June 24, 2015

Finest Hour 120, Autumn 2003

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WASHINGTON, AUGUST 29TH— At the request of our Patron, The Churchill Centre is assisting the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office by providing a complete set of her father’s books to a Churchill Room at Livadia Palace, Yalta, which she was instrumental in convincing them to create. Another room for President Roosevelt is being created by the USA. Please note that the Livadia exhibit is a monument to international cooperation, not to Stalin or the Yalta conference.

We were not asked for rarities or expensive first editions. Lady Soames herself donated all of her own works, and several others she owns such as the Churchill-Roosevelt Correspondence, Winston Churchill is similarly assisting. Our Governors and Trustees responded with generous commitments from Laurence Geller, David Boler, Randy Barber, Richard Langworth, and Craig Horn. After individual donations are collected, Churchillbooks.com will donate the remaining titles, including a Russian translation of the War Speeches.

The books will be available for reading and study by visitors to the Livadia exhibit but will not be loaned and will be secure. Each will bear a bookplate stating that it is the gift of the The Churchill Centre and the individual donor, much like the exhibit of books we supplied to Chartwell.

Member participation is welcome. The following are titles still not acquired. However, if you wish to donate a nice hardbound reprint of any Churchill title, it can be substituted for one of those donated by Churchillbooks.com. To donate, please contact the editor.

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Reprints still needed: Mr Brodrick’s Army, For Free Trade (Churchilliana Co.) Lord Randolph Churchill, The People’s Rights (Cape), Liberalism and the Social Problem (Haskell) India (Dragonwyck), Marlborough,War Speeches (3 vol. edition), History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Stemming the Tide, The Unwritten Alliance, Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill.

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