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RIGHT DRESS!
WINSTON CHUURCHILL chewed hard on his
cigar as he stamped out of the room.
I felt sure he knew he was in the wrong, but he wasn't going to admit it to me.
I had got him ready for an important reception in Nancy, a small French town. I had laid out his morning clothes. In the left lapel of the jacket I had placed the ribbon of his French Medaille Militaire.
As he studied himself in the full-length mirror he suddenly spotted the ribbon.
"You've put it in the wrong lupel,"
he said.
ASSURED him that this decoration is always worn in the LEFT lapel, liké all official decorations.
"It is worn in the RIGHT lapel," he insisted.
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I didn't want my beloved guv'nor to make a bloomer in public so I argued.
the
Is
sir, but "I'm sorry, Medailte Militaire ribbon wern in the left inpel," I said. "And the medal itself is worn on the left breast."
I even told him I had check- ed with the French Embassy.
But Mr Churchill insisted that
1 should change it before he glowered his way out of the room.-
I assumed that be must have got mixed up with a rule about
PANTO IN PARIS
TROUBLE WITH THE
BIPARTISAN HORSE...
MEANS BIG
CHANCE
THE ROLLICKING CLOSE-UP
by WINSTON CHURCHILL'S VALET (Norman
sons of dead Medaillo Militaire-
holders wearing it on the right.
I was worried, because I knew that all the holders of this particular decoration In Nancy had been invited to the recep tion to meet Mr Churchill. What would happen, I wondered?
I suppose I was wearing a smug look when he came back becatise from the reception,
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"Rever mind,Cinders.I'll be
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HIS HATE
Whenerse he was making an important speech, balsisted an weasing his 'chimney-741" bat. '15's my Tucky *) always make my
het,” he told me.
bust speeches when I wear it'
HIS SHIRTS
He were at lumat three a day. He beted the type of drous shirt that butted up the hack. I've seen him sip off thren in e ree because they were too ctidě, He would never let me tla kli bow-tis: Daly HE could tie the perlast double how.
THIS COATS
19 was difficult to keep him looking amart. Ha peckats were always full of match-boxes. À cest be wore at homs was not it for a team. t par his faller In capy it, but he kept to the old one.
CHIS TROUSERS
Never was any man maza particular about trousers. They always had ta be perfectly prested. His sacks had special builtuin suspaudais.
THIS SHOES
No laces-alvoys xlp-jostumeri, and always the same old block pals. He insisted on wouring thats en Bucking hem Palacı, even alter i bought hin new she at £9 91. e psic
siop the noise, of workmen building the stands on Horso Guarda Parade.
My beloved
guy'nor didn't mind so much about noise when
he was not working.
In fact he enjoyed it at, his lovely home, Chartwell, in Kezt, when he decided
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the guy'nor grinned as came into the bedroom.
Ao
"Why don't you go,
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lost my voice for good."
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THE FRENCH FAIRY IS WORD PERFECT
-she
only
has
four
words
HERK
ELINTAND
NO ARMS FOR
TUNIS!"
DAME ADENAUER
VPLETY MILLION POUNDS WIELS GIVE ANAT
DOESN'T
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Etc.
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"We supply the Commander-in-Chief, General Speidel; you supply the army and we'll split the cost-we'll pay Speidel."
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1 Disturbance Harned M
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AND THE
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PATHER sheepishly I "Norman, the French the best diplomats in the world." what had Then he told me happened. "I was introduced to all the holders of the Medaillo Militaire in Nancy," he said. In "They all wore the ribbon the LEFT lapel.
"But before the reception was over they had all discreetly changed it over to the RIGHT lapel for my beneat," he added. We had a similar clash over the Danish award-the Order of the Elephant-which is
one
of his most prized decorations. bluc the bright I told him
from the left zesh was worn shoulder to the right hip.
He insisted that he wanted it the other way round. When he reached the Danish Embassy
omelais in London, took him into an ante-room.
When Mr Churchill, came out
he was wearing the sash on the right hip.
During my four years as his valet, I saw Mr Churchilt in all sorts of moods, but I think the one thing which aroused his onger quicker than anything when he was was any noise working. He just couldn't stand IL
Once he held up preparallons of Trooping for the ceremony
the Colour by sending me out to
TAIKOO
NE day as he looked from
ONE
his study window he said:-- "Norman, I think that little Hin would look better OVER
there."
It was all part of his craze for what he called "changing the scenery."
A few days later a bulldozer arrived and the hill was, gradu- ally shifted.
Mr Churchill loved the-ruar of the machine and the crash- Ing of the trees.
But he would NEVER allow anyone to whistle near him.
Nol even his favourite tune, "Run Rabbit Run."
never
One tune he would listen to was "Keep Right On To The End Of The Road," be- cause it made him so sad.
But the saddest I ever saw Mr Churchill was over an old tramp. The tramp was found In one of the disused form buildings.
Mr Church wouldn't anyone throw him out.
Tel
Then after we had been away arrived for a few weeks, we home to And the old tramp had dled and been given рам- per's burial,
Mr Churchill was so unhappy about this that he wanted.
have him dug up again, given a "proper funeral.""
to
and
I KNOW there is an old saying that no man is a hero to him valci.
BUT MÊ CHURCHILL Was Rich a hero to me that I was DIS. APPOINTED when he WRA knighted. He deserved to be made a duke.
NOW MY GREAT HOPE IS THAT ONE DAY I WILL BE ABLE TO TELL MY FRIENDS: "THE DUKE OF CHARTWELL WAS MY BE LOVED GUV'NOR.""
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