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26 'THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, February 3, 1965 MY DEAR MR. CHURCHILL Sir Winston's Guests Always Put At Ease friends agreed with him. On|these. Once in 1949 when she was large matters of politics or eco-|invited down to Chartwell for tea nomics, he became thoroughly|Churchill not only changed from annoyed if any one slowed down|his zip outfit to a sporty summer his train of thought by raising ob- jections. EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol- lowing is the eighth of a ser- jes of articles taken from the forthcoming book, "My Dear Mr. Churchill', by : Walter Graebner, an American writ- er who was closely associat- with Sir Winston Churchill in the post-war years. suit but actually let her do most of the talking, gazing at her ad- Churchill insisted on the lime-|miringly the while. light on most occasions, but he would sometimes give it up to a at Churchill meals) (Copyright Graebner Literary Tener Mounties Patrol After Clash With Strikers fered a fractured skull. Eightidrivers, garbage collectors and other policemen still were in|construction workers to back the hospital. | their demand for recognition by Governor Lord Martonnmere}the electric light company. HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reut- ers)--Local forces and mounted police were on patrol today in this British island resort after a bloody clash with 200 strikers Tuesday in which 17 policemen were. injured. Police finally used tear gas to disperse the strikers de- manding recognition of their union. : A mass meeting of union members was called for late to- day. Bars were closed after the violence in which the strikers attacked 40 policemen, most of them from Britain. issued a statement saying steps were taken to preserve order|another union began a three- and protect life and property. |day sympathy strike Tuesday. Local forces patrolled the streets with walkie talkies. Tuesday night, six persons were variously charged with _, |besetting the company's prem- The attack took place outside] ises in excess of normal picket- the headquarters of the Ber-|ing, Joitering, assaulting the po- muda Electric Light Company|yce or resisting arrest. One where striking members of the| man was charged with Possess-| UNION MEN PICKET About 160 longshoremen in In the magistrate's court Bermuda Industrial Union were/ing marijuana. picketing. All except the last were re-| ASPIRIN WILL MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER FAST . aaa Aspirin is the Registered Trade Mark of The Bayer Company, Limited, Aurora, Ontario early t woman.| Trust). : The union called a two - day | leased on bail for a later hear- Winston, 'Churchill 'Gena lave fon tent ase al one "a (Tomorrow: No Formality One officer, a Briton, suf- token strike Monday of bus ing. been a slightly terrifying person to meet. What could one talk a- bout to interest such a great man? I have known many dis- tinguished people who, when they went to meet him for the first time, were in excitement and terror, and who in his presence became more like bashful school- boys taking tea with the head- master than self-assured men of the world paying their respects to a famous person. Churchill tried to put his visi- tors at ease. He greeted them in- variably with a broad, kindly smile and a hand outstretched for several seconds as he walked up to them. His clasp was firm and hearty, his words of welcome unfailingly warm. And the fam- ous zip suit he customarily wore (striped worsted for lunch, black velvet for dinner) struck from the beginning that note of infor- mality which would continue throughout the visit. HIS SHOW So a guest of Winston Church- ill could relax, that is, if he were wise enough to let. Churchill dom- inate the proceedings completely, and clever enough to toss back a few stray conversational balls that came his way. For no mat- ter who was there it was always Churchill's show. He it was who decided every topic of conversation and chang- ed it whenever it suited him, skip- ping from subject to subject. Sometimes at dinner he would etart off the talk with his views on Communism. There always followed a bitter denunciation. "The blood of the Communist flows green," he would hiss. Or he might hold forth for half an hour on.a point of history. REACTIONS As Prime Minister, his conver- sation would often take a func-| tional turn: he would seek infor- mation or reactions on matters that might influence government policy. At lunch at Chequers one day, he suddenly stopped all con-| versation by calling to me across! the table: "How many college} graduates are there in the United! States?" I hazarded a guess --| between five and six million. would have thought there were! about fifteen," said Churchill, | "but anyway there are a great| many, and yet the country pro- duces 103 million tons of steel." He was obviously preparing to answer the old fallacy that the more you educate people, the few- er workers you will have and the lower will be your production of| raw materials. He took delight in playing with) whimsical and fantastic ideas. At one lunch he soared off into a| tion on God, the world! and the hereafter. | "I wonder what God thinks of| the things His creatures have in-| vented," he reflected. "Really its) surprising He has allowed it --| but then I suppose He has so many things to think of, not only us, but all His worlds. I wouldn't| have His job for anything. Mine| ts hard enough, but His is much more difficult. And -- umph -- He can't even resign. oe ae AC Se ie am : , PREDRESSED GRADE 'A' 'ou know, most people are REx. ty i 6 TO 10 LBS. going to be very surprised when they get to Heaven. They are look- ing forward to meeting fascinat- ing people like Napoleon and Jul- jus Caesar. But they'll probably never even be able to find them, because there will be so many| millions of other people there too) --Indians and Chinamen and peo-| ple like that. Every one will have| equal rights in Heaven. That will be the real Welfare State." Any chance remark might call forth an aphorism which one could|' see slowly taking shape in his mind. "I have a remedy for wor- ries that always works," he said on one occasion. "Never let one worry, no matter how great, be in your mind all alone. It will drive you mad. Give it company, preferably something smaller, and write it down on a piece of paper. Then you will spend some time thinking about the second worry, and the first one will grad- ually diminish," Sometimes he would break out ' into song, usually at Mrs. Church- C ill's prompting. Mostly it was an old army or school song that he had learned many years before, and he would sing it desperately off-key in a hoarse bass voice. POETRY PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL! PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL! Sometimes, he would suddenly ROYAL BRAND SHOPSY'S ¢ use RINDLESS SIDE BACON. G9° ALL BEEF FRANKFURTERS 49° He had an incredible memory -- one of the reasons for his genius -- and if something reminded him of Tennyson it was nothing for him to recite a hundred lines or more of "'Lockesley Hall', I remember one luncheon where for a good ten minutes he repeat- ed passages from Siegfried Sas- soon"s war poems. At the end his eyes were filled with tears. Poetry moved him deeply, as} did any stirring or tragic tale.| And it was an extraordinary and deeply impressive sight to see the old man quietly weeping into his pudding while the guests looked on, somehow not a bit abashed, and Mrs. Churchill, at her end of the table, quietl; took up a new line of conversation. Mr. Churchill did not like con- versational competition of any GARDEN FRESH FROM CALIFORNIA! No. 1 GRADE! CRISP & SOLID! HEAD LETTUCE... FLORIDA'S FINEST! MARSHSEEDLESS! SWEET AND JUICY! 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