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Each nation talked of alternatives. The time for reappraisal was at hand. There would be hurried attempts to shore up Chancellor Adenauer, whose devotion to the West had been rebuffed at tremendous cost to his own prestige at home. The U.S. and Winston Churchill were still anxious to have German arms by whatever speedy way could now be found. But it would be harder than before to persuade a powerful and rejected Germany to accept the restrictions on its rearmament that everybody still thinks are necessary...
...Gladwyn Jebb asked Mendes outright for an explicit guarantee that he would not abandon EDC in return for Soviet "concessions" on Germany. Mendes evaded the question. Nevertheless, as Mendes boarded his special train to Brussels, Jebb was waiting on the platform with a message brought directly from Sir Winston Churchill, promising British support...
...Minister U Nu. Trade, commerce and government revenues slumped; the civil service fell away, demoralized. In police HQ, Pegu Province, a weary superintendent checked his dossier: "Of 21 stations in my district, I hold only six. The other 15 are held by five kinds of insurgents." In faraway London, Winston Churchill, then in opposition, rumbled...
...Third brother Will, an Oxford miler who once dreamed that he was "careering about ... on a great horse . . . engaged in a cavalry duel with sabres with Mr. Winston Churchill." (In those days, Churchill was a Liberal; the Lawrences were Tories to a man.) Will became a teacher in India, joined the Royal Flying Corps at the outbreak of World War I, was killed (at 26) within a week of his arrival in France...
...back on the vanished world of their youth. But even they would agree that the Lawrence brothers pushed it to a limit where it became almost inhuman-divorced from instinct and passion, too cold for natural comfort, almost too good to be true. It gave T. E., says Sir Winston Churchill in a superb preface to the Home Letters, "that touch of genius which everyone recognizes and no one can define." but simultaneously it placed its possessor beyond the pale. For, says Churchill...