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...Rome last week, while newsmen shot questions at him, Prime Minister Winston Churchill sat down on an open barrel of political TNT and calmly lit a cigar. He had arrived in Italy four days before the Allied armada invaded southern France, three days after the sudden arrival of Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Since then he had talked to Tito, to Italy's Premier Ivanoe Bonomi, Marshal Badoglio, Lieutenant of the Realm Prince Umberto, to Pope Pius XII. These talks might have concerned military plans. They almost certainly concerned the future plans of Britain and Russia in the Balkans...
Winston Churchill looked at the newsmen, chewed at his cigar, belched smoke, said nothing...
...Then Dunkirk had come and Britain stood alone against totalitarian might and night. The cigar chewer had said: ". . . We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry...
Winston Churchill looked at the newsmen, puffed at his cigar, said nothing...
...handful of men <& boys had gone up with wings and, though outnumbered, was fighting the Luftwaffe to a standstill. Was not that aerial battle the Marathon of World War II? "Never. . ." the cigar-chewer had said, "was so much owed by so many...