CHURCHILL IN NOVEMBER
Onwards with our appreciation of Churchill month-by-month, with a dive into what Winston Churchill accomplished in November over the grand span of his long life (including being born!).
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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born November 30, 1874 in a spare room on the ground floor of Blenheim Palace after his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, went into premature labor while the houseguest of her father-in-law, the 7th Duke of Marlborough. Jennie Churchill and Lord Randolph, only seven months wed, had assumed their baby would be born in London. Winston, however, would not wait.
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On November 11, 1931, The Uknown War was published in the U.S., completing The World Crisis, Winston Churchill’s fiercely subjective history of the First World War — one of only a handful of Churchill works to be published first in the U.S.
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On the morning of November 20, 1940, in the wake of the worst of the Battle of Britain, with The Blitz brutally underway, Winston Churchill was photographed by Cecil Beaton in the Cabinet Room at No. 10 Downing Street. The image instantly became one of the most iconic Churchill photos ever taken.
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Winston Churchill attended the Cairo Conference from November 22-26, 1943, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China. Joseph Stalin did not attend because meeting with China would have caused friction with Japan, with whom Russia was not at war. A “Cairo Declaration”was nonetheless issued on November 27, 1943 declaring the Allies’ determination to fight Japan until its unconditional surrender.
The following day, the Teheran Conference commenced at the Soviet Embassy in Teheran. On November 30, 1943 Churchill’s 69th Birthday was celebrated with a party at the British Embassy, attended by Roosevelt and Stalin. So many toasts were drunk that Churchill at one point remarked to Stalin, “England is getting pinker.” “It is a sign of good health,” Stalin retorted. “I drink to the Proletarian masses,” continued Churchill. “I drink to the Conservative Party,” replied Stalin.
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Winston Churchill’s only novel, Savrola — originally published in 1900 — was broadcast on November 15, 1956 as a one-hour teleplay, live and in color, on NBC’s Matinee Theater, starring Churchill’s daughter, Sarah. This Random House reissue that year no doubt coincided with the broadcast.
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We wish you the warmest of chilly Novembers.
Celebrate Churchill’s birthday with our new catalogue, coming on November 30.