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...large, Home's blunt, hardheaded performance as Foreign Secretary has won him a degree of respect accorded to only one of his postwar predecessors, Labor's late Ernie Bevin. Remembering Churchill's innocence of economics and social problems, many politicians believed that Home-Sweet-Home, as Winston called him, could easily fill the same gaps in his experience...
RICHARD AUSTEN BUTLER, a parliamentary pundit once observed, "always looks as if he will be the next Prime Minister-until it seems the throne may actually be vacant." Butler has been deputy to all three postwar Tory Prime Ministers-Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan -and after the 1956 Suez debacle had every expectation of succeeding Eden at 10 Downing Street. When the party picked Macmillan instead, "Rab" Butler, though bitterly humiliated, said bravely: "Well, it is something to have been almost Prime Minister...
...crusty, highhanded octogenarian who clung pathetically to power well beyond the moment when he should have relinquished it. Ultimately, however, Konrad Adenauer can only be remembered as the German whose idealism and hardheaded grasp of reality in one decade transformed the nature and condition of 20th century Germany. Winston Churchill accurately called him "the greatest German statesman since Bismarck," but even Bismarck's Germany did not rise from the rubble and bitterness of defeat to the position of respect and responsibility that West Germany enjoys today...
Last Sunday, however, we "found ourselves in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude," to use Winston Churchill's phrase. The Yankees lost the World Series. In four straight...
...When the school starts up an army cadet corps, with uniforms and rifles, they are ecstatic. In his daydreams, young John Curlew shoots down a squadron of Nazis in his plane, cleans out a machine-gun nest with a single grenade, gets the Victoria Cross from Winston Churchill, and wins the adulation of the rest of the gang. In reality the other boys despise him for his friendship with Mark Stein, a Jewish refugee from Austria who is attending the school...