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...Royal Air Force leader, as a member of the Chiefs of Staff Committee in England, aided in a re-evaluation of British strategy at the direction of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. This study, according to military experts, has had a substantial influence upon American policy and strategy...
...College's leading authorities on England last night gave Winston Churchill, the last living member of "The Big Three," their highest praise on the occasion of his 80th birthday today...
...Finest Hour (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). Tribute to Sir Winston Churchill in honor of his 80th birthday...
London, last of the war-devastated metropolises to mend its scars, is about to cover its blitzweeds with bright new stores and office buildings. Plans have been drawn for a Rockefeller Center-like project topped by a 27-story building. Two weeks ago Sir Winston Churchill abolished the controls which have held back reconstruction in the City of London. Business had to wait while materials and labor went first to building homes for homeless Britons-a program which achieved 350,000 new homes in one year...
...Secretary, has been elevated to the peerage as Viscount Kilmuir (Churchill recently made him Lord Chancellor), a by-election was needed. Both parties wheeled out their heavy artillery. "There has been a steady encroachment on the living standards of our people," claimed Socialist Clement Attlee. For the Tories Sir Winston claimed a calmer world outside and more prosperity inside Britain. A characteristically tight British majority apparently agreed with Sir Winston. The result: for 27-year-old Tory John Woollam, a riveter's son, 21,158 votes versus 18,650 for his Socialist rival-a small but gratifying increase...