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Young (31) Randolph Churchill is not as young as he once was, nor as amusing. At the age of 19, sure of himself and the world's affairs, he lectured in the U.S. on such subjects as: The British Empire and World Progress; Why I am not a Socialist...
Returning home, young Randolph lectured British audiences on life in America and the poor quality of American food. He got a job earning ?2,000 a year working for the Hearst press. (To a British aristocrat the source of money is of small importance.) But he itched to be a proper politician. He tried three times, a boisterous, hard-hitting, unsuccessful candidate for Parliament who rebelled against Conservative Party tactics and advice. One month after World War II began he married redhaired, green-eyed Socialite Pamela Digby, daughter of the nth Baron Digby. He was then a subaltern...
...Egypt as a press-relations officer, young Randolph won the respect of correspondents writhing under stupid Egyptian and British censorship. In 1942 he joined up as a commando, was injured last May in an auto accident. Invalided home, young Churchill took the long route, via the U.S. Here he visited politicians in Washington, production men in Detroit and nightclubs in New York...
Labor's London Daily Herald editorialized that "center parties have no place in the British political system. They create a confusion in which democracy is weakened and dictatorship fertilized." Randolph snapped back with an attack on "unrepentant Munichmen" and Trades Union Congress Laborites. "more anxious to have political power than to achieve desirable public ends." He repeated his claims that modern government is "an adventurous and exciting science" and that the British public wants a change...
...Randolph Field's magazine carries a page chiding flight-flustered cadets. Excerpts...