, Britain also would throw up the game and sue for peace. But on 18 June, Churchill reaffirmed in Parliament the determination of his Government to fight on, whatever the hazard. Even in France, the capitulation was not total, for General de Gaulle denounced Petain and the Armistice ...
... Divakar and Sucharu in Mother India , from which some material is borrowed here, we read: ‘It was generally believed that if Cripps brought off the settlement, he would replace Churchill.’ 19 We know, however, that Churchill was an irreplaceable instrument of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother — while, on the other hand, India’s independence was a matter of great urgency, as well in the then prevailing... of its domestic or external affairs, and free to remain in or to separate itself from the equal partnership of the British Commonwealth of nations.’ 16 This was a huge concession as well from Churchill as from the British Crown and should have led to the full independence of the country within a foreseeable time. The British, involved in a war of life and death with Hitler and the nations supporting ...
... Id., pp. 197, 202, 38. 1105 William Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pp. 421-22. 1106 Id., p. 424. 1107 Id., p. 420. 1108 David Cannadine (ed.): The Speeches of Winston Churchill, p 134. 1109 Nirodbaran: Talks with Sri Aurobindo, pp. 603, 723. 1110 Id., pp. 741, 605. 1111 Id., p. 84. 1112 Id., p. 142. 1113 Id., pp. 82, 85, 154. 1114 Nirodbaran, op. cit... 136. 1128 Joachim Fest: Hitler, p. 637. 1129 Nirodbaran, op. cit., p. 231. 1130 Maggi Lidchi-Grassi: The Light that Shone into the Dark Abyss, p. 72. 1131 The Speeches of Winston Churchill, pp. 149, 154, 177, 233. 1132 Id., pp. 681, 693. 1133 A.B. Purani: Evening Talks, p. 710. 1134 William Shirer, op. cit., pp. 537, 580, 583-84. 1135 Nirodbaran, op. cit., p. 735. ... Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity, p. 319. 1148 Nirodbaran, op. cit., pp. 120-21. 1149 Id., p. 553. 1150 Id., p. 721. 1151 Id., p. 919. 1152 Id., pp. 738, 740, 759. 1153 Winston Churchill: The Second World War, p. 315. 1154 Id., p. 320. 1155 William Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 914. 1156 Fritz Fischer: Griff nach der Weltmacht, pp. 485-87, passim ...
... looked at me and said, 'Hitler has invaded Holland. Well, we shall see.' This laconic comment, with its deep overtone, still rings in my ears. Events now moved swiftly and relentlessly. In England, Churchill replaced Chamberlain as Prime Minister, a move Sri Aurobindo approved. But France, it seemed, had lost her will to fight and offered little resistance to Hitler's Panzer Divisions. The British Ex... that of the world. But August 15 turned out to be a turning point for Britain. On that day 180 German planes were shot down in British skies, the largest toll so far taken of the dreaded Luftwaffe. Churchill himself has written in his War Memoirs: The 15th August was for Britain the most crucial day when she was subjected to an attack from about a hundred bombers and eight hundred planes to pin her down... India's future. Japan had entered the War in December 1941 and within three months, sweeping everything before her, had reached the gates of India. Realising the extreme gravity of the situation Churchill announced in March 1942 that he would be sending Sir Stafford Cripps to India as his personal envoy to negotiate with the Congress and Muslim leaders so that a responsible Central Government could ...
... made some mistake. Churchill is usually very clear in his statements. NIRODBARAN: In some papers there was a complaint against inadequate supplies to France. PURANI: That can't be true after Churchill's speech. SRI AUROBINDO: No. They sent three-and-a-half lakhs to Flanders and their best troops. After the Battle of Flanders, they sent only three divisions and Churchill has already said that... days? Let them remember Versailles. SRI AUROBINDO: Then what the Mother says may be true, that the Germans will keep silent so that the French Army may be crushed in the mean time. PURANI: Churchill says in his speech that almost all the British troops, about three-and-a-half lakhs, have been removed from Dunkirk in a few days. SRI AUROBINDO: Three-and-a-half lakhs? Then he must be referring ...
... hear the shouts and cheers of members. SRI AUROBINDO: Hardly worth relaying. Lloyd George's speech will be more interesting. It seems Stanley and Hoare will reply to the debate and not Churchill. PURANI: Churchill is said to have some disagreement with Chamberlain. SRI AUROBINDO: That is why he does not want to reply. PURANI: Narvik is supposed to be in mountainous country. So there is no scope... one to form a Ministry, although there are some good organisers among them. NIRODBARAN: Unless they form a National Government with a Conservative Prime Minister. SRI AUROBINDO: In that case Churchill, Hore-Belisha, Eden and Lloyd George will have to come in. Morrison may be in the Ministry of Information and Greenwood for Labour while Attlee may be given some ornamental post, Chancellor of the ...
... vulnerable, and Grace alone could sustain them! Sure enough, French resistance was to crumble like a pack of cards, and France was to reject the grace of the offer of 'union' with Britain extended by Churchill. After the fall of France and the failure of Hitler to invade Britain, the prayer for 1941 was thus wrung out of the depths of the Mother's heart and soul: The world is fighting for its spiritual... steadily advanced in the Pacific and Indian Ocean expanses overrunning Malaysia and the Dutch East Indies, Page 424 and as the War approached the shores of India, on 11 March 1942 Churchill offered to create a new Indian Union with a Dominion Constitution to be framed by India's own representatives after the War. In the meantime, the Indian leaders were invited to join a responsible... help .... But if it is rejected the Grace will withdraw and then the nation will suffer terribly, calamity will overtake it. 9 The Mother then referred to France rejecting Grace in 1940 when Churchill, after the evacuation from Dunkirk, offered a 'union' and joint Page 425 nationality with Britain to fight Hitler, the common enemy. The Grace withdrew, and the. soul of France went ...
... Hore-Belisha, the British Secretary of War from 1937 to 1940 who, in the spring of 1939, had introduced general conscription in Great Britain. But then Winston Churchill rose to his true stature. There is evidence that Winston Churchill was directly inspired by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. When A.B. Purani spoke with praise about Churchill’s famous speech in which he had nothing to offer the British... in The Light that Shone in the Deep Abyss: ‘The Mother told the author how Sri Aurobindo used to tell her of the words that he would put into the mouth of Churchill before the famous broadcasts, and certain passages were spoken by Churchill word for word 94 … His secretary Nirodbaran had heard of this, and Dyumanbhai, at present managing trustee of the Ashram [i.e. in 1992], has confirmed it.... repetitions of words already spoken in Pondicherry. Anuben Purani tells me that her father A.B. Purani, one of the few people who saw Sri Aurobindo every day, told her the same thing.’ 42 Churchill himself declared openly in the British Lower House on 13 October 1942: ‘I sometimes have a feeling — in fact I feel it very strongly — a feeling of interference. I want to stress that I have a feeling ...
... Winston Churchill became prime minister of Great Britain. He showed a capacity of leadership and strength that inspired every one on the allied side and gave them enough confidence to pursue the battle with the Axis. Maggi Lidchi-Grassi, who was close to the Mother, writes: ‘The Mother told the author of how Sri Aurobindo used to tell her of the words that he would put into the mouth of Churchill before... engaged in its life-or-death struggle with the Powers of the Axis, wanted to make sure that India, its ‘Jewel in the Crown,’ would be unreservedly on its side. Therefore on 11 March 1941 Winston Churchill announced that the War Cabinet had agreed upon some proposals which would solve the crisis in India. Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord of the Privy Seal and leader of the House of Commons, ‘would proceed... before the famous broadcasts, and certain passages were spoken by Churchill word for word. I have not found any written references to this in the texts written on Sri Aurobindo, but his secretary Nirodbaran had heard of this, and Dyuman … has confirmed it … Anu Purani tells me that her father A.B. Purani, one of the few people who saw Sri Aurobindo every day, told her the same thing.’ 51 Udar too confirms ...
... said, 'Yes, Mother, I do see; only what baffles me is that Churchill, whom you and Sri Aurobindo have chosen as your direct instrument, wants today India's help for his own country's existence; and yet says that His Majesty's government has no intention of liquidating its Empire!' The Mother said, 'But leave all that to the Divine. Churchill is a human being. He is not a yogi aspiring to transform his... to support the Allies against the threat of world-domination by Hitler. "Not merely a non-cooperator but an enemy of British Imperialism", he now listened carefully to the health bulletins about Churchill when he had pneumonia, and, we believe, even helped him with his Force to recover. It is the rigid mind that cries for consistency under all circumstances. I still remember Sri Aurobindo breaking... carry on the fight as one country, the Mother seems to have considered it a rejection of the Divine Grace itself that had come to the help of France at the most opportune moment. The entire speech of Churchill was dictated in the occult way by the Mother, we were told. To resume our talk: Q: They say that Hitler will occupy Italy if Italy meets with reverses. Sri Aurobindo: That is one of the ...
... seized by the Allied nations. Churchill gave it the most dynamic push possible, short of direct occult and spiritual vision. When France lay prostrate and Hitler announced that on the fifteenth of August that year he would address the world from Buckingham Palace and the endless Luftwaffe over Britain seemed a goddess of winged victory for him, Churchill knew that there could be neither ...
... providing for it by building tanks themselves. NIRODBARAN: But how will the Germans carry the tanks to England? Besides, Churchill doesn't expect an invasion. SATYENDRA: No, not a big invasion. Because of their navy they will be able to crush much of the German Army. Churchill says that as the fighting will be on their own ground they will be at an advantage. SRI AUROBINDO: What Hitler may do ...
... thus give the Government cause for provocation. SRI AUROBINDO: Especially as now is the best chance! (Laughter) But surely by a few arrests he doesn't expect to change the hearts of people like Churchill and Amery. PURANI: He says any number of people are volunteering. But he will select only those who believe in complete non-violence and Khadi, etc. Even these may not all be expected to be called... perfidious cunning. It is mostly due to his personality that America has turned her sympathies towards Britain. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but also helped by the misdeeds of Japan and Hitler. (Laughter) Churchill is the second great man given by his family to England at times of crises. PURANI: Some American correspondent has said that though destruction from bombing is going on in London, people are as ...
... and other inferior writers. (2) The school of Miltonic Hellenists, begun by Warton &consisting besides of Gray, Collins, Akenside and a number of followers. (3) The school of Johnson, Goldsmith & Churchill, who continued the eighteenth-century style tho' some of them tried to infuse it with emotion, directness and greater simplicity. To this school belong the minor writers who formed the main current... favour of the eighteenth-century ideal. This movement had been already anticipated by Johnson who wrote contemporaneously with Gray & even with Thomson. It was now taken up by Goldsmith, carried on by Churchill & culminated in Erasmus Darwin. Johnson & Goldsmith returned to the ideals of Pope, they violently opposed & disparaged Gray, they kept to the use of the heroic couplet & conventional language... Irish village in the Deserted Village. [There is a sort of natural lyrical power in Goldsmith which is always breaking through the restraints of the mechanical metre & style he chose to adopt.] 4 Churchill reverted to Pope far more than either Goldsmith or Johnson; he is purely satirical & has neither Goldsmith's feeling & sweetness nor Johnson's depth & strength; he is hardly a poet at all, but he ...
... its dogmas of master race and absolute dictator and merciless regimentation was a current contrary to the drive of human evolution with its many-sided variation both individual and collective. Churchill was England's Prime Minister at the time. He had been known as a die-hard Imperialist. All of a sudden he appeared to have felt that in the war he was conducting against Hitler the cause of civilisation... since the days when Sri Aurobindo had become for a few years the leader of the Nationalist Movement. The well-known liberal thinker, Sir Stafford Cripps, was prominent as a spokesman of this advice. Churchill chose him to carry to India certain proposals meant to meet her basic demands and Page 144 induce her to join the united front of Britain and her allies against Hitler and his associates... them in every respect, in no way subordinate in any aspect of its domestic and external affairs." On hearing this declaration on the radio, Sri Aurobindo had the insight that the offer sent by Churchill through Sir Stafford Cripps had come on the wave of a divine inspiration and that it gave India the substance of independence. At once he sent a telegram to Sir Stafford: "I have heard your broadcast ...
... resign. PURANI: Churchill has said that because of the fear of communications being cut off by the German air force they had to give up. SRI AUROBINDO: What does he mean? They did not think of it before? And why did they take up the operations in southern Norway in that case? SATYENDRA: Somebody asked him, "Can you tell us if we now have an air base in Norway?" Churchill replied, "Now that... everywhere because everywhere there will be impending blows. If they had attacked Trondjheim I am sure they would have been successful. The Germans would have been bogged down there. NIRODBARAN: Churchill was for it, but the military advisers were not. SRI AUROBINDO: Military advisers are always like that. They go by routine. It is like Napoleon against his generals. They lose in the right way! ...
... are in the suburb of Amiens, as at Narvik—closing round. SATYENDRA: They don't say now "according to plan". ( Laughter ) SRI AUROBINDO: They go according to their old order and schedule while Churchill speaks of assault and attack. SATYENDRA: Order and schedule don't come to much. SRI AUROBINDO: It is a new method of warfare now. If they stick to their old method, then they can't hold on.... that time. NIRODBARAN: If it is only the advance troops occupying, they can't be numerous. And how could they occupy the ports? SRI AUROBINDO: There was no defence in the ports. NIRODBARAN: Churchill says that the Germans rushed through the breach in the French army and attacked the B.E.F. from behind. SRI AUROBINDO: That was earlier. Later it was through the gap left by the British army. ...
... before they change him. The question is: whom will they put in his place? Among Labour and the Liberals there is no one except Lloyd George, but he is too old. Among the Conservatives, all except Churchill and Hore-Belisha are imbecile. SATYENDRA: Chamberlain won't easily give up. SRI AUROBINDO: No, he will stick on with his hands, feet and teeth unless forcibly dislodged. It is because there... NIRODBARAN: They relied on their wonderful navy perhaps. SRI AUROBINDO: The navy is all right. It has done good work. Even then, why didn't they destroy the German fleet at Oslo? NIRODBARAN: Churchill also will have some grievance against Chamberlain. SATYENDRA: Chamberlain is not responsible for everything. SRI AUROBINDO: But he is in command of both air and navy. Perhaps he will say he ...
... except Hitler. She can't deal with Japan or Russia. SATYENDRA: Churchill saw long ago the necessity of alliance with Russia and also the need of increasing the air force. NIRODBARAN: And Chamberlain did neither. And still he has a big influence. SRI AUROBINDO: That is because he looks after the class interest while Churchill sees what is good for England. ...
... use even a million there; no wonder they were defeated. Have you read that the Belgian consul has become furious with the Amrita Bazar and calls it a gossip-monger? He praises Churchill and The Hindu. But now Churchill says that one can form one's own opinion about the conduct of. Leopold. (Laughter) Nishtha met him in America. She says that he is a man of underhanded dealings. When she heard ...
... Japan. SATYENDRA: Japan won't go to war. SRI AUROBINDO: None of them is willing unless they are obliged to. Have you any idea what Churchill meant when he declared that Mussolini would very soon see the surprise that the British has for him? What Churchill means in simple words is, "I will show you." (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: He may have something up his sleeve. He doesn't give out empty threats ...
... abolish the deepest stages of REM sleep, and most suppress much-needed REM sleep. Then there are those who simply do not need to sleep as much as most people. Napoleon and Winston Churchill are famous examples. Churchill always insisted on an afternoon "siesta" of about one hour, but then would work until two or even three in the morning, only to rise again by six a.m. ready for more intensive work ...
... after the fall of Paris Britishers have sent 4 lakhs of men. Sri Aurobindo : No, there seems to be some confusion. They could not have sent so many because before the Renau cabinet resigned Churchill said that he had sent 3 divisions already and would be sending in all one lakh by the end of June. But as usual these over sensitive French military men in their over-suspiciousness did not believe... quarrels and jealousies. Politicians trying to meddle in the Page 274 government instead of doing their own work. Their dissatisfaction with England is quite meaningless because Churchill clearly said that it would take some months to make the loss of materials in the Flanders. It is no use putting an ill-equipped army against Germans. Gamalin was a fraud and Weigand has not proved ...
... Quisling sent them directions to stop fighting and when they knew that he had betrayed them it was too late. 3 There was then the massive attack on France and the Benelux countries on 10 May. Churchill now formed a new Government in Britain, which Sri Aurobindo thought was a strong one with most of the ablest men in it. and even the inclusion of Amery as the India Secretary wasn't a bad thing... wrong to you, you risk the burning of your own house and the loss of your own life. Do you not see the difference between the forces that are fighting for the Divine and those for the Asuras?.. Churchill is a human being. He is not a yogi aspiring to transform his nature. Today he represents the Soul of the Nation that is fighting against the Asuras. He is being guided by the Divine directly and ...
... 819ff Chandradip Tripathi 691 Chandrasekharam, V. 226, 231, 235, 255 Chandulal Shah 255, 265-6, 280, 328-9 Cheddi Lal 821 Chidanandam, V. 231, 765 Chinmayi (Mehdi Begum) 321, 325, 674 Churchill, Winston 410, 416, 423, 425 Coleridge, S.T. 61 Counouma, P. 691, 816 Cripps, Sir Stafford 425ff, 447, 571 Page 900 Dahyabhai Patel 683 Daladier, Edouard 395ff, 403 Daniel,... 375-6 (cf 739) how to find her in this life 377 Suicide: sheer stupidity 377, 642, 713 Page 913 jealousy and vanity 378, 652 justice and evil-doers 401 Ahimsa 401 hypnotism 402 Churchill 416 Cripps' mission 425-6 War and her disciples 428 need for malleability 432 women's care of their body 438-9 New Woman's ideal of Beauty 440 Atomic bomb 442 sports and yoga 469 'modern' ...
... period. 3) Estimate Goldsmith as a poet. 4) Describe briefly the subject & character of the following poems; the Deserted Village, the Traveller, Retaliation. 5) What rank would you assign to Churchill among English satirists? Give your reasons for your answer. 6) Describe briefly the subject & character of the Rosciad, the Ghost, Gotham, the Times, the Prophecy of Famine. [ Incomplete ...
... England is quite strong enough to turn the Liberal triumph of 1905 into a serious disaster at the next elections. Nor are the Labourites likely to be frightened by Ministerial menaces. Mr. Winston Churchill and the Master of Elibank may thunder from their high official Olympus, but Mr. Keir Hardie will go on his way unscathed and unmoved. He knows that the future is with Socialism and he can afford to ...
... Bengal. Weakness of any kind does not pay in dealing with the Briton. The English Revolution The note of revolution which was struck with resounding force by Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Winston Churchill in the quarrel with the Lords, is now ringing louder in England and has been Page 343 taken up in soberer but not less emphatic tones by Mr. Asquith and Sir Edward Grey. There can be no ...
... and the Mother for the earth’s evolution toward the Supramental Light. Sri Aurobindo began to work occultly behind the scenes for the war effort even finding an opening to his Force in Sir Winston Churchill. Udar said there were very few radio sets in Pondicherry at that time and no radio broadcasting. Udar owned a radio set with sophisticated aerials and other equipment so he was able to tune into the ...
... between good and evil men or intended to equate the British with the Pandavas, nations with individuals or even individuals with individuals, or shall we say, Stafford Cripps with Yudhishtir, Churchill with Bhima and General Montgomery with Arjuna? After all, were even the Pandavas virtuous without defect, calm and holy and quite unselfish and without passions? There are many incidents in the ...
... surprising fact that in most parts of Africa the entire experience of colonialism from original occupation to the formation of independent states, fits within a single lifetime – say that of Winston Churchill (1874-1965).” 15 In those years the political situation grew enormously complicated and confused. The power game was in full swing and could erupt into war at any time, though nobody was able ...
... was going to march against Russia did they begin to question their opportunist pro-Nazi stance. They were certainly involved in Hess’ plans to fly to Scotland in order to convince a fictional anti-Churchill faction to make peace and thus spare Germany a two-front war. Although Albrecht was a personal friend of the Duke of Hamilton, whom Hess wanted to meet, the way in which the political realities in ...
... × In April 1942, when England was struggling against the Nazis and Japan, which was threatening to invade Burma and India, Churchill sent an emissary, Sir Stafford Cripps, to New Delhi with a very generous proposal which he hoped would rally India's goodwill and cooperation in the fight against the worldwide threat. In this proposal ...
... means "clear" and yet is combined with the sex which throughout history has made poor man raise his hands in despair or scratch his head in bewilderment — the sex to which we may apply those words of Churchill about Soviet policy: "a riddle wrapped in an enigma enclosed within a mystery." (laughter) The combination of "clear" with such a condition of being leads me to another expression in French which ...
... Human Body Part VI Courage of the Handicapped Roosevelt at the famous Yalta conference in February 1945, two months before his death. Churchill on the left, Stalin on the right. Triumphant Courage Introduction Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected four times as President of the United States of America. Nobody did it before ...
... May 8, 1945 — Victory day in Europe. August 15, 1945—End of World War II. January 1946 — De Gaulle resigns as President of the Provisional Government. March 5, 1946 — In a speech, Churchill speaks for the first time of an "iron curtain". June 5, 1947 - George Marshall proposes a plan "to assist in the return of normal economic health" of Europe,. USSR refuses to be included in it ...
... and works for man. I shall never forget how he who was at one time—in his own words—"not merely a non-co-operator but an enemy of British Imperialism" bestowed such anxious care on the health of Churchill, listening carefully to the health-bulletins ! It was the work of the Divine; it was the Divine's work for the world. There were no formal evening sittings during these years but what appeared ...
... the difficulty of Franc—that Paris is too near the frontier. If Paris is taken, Hitler will have some breathing time before he attacks other countries. SATYENDRA: England will continue to fight, Churchill says, even after England is gone. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, that is something new. The English people are very tough, they will go on till they are directly touched. (After a while) These huge migrations ...
... There has been a warning that Hitler may ask Italy to be mild now in order to lull the French people into a false sense of security. SATYENDRA: The French fleet has been demobilised already, Churchill says, and is under German control. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh, he has said that? NIRODBARAN: Yes, in the morning news it was announced. Of course one doesn't know if it is the whole fleet or only a part ...
... Italy have warned Turkey and Yugoslavia against an independent policy. SRI AUROBINDO: If Kemal were there, he would never submit. I don't know about these other people. NIRODBARAN: Italy calls Churchill a criminal gangster because of his action against the French fleet. SRI AUROBINDO: Italy? Of course. A gangster like Mussolini? SATYENDRA: Where was the Italian fleet at that time? SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... it would be. Britain had not been conquered or invaded: she felt no need to exorcize history. Her imperial role was not yet at an end, and her experience of general well-being had only just begun. Churchill declared: 'We must be with France.' But he added: 'We must be careful that it does not carry with it a lowering of British wages and standards of life and labour.' Attlee could say no less. Plowden ...
... Hitler has proclaimed a naval victory over fishing boats and trawlers? (Laughter) SATYENDRA: Yes, Hitler speaks of his victories; his losses he suppresses or denies and invents all sorts of lies. Churchill seems to try to give true news. SRI AUROBINDO: He declares the losses correctly but about the gains he is silent because he says he doesn't want to give such news to the Germans. SATYENDRA : ...
... don't want war. The Phalangists, of course, want it. The Phalangists are Fascists. SATYENDRA: Laski says that whenever the India-question is touched, he doesn't know what the devil happens to Churchill. SRI AUROBINDO: At any rate, he is allowing discussion on equal terms with the half-naked Indian Fakir. SATYENDRA (laughing): Yes, that was Churchill's own expression. ...
... 1940-contd Talks with Sri Aurobindo 21 AUGUST 1940 PURANI: Churchill in his speech appears to have said that France will be compelled to declare war against England. SRI AUROBINDO: Has he said that? Or what has he actually said? For if he has said that, there must be some truth in it. He wouldn't have said it if he didn't know something. It is of tremendous ...
... speech. Sir. SRI AUROBINDO: Very balanced? Nonsense! The one thing he lacks is balance. The one thing he has is vigour. DR. MANILAL: He has made a strong attack on the Government. Chamberlain, Churchill and others are saying that they have committed big mistakes. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, everybody makes mistakes except him. Who doesn't make mistakes? Gandhi has also admitted that he has made "Himalayan ...
... Brahman, 181-2, 185, 188-9, 193, 205, 290, 299, 339, 368, 385 Brindaban, 385 Britain, 338 Buddha, 52-3, 104-6,182-3,196,221, 225,309,311, 344,349,400 CHINA, 54 Christ, 349, 379, 400 Churchill, 346 Commonwealth, 362 Confucius, 196 Czardom, 338 DANTE, 228,284,287, 388 – The Divine Comedy, 388 Darshanas, 297 David-Neele, Alexandra, 142, 173 Diti, 287 Durga ...
... ons. The revolt of the Royal Indian Navy in February 1946 was the writing on the wall to the alien bureaucracy, and there was some rethinking in the right quarters. Earlier, Attlee had succeeded Churchill as the British Prime Minister, and Wavell had become the new Viceroy of India. A Cabinet Mission consisting of Cripps, Pethick-Lawrence and Alexander came to India with the offer of a three-tier ...
... fruit. Unity of mankind seems as far away as ever. But on the other hand signs that indicate the progress towards human unity are not altogether wanting. 1. During the second World-War Mr. Churchill actually had proposed common citizenship between France and England. It was symptomatic of the drive towards unity of mankind. The very fact that it was put with all seriousness during a great crisis ...
... works for man. I shall never forget how he who was at one time – in his own words – 'not merely a non-co-operator but an enemy of British Imperialism' bestowed such anxious care on the health of Churchill, listening carefully to the health-bulletins! ¹ Sri Aurobindo, "Sri Aurobindo and The Mother on The Second World War", Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, ...
... anxiously following the day-to-day developments in Western Europe. There everything depended on the decision to be taken by Great Britain, under threat of an eventual invasion by Germany. If Winston Churchill had not become the premier of Great Britain, a peace settlement between Great Britain and Germany would have been a distinct possibility and the future of the world might have become quite different ...
... ‘no conqueror returning from a victory on the battlefield has come adorned with nobler laurels’.” 1107 The lonely voice of dissent, as it had been against appeasement all along, was that of Winston Churchill, who warned: “We have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat … Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness … We are in the midst of a disaster of the first magnitude ...
... my pranam, do again the hand-in-hand walk and see me out. Lalita was also taken inside in the same way. Why such a windfall of intoxicating Grace had come to me is still — in a phrase à la Churchill — a riddle within an enigma wrapped in a mystery. I may add a second small episode where not only I but also a friend of mine was involved. Owing to a disturbance in the established management ...
... "Mistake!" if in a sentence of "neither nor" a plural verb were used. Technically the verb should be in the singular, yet to the born English ear the opposite can come just as naturally. Thus we see Churchill in Their Finest Hour override mere academic propriety by writing: "I must confess that at the time neither I nor any of my colleagues were aware of the peril of this particular incident." Again ...
... wickedness or between good and evil men or intended to equate the British with the Pandavas, nations with individuals or even individuals with individuals,—shall we say, Stafford Cripps with Yudhisthir, Churchill with Bhima and General Montgomery with Arjuna! After all, were even the Pandavas virtuous without defect, calm and holy and quite unselfish and without passions? There are many incidents in the Mahabharat ...
... surely, and if the Dharmaraja is allowed to tell a lie (about the death of Drona's son Aswatthama) at what point does he forfeit the right to be called King Dharma? I think of the last world-war when Churchill ordered the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. Of course the Jesuits said (or were said to have said) that 'the end justifies the means' but once war is engaged foul play is certain, and vengeful ...
... "bounded on the East by the sea". To generalize that the Ashram and its inmates have monopolized this section is a gross exaggeration, a "terminological inexactitude", as Churchill would have ironically said, on a grand scale. A third calculated inaccuracy is the glaring implication that no Ashramites or Ashram activities ...
... Holmes. But just how he could be lugged up the narrow stairs in the Holmes dwelling had to be carefully planned out. It was imperative at the Atlantic Charter conference that he should visit Mr. Churchill on the Prince of Wales. But how to get him up the side of that battleship! Hundreds of thousands of people saw Roosevelt wave or heard him say a few words from the observation car of his campaign ...
... the Civil Service people who are really behind everything and these people whose names are never known do the real work. The Ministers are only their mouthpieces, except for a few rare cases like Churchill and Hore-Belisha. The Civil Servants have been at their job for their lifetime and they know everything about it. The Mother's brother, for instance, organised Congoland in Africa and did a lot ...
... What is this military stress under which he had to surrender and had no time even to inform the Allies or consult the Cabinet? PURANI: Roger Keyes seems to have sent some confidential message to Churchill about it, which may have been that the army was refusing to fight. SRI AUROBINDO: Even so, did they have no time to inform the Allies? That is more than I can swallow. And if the army refuses to ...
... author says that Hitler is playing into the hands of the army. The people will rise in revolt and kill him. His prophecies are obviously wrong. He says Chamberlain will bring in the reign of peace. Churchill won't be the Prime Minister. It is more or less propaganda for Chamberlain. NIRODBARAN: R is also speaking in favour of the Germans. When Bansidhar told him the Mother did not wish that we should ...
... near? NIRODBARAN: I will bring it down for Satyendra. SRI AUROBINDO ( laughing ): Instead of bringing down the Supermind it will be better at the moment to enter Narvik and do something there. Churchill is speaking of an assault. He has to show that he means it by doing something practical. SATYENDRA: They are still two miles from Narvik. SRI AUROBINDO: And still as far away as possible. ...
... 1940-contd Talks with Sri Aurobindo 12 MAY 1940 NIRODBARAN: Churchill seems to have formed an able and effective ministry. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. NIRODBARAN: Attlee has been made Lord Privy Seal. What is that? SRI AUROBINDO: Saying "Yes" or "No." NIRODBARAN: Like being given, as you said, the Duchy of Lancashire? Chamberlain is President of the ...
... they did not want to attack Trondjheim, but because of the call for help by the Norwegians they had to go and get beaten. Now the main thing is not the change of Ministry but more drive and push. Churchill is in command of the war and everything is all right. Attlee says the retreat was a wonderful feat of arms. PURANI: There may be a change of government. SRI AUROBINDO: It does not look like ...
... in respect of ideal and culture. The British Empire is a remarkable experiment on this line: it is extremely interesting to see how an old-world Empire is. really being liquidated (in spite of a Churchill) and transformed into a commonwealth of free and equal nations. America too has been attempting a Pan-American federation. And in continental Europe, a Western and an Eastern Block of nations seem ...
... remain free and strong and invincible, India must be and remain indivisible. The strength of the United States of America, of the United Soviets of the Russias, of the British Commonwealth ( pace Churchill) lies precisely in each one of them being a large unified aggregate, all members pooling their resources together. India cannot maintain her freedom, nor utilise her freedom to its utmost effectivity ...
... treacherous. DR. RAO: Yes. SRI AUROBINDO: These people know nothing about war. Why would the British do that? Don't they know that if France falls England will be in the greatest danger? Besides, Churchill has proved that he sent more soldiers than he had promised to Reynaud. PURANI: The British lost fifty thousand lorries. SRI AUROBINDO: One thousand guns and other material. SATYENDRA (after ...
... Still? PURANI: Even the Congress regime has adopted the police system. SRI AUROBINDO: I don't see how non-violence can work in the administration. SATYENDRA: The Americans are praising Churchill, comparing him to Pitt. NIRODBARAN: I wonder what Chamberlain would have done if he had been the Premier. SRI AUROBINDO: He would have committed twenty mistakes. SATYENDRA: He may also be ...
... only passive resistance had been accepted, perhaps Hitler's hope would have been fulfilled. (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. They appreciated his proposal but couldn't consider it. PURANI: Churchill has made a very fine speech. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, he was inspired. PURANI: Exact, precise and summing up the situation very well. NIRODBARAN: But he takes good care not to say a word about ...
... Simply interned. SRI AUROBINDO: That is for the duration of the war? That means from five months to fifty years. (Laughter) Some people say that the war will last fifty years. PURANI: Then Churchill and Hitler will be no more. SRI AUROBINDO: No, it will become a normal condition of life. From this occasional bombing and no serious damage, it is not unnatural to suppose that the war will last ...
... 1940-contd Talks with Sri Aurobindo 29 JULY 1940 Germany has sunk a French refugee ship. SRI AUROBINDO (smiling): You have seen how Hitler says Churchill has sunk the French ship. PURANI: Does he say that? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. The Daily Herald has a report, perhaps true, about Germany inventing the story that England is going to invade France ...
... giving speeches, writing, etc. PURANI: Have you read the article in the Sunday Hindu the collapse of France? It says that Reynaud's speech helped to the morale of the army. SRI AUROBINDO: How? Churchill also said that if England fell they would go to the Empire and fight from there. That didn't break their morale. SATYENDRA: And his appeal to America was to avert the armistice move in the cabinet ...
... well on nails! That is the kind of intelligence which looks at things from one aspect only—a one-eyed intelligence can't take a complete view of a subject. PURANI: Declaring Britain's war-aims, Churchill has said that they are not fighting for the status quo nor for the old order of things. More than that it is not possible to say. SATYENDRA: He says that the only war aim now is to win the war ...
... Hitler had himself been imprisoned but he stuck on like a bulldog even after defeat. Now he is the master of Europe. EVENING PURANI: It seems Reynaud has resigned on the issue of the appeal of Churchill, which he wanted to accept while Pétain and others didn't. And Pétain has started communication with Hitler, SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, they want military nationalism, that is why Pétain speaks of believing ...
... Chaucer, 194 China, 119, 238-40, 242 Christ, 6, 50, 14511., 151, 154, 164, 195, 208,213-14,259,273-4,381,384 Christianity, 23, 58, 151, 168, 213, 280,282,359 Churchill, Winston, 91, Ill, 128 Coleridge, 194 Commonwealth, 91, 106, 236 Communism, 25, 27-8, 125-6 Confucius, 222 Copernicus, 308 Cordelia, 185n Corneille ...
... Aurobindo who championed the cause of the Allies; and Mother declared it was Her war. She even said in one of Her most firm notices, "Those who speak against the Allies are traitors." At that time, Churchill stood up from Britain and De Gaulle from France for the cause. They were the champions, Arjuna and other Pandavas against the Hitlerite Kauravas. And after so many ignominious defeats, you know ...
... naturally be extirpated annihilated or else relegated to a status of barbarism worse than the animal life. But we expect a better fate for mankind. Today we call it—à la mani è re Churchill—our finest hour—for it is the hour when we have at our disposal the greatest opportunity to find our soul—even our God. Page 56 ...
... converted will naturally be extirpated annihilated or else relegated to a status of barbarism worse than the animal life. But we expect a better fate for mankind. Today we call it – à la manière Churchill – our finest hour – for it is the hour when we have at our disposal the greatest opportunity to find our soul – even our God. Page 346 ...
... that we should start learning their language. Some thought we had better concentrate on German instead, for the Germans were going to occupy India. Hitler was at the time pouncing on England and Churchill alone stood up fearless against that furious onslaught. It was at this time that, as you have already heard from the Mother, there began a rush of young children, or rather of people with young ...
... remain free and strong and invincible, India must be and remain indivisible. The strength of the United States of America, of the united Soviets of the Russias, of the British Commonwealth (pace Churchill) lies precisely in each one of them being a large unified aggregate, all members pooling their resources together. India cannot maintain her freedom, nor utilise her freedom to its utmost effectivity ...
... culture. The British Empire is a remarkable experiment on this line : it is extremely interesting to see how an old-world Empire is Page 96 really being liquidated (in spite of a Churchill) and transformed into a conmonwealth. of free and equal nations. America too has been attempting a Pan-American federation. And in continental Europe, a Western and an Eastern Block of nations seem ...
... head covered with a folded English newspaper. Someone remarked: "You've not only folded the paper but made it wet as well. How will you read it now?" . He said: "I don't read newspapers! What Churchill said today or where a certain leader went or what he did doesn't interest me. Who has time to read all this rubbish?" "Then why do you buy newspapers?" he was asked. He said: "Well, because ...
... politics is a show. In British Parliament it is the Civil service who are behind, and whose names are never known, that really do the work. The Ministers are only their mouthpieces except a man like Churchill and Hore-Belisha who can do something. Mother 's brother, for instance, he organized the Congo land in Africa, but the Minister got all the credit for it. He was one of the great colonial ad ...
... works for man. I shall never forget how he who was at one time – in his own words – "not merely a non-co-operator but an enemy of British Imperialism" bestowed such anxious care on the health of Churchill, listening carefully to the health bulletins!It was the work of the Divine, it was the Divine's work for the world. There were no formal evening sittings during these years but what appeared to ...
... act by mass and drive. EVENING SRI AUROBINDO: It seems Amery is not a die-hard. He has said in an interview that India will soon have to be considered as independent and he has stood against Churchill's attack on India policy. So with his appointment as Secretary of State India may have a chance. Of course Halifax would have been best. It is a remarkable Ministry. Most of the ablest men of England ...
... say Germany's relations with Russia are sound, solid— SRI AUROBINDO: And durable—the three words meaning the same thing. SATYENDRA: The Indian Express has published news of the birth of Churchill's grandson. SRI AUROBINDO: The Hindu too! SATYENDRA: Oh, I thought it was too small a news for the Hindu. Soon they will give the photo of the baby. SRI AUROBINDO: War baby! (Laughter) ...
... not an attack yet. After settling with France Hitler may start. He may also have to attack Africa. The situation won't be safe if the French fleet falls into his hands. NIRODBARAN: According to Churchill's speech some units of the fleet seem to have escaped. He is asking them to come to British or go to neutral ports. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but not to Spain, I hope. The understanding was that the full ...
... agree to sign the terms imposed. PURANI: They can have some food brought to them by parachutists. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, some chemical food to eat surreptitiously. (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: Churchill's statement is not clear about how many divisions of British troops were sent after the fight in Flanders. SRI AUROBINDO: No, he says three—while he says again that twelve divisions were equipped ...
... hand a prose style like Sir Thomas Browne's, Jeremy Taylor's, Donne's, Gibbon's, De Quincy's, Landor's, Car-lyle's, Ruskin's, Meredith's, Henry James's, Chesterton's, Charles Morgan's, Sir Winston Churchill's? These very names — three of them contemporary — should make one hesitate also to declare that the typically English style is the opposite of the rich, elaborate and ornate. Page 85 ...
... with Nature, his tendency always to fall back, to return to the out-dated past may delay or cause a turn or twist in this healthy movement, but it cannot be permanently thwarted or denied for long. Churchill's memorable call to France, on the eve of her debacle, to join and form with Britain a single national union, however sentimental or even ludicrous it may appear to Page 127 some, ...
... with Nature, his tendency always to fall back, to return to the outdated past may delay or cause a turn or twist in this healthy movement, but it cannot be permanently thwarted or denied for long. Churchill's memorable call to France, on the eve of her debacle, to join and form with Britain a single national union, however sentimental or even ludicrous it may appear to some, is; as we see it, the cry ...
... edition. Feigning surprise, I asked why he was wasting so recent an edition. Someone could still be interested in reading it. Prashanto in reply said, “What, you call this news? De Gaulle pulls Churchill’s nose. He in turn twists somebody’s ear.” Intrigued I asked him, “Then why are you holding on so dearly to this paper?” He smiled a bit shyly and said, “Oh, some well-wisher gives me the papers. When ...
... thirty-eight birthday, by the way!), the lesser devil was critically weakened. Spiritual-minded historians may surmise that Sri Aurobindo, especially since Russia was now automatically allied to Churchill's England and Roosevelt's America, backed with his Overmind puissance the greater devil temporarily in order to smash Hitler who was at that time the bigger immediate menace to civilisation. But ...
... Spengler, 694; on modem art and poetry, 695; on his biographers, 696; deep interest in the war, 696ff; Hitler & Napoleon, 696-7; spiritual intervention in the war, 697, 704-5; on Quisling, 697-8; on Churchill's Government, 698; 'The Children of Wotan', 699ff, 707; on Nazi rule, 700, 707; on the resignation of the Congress ministries, 701; on ashramites' pro-Hitler feelings, 702; on Hitler as the Asura, ...
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