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...generosity that astonished Brooke, said it ought to be either Brooke or Ike's own hero, George Marshall. Brooke, by his own admission, was itching for the honor, and when it went to Eisenhower his bitterness was poured into his diary: "I felt no longer necessarily tied to Winston and free to assume this Supreme Command which he had already promised me on three separate occasions. It was a crushing blow to hear from him that he was now handing over this appointment to the Americans . . . Not for one moment did he realise what this meant...
Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, emeritus, has used an Oxford University lecture and a book review in yesterday's New York Times to criticize the World War II strategy of Sir Winston Churchill and Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke...
...lecture, Morison asserted that Churchill was "peripheral-minded" during the war. He criticized Sir Winston's planned landing between Norway and Dakar, stating that "from most of his favorite targets you could not go anywhere...
...conservative Daily Telegraph, the Bulganin note was designed for propaganda rather than negotiations, "a guided missive . . . aimed at Downing Street but designed to affect millions everywhere." Nonetheless, Prime Minister Macmillan took it seriously enough to make it the subject of two Cabinet meetings and a private talk with Sir Winston Churchill...
...Cabinet three other divorced men: Sir Walter Monckton, Secretary for Scotland James Stuart, and President of the Board of Trade Peter Thorneycroft. When Harold Macmillan succeeded Eden, he appointed another divorced man to the Cabinet, Minister of Education Lord Hailsham. Minister of Defense Duncan Sandys recently separated legally from Winston Churchill's eldest daughter Diana...