Talk:Henry Channon

message: Anyone in London would be kind to tell us what the present state and use of Number 5 Belgrave Square is. Thank you very much.  Fatidiot1234 (talk) 03:53, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Your question is pretty fully answered, at least as at 2002, in this article about the house Chelseaboy (talk) 18:43, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
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message: With all due respect, Sbishop, I appreciate your efforts to improve this article, so please bear that in mind. The Sudetenland crisis was a notable event, and surely a discussion of his role in that crisis linked to reliable sources improves the article. If I understand your objections correctly, you feel that this is too length. It is only one paragraph, so does not seem to be violating the undue weight rule. Furthermore, there is a misconception both at the time and since about the League of the Nations, namely a lot of people seem to think that it had far more power than it actually did. The League of Nations did not have the power to order Great Britain or any other country for that matter to do anything. There are automobile accidents caused by increment weather, automobile accidents caused by a design flaw, and the most numerous (90%) of automobile accidents, those caused by driver error. The League was only as good as the veto-holding members of the League Council were willing to make it good. In this case, there was no chance of the League ordering Britain to go to war for the defense of Czechoslovakia, any more than it had the power to order Britain to go to war for defense of China and Ethiopia. The duties of Channon and the rest of the British delegation were to keep the matter from being raised to spare Britain the embarrassment of having to veto a Czechoslovak request for help should the crisis come to war. Not a lot of people know that, which was why it was included. Finally, it was worthwhile to put this into perspective, to briefly review the attitudes of other states, both pro and contra. To address your concerns, I've let that part out. But seems relevant to include his role in the Sudetenland crisis. To delete all the references to this matter because he was not a significant player is besides the point. This is what he was doing at that movement in time, and surely his role in the Sudetenland crisis is more important than the matter of who was attending his dinner parties. I hope this resolves this issue. Thank you for your time and patience. --A.S. Brown (talk) 08:31, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: The Sudetenland crisis

message: The Article as at present manages to avoid the words "gay", "bisexual" or "homosexual", though it notes that Channon "began an affair" with Peter Coats in 1939. It fails to mention that this "affair" lasted until Channon's death in 1958, and that the two men had lived together on a permanent basis after Coats' return from military service in India at the close of WWII.
This failure to mention Channon's sexual orientation seems a manifest omission, particularly given the content of the Diaries, which contain innumerable references to his casual encounters with other men, his lengthy sexual friendship with Terence Rattigan, and his final ménage with Coats. For more recent Wikipedia subjects this might not be worth mentioning, but at the time there were severe penalties that could have been imposed had Channon been prosecuted (cf Alan Turing, and Channon's friend Lord Montagu of Beaulieu). Thomas Peardew (talk) 14:37, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Although the label 'bisexual' isn't used in the article, I would have thought that the relationships section makes it fairly clear in overall terms. Ponsonby100 (talk) 16:52, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sexuality