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...fire had gone out-a fire which we sometimes found too hot, by which we were sometimes scorched, but a fire which warmed and cheered us and stimulated us." In a corner seat of the front bench below the gangway sat the solitary figure of Sir Winston Churchill, who had often been Nye Bevan's bitterest foe. When Gaitskell recalled some of Nye's fierce sallies, including the attack on Churchill when he cried that he welcomed the "opportunity of picking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth," Churchill gave a fleeting smile of remembrance...
Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. This sprightly chronicle of the madcap Mitford family (one of the six daughters was generally regarded as Hitler's girl; the author herself married a leftist nephew of Winston Churchill) reads like an Evelyn Waugh novel, revealing a class in trouble with history and with itself...
...world's greatest orator since the retirement of Winston Churchill is the tall, lumbering man with the look of a nearsighted llama who is President of France. Last week Charles de Gaulle sat down before TV cameras and addressed a message to his people in prose no other leader can match. He began...
Best Reading Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. This sprightly chronicle of the madcap Mitford family (one of the six daughters was generally regarded as Hitler's girl; another became the wife of a Fascist; the author herself married a Leftist nephew of Winston Churchill) reads like an Evelyn Waugh novel, revealing a class in trouble with history and with itself...
Jessica, the one with the slyboots expression, married a Red, Esmond Romilly, but then, he was a nephew of Sir Winston Churchill. In fact, that marriage is what much of this book is about...