Churchill Said the Things That
England Felt But Couldn’t Express
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON W*—Sir Winston
Churchill, aggressive and so self
confident he can compose a book
by dictating it, had a lonely life
while growing up. Perhaps it was
that loneliness that shaped and
strengthened him.
I may be explained to some de
gree why, in a hunt for recogni
tion and identity, he asserted him
self so belligerently the rest of his
life, even when it meant making
mortal enemies in his own Eng
land.
But he was also a romantic and
remained one. It was no wonder
when he was nine and his father
gave him Stevenson’s “Treasure
Island” to read he “devoured it
with delight.”
Ever since he has been a kind of
young Jim Hawkins fighting for
the treasure against the Long John
Silvers of the world.
His parents, Lord Randolph
Churchill and his mother, Jennie
Jerome of New York, shipped him
off to boarding school when he
was seven. He stayed in schools,
one after another, until he went
into the cavalry at 21.
He himself says his nurse, a fat
and elderly lady named Mrs. Ev
erest, was his “dearest and most
intimate friend” during the years
of his growing up. He stayed with
her when she was dying. His father
he worshipped but hardly knew.
Churchill was 21 when his father
died. In those 21 years Lord Ran
dolph, a self-centered man and a
failure in British politics, had per
haps not as many as six extended
conversations with his son, not as
much as a weekend of talking.
And Churchill didn’t get to
know his mother well until after
his father’s death. But a turning
point came in his life one day
when he was 12, playing with his
1,500 lead soldiers on a big table
in his room.
For 20 minutes his father watch
ed with a smile and, still smiling,
suggested he go into the army
when he grew up. Churchill did.
He thought at the time his father
had visions of military splender
for him.
Later, from some one else,
Churchill learned his father’s real
reason for suggesting the army.
Lord Randolph thought his son was
too stupid to be a lawyer and
even wondered if he could make
his way in England at all.
He wasn’t the only one who
thought Churchill stupid. He was
at the bottom of his class in school.
He couldn’t learn Latin, Greek or
mathematics. He couldn’t learn
what interested him, he said, and
he didn’t.
Even when he got out of mili
tary school he had to go into the
cavalry because his marks weren’t
good enough for the infantry. For
anyone like him a university was
unthinkable.
Pet, somewhow he developed a
love for the English language,
which returned his affection. In
addition, he had those two price
less commodities of genius: a pro
digious memory and unbelievable
energy.
When he was the lowest boy in
the lowest class at Harrow he won
a prize open to the w(hole school
by reciting 1.200 lines of Mac
Auley’s Lays of Ancient Rome
without, as he says, “making a
single mistake.”
The energy persisted into his old
age. While President Franklin D.
Roosevelt died at 63, worn out,
Churchill didn’t become Britain’s
prime minister and war leader un
til he was 65. He set a blinding
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pace for five years and then, at
76, became prime minister again.
From being the low boy in
school he went on to write more
than 30 books, including histories
of both world wars, win a Nobel
Prize for literature, end become
both the greatest orator of the cen
tury and one of the great figures
of history.
But it was a long struggle, dis
heartening for long stretches,
which seemed to reveal the scars
of loneliness.
He wasn’t popular in school, in
society, or in the army because he
was too brash, often too brassy,
too free with advice and criticism.
It was the same in British pol
itics Virginia Cowles, who has
written an excellent biography of
Churchill, said of his long career
in Parliament: “No man has been
more bitterly hated in his time”
He chopped his opponents to
hash. He defied his political lead
ers and popular opinion. He was
always talking — opinions, advice,
criticism—and never shut up.
He irritated his own conserva
tive party so much there were
times when he got up to talk
that the Conservatives walked out.
Yet, in the moments of his
country’s greatest crisis it was his
voice—Harry Hopkins, Roosevelt’s
right - hand man, called it a
“mushy” voice—the British people
most wanted to hear.
He said all the things—like in
“In defeat, defiance” — they felt
but couldn’t express. He himself
explained it later: “It was the na
tion that had the lion’s heart. I
had the luck to be called to give
the roar.”
Armed Services Committee
Votes $400 Million Slash
For Military Hardware
WASHINGTON (JPi — The Sen
ate Armed Services Committee
voted a surprising slash of more
than $400 million yesterday in
President Kennedy’s request for
$15.3 billions for new aircraft,
missiles and other military hard
ware.
Chairman Richard Russell, (D
Ga.), said the economy move —
if approved later by the Senate —
would mean a reduction of some
$905 million in the authorization
previously approved by the House.
“This is a very modest reduc
tion in the numbers of aircraft,
missiles, spare parts for them and
research and development,” Rus
sell told newsmen after the
closed door session.
“It is a stretch-out in our cold
war buying program,” he added.
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Are Campaign Issues In
Canada’s National Election
TORONTO UP) — The Pentagon,
Wall Street and Madison Avenue
are campaign issues in the final
week before Canada’s national el
ection.
The controversy over United
States nuclear warheads which
helped topple Prime Minister John
Diefenbaker's Conservative gov
erment and force the April 8 el
ections draws most of the fire '
from Difenbaker and Liberal
leader Lester Pearson. ‘
New Democratic leader T. C.
Douglas introduced Wall Street
and Madison Avenue into the
campaign.
He charged in Moncton, N. B.,
that Canadian subsidiaries of U.S.
corporations have made big dona- :
tions to the Liberal party cam
paign The money, he said, fin- 1
anced “Madison Avenue gimmicks \
like the truth squad and coloring ]
books and the like’’ that are in
sulting to the Canadian people. i
Diefenbaker again defended h;s J
rejection of U.S. nuclear warheads ]
for the Bomarc missiles by telling 1
a Montreal audience U.S. Defense 1
Secretary McNamara doubts the 1
Bomarc’s value. 1
Diefenbaker said McNamara told
a U.S. congressional committee 13
Bomarc bases would draw enemy
missiles of war came.
“What happens to you when the
Russians waste missiles on the
Bomarcs?” Diefenbaker asked.
Pearson, speaking in Winnipeg,
had some questions for Diefen
baker.
“Does he believe we should
scrap the Early Warning System
because it is an important target?
That we should have no defense
arms at all because they will be
targets? That we should make no
contribution at all to collective
defense?’’
Iraq Won’t Participate
In 1964 Olympic Games
LAUSANNE, Switzerland Uft —
Iraq announced its withdrawal
from next year’s Tokyo Olympic
games yesterday as a protest
against the exclusion of Indonesia.
The Iraq Olympic Committee
fromally notified Otto Mayer,
Chancellor of the International
Olympic Committee, that it had
decided to withdraw from the
Tokyo games “as an expression of
solidarity with Indonesia.”
The IOC Executive Board on
Feb. 7 excluded Indonesia from
the Olympic games for an inde
finite period for having barred
Israel and Nationalist China from
the fourth Asian games in Jakarta
last year.
Largest Squad Ever
NEW YORK UP) — The largest
squad of athletes ever assembled
for foreign competition — 372 men
and women — will represent the
United States in the Pan-American
Games in Brazil this year.
The U.S. Olympic selection com
mittee announced yesterday that
the squad will be made up of 279
men and 93 women in 21 sports
classifications which make up the
games, scheduled at Sao Paulo
April 20-May 5.
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Gen. LeMay Says U.S.
Could Build Anti-Satellite
WASHINGTON W—Gen. Curtis
LeMay believes the United States
could build an anti-satellite right
now that could be sent up into
space to bring down a hostile,
weapon-carrying satellite.
But the Air Force Chief of Staff
says the idea for this defensive
system is only in the study stage,
that “it is not a full-fledged pro
gram.”
LeMay’s views of space war
were given last month to the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee. A
censored version of the testimony
was released Thursday.
Sen. Strom Turmond, <D-S.C.),
asked LeMay whether the Soviet
Union had demonstrated a ca
pability for satellite interception
and if so what were the military
implications.
The air chief replied by recall
ing the simultaneous flight of two
Soviet astronauts last year. The re
ported proximity of their satel
lites indicates a technical capa
bility for rendezvous, LeMay said.
He added that “his capability could
be used in a number of ways,” but
at this point portions of his an
swer were deleted by censors.
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Drops 5.6 Pet. in March
WASHINGTON W—1The season
ally adjusted unemployment rate
dropped in March to 5.6 per cent
[ of the work force. It was the big
gest monthly drop in more than
four years.
The Labor Department reported
reported yesterday there were sub
stantial and extra- seasonal de
clines in unemployment and in
creases in employment for March.
The unemployment total drop
ped from 4,918,000 in February to
4,501,000 in March, a decline of
417,000. There is usually little un
employment change at this time
of the year. The idle total is 119,
000 higher than a year ago, how
ever.
Employment rose by 790,000,
moving from 66,358,000 in Febru
ary to 67,148,000 in March. This
is about 800,000 higher than a
year earlier. Last month’s job total
is a new record for March.
Practically all the March de
cline in unemployment was in
adult men and women looking for
full time work.
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