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...Winston-Salem...
...itself has less glamour-and more administrative headaches-than most Cabinet posts, but a few men used the Colonial Office as a steppingstone. Gladstone was a Colonial Secretary when the job was still under the War Office. Winston Churchill was Under Secretary from 1906 to 1908 and steered through Commons a bill granting self-rule to the recently defeated Boers in South Africa. Reginald Maudling served as Colonial Secretary before he became Harold Macmillan's Chancellor of the Exchequer. The present Secretary is Fred Lee, 60, who last week was in the Southwest Pacific on a trip to British...
...like Charles Boyer," Paul-Henri Spaak once said. "Of course, I would rather speak English like Churchill and look like Charles Boyer." With 230 lbs. on his six-foot frame, Spaak could hardly pass for Boyer. And for all his oratorical gifts, he would never be confused with Sir Winston. Yet for 34 years, he was a power in Europe. He was Foreign Minister of Belgium six times, and twice the nation's Premier. Spaak in fact, was bigger than the tiny country in which he was born. For the past 20 years, he was best known...
...abdication. He felt, as did most other insiders, that Edward made his greatest strategic blunder when he stated in November that unless Baldwin and his government approved a morganatic marriage with Mrs. Simpson, he would not go through with his coronation in May. Both Beaverbrook and Winston Churchill advised him to put aside his marriage plans until after the coronation, and then press his demands with the power of the throne behind him. Edward insisted on a guarantee, before he was crowned, that a morganatic marriage would be acceptable. Beaverbrook made clear that he thought the person who really sought...
...Washington, came to the presidency poorly prepared in the area of foreign policy. Shortly before, on an official jaunt through Southeast Asia, L.B.J. had shocked some Asians by letting out a rebel yell inside the Taj Mahal, and proclaiming that Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem was "the Winston Churchill of Asia." On that same trip, Johnson grasped the importance of U.S. support for Southeast Asia. While others in Washington were dallying, Johnson wrote a prophetic memo to President Kennedy, declaring that the U.S. either had to "make a major effort" in the region or "throw in the towel...