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...exclaimed: "I have never known, under any Prime Minister I have served, the qualities of courage, integrity and flair more clearly represented than in our present Prime Minister." Commented the Economist: "Remembering, as one was meant to remember, that Mr. Butler's last Prime Minister was Sir Winston, [this is] an example of how to damn a leader by praise that nobody will believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Driven Man | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...Matinee Theater (Thurs.3p.m.,NBC). Winston Churchill's Savrola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...imposing peace and demanding of the rest of the world that it accept the result on the grounds that its methods are decisive and its motives high-minded. This classic role of self-appointed proctor of the world was reflected last week by that heroic defender of Empire, Sir Winston Churchill, who proclaimed: "Not for the first time, we have acted independently for the common good." This was a blunt and deep challenge to every 20th century notion of collective security. Britain's case went thus: You must judge our methods by our results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Danger in the Jungle | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

DOUBTING THOMAS (210 pp.)-Winston Brebner-Rinehart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Praise of Humanity | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

...quill-pen essayist's approach to the day's hard news, is designed for those who lounge as they read. It often irritates politicians with toplofty editorials suggesting that the paper is not only on the side of the angels but right alongside them in heaven. Snorted Winston Churchill in 1950: "What a remarkable position of superiority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Change at the Guardian | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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