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...Winston Churchill once asked Stalin how many had been "blotted out or displaced forever." The Russian's reply as recorded in Churchill's memoirs: " 'Ten million,' he said, holding up his hands. 'It was fearful. Four years it lasted . . . It was all very bad and difficult-but necessary...
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...little more than two years of power, Sir Winston Churchill has led Britain from the edge of bankruptcy to an upward slope. Pledged to free Britain of her Socialist shackles, the Tories have ended a lot of controls. Britain's gold and dollar reserves are up; rationing is all but ended, and in the shops there is meat for all. But taxes are still so high as to discourage initiative, and Britain's economy is still essentially planned and subsidized. And its cost of living has gone steadily up. There is a new form of rationing...
...Taft, telling him haughtily in a session of the Senate Banking Committee that a certain monetary matter was beyond Taft's "knowledge and competence." He was telling big people what to do: he bullied Lord Keynes, the famed British economist. As a result of White's maneuvering, Winston Churchill unhappily put his "W.S.C." on a plan for postwar Europe which, if it had been carried out, might have resulted in the domination of Europe by Russia. He built a sort of substitute State Department in the U.S. Treasury. His influence on U.S. policy was massive, and while...
...Winston himself was not around to hear the Queen speak his words. He was home in bed working on a speech of his own, a far more orotund affair (see INTERNATIONAL) than the brief, ten-minute address he had given his sovereign. Both speeches reflected the same Churchillian hope: to keep the Tory government in command for its full term. "We were elected [in 1951] for a five-year period under what is called the Quinquennial Act," Churchill told the House of Commons that afternoon, rolling his tongue happily over the long, Latinate word. As outlined by the Queen...