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...Winston Churchill in Triumph and Tragedy...
Died. Viscount Cherwell (The Rt. Hon. Frederick Alexander Lindemann), 71, Oxford Professor (1919-56) of Experimental Philosophy (physics), aeronautics and atomic-energy expert, Sir Winston Churchill's longtime confidant, troubleshooter, and wartime scientific adviser; in Oxford. A teetotaling, vegetarian bachelor ("The yolk of an egg is altogether too exciting"), "The Prof" devised a paper solution to the problem of tailspin during World War I, learned to fly in three weeks, triumphantly tested his theory in person. Summoned by Churchill early in World War II ("He could decipher signals from the experts on the far horizon, and explain...
...Late to Cry. The next attack came from a surprising source, from a man almost as respected by the Tory gentry as Salisbury himself-lantern-jawed Earl of Halifax, a staunch Conservative who very nearly became Prime Minister in 1940 instead of Winston Churchill.* Halifax thought that if the government had handled itself better before the Suez invasion, "we might have avoided the discredit of a course of action which we could not in fact carry through." Lord Salisbury, said Halifax, was a member of the government which launched the Suez invasion, "and if he was-as no doubt...
...Lloyd, 52, whose disingenuous justification of Eden's Suez policy was not a high point in Britain's long diplomatic history. The press has been crying for Lloyd's resignation, and within the Tory Party itself, there is considerable malicious glee at the report that Sir Winston Churchill refers to Selwyn Lloyd as "Mr. Celluloid." Last week, in implicit answer to all criticisms, Macmillan publicly described Lloyd as "a loyal and sagacious colleague" with "a stout heart and a cool head," but carefully refrained from committing himself to keeping Lloyd in the Cabinet for any specified length...
...lectures at Oxford University, Harvard Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, the U.S. Navy's official chronicler of World War II, took a fall out of Sir Winston Churchill's wartime strategy. The trouble: Churchill was "peripheral-minded" and wanted to send raiding parties at Europe's defensive shores "like jackals worrying a lion." Snorted Morison: "From most of [Churchill's] favorite targets you could not go anywhere!" Of the successful Normandy invasion in 1944: "But for the insistent,, unremitting, often rude and tactless pressure by Roosevelt, Marshall, Eisenhower and others to cross the Channel in force...