Churchill quote: spurious?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not that I could ever disagree with Victor, but Wiki-P confirms that Abba
Eban died at 87 in 2002.

It also advises that he "moved to England at an early age." So perhaps his
accent was Anglo-South-African.

JL

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:13 AM, imwitty <imwitty at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I don=92t know how reliable is by your opinion the following source, but
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> is what I found in the book =93Churchill by Himself: The Definitive
> Collect=
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> of Quotations=94 edited by Richard M. Langworth (2008), in the section
> =93America=94, subsection =93Characteristics of Americans=94:
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> =93The Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all
> othe=
> r
> possibilities have been exhausted.=94 -- Circa 1944
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> This entry has the following Langworth=92s note:
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> =93Unattributed and included tentatively. Certainly he would never have
> sai=
> d
> it publicly: he was much too careful about slips like that. It cannot be
> found in any memoirs of his colleagues. I have let it stand as a likely
> remark, for he certainly had those sentiments from time to time in World
> Wa=
> r
> II. (See for example the last entry under this heading.)=94
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> Here is the aforementioned entry:
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> =93Their national psychology is such that the bigger the Idea the more
> wholeheartedly and obstinately do they throw themselves into making it a
> success. It is an admirable characteristic, providing the Idea is good.=94
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> --
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> 1952. (WW2 V, 494) [According to the Bibliography, it is on the page 494 of
> the volume V in =93The Second World War=94, 6 vols.. London, Cassell, 1948
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> =96
> 1954, by Winston S. Churchill].
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> Lora
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> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > A conservative contributor to CNN has just uttered the following: "As
> > Winston Churchill said, 'You can count on the American people to do the
> > right thing - once they've exhausted every other option.'"
> >
> > My vote is that it's Memorex, not real, but I'm only guessing. I haven't
> > found anything like it in YBQ.
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> > I can remember when it was Lincoln and Mark Twain who used to say
> > everything. This Churchill and Orwell business seems ominous somehow.
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> > JL
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