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Once he had roared like an angry lion against delay and the deluded talkers of Munich. But last week an older Winston Churchill did nothing to quell Labor's feet-dragging rebels or to give urgency to his Foreign Secretary's plea for action. True, he sturdily supported German rearmament ("It astonished me that anyone can imagine the mighty, buoyant German race being relegated to a kind of no man's land in Europe and a sort of leper status at the mercy, and remaining at the mercy, of Soviet invasion"), but he weakened the case...
...Winston had not absorbed the lesson of Berlin either. Few, he admitted, ask any longer (as he himself did last May) whether Soviet policy has changed since Stalin's death. But he professed to find Berlin "a very remarkable conference," which "restored the reputation of such meetings." Said he: "Further meetings between those concerned are in no way prevented. One meeting which seemed hopelessly barred has been fixed . . . the meeting in high level conference of Communist China...
...Winston, beguiled by an old man's dream of arranging the world's affairs in time of peace as he had done in war, had done no good to his government's case, or to its allies. What his own personal case really was, whether it grew out of a senescent's dream or nostalgia or hard thinking, no one seemed to know...
...came out of their strongholds to fight in the open. They first raided the white man's clubhouse at Thika, 34 miles northeast of Nairobi. They dragged out the African barman and slashed him to bits with their sharp pangas; they tore up a picture of Sir Winston Churchill, downed all the mineral water in the bar, and made off towards the police post at Kandara, 16 miles away. At 9:30 a.m. they confidently attacked the post in bright sunshine−but the British were ready and waiting. A relieving column of the King's African Rifles...
...palms last week as the winter tourist season hit its peak. After a slow start, hotels and motels throughout Florida were filling up. In Miami Beach, guest lists lengthened with the names of Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Arden, Senator John Bricker. Sixty-four miles north, at Palm Beach, the Winston Guests, the Joseph Kennedys and the Duke of Windsor went off to the Polo Ball at the Boca Raton Club, where polo ponies in special stalls were the guests of honor. At Winter Haven's famed Cypress Gardens, about 6.000 people paid $2 apiece for entertainment on a somewhat simpler...