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...moment Sir Winston Churchill was there in all his glory-venerable as Queen Victoria, familiar as Big Ben. Next moment, or so it seemed, the dauntless old figure had vanished, and Britain had the feeling that John Bull himself was gone. At 4:25 p.m., in the quiet of an April afternoon, 80-year-old Sir Winston Spencer Churchill put on his black frock coat and drove off to see the Queen...
Summons for Anthony. Next day Elizabeth sent for the tall, handsome greyheaded figure who had waited in the Foreign Office as Sir Winston drove to the palace. Top hat gleaming, Sir Anthony Eden drove along the Mall as the Scots Guards wheeled and stomped in the blaze of color and trumpets that is the changing of the palace guard. Approaching the iron gates, his chauffeur blinked the Humber's lights in a recognition signal. The sentries crashed their rifles in salute...
...know quite well," said the new Prime Minister, "that whenever [Sir Winston] returns to us from his holidays, he will still be the dominating figure among us." Yet the House sensed with Sir Anthony that Churchill's resignation marked the end of an epic span in British political history, and the beginning of a new political...
...curtain rang up on the final act of Winston Churchill's long and dramatic career last week. Even a statesman with his great flair for drama could have asked for no more effective tableau. There at stage center, its polished brass numerals gleaming in the lamplight of London's Downing Street, was the famed, ebon-black door marked "10." Choking the narrow street but held back to a respectful distance by alert bobbies were crowds of Londoners whose suspenseful interest in the drama was drawn taut by the lack of printed news caused by a newspaper strike...
...Wellington, Nelson, Pitt and Fox stared down from the walls as the guests took their seats. Garbed in full uniform or official court dress, some 50 of them were ranged along the U-shaped table. There were the bemedaled Generals Montgomery and Alexander, who had led great armies under Winston Churchill's direction during World War II. There was quiet, modest Clem Attlee, his longtime colleague and longtime opponent. There, gracious and smiling, was the widow of Neville Chamberlain, the prewar Prime Minister whose errors Churchill redeemed but never condemned. There, still patient and distinguished with years and honors...