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...HAVE lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places 1 like Cambodia," said Winston Churchill some years before his death. "They have never worried me and I haven't worried them." This remark, recalled by the great man's physician, Lord Moran, was very Churchillian and very 19th century. It was the remark of a man who, despite a keen global vision, still thought it easy for the West to regard itself as the center of the world. To many of his era the periphery of that world lay somewhere in the jungle, well beyond the enclave...
...months since Sir Winston Churchill died, books about him have been written by his friend Lady Asquith, his valet Roy Howells, and Son Randolph, who is putting the finishing touches on the "official" family biography. None of them is likely to reveal as much detail-or raise such a storm -as the memoirs of Lord Moran of Manton. Lord Moran was Churchill's doctor...
Excerpts from the Moran book (Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965) were published in London by the Sunday Times, in the U.S. by LIFE, and last week all of Britain was arguing about them. "Sir Winston is having his phagocytes counted, his pneumogastric system checked and the eliminatory functions examined in a public post-mortem," raged Columnist Cassandra in the Daily Mirror. The medical journal Lancet noted icily that "the public's trust in the medical profession derives largely from its conviction that what transpires between patient and doctor will not be bandied about," and the British...
SHADOW OF MY BROTHER by Davis Grubb. 317 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...ultimate partition of China. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph." The speaker was not talking about Red China and its assistance to Viet Nam. Nor was it the danger of an H-bomb in Chinese hands that alarmed him. The year was 1901, and 26-year-old Winston Churchill, fresh from widely publicized exploits in the Boer War, was addressing himself to the problems of the Orient in general-to say nothing of the rest of the world. But even though a reporter was on hand, busily taking notes, Churchill's opinions were not published until this month...