Word: winterton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...block were about $200,000 worth of paintings, including items from the collections of Lord Halifax, Lord Winterton and the estate of the late Lord Rothermere. As usual, Sir Alec Martin, the 63-year-old managing director of Christie's, conducted the auction himself. Last week, the sale ended, he was able to report that Christie's had all but wound up one of its busiest years since...
Vanguard tanks of the Red Army were less than 40 miles from Berlin. But chicken-counting optimists got a sober reminder at week's end from smart Paul Winterton, Moscow correspondent of the London News Chronicle, who cabled...
...leading the famous attempt to rescue Winston Churchill from the death cell at Brixton Prison], had come back from the Welsh hills. . . . Megan Lloyd George [daughter of David Lloyd George], La Pasionaria of the British resistance movement . . . was in her place, and by her side sat the aged Lord Winterton, who had organized and conducted the resistance movement among the ruins of London for three years...
...Government in Exile. The reply to a speech by Chamberlain, conveniently resurrected, was given by Lord Winterton, "supported by disorderly cheers and a playful shot toward the ceiling by an enthusiastic resister." Said he: "He [Chamberlain] has spent the last five years in Ottawa and Washington. We have heard his voice on the BBC. It was indeed a voice from afar! I rise to say with respect that his speech shows he is just a little out of touch with public opinion here (cheers and shots from the galleries). . , . We must now entrust to untired minds and fresh bodies...
Tongue in cheek, Moscow Correspondent Paul Winterton cabled London's News Chronicle: "With that spontaneity which is such a happy feature of the Persians at their best, 20,000 people demonstrated in the streets of Teheran, called for the resignation of the Said Government." There were other demonstrations in the northern section of Iran, occupied by the Red Army since...