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...breadth of Europe and England. On a continent where clowns are universally rated as the top act in any circus, Grock was acclaimed as the greatest of them all. The Queen of Spain once gave premature birth to a royal heir from laughing too hard at his antics. Winston Churchill once urged him to take out British citizenship so that Britons might claim him as their own. Even Charlie Chaplin was once kind enough to concede that Grock was almost as good...
...baroness, he wrote: "I don't think I can stand it much longer." Repeatedly, Britain, France and the U.S. suggested to Russia (which shares in the running of Spandau) that old Baron von Neurath be let out of prison to die. Each time the Russians said no. Sir Winston Churchill confessed in the House of Commons: "Von Neurath has my sympathy...
...else last week was prepared to go so far. But there were plenty of others who accepted the appearance of change, and were eager to test its reality. "I have cherished the hope that there is a new outlook in Russia," Sir Winston Churchill told the Tory conference only last month, "a new hope of peaceful coexistence with the Russian nation, and it is our duty, patiently and daringly, to make sure whether there is such a change...
...whom it fell to accept Prince Louis Battenberg's resignation in 1914 was Winston Churchill. Last week Sir Winston made fitting restitution by appointing his son to the same post. The son, as a 14-year-old naval cadet, had vowed one day to right the injustice...
Before a solemn London court of inquiry last week, British science told the world, without excuse or coverup, what happened to Britain's proudest airliners, the ill-starred jet Comets. The inquiry was ordered by Prime Minister Winston Churchill when two Comets exploded over the Mediterranean early this year. Since then, the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, headed by Arnold Hall, has been working night and day on a job of detective work that may be the most elaborate in technological history...