From the December 1913 issue of the Socialist Standard
On Saturday, November 29th, Capt. G. V. W. Lushington took Winston Churchill up in an aeroplane: on the following Wednesday he was killed. The accident might have happened at a much more opportune moment.
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Ouch. So much for the 'Small Party of Good Boys' gibe.
Of course, it was only three years before that the Socialist Standard was referring to Churchill as an "assassin":
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1910s/1910/no-76-december-1910/remember-tonypandy
Wee note" For some reason, in the original snippet in the Standard, Winston was spelt with an e at the end. A typo? Probably.
More on Captain Lushington here:
http://www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk/churches/st_andrews_eastney/wildman-lushington-gv.htm
i recall a Bill Knox from Edinburgh Br article about the murder of Airey Neave was criticised by some as being too gloating.
That 1913 snippet almost qualifies as a tweet.
Just another reminder of how loathed Churchill was in many working class quarters for the the majority of his political life.
I'll need to reread the Knox article. For a bloke who ended up writing so many books, he never did write that many articles for the Standard.
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