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...Hugh Dalton. Baron of Forest and Frith, 74, onetime power in Britain's Labor Party, a stentorian, expensively tailored Eton-and-Cambridge product who renounced court life-his father was tutor to Queen Victoria's children-for Socialist politics, rose to become Minister of Economic Warfare in Winston Churchill's World War II coalition government and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Clement Attlee's postwar Labor government, but in 1947 blasted his career by indiscreetly leaking his budget proposals to a reporter friend, thereafter sank ever deeper into political obscurity until Queen Elizabeth appointed...
...countries that have a lot of cows, politicians sooner or later must take a position on milk. Even Sir Winston Churchill, who personally prefers strong stuff, gave a limited endorsement to milk: "There is no finer investment for any community to make than putting milk into babies." France's Premier (1954-55) Pierre Mendès-France urged his countrymen to give up wine in favor of milk; most Frenchmen considered Lactophile Mendès-France some sort of nut, and he did not last long as Premier. Even more recently, the British National Milk Publicity Council, backed...
...baring his teeth and pounding his chest with his fists." At the beach, Uncle was always the engineer who mobilized the children to build a fortress of sand against the rising tide: "More sand for the outer defenses! Stop the moat from flooding! Hurry!" Uncle also happened to be Winston Churchill, and upon this familial foundation John Spencer Churchill-a painter specializing in murals-has erected the scaffolding of his autobiography entitled A Churchill Canvas...
...Charles Wrightsman. Among repeaters from last year was Thailand's Queen Sirikit, who moved a lovely leg up a rung toward the poll's Fashion Hall of Fame-the Olympus of three-time win ners entered last week by boyishly elegant Actress Audrey Hepburn and Mrs. Norman Winston, the part Cherokee Indian, Paris-based wife of the international real estate dealer...
Theatrical Destruction. With scholarly detachment, Taylor states the case for appeasing Hitler and for resisting him, but his sympathies obviously lie with the appeasers. Germany, he argues, had a right as a great power to reoccupy the Rhineland in 1936, even though Winston Churchill, among others, felt that Hitler could have been easily stopped and probably toppled from power. At Munich, writes Taylor, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain saved the peace and served the principle of self-determination, i.e., by handing a slice of Czechoslovakia to Germany because a lot of Germans lived there. Writes Taylor: "It was a triumph...