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With These Credentials. In raising his glass to the young Queen, 80-year-old Sir Winston asked for forgiveness due an old man. "Having served in office or in Parliament under four sovereigns," he said, "I felt, with these credentials, that in asking Your Majesty's gracious permission to propose this toast, I should not be leading to the creation of a precedent which would often cause inconvenience...
...Palace. The door opened and an office worker popped out. Everyone laughed from sheer nervousness. At 4:25 the door opened once more and out stepped Winston Churchill, in striped pants, frock coat and topper. There was a sparse cheer or two, then suddenly the street rocked with three huge, earsplitting cheers of acclaim. A slight, sad smile crinkled the Churchillian features for a moment. Then, clamping firmly on his cigar, the Prime Minister climbed into his car and headed for Buckingham Palace...
...hour later, after Churchill and Elizabeth talked alone, a palace bulletin made it official that "the Right Honorable Sir Winston Churchill has tendered his resignation as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, which Her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept." "Good old Winnie!" shouted the crowd at Downing Street once again when Churchill returned. The old man smiled through tear-dimmed eyes, raised his fingers in the victory sign and went inside. Soon afterward the street was nearly empty once again. That evening Churchill came out of the house once more, climbed into his car and drove...
...spate of encomium, Churchill was compared with everything, from an endless cavalry charge to Leonardo da Vinci. As everyone tried his best to rise to the occasion-tempted, no doubt, by a wish to be as eloquent as Winston Churchill himself would have been-the London Economist was at last moved to remark that "Sir Winston Churchill is not dead. He has merely retired from the office of Prime Minister . . . The time has fortunately not yet come to write his obituary...
Back Bench & Goldfish. Sir Winston, reluctant to retire but aware that he must, refused to steal any more thunder from Anthony Eden by appearing in the House of Commons on the day Eden took over. But the back-bench seat (actually on the front bench), which he firmly intends to hang onto, was standing ready and vacant for him. "The House has today lost one of the greatest frontbenchers in all its history," said Tory Walter Elliot, "but the backbenchers have gained the greatest backbencher of all times...