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    Feb 12, 2021 5 minutes

    125 YEARS AGO WINTER 1896 • AGE 21 “HE WAS MY MODEL”

    Churchill left Cuba early in December 1895, after covering the insurrection there on his first journalistic assignment. He did not revisit the island for another fifty years. Back in England, he continued his budding literary career by writing a series of articles on Cuba for the Saturday Review. The article in the 15 February 1896 issue is of particular importance, because he enclosed a copy of it in a 29 February letter sent to his new American friend and mentor Bourke Cockran.

    In the article, Churchill took a dim view of both the Spanish and the rebels. A “rebel victory offers little good either to the world in general or to Cuba in particular…we should have to prepare ourselves for another firebrand republic of the South

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