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1940s: Winston Churchill
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
PEOPLE
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Winston Churchill
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<p>(September 30, 1940)
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<p> Winston Churchill is tough. The first important thing he does
when he is awakened at 7:15 every morning is light a cigar. His
mind requires and retains whole libraries of facts. His spirit
loves good food, good drink, pretty and witty women. His body
tolerates terrific burdens. He wears out whole squads of
secretaries. He talks down platoons of men who have hated and
now love him. He is no umbrella-fancier, and he carries a cane
not to support his 65-year-old body but to prod, strike and
point with. He is persistent. The way he got the unwilling Lord
Beaverbrook into his Cabinet was to call him up every two hours,
day and night, for 36 hours. He knows no fear. During air raids
he often rushes into the gardens of No. 10 with no protection
but a "battle bowler." He loves life and liberty so much that
he has nearly killed and thoroughly enslaved himself a hundred
times over in the past six months.
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<p> Winston Churchill represents the elite of Britain's past, the
humble of her present. He is descended from a long line of
aristocratic leaders, but he is the son of a younger son.
Descendant of the first Duke of Marlborough, who commanded at
Blenheim and Malplaquet, grandson of a New York City
newspaperman, he sums up two Britains, both of which are in the
present war up to the hilt: the Britain of military aristocracy
and that of the people who, like Churchill, have difficulty
pronouncing a letter--theirs is h. He could, if he wanted, wear
his old school (Harrow) tie; instead he wears a cocky, defiant
bow. He is a Tory, an imperialist, and has been a strike-breaker
and Red-baiter; and yet, when he tours the gutted slums of
London, old women say: "God bless you, Winnie."</p>
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