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...Winston Churchill in the House of Commons last week clothed common sense with eloquence to align Britain with U.S. policy on the use of hydrogen bombs as a major deterrent against Communism. As he cast up the atomic probabilities of the future (see FOREIGN NEWS), he emphasized that the U.S. still has an enormous superiority over the Communists in hydrogen bombs-and the Communists probably will not catch up for three or four years...
...moving, majestic speech, the world's greatest orator last week came to grips with the hydrogen bomb. By his own oft-repeated statement, 80-year-old Sir Winston Churchill has had the bomb constantly in his mind, particularly since that April day in 1954 when the first public image of the hydrogen fireball billowed out of the photographs into the minds of men. Now, his shock behind him, his desperation gone, Churchill gave splendid utterance to the belief that has guided the U.S. ever since Hiroshima: that nuclear fission spells hope, as well as horror, for mankind...
Timely Account. The Tory government's embarrassment is compounded by the fact that its policy, though not its present tone, amounts to much the same thing. Anthony Eden has himself argued that the offshore islands rightfully belong to Red China. Last week, in response to Labor hectoring, Winston Churchill laid down a careful reply: "There is a great difference between the coastal islands of China and the island of Formosa. As there is no question of our being involved or indeed of our being needed in the defense of the coastal islands, we should be careful of what advice...
...leave politics to the politicos. Actually, as commander of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II and later as NATO commander, his greatest successes were political. He probably knows more about the intimate political workings of more nations than any other individual in the Western world, including Winston Churchill...
...name will live in history," wrote King George V at the death of Colonel T. E. Lawrence. Soon afterward, in a biographical sketch, Winston Churchill added: "That is true; it will live in English letters; it will live in the traditions of the Royal Air Force; it will live in the annals of war and in the legends of Arabia...