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...Denmark. One hundred and thirteen na tions had been invited to send representatives to the funeral. Only one-Red China-refused. Unwatched and unheralded, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip drove to St. Paul's by a circuitous route-leaving the panoply and glory of the day to Sir Winston. The Queen could scarcely help remembering how she first knew and admired the wartime Prime Minister when she was a girl, and how later, on her ascension to the throne, he guided her in her first steps in statecraft...
...never more so than last week. For 23 hours a day, a two-mile-long queue stretched from Westminster Hall along Millbank, past Horseferry Road and across Lambeth Bridge, then along the South Bank as far as County Hall. In the queue people chatted and swapped war stories of Winston, or told the younger ones what those days had been like. The atmosphere was not so much of sadness as of gratitude for what Churchill had done to save England. There were all sorts: working-class parents carrying their children, housewives and commuter husbands, young fellows and their girl friends...
...Yard, each one paused and looked back. Often dignitaries would enter the hall through another door. But though the queue shared the hall with Queen Elizabeth, with De Gaulle and Germany's Chancellor Erhard, there was never a stare or a flicker of recognition. Before the casket of Winston Churchill, all mourners were equal...
...muffled drums. Accompanied by his family, Churchill's body was carried by special train some 60 miles into the heart of Oxfordshire, to rest beside the graves of his English father and his American mother in the small parish churchyard at Bladon. A few hundred yards away is Winston Churchill's birthplace, Blenheim Palace, the grandiose home of his martial ancestor, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough...
Silenced Pessimists. Winston Churchill's countrymen quickly turned back to present realities and future problems. Yet everywhere people paused to wonder what Churchill might teach the world he left behind. The mere fact that he happened, said Historian Will Durant, "silences the grumbling of a thousand pessimists." Said Adlai Stevenson: "Like the grandeur and power of masterpieces of art and music, Churchill's life uplifts our hearts and fills us with fresh revelation of the scale and reach of human achievement." Yet, he concluded, "our world is thus the poorer, our political dialogue diminished and the sources...