Posted on 12/09/2023 11:31:30 AM PST by RandFan
@historyinmemes
Winston Churchill's doctors note that allowed him unlimited alcohol during the prohibition in the United States, 1932.
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A few distilleries were allowed to distill medical spirits. Early Times I think was one of them.
He told his daughter that he was: “a simple man whose tastes were easily satisfied by the very best.” :^)
I almost got picked off in London in 1973 because I looked the wrong way as I stepped off the curb (or kerb, as they call it).
He was a great one, no doubt about it.
I’ve read many of his works: He was a brilliant author; his prose was smooth, and flowed easily. It wasn’t like reading at all; it was more like listening to a great storyteller. Twain was like that.
American Distilling Co in Pekin, Illinois was another.
It wasn't just the Brits advocating a Europe first policy. The Soviets were screaming - understandably so given the enormous losses they were taking. In truth, given its advanced industrial economy, its possession of all of Europe and that continent's immense resources and given its world class scientific establishment, Germany was a much more dangerous enemy than Japan at that time. We absolutely should have sought to destroy the Nazis first.
FDR was always suspicious of the British Empire and was not alone among Americans in thinking that. Yet, FDR had a blind spot for just how evil and murderous the Commies really were. I have no doubt Churchill was trying to preserve the British Empire and wanted to enlist as much American aid in doing so as possible. I can understand that.
If you want to blame him for something, I think he was far more cynical as first lord of the admiralty in WWI in loading up a passenger liner like the Lusitania on which he knew hundreds of Americans were sailing with mines, ammunition and other war material such that one torpedo rapidly sent her to the bottom killing 128 Americans. He knew that would piss off the American public and help spur us into that war......a war in which we had no real national interest.
Actually having one’s doctor prescribe you alcohol was quite common for those that had money. In fact a local distillery has paper bags printed saying the contents are prescribed medicine to reflect on this fact.
World history would have been changed had the accident been fatal.
At least Churchill was able to parlay his misfortune into getting a steady supply of legal liquor in Prohibition-era America.
Though we all know Churchill would have gotten his drink one way or another. Even then, he was well connected.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
They say Jon von Neumann used to get pretty lit up at cocktail parties.
Sir, you are drunk!
And you, madam, are ugly.
But tomorrow, I will be sober.
The fact that Eleanor couldn’t stand him was another mark in his favor (favour?). Founding matron of the UN, and all.
Rules are only for the little people.
Remember when Marijuana was outlawd in the U.S.?
Everyone who wanted it, had it.
Prohibition was the same way.
That almost happened to me when crossing a street in London.
Europe First as policy predated Pearl Harbor, FDR considered Nazi Germany the bigger threat.
It was also a practical matter, the ships needed to take the offensive in the Pacific did not exist yet. It took time to build the warships and the massive fleet train of supply and support vessels needed.
In 1942 the US was desperately short of ships, by 1944 we were not.
Ha! What a motto!
Medical conditions necessitate the use of alcohol. The hardcore alcoholics figured that out from the get go.
Thanks for sharing that great film I watched too long ago to remember well. Winston’s service as a correspondent wasn’t dissimilar to mine in the Army “floating through” where I could be digging dirt one day then addressing a general the next as an S-2 cleared illustrator who made images by hand before computer graphics became feasible.
I’m just a little put out that the actor Simon Shaw never had his magnificent performance rewarded with further starring roles. Politics I guess.
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