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Away With It On Dec. 24
By Les Armour
London. it is er how the government HE announcement that succeeds in controlling it.
Ifer Majesty's Govern- This kind of thing, of ment will decontrol cold course, could be effectively storage at midnight on De- remedied by a little govern- comber 24 seems to have ment pamphlet entitled: rattled The Times more than "The Where and What of a little.
Cold Storage Another Triumph for Freedom."
"This," records the Old Thunderer solemnly, "is the
But no such pamphlet sort of thing which induces will be published and the a kind of ferment in the trouble is, we suspect, that unbalanced type of the roots of the matter lie sleep and are better left un- disturbed.
more
mind.
Lo
"Wild speculations, tx- travagant And befuddled It is not true, indeed, that visions, present themselves the sort of cold storage the it-N owner's fevered government has in mind is imagination...
the "cold storage" in which the government keeps ita The trouble. The Times plans for potential national alleges, is that the poor il- lisasters or the "cold Informed citizen does not storage"
in which the even know what cold Labour Party keeps all its storage is, let alone
where plots for undoing whatever it is that the government has been doing.
SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE P.M.
S
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Churchill - Truly An Elizabethan
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from ht wat
on the Prant Bench 1. arranged his Cinous
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dispatch s which meyer.
by any chance contains dis- jufches. A frumlly page of approval greeted him and even Neville Chamberlain she had played the tired bull te hure bill's piendur, smiled with pleasure.
It was the year 1939 and the slent. phoney war had
For 10 mg beurt begun.
break years Churchill
I
live. From the ave
when
of 55 to 65 he had been th bilband Tabure of British calizers, the
Prisre Rinert
Was always mounting site new horse and galloping nudly in all directions.
of
itself
at
This picture of Churchill was taken in 1914, whon he was First Lord of the Admiralty.
11's not quite what car walk
He took it in the of 1aneers +2 Onderman,
raped from a prison varup azi the Boer War, he was see 1-
an-commanded
front
hetri the othe etil, at Wo. ston was trapped in the malitille, They called on him to
hiniself up or be riddled whe athugary bullets.
The
Winston sized p The show-
There wi
it tall reaching up nearly to the of the bridge und
11
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Just a chance that with
to
dend.
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1 patie
he could reach petitu fing branch. So he jumped. hest the bronch broke and Winston The ground-stutter!
boys carried him to the Winy. borne house and delivered the body Needless to say ther Wero fèrrifte semes but in the roldst of them Wiresterth covered consciousnexa and W.45 duty scalded by his parents and relatives
Big Drop
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Nel Guest I was reading a
f
JOT long uffer my tols KIẾN
bruk dealing with the happy- ve-tucky period of the reign of Charles II. According to this book Barbara,
Duchver Cleveland.
Was much attracted The young
Ensin Churchbill. She was of The feveurite
the but that did not preven
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Once Upon A Time
Nor is it the American kind of "cold storage" in which, it is believed, bad men are kept for the good of the public. Private enter- prise prisons might be good thing but it is not to be believed that even Sir Waldron Smithers seriously advocates them.
This cold storage is the sort in which eggs and beef,
Patagonia (or wherever frozen straw- Krow they berries) are kept unendingly for the public good.
wars If he were has bloot and strawberries from brother. He pleaded passionate | ly with the Tory rebels to rally behind their Leader. And than he
the Socimist. turned on with fury, denouncing them in terms for their fallure savage
Chamberlain's wor.
to support
time preparations,
Now oner upon a tirne
no cold storage
kind
in Britain.
It was a furious scene. There there was were moments of sheer bedlam of this
Churchill shouted insulis Britons, with their usual over the din of the angry.quiet good gelse, relied raging Socialists. As the hands
to pro-
of the clock moved to ten when upon the weather the vote would be taken it was vide an unending equiva- almost impossible to hear what lent on the national level. Churchill was saying above the noise, but he was cursing the Socialists by book and cundle,
Prime Minister
IN
But some Lime or other someone woke up and said: "The Americans
have cold storage; the Italians have cold storage; it is rumour- ed that the Russians are Bri-
Churchill in the Second World the Division Lobby Cham- planning cold storage.
War when he led the nation to victory as Prime Minister.
opposed Hilter's demands. They never know when they go home at night whether denth waits for them, or that they might John
be klitnapped and taken across curse
the border to Germany. It's the King seine In Rumania und Hungary.
Hitler's claw is reaching every where. These poor fellows walk with denth.
battalion for a time in the 1914 war, he flew 16 Prmace in and tried to ally her minister 4
ister eye wandering to the forceful Young Ensign who was destined im to become the greatest military Kenius the wur-spattered his
Story of England's conflicts,
1940
white the refuge were strim. ing past him and the Germanas were close at hard. And in
problems
in
One day she invite! young streak
vyes
berla'r got a majority but it
was pitifully small, Many of his
him and sat rebelliously in their
supporters refused to vote for
seats while
the rest of IIR
went to record our votes,
Chamberlan
The next day resigned and advised the King to send for Churchill to form a coalition government. Churchill
was at last Prime Minister but
tain lags behind."
A Bit Much
and
So we got cold storage manifested itself in some way which forced the government to (Plausibly because
take it over.
no one could find sumclent use
account
he insisted that Chamberlah for it and it lost money though servative Party and stay in the swear to this...) must remain Leader of the Comwe would not on any
Cabinet.
was
Now it occurs to the govern- A month or so later I
ment that to own cold storage sitting behind Churchill in the plants in a country which would Chamber when the suave,
Liberal Leader.
woa
de
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And nost the reboi had chennai The livery of otlice Lord aga. 164 First
Admiralty I w would be began his precht
for Churchill gives in mense preparation to such an necasion.
"Me Spunker." he said in
Again tear Alle is solemn tones, as it his 8 year he left at the end of a
and he was unashan, ed. There weate listening crowded, earl-break day to y
is an intuitive, almost feminine, in Churchill's character
be more believable wero Twenty-five years ago
Churchill to visit her, but hard- which As to the United States and im-
makes it possible for bonnir
Sir located at the North Pole exchanged I had they
com- His Majesty's First Lord of merve himself in the delente
him to understand the souls of Archibald Sinclair, was speak- in a country without any central the Admiralty sat in my
when, to her horror, of Anglo-American pliments
men whom he did not know or ing It was im-
from the other side. heating to thaw anything, any- misunderstandings.
the King arrived, room and plotted war
not Sinclair possible for the Ensten to make whose language he could
only about ten bow, is a bit much, RC speak.
fect from Churchill us he CX- Who would 9400 agninst Germany.
predleted an axit by the dour so have
he
pressed his relief that et instin that such a man would live to opened the window. There was have
real leader hud superseded the celebrate his 80th bip hday? He a big drop to the ground, 21 passed by, and I find my defled the gods and they were fact too big. But he saw that o
weakling Chamberlain. self holding the same post, humbled. Perhaps they realised
n of branch
big tree was room, Bake themselves, he was an
sible to rench. So sitting in the same
young plotting
immortal.
Churchill made the jump and TT was perhaps because of these war across the
ourlitics this time the branch held. The The motto of the Churchill
that be formed
de- same waters against The
was so grateful that a genuins affection for Nevillo It was not intended for theclded on Christmas Evean family "Brave but Unfortun- Duchess same enemy,"
"Cerininiy Winston Churchill she influenced the King to ad- Chamberinin in the few months press to hear. It was the occasion on which, It hopes, a vance the young man's milllary that Churchill served under him generous mind of a great man sizable proportion of the popula- drank deep of the bitter waters of misfortune. Five mes no fortunes at a pace much swifter in the Arst War Government in speaking words that came from tion will have worked itself into was rejected at the polls.
Let than might have been the case 1030. No two men could have' His heart.
state of preservation without her intervention. Truly been legs alike mentally begrudge those
of stituencies the place they will the motio
the Churchill emotionally but once they were from these two incidents might together in the same Adminis hold in history. Oldham, Mari- chester, Dundee, West Lelee- be "Leap before you look." tration they forgot the feuds) Like the great s'er, end the Abbey Division of
of the past and formed the orator that he is he had Westminster. But as true
highest regard for each other. Parliamentarian Churchill would planted two parallel Sen defend to the last word of his tences which were dramatic vocabulary the right of vo'ers
Twenty.live
years
Then It Came!
Hmused for drumatic
effect.
us not
con-
he
His Generosity
and challenging, and now to throw him out. What would
come sime tremen- thought of their judgment is ONE of the finest attributes in
dous utterance that would quite another matter.
turlea.
remarked,
skil
11 cousin
Furious Scene
Cha
pro
от
Without rising to his feet and almost 159 un anide Churchill quietly said: "Chamberlain is Aner man than I could ever be."
United Tribute
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10
But the fece of Norway early his 80th birthday, we the Lord and Commons, will ir the way, plus the refusal of
gather ot Westminster Hall. the Socialists to serve under that place of history, to present
meant Chamberlain,
that him with a portrait of himself. hour was near, Churchill's
We character of Winston held a two-day's debate on a will forget their differences in Tories, Liberals and Socialists Churchill. Is his generosity of vote of confidence. Foor Cham go rolling down the con- He Jumped
spirit. Like the Elizabethans he berlain was attacked by Attlee; non of tribute. But I pre- is not ashamed of tears when advised in open debate to resignet that in his reply he will his emotions are touched, and by Sir Archibald Sinclair the emotionalise in order Then it came! "Not quite
he has an extraordinary power Liberal Leader; shouted at by a
summon our unmanly tears. what one would expect," he TWENTY add years ago I was
Instood he may say something ep'nding the week-end with of understanding the difficultless nolky salon of his own sup like this: "In my time I have Lionel Guest,
being faced by other men.
porters, culminating in Leg been praised and denounced be It was beautifully done. Churchill's, and he told me th One day, nfjer Munich, Amery's dreadful
yond my deserts, but 3 could It was so right,
of an adventure Chamberlain had made a speech ment: "For God's sake, range story
to not have led the nation ho had shared with Churchill in the House in which he had fully right. He had refused when they were boys,
As the debate reached victory in the wor if I had not There been attacked by several climax Churchill, as First Lord been sustained by a vigorous ta dramatise himself. He was a big week-end party at members of his own party of the Admiralty, rose to wind and Joynt Parifament. Non
When Chamberlain finished the up for Lord Wimborne's country douse had paid the Commons. the but the youthful Winston and House ainiost emptied. I found must have known that Chamed mo'sù splendidly
the Government. He could Patilament have support- compliment of not addres Lionel, and a couple of others, myself walking beside Churchill berlian was doomed and
without that the sacrifices, the courage onit Eng us as a public audience, became bored with the grown in the corridor when a noisy within a day or two be him the Laith of: the ordinary Nor was there even a gug- ups and decided to play group of younger Tories passed self would be mummolled to people of fills, country,” gestion of bitterness about "Indians."
criticising Chamberlain for form a government Un
The So Winston nominated the ten lost years in the as the Indian while the others.
himself all to hear.
Those of us present will feel cialiste, and the... Liberaja had the ghostly presence of those "It's all very well for the intimated that they would be wilderness.
Elizabethana`---`Drake; other The prodigal wero members of the North fellows Churchill aid to me, willing to serve under him in a Hawkb, Howard, Shampoore, son had returned and ho west Mounted Police except "but poor Chamberlain
ebillion government," Joneóry, Bacon,, Raleigh, Garga. tha-Therefore we were certain ih ville, Burleigh. And perhaps the man who has to press Had no words of reproach to that they were not mounted
The Indian was utter..
givon a button. I do not envy Him, his his speech hot would defend ghosts a will be saying to each chance to hide and then the place of this hour."
Chamberfain but would be mees other: "This man was truly in That was frison years ago. those began, There were som And now on November 30 the wild woonce but at last si ment of Czechoslovakia Church lon
After the Munich diamember- fil, noi to nitránge the Oppost. Mligaberhor: kept in the womb t of time, until called by destiny irrepressible... · urchin ožì Beitlich; Indian Was Domared, con. aill was, talking to two or three. But what did he do? Ho to bring strong dra to the Twin- «politica" weliki ke eighty years of suspension bridge that covered of us in the neke rodds, "Tallik fought for Chamberlain the Bath Confurry man, tit, Kabecule not had warpriand a deep gorge Two boga, held of these men who : Haster bein, man who would not five- Lint. Diast it with " the <moduas “ibut The uttered thous suma mes one' and, of khan, beiden, that: third.. malaltars. in Canchoslovakia, and, olion law. Dve yönem
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