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...British, having pulled the rug out from under John Foster Dulles (TIME, May 31), sent Anthony Eden into the void, and praised as "skilled diplomacy" his lunching and dining with the Communists in search of kind words and gentle concessions. Aging Winston Churchill still pined for some grand settlement; his admirers worried that this passion might cause his great career to be darkened in its last days, as Franklin Roosevelt's was by Yalta...
...neighbors' minds that war with Russia was touch & go, and that their only safety for the future lay in joining his ranks. As an added inducement, he let fall almost casually the names of some who had already consented to serve in his presidential Cabinet: Sir Winston Churchill as Minister of War, Britains Lord Nottingham as Foreign Secretary ("Winnie" and "Nottie" to the President) and International Bank President Eugene Black as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and the Queen celebrated by going to the races to root for her brown colt, Landau. Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill cut short a Cabinet meeting so that he and his ministers could join her. Like the British royal family, like Winnie, like England itself, the Derby at Epsom Downs is an old show that still seems always fresh and exciting...
Historians, amateur as well as professional, promptly began to spot gaping holes in Oggi's yarns, which were apparently designed to glorify Mussolini and embarrass the democratic politicians who now govern Italy. The English phrases attributed to Prosemaster Winston Churchill were so wooden that some other newspapers ridiculed them as "Berlitz-learned English." In one letter, "Churchill" referred to himself as Prime Minister at a time when he was still only First Lord of the Admiralty...
Evangelist Billy Graham, at the end of his glory-road revival tour of Greater London (TIME, May 31), dropped in at No. 10 Downing Street for a chat with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Beamed Billy later: "I felt as if I were shaking hands with Mr. History." Meanwhile, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, in a report from London, told its readers how it feels to be Mrs. Billy Graham. Confided Ruth Graham to the Observer's observer: "Just pray for a thick skin and a tender heart. You need it when people just stare coldly and call you a racketeer...