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...Weight of Concern. At other times, conferences of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers have been quiet family affairs. Australia's Menzies, a veteran of many of them, explained: "We earnest fellows come from the six corners of the world. Winston addresses us ... and after all, that is a wonderful experience. When Winston has finished, he turns round to Anthony and says, 'Would you care to say something?' ^Things go on . .. I make a few statesmanlike remarks . . . And when we have solved all the problems of the world . . . the communiqué will arrive. We will correct the grammar. Then...
This time the secret conclaves around the dark oak table in 10 Downing Street were tense and weighted with concern. Sir Winston told them somberly that since their last meeting in June 1953, the hydrogen bomb had come to dominate the world scene. "Hitler was mad and bad-the Russians are only bad," cracked the old man. "They have far more sense than to start an atomic war which will lead to their own destruction." He predicted that in three years Russia would attain atomic equality with the West. Heretofore, he declared, only U.S. superiority in nuclear weapons has prevented...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). "The Escape of Winston Churchill...
...When Winston Churchill accepted an invitation to speak at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949, a Harvardman asked John Ely Burchard, now M.I.T.'s dean of humanities and social studies: "How did you persuade Winston to speak to those steam fitters of yours?" As Burchard well knew, there was a mite of truth in the joke, in spite of mighty efforts already made to broaden the humanities curriculum. Was the nation's top technical school still giving its students too narrow an education? Last week the M.I.T. faculty formally approved a new experiment that may eventually answer...
Last week, as the strike deadline neared, there was an air of wartime emergency. Sir Winston Churchill himself ordered the country deployed as he had for the General Strike of 1926. Government department heads designated key workers who would have to sleep on the job, and beds were installed in old wartime air-raid shelters. Department chiefs were to be housed in a massive concrete annex to the Admiralty built to be the government's last stronghold in case of a Nazi invasion. Car pools were organized (the London Underground would also stop...