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......"Americans love Sir Winston Churchill. That much has been obvious since even before 1963, when President Kennedy gave him the only honorary US citizenship ever awarded to a living person. Yet, in the half-century since then, that admiration and affection hasn’t abated; he is one of the only non‑Americans to have a US warship named after him, and as many books are published about him in America as in Britain. Indeed, the only bookshop in the world dedicated solely to selling his books, articles and memorabilia is the splendid Chartwell Books on Madison Avenue and 52nd Street in Manhattan. As Churchill’s mother, Jennie Jerome, was born in Brooklyn, Americans understandably regard Churchill’s extraordinary life as an almost semi-detached telling of their own national story.

So when the prestigious Morgan Library and Museum in New York decided to stage an exhibition entitled Churchill: The Power of Words, which would include the cream of the America-related items in the Churchill Archives at Churchill College, Cambridge, they knew that it would be popular.

What has astounded them – and me, despite my being a special curator of the exhibition – is quite what a stir has been created in Midtown. The crowds have exceeded all expectations, with record numbers visiting the exhibition, even in the normally quiet summer months. More than 30,000 people in the first six weeks – at least 50 per cent higher than the library’s initial expectations.....

....Among the exhibits are the notes for the speech that Churchill made in the House of Commons on September 11 1940, two days after the start of the Blitz, in which he said that Adolf Hitler “hopes by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city… Little does he know the spirit of the British nation.”

Americans who see these notes, full of annotations and alterations made by Churchill himself, have been powerfully struck by the conjunction of that particular date in the iconic year 1940 and the message that Churchill was conveying about the use of terror tactics against a great city.

It is rare that a few sheets of paper from an archive that were typed out seven decades ago can evoke such strong emotions from normally hard-bitten New Yorkers, but it is happening here day after day. I must admit that I feel a catch in my throat whenever I see those notes, knowing that they contain one of the most eloquent roars of defiance that valour ever directed against evil.......... America's enduring love for Winnie and his words

I think the Jewish people should take heed of the rising anti-Semitism coming from Western Europe (mainly from the Musliim immigrants) and America (from Leftists and Democrats). However, this time the Hebrews have their own nation, and I’m sure they have a contingency to protect and save Jews worldwide.