Talk:Leslie Howard

message: A documentary on Churchill's bodyguard shown on BBC2 last weekend seemed to add weight to the theory that Howard's plane was shot down in attempt on Churchill's life. It suggested, or perhaps merely speculated, that Churchill (who was due to fly back to the UK on the same evening as Howard's flight) had been aware of a possible attempt to shoot him down through secret Enigma decodings and had ordered his bodyguard to disable one of the engines of his plane in order for there to be an apparently legitimate explanation for him not flying back that evening. Churchill had made it clear that there should always be an alternate reason to explain actions initiated by the interception of German secret messages, in order to prevent the Germans from guessing that their codes has been broken. The documentary contained apparently new insight into the mystery of the engine fault. Jooler 21:27, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Walter H. Thompson]]

message: I can only find this in the London Gazette which suggest he served until 1916 Steiner&exact=&atleast=&similar= as an 2nd Lt Kernel Saunters (talk) 14:28, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't shellshock, as this article suggests. He received a severe wound to the buttocks and never sat down comfortably for the rest of his life. --90.242.112.201 (talk) 18:45, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Above comment re a wound is incorrect. Leslie's medical assessment of January 1916, from his military record in the National Archives, is reproduced as figure 11 of the Eforgan biography (chapter 2) Npaskin (talk) 10:59, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: War Service

message: 89.164.231.121 (talk) 22:59, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leslie Howard (actor) 

message: "The bumped passengers were the teenage sons of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt: George and William Cecil, who had been recalled to London from their Swiss boarding school. Being bumped by Howard saved their lives."
No explanation previous to this about bumping. 
In the article on flight 777, it says, "Three passengers seated on the DC-3 disembarked before departure. Derek Partridge, the young son of a British diplomat, and Dora Rove, his nanny, were "bumped" to make room for Howard and Chenhalls"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_777
Justaquick (talk) 11:24, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  inconsistent bump 

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message: It was at this time, while filming Pygmalion (1938), he met Violette Cunnington, a beautiful actress with whom he fell profoundly in love. As the Anschluss took place in Europe, the Nazis posed a serious threat to Howard's sense of democratic freedoms.
This writing is disjointed to put it mildly. First of all he falls profoundly in love, and then we are jabbering on about Howard's sense of democratic freedoms. Please improve this nonsensical tone.
HowardLeslie (talk) 05:41, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disjointed writing 

message: A 2008 book by Spanish writer José Rey Ximena claims that Howard was on a top-secret mission for Churchill to dissuade Francisco Franco, Spain's authoritarian dictator and head of state, from joining the Axis powers.
:By 1943, Franco was in no need of 'dissuading' from entry into WW2. The Americans had driven through Morocco and Tunisia, and Hitler was too preoccupied with Russia to concern himself with Spain. Franco was looking ahead to postwar trading with France and Britain. Valetude (talk) 13:58, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Franco not interested