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...drying on the Munich agreement and the British subjects were celebrating "peace in our time" in the streets of London, Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to indict the leaders of his day with words that are applicable to today's generation. "Terrible words have for the time being been pronounced against the Western democracies: "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." We must never forget...
Without a doubt, the most monumental affront to the memory of those who lived and died to defeat despotism 50 years ago is the Bosnian arms embargo. In 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill appealed to the United States to help supply the fight for freedom. "Give us the tools and we will finish the job." We did, and Lend-Lease proved crucial in sustaining the British during the Battle of Britain...
During his time at home in Belmont, Epps said he rested a lot--"the body demanded lots of sleep"--and read--"mostly [Winston] Churchill...
Hillary Clinton's speech to the Nongovernmental Organizations Women's Conference in a suburb of Beijing was such a hot ticket that even Donna Shalala had a hard time getting in. The Health and Human Services secretary and Winston Lord, an assistant secretary of state, were kept outside in the pouring rain for a half an hour until the two soaked Clinton Administration officials were admitted through a side door. Thousands more were kept out as more than 3,000 women packed into a 1,500-seat theater to hear the First Lady urge them to make the goals...
President Truman learned of the bomb test while in Potsdam, a suburb of burned-out and bombed-out Berlin, where he was meeting with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, leaders of the nations allied with the U.S. in the defeat of Nazi Germany. The news that the atomic bomb actually worked promised to solve in a flash two of Truman's most urgent problems in the Pacific: the ordering of a heavy-casualty land invasion of the Japanese home islands, scheduled to begin Nov. 1, and the necessity of making concessions to Stalin in order to secure Soviet military intervention...