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...rush its ally Jordan into the anti-Communist Baghdad pact, the wildest forces of Arab nationalism, urged on by Egyptian propaganda and Saudi-Arabian gold, flowed through the little land. Glubb's Legion put down the rioters but only after young (20) King Hussein (who was schooled, like Winston Churchill, at Harrow and Sandhurst) had foresworn the Baghdad pact and some of the Arab Legionnaires had refused to fight against...
After sleeping through the night. Sir Winston Churchill awoke and learned that morning had brought big doings in his country home at Chartwell. Only a few steps from his bedroom, a kitchen oil stove had flared up, been doused by a maid and a house dick...
...Beaverbrook hankered to succeed Winston Churchill in Britain's dark days of 1941 and 1942, says Driberg, and suffered such intense inner conflict between the "canker of ambition" and his genuine friendship for Churchill that, racked with psychosomatic asthma, he quit the Cabinet in the "supreme nervous crisis of his life...
...propaganda, the British Government announced in the House of Commons that it was considering jamming Athens broadcasts to the island crown colony. Immediately there was an outcry from Britain's Labor Opposition. Never in Lord Haw-Haw's noisiest days had the British jammed the Nazi radio; Winston Churchill preferred to treat Goebbels' propaganda as beneath contempt. But, argued the Tories last week, the circumstance is different when Greek incites fellow Greek to terrorism. And Britain, which in a desperate hour sent what troops it could spare to Greece to fight off the Nazis, dislikes being told...
...Winston, mannerly and conscientious, was never late to meals. So when he failed to answer mess call one day last month, a search party was organized to comb the rugged heights of the Rock. They searched every crevice and called the ape loudly by name. No answer. Last week Gibraltar officialdom issued a sad bulletin: "Rock ape Winston has been missing since ninth December and must now be presumed dead. He is, accordingly, struck off the strength of the fortress from that date...