A presentation for a local club of the conservative party of Sweden (Moderaterna) in Southern Sweden (Kivik) 7th June 2010

1. Winston Spencer Churchill 1874-1965

3. Operation Hope Not

4. Operation Hope Not

5. This was their finest hour ”Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us now. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour” House of Commons 18th June 1940

7. The first time you meet Winston you see alla his faults, and the rest of your life you spend i discovering his virtues. Pamela Plowden

9. Politisk karriär Invald i parlamentet 1900 Statssekreterare 1906 Inrikesminister 1908 Marinminister Amunitionsminister Finansminister 1924 Marinminister 39-40 Premiärminister 40-45, 51-55

10. All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. Enoch Powell

11. Konservativ 1900-1904 Liberal 1904-1922 Konservativ 1924-1964 (Partiledare 1940-1955)

12. “ My most brilliant achievemetn was to persuade my wife to marry me”

13. There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

14. Författaren 1898 T he Story of the Malakand Field Force 1899 The River War 1900, romanen, Savrola 1906, biografin över hans far, Lord Randolph Churchill 1923-1929, Churchills historia om det första världskriget, The World Crisis 1930, hans ungdomsskildring, My Early Life 1933-1938, hans andra biografi om hans förfader, Hertigen av Marlborough 1948-1953/54, hans historia om det andra världskriget 1956-1958, de engelsktalande folkens historia plus mängde av artiklar i både engelska och amerikanska dagstidningar Nobelpris 1953

15. Konstnären

16. Livsnjutaren Frankrike Champagne “In victory – deserve it, in defeat – need it” Pol Roger Cigarrer

17. Familjen Clementine Barnen Föräldrarna Diana 1909-1963 Randolph 1911-1968 Sarah 1914-1982 Mariegold 1918-1921 Mary 1922

18. Politiska strider Arbetsmarknadsfrågor Irland / Indien Bolsjevismen – antikommunisten Guldmyntfoten Tysklands upprustning Förhandlingsfred 24-28 maj 1940 Förhandlingsfred maj-juni 40 Krigsföringen februari 42 Kalla kriget Westminister College Fulton Missouri 1946 Valkampanjen 1950-51

19. Machtergreifung 1940 * Pacifiserande * Krigsfot * “special relation”

20. Politiska strider Arbetsmarknadsfrågor Irland / Indien Bolsjevismen – antikommunisten Guldmyntfoten Tysklands upprustning Förhandlingsfred 24-28 maj 1940 Förhandlingsfred maj-juni 40 Krigsföringen februari 42 Teheran Conference 1943 Kalla kriget Westminister College Fulton Missouri 1946 Europarörelsen 1946-1950 Valkampanjen 1950-51

22. “ That he had died is unimportant, for we must all pass away. That he lived is monemtous to the destiny of decent men. He is not gone. He lives whereever men are free” (Grace Hamblin)