Sutherland asked how Winston wanted him to paint as a bulldog or a cherubim. The Parliament and the Cabinet of the Ministers ordered a portrait of Churchill from a famous artist Graham Vivian Sutherland who was also known as a very very realistic portraitist. And even being badly sick his main concern was his country but not himself.Īnyway, there were many people who wanted him to leave the post. He didn't see the appropriate candidate for that position. From the movie I understood that he hadn't resigned not because he had been greedy for power but because he had been such a patriot and had worried about his country. But as he was holding the post of the Prime - Minister being at his 80th, no doubts there were many people who wanted him to resign. Winston was an admired and honored person. After the movie I really want to know more about this outstanding person and to compare his biography and the facts described in the movie. All the facts I mention here are taken from the movie, so I don't pretend all of them are true. It was assumed that constant painting of that pond connected with the grief for his daughter.Īnother line impressed me in the movie - a story about the portrait of Winston. In the movie they say that Churchill painted about 20 paintings of the same pond near the house they bought after the death of one of their daughters. One episode impressed me much as I am fond of art.įirst of all, I learnt that Winston Churchill had painted. It is very good show and I highly recommend it. Recently I was watching a show "Crown" about the Queen Elizabeth. Invoking the spirit of the Atlantic Charter he called for a strengthening of Anglo-American ties and for the United Nations to become a peace-promoting world organization that would succeed where its predecessor the League of Nations had failed.In Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" there is a famous sentence: "Manuscripts don't burn" that means "Art is immortal". The former Prime Minister, with President Truman at his side, articulated the threat that the Soviet Union and communism posed to peace and stability in the post-war world. Then, on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Churchill’s famous words “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent,” ushered in the Cold War and framed the geo-political landscape for the next 50 years. Kennan, sent the famous “Long Telegram” warning of the Soviet Union’s perpetual hostility towards the West. On February 22, the American Ambassador to Moscow, George F. On February 9, Premier Joseph Stalin gave a speech in which he declared that war between the East and West was inevitable. In the wake of the Allied victory, the Soviet Union had begun shaping Eastern Europe in their image, bringing the governments of many nations into line with Moscow. Image courtesy of America’s National Churchill Museum.Ĭhurchill, who had won the war in Europe, only to lose in the British general election in July 1945, eagerly accepted the invitation to appear on the same platform with the President of the United States.Ĭhurchill knew that while the world looked forward to putting the horrors of war behind, events at the beginning of 1946 portended an even darker future ahead. Winston Churchill stands with US President Harry S Truman at Westminster College where Churchill gave his now famous speech.
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