Was Churchill a good peacetime PM in the 50's?

Answer 1

No. He'd had his day I think. He was thought to be out of touch with Britain.

Answer 2

I would say that he was really neither good nor bad. I can't think of anything significant that happened during his peacetime premiership. He was a very old man by that time and I think that he remained leader of the Conservative party as a matter or respect, more than anything else.

Answer 3

Yes - - - but then Churchill was always the most brilliant man in the room even when consumed with pain & misery - - - the problem with a Churchill is how to harness that drive & energy to a useful end // \\ Churchill could blunder badly but when held in check with a cadre of astute aristocrats and/or politicians he was a wonder.

Churchill did as well as any man could during the period of 1951 to 1955. He was old & feeble but the quality of his writing reveals how clear his mind could be. He was not without his faults but I for one would rather have Churchill's hand on the helm than many of England's other Prime Ministers..

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"""In 1951 Churchill became prime minister, and was knighted in 1953. Next year he was acclaimed by the Queen and Parliament as 'the greatest living Briton'. Churchill's efforts to bring an end to the first phase of the Cold War by a summit conference between himself, Eisenhower and Stalin (1952-55) turned out to be fruitless. He resigned from the prime minister's office in 1955 and was succeeded by Anthony Eden. He had suffered a paralytic stroke a few year before, and Lord Moran, his physician, gave him some stimulant, perhaps amphetamine. It is possible that Churchill took drugs, "Dr. Moran's green pills", before important political meetings. His diet was not healthy - he was overweight, did not take any unnecessary steps in his old days, and his servants helped him to dress and undress. After his retirement he published the monumental A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLE (1956-58), which mostly dealt with politics and war. At Westerham, Kent, Churchill concentrated in painting, masonry, and horse racing. He frequently dictated letters to his secretaries half-dressed and often roamed around his rooms at Chartwell nude when he awoke. During this last period of his life, when he was not in the center of political power, he also suffered from depression.

"I am ready to meet my Maker," Churchill said on his 75th birthday. "Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter." Churchill died on January 24, 1965, after suffering cerebral thrombosis. Later historians have been critical of Churchill's actions and relationships with world leaders, and the opening of British government files in the 1980s have brought new material into daylight. The conviction that Churchill was among the most important men in modern history have remained unchanged.-----------------------------------------------
Statesman, historian, and biographer, whose five years of war leadership (1940-45) secured him a central place in modern British history. Churchill is widely considered the greatest political figure in 20th-century Britain. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. In was an open secret that he would have preferred the Nobel Peace Prize. Churchill's career was anything but predictable: he supported the Zionist movement in Palestine (1921-22), during the Abdication crisis (1926) he was loyal to Edward VIII, and during the 1945 election campaign he tried to brand Labour as a totalitarian party. """


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Answer 4

No , he was approaching senility

Answer 5

Good he was bloody fantastic best PM we have ever had.....We will fight them on the beaches we will.............

Answer 6

my hero of all time.so yes.