“Is there anyone in our audience tonight that owes their life to Nicholas Winston? If so, could you stand up please.”
Sir Nicholas Winton who organised the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport.
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Ode to the Welfare State, 1949
Maybe there’s butter in there, maybe there isn’t.
Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963), was a British officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He fought in the Boer War and both World Wars; was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear; survived a plane crash, tunneled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn’t amputate them. He later said “frankly I had enjoyed the war.” After returning home from World War II, he was sent to China as Winston Churchill’s personal representative. While en route he attended the Cairo Conference. de Wiart was thought to be a model for the character of Brigadier Ben Ritchie Hook in Evelyn Waugh’s trilogy Sword of Honour. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography described him so, “With his black eyepatch and empty sleeve, Carton de Wiart looked like an elegant pirate, and became a figure of legend.
Religious Fiction
Freddie King, backed by Clarence Gatemouth Brown, on Dallas PBS station in 1966. Whoa.
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