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Winnie & Greatness. The Conservatives' biggest campaign gun went off in workaday Liverpool, a Labor stronghold. In the city's sooty stadium, home of champion boxers and second-rate wrestlers, 76-year-old Battler Winston Churchill, looking like a grey kewpie, swung some grandiloquent haymakers at Labor's bungling of the Iranian oil dispute, which the London Observer called a diplomatic defeat in some ways worse than Munich. "It will be my duty," said Winnie, "to expose the melancholy story of inadvertence, incompetence, indecision and final collapse which has marked the policy of our Socialist rulers...
...London, the old (76 years old) Tory battler gathered with party leaders to plot the strategy they hope will send them back to the country's helm. Winnie was in fine, old-fashioned form. He told Britons that the Conservatives could not promise a quick cure for the country's ills. "The road will be hard and uphill," he said. "After a rake's progress . . . the resulting evils cannot be cured by a parliamentary vote or a stroke of the administrative...
...Tory battler, Winston Churchill, was watching fierce-eyed for a chance to hit the Labor government with a knockout blow. He canceled a scheduled address at the University of Pennsylvania this week because he did not want to leave the battlefield at a crucial moment. In London, before the Primrose League (a Conservative Party offshoot which sponsors social and welfare activities), Churchill last week turned his old phrasemaking genius on Attlee & Co. Most striking Churchillisms: "Mr. Attlee [leads] that cluster of lionhearted limpets, a new phenomenon in our natural history . . . who are united by their desire to hold...
Hardly anyone except Winston Churchill thought the Labor government should be challenged with a vote of censure on rearmament. But the old battler insisted. In Parliament he moved: "That the House, while supporting all measures conceived in the real interest of national security, has no confidence in the ability of ... present ministers to carry out an effective and consistent defense policy...
Public demands for other cabinet changes went unfulfilled. Old Battler Ernie Bevin had become too ill to carry on the burden of Britain's foreign affairs. And a barrage of criticism was hitting War Secretary John Strachey, who, as Minister of Food, had made a complete failure of the African groundnuts scheme, which was designed to get cooking fat for austerity Britain. Even the Labor government had to admit last week that the scheme had failed, at a dead loss to the British taxpayer of $109 million. There was no reason to believe that Strachey would be any better...