Typical of Churchill’s writing practice, he dictated the communiqué to an Admiralty stenographer. Hogg: “Did you know anything about it until it appeared in the Press?”Ĭhurchill then described how, at government request, he had come to write his more favorable “appreciation” of Jutland. Hogg: “Were you consulted as to its issue?” Hogg: “Did you know anything about the communiqué of June 3rd before it was issued?” This caused the drop in the market for stock of British companies for which Douglas had blamed Churchill. Churchill was asked about the first government communiqué about the Battle of Jutland. The prosecutor was the Attorney General, Sir Douglas Hogg. Douglas’s counsel, Cecil Hayes, a junior barrister, was much more likely than his more experienced predecessor, Comyns Carr, to follow his client’s precise instructions on questions for “dear Winston.” ( Concluded from Part 1.)Ĭhurchill was the second witness for the prosecution. Lord Alfred Douglas thought he had Winston Churchill just where he wanted him-in the witness box, undergoing cross-examination.
Here he presides over the signing of the Polish-Soviet agreement with Polish Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski and Russian Ambassador to London Ivan Maisky, 30 July 1941-see our review of the Maisky Diaries at bit.ly/3gP3RwF. “The imminent shadow of the ‘Winston touch.’” As Lord Alfred Douglas published his sonnet to his old enemy, Churchill cemented Britain’s first wartime alliances.
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