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...surprise of just about everyone (including, it seemed, Eden himself), the Queen thus conferred the highest honor a British politician can hold and yet remain in the House of Commons on the man who stands ready to succeed Sir Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. Eighteen months ago the Queen had bestowed the same honor on Sir Winston...
Everyone agreed it was a handsome way to reward a knight-in-waiting. And last week it was abundantly clear that Sir Anthony still had some waiting ahead of him. Sir Winston rejuggled his government, shaking out seven relative oldsters (averaging 61 years) and bringing in seven young replacements (average age: 41). The changes were convincing evidence that 79-year-old Sir Winston intends to hang on awhile...
...Ernest: "To be told that the Minister is 'not in a position to approve' may excite a desire to retort that he might try putting his feet on the mantelpiece and see if that does any good." ¶ The Overuse of Abstract Words: e.g., position, situation. "Sir Winston Churchill did not begin his broadcast on the 17th of June, 1940: 'The position in regard to France is extremely serious.' He began: 'The news from France is very bad.' He did not end it: 'We have absolute confidence that eventually the situation will...
...Thomson made his employees sign contracts that forbade them to join unions, was finally forced to back down in 1952 in the face of a threatened boycott of the Trades Union Congress and affiliated unions. His papers always bore the imprint of his crusty personality. After a row with Winston Churchill in 1922 over a political speech, he barred Churchill's name from the Thomson papers until World War II made occasional use of it unavoidable...
...socialists. Nye did not make the grade as a "Foreign Personage" (two who did: party-lining Comedian Charlie Chaplin and Canterbury's Red Dean Hewlett Johnson), but instead was ignominiously lumped with such "Foreign Reactionaries" as his old enemy in the House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill. The Encyclopedia then hauled off and let Nye have it: "Mr. Bevan wears the outward cloak of Socialism to hide the face of an agent of the bourgeoisie. He hoodwinks the British people, hinders the revolution of the British working man, and is in fact working in the interests of the British...