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...Britain seemed to accept the news as the day grew near. What no one said officially, all seemed unofficially agreed upon: barring some unforeseen change, one day this week 80-year-old Sir Winston Churchill will proffer his resignation to his young Queen. Thus, after 52 years in the House of Commons, 28 years a Minister, Sir Winston will take leave of the post to which he has added such luster. In his place his faithful lieutenant, Sir Anthony Eden, will be summoned to kiss the Queen's hands...
April 12: Sir Winston leaves by commercial airline for a two-week vacation in Sicily, and will be away during the presentation of the British budget on April 19, one of the classic "occasions" in the House of Commons...
...Bounden Duty. M.P.s bombarded Churchill with searching questions in the House. "The future is veiled in obscurity," he replied to Laborite Willie Warbey. "I should not like to plunge too deeply into it this afternoon." His conduct implied, however, that Sir Winston at last had accepted the view that it is his bounden duty, to his country and his party, to let the younger man take over. Asked if he would urge a conference on Formosa, he deferred to his successor: "I doubt if anyone in the whole world has worked as hard as the Foreign Secretary to steer this...
...acceptance in the gilded circle of the aristocracy through its large landholdings and its far-flung marriage alliances. Through his mother, Sybil Frances Grey, Sir Anthony is connected with the Earls of Westmoreland, and the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk. His young second wife, Clarissa, is the niece of Sir Winston Churchill...
...possible, because it would sell better." Then, after sending fancy editions of Heritage to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mother Elizabeth and Sir Anthony Eden, he went off to No. 10 Downing Street with a copy monogrammed "W.S.C." There he was profusely thanked by Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, who whimsically handed Peter a copy of a new cartoon biography of Sir Winston...