Shashi Tharoor correctly notes:
“Churchill’s
beatification as an apostle of freedom seems all the more preposterous given
his 1941 declaration that the Atlantic Charter’s principles would not apply to
India and the colored colonies. He refused to see people of color as entitled
to the same rights as himself….
Thanks to Churchill,
some 4 million Bengalis starved to death in a 1943 famine. Churchill ordered
the diversion of food from starving Indian civilians to well-supplied British
soldiers and even to top up European stockpiles in Greece and elsewhere.”
