Young doctor goes west

Winston Churchill will come under renewed scrutiny from this year's occupant of 바카라사이트 visiting chair in British history at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri.

The Robertson chair, established in 바카라사이트 town where Churchill made his 1946 speech predicting 바카라사이트 creation of an "iron curtain" across Europe, was held three years ago by John Charmley of 바카라사이트 University of East Anglia, author of a fiercely critical biography of 바카라사이트 former premier.

The 1995/96 visiting professor will be John Ramsden of Queen Mary and Westfield College, who will be researching postwar images of 바카라사이트 Second World War: "The reputation and status of Churchill are central to this, and Fulton has an excellent collection of Churchill material," he says.

Dr Ramsden says that Churchill's six-volume history of 바카라사이트 war has been decisive in forming views of 1939 to 1945, and argues that it was not objective: "In 1952 he dropped criticisms of Eisenhower's performance as allied commander - not because his judgement had changed, but because Eisenhower had been elected president".