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THE OSHAWA TIMES, Monday, Januery 25, 1965 »'\slammed their doors when he le ¢ ROG LAT he CHURCHILL AT CHARTWELL Days As Elder Statesman /\spent his life in search of rec- Z\ognition, first by trying to at- | and influencing people, he was ? | motives. Eloquence, Leadership Rooted By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst Sir Winston Churchill was doused in the English language because his teachers thought he was stupid and English was all he was fit for. It turned out to be a good fit. : His father, Lord Randolph, an erratic man, thought he was stupid, too. His parents, strangely indifferent about him, kept him in boarding schools from the time he was seven un- til he was 21. No wonder, gard and_ this with this disre- loneliness, he tract attention then by trying to be in charge. Since this is not the pre- scribed way for winning friends unpopular in school, in the army, and in politics, where his own Conservatives: distrusted his judgment and suspected his Even his _ fellow-aristocrats jattacked the privileges of the jrich. If he had died before he |political failure,- hardly more In School Days made him in just five years one He read eight volumes of Ed- 'MY DEAR MR. CHURCHILL' of the shining figures of history. All this had its roots in his school days. He wasn't dumb, He said years later: '"'Where my reason or my imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or could not learn. I should have liked to be asked what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know." Not long ago a British scien- tist, C. P. Snow, said Churchill must have had an IQ as high as anyone could wish. But his teachers thought he was one of the slow ones. They let the bright boys cut their teeth on Latin and Greek but they put the slow ones in the lowest grades and drilled them in English. And this Churchill loved. Looking back at 51, he wrote: "Even as a schoolboy I ques- tioned the aptness of the clas- sics for the prime structure of our education. So they told me how Mr. Gladstone (prime min- ister when Churchill was grow- ing up) read Homer for fun, which I thought served him jright."' was 65, he would have been a} EDUCATES HIMSELF ward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England, and went on from there. patterned himself after Gibbon, as he showed in what he wrote later, and it was a lot: books, including a history of the English - speaking peoples and histories of the two world wars. He finished at 82. By the use of the "of" clause --like "of mankind"--and of adjectives that flashed or smouldered, the two men could turn the language into thunder over Mt.. Sinai. USED SAME STYLE With Churchill, as with Gib- bon, nouns and adjectives, hand in hand, tripped down the pages like a bridal pair in splendid ceremony. But all of Churchill's reading} and memorizing would not have; been enough to make him re- membered as a writer without something else: He had an artist's glistening Churchill, consciously or not, |, SIR WINSTON Commons Man British PMs sense of life and a romantic's: sense of drama, plus a special ear for the language. He could| Remember Times Publishes Special Articles Following is the first of a series of 12 articles taken from the forthcoming book "My Dear Mr. Churchill', by Walter Graebner, 'an American writer who was closely associated with Mr. -- tater Sir Winston -- the post-war Churchill in years. About a month after the Brit- ish general election of 1945 I had my first appointment with Mr. Churchill, and the meeting marked the 'beginning of a long association which brought me into his company as often, prob- ably, as any one outside his family, immediate staff and governmental colleagues. I had been asked by the edi- tors, of Life magazine to ap- proach Churchill. about writing a series of three articles. I wrote him a short letter and received a courteous but nega- tive reply from his secretary. One day some time later Churchill offered for $25,000 the reproduction rights to the paint- ings he had made on holiday.| Devoted Cast In Key Roles By EDDY GILMORE Friends his outward calm in handling 'LONDON (AP)--If Hollywood|the public and the scores of re- had picked two men to play the|Porters and photographers re- doctor and the bodyguard in the/cording the Churchill story. Churchill story, it could not have picked more perfectly than two devoted friends of Sir Win- ston. One is Lord Moran, 82, Sir 'Winston's frail, white - haired physician. The other is Sgt. Edmund Murray, 48, the Scotland Yard Perhaps no man has spent more time with Churchill since he became his bodyguard 15 jyears ago. | Perhaps no man know's Churchill so intimately, for he has been his real shadow. | Murray, like his master, 'has jeven learned to paint. And he's not bad, either. jthan a footnote in history. | But for five years, from 65 to \70, he was put in charge of the war against Hitler. This was enough. His desire to prevail paid off handsomely for him, ;England and most of the world. | |ELOQUENCE HELPED make a phrase look as happy as His grades weren't good a puppy with a porkchop. enough to get him into college. He went into the army. But, at} Some times his sentences 22, he felt he was a social, po-|sound as wistful as the wheels litical and historical boob. He|o a wagon-train or as robust decided to educate himself. (as platoon with drums. in a "It was a curious education," |shuiiered street at three in the he wrote, "first, because I ap-|morning. proached it with an empty, hun-| His teachers, who thought It was his eloquence, just as much as his leadership, that gry mind, and with fairly strong|they had scrutinized his mind, jaws, and what I got, I bit."|forgot to examine his ears, Tron Curtain Warning Issued At Tiny College By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL | around them live in the Soviet})memorial to Churchill--a war- removed |It was agreed that I would com- |municate with my editors. Be- fore leaving I congratulated him on the excellence of his pictures, expressing surprise that he 'Colleague \By GEOFFREY WHITEHEAD | LONDON (Reuters) -- Prime could find the time to take up painting on top of all his other) work. Behind an enormous grin! he murmured: ' |Minister Wilson, 48, led four former British prime ministers Sunday in paying warm trib- jutes to Sir Winston Churchill as a statesman and war leader. Wilson, first Labor party "Genius has) many outlets." Arrangements were made to ' : 'Y! publish the pictures, and their }prime minister since Churchil appearance helped to intensify jled the Conservative party tO/the interest in amateur painting victory over Clement (nOW|which was then beginning to Earl) Attlee's Labor adminis-'capture the United States. tration in 1951, said: | | "He will be mourned all over} BEDROOM-OFFICE \the world by all who owe so| 4 month or so afterward, I much to.him |was asked to go one morning to | "He is be at peace after Ph re gare ag Pegg one HN tie Ps |the town house of the Church- je pad My Nig aeenines ills. Sawyers, the valet, showed lee long as histéry is read." ane eens OF See ee 135 fs 'and intoned: 'Mr. Graebner, Ear] Attlee himself, who atjsir." I saw propped up in a huge of all kinds had been flying around London about his health, so I did not know quite what to expect as I waited with two other luncheon guests for him to enter the drawing: room to greet us. At 11.30 he shuffled in, perhaps a little less sure- footed than usual, but otherwise gay. He was wearing one of his zip or siren suits, a grayish blue flannel with a pin stripe. A minute or two later we went to lunch, As he poured champagne into my glass he said: 'My illness, though it should have been mor- tal, never prevented me from) having a square meal and a pint' of champagne to go with it." Later he said that for a time he had lost the use of both legs, and that one arm was partially paralyzed. } APPEARANCE CONCERN | He was anxious to know how I thought he appeared, and when I told him that I couldn't! ed pleased and boasted proudly: | "This decaying carcass can still] bring fame to anything, so as it's not overworked." He | particularly worried about speech, which had developed a slight huskiness. "I Will decide in the next few weeks whe- ther to stay on the job or not,"* he announced. In the late afternoon he asked me to go with him for a walk in the gardens. Though it was then 5 o'clock and the afternoon was getting cold and o there were 40 or 50. standing on a little hillock out- side the gates waiting to catch a glimpse of the great man as he emerged. They cheered loudly, and Churchill responded with the familiar broad smile and V Sign. Churchill thought aloud about the future. "I must be sure that I can master the House of Commons. I'm not wor- ried about anything else, but if I can't master the House 1 must not go on." (Tmorrow: How Churchill jdetect any big change he seem-jorganized his day.) (Copyright Graebner Literary Trust). Canadian Leaders Pay High By THE CANADIAN PRESS Premiers of the provinces and other prominent Canadians join- ed in paying tribute Sunday to) Sir Winston Churchill, Britain's! wartime prime minister, who} bmg in London earlier in the ay. John Diefenbaker, Progres- sive Conservative leader: "He was a faithful servant. of the Crown. He served. his country. He was never exalted in vic- Tributes did in years past and the lead- ership he once gave still have a profound effect on decisions of the day." E. C. Manning, premier of AJ- berta: "His courage, faith and rey mg became a ight for all men everywhere who cherished freedom." J. Percy Page, lieutenant-gov- ernor of Alberta: Sir Winston was the outstanding and dy- detective who has been Church-| FULTON. Mo. (AP) -- Win-|Sphere and all are subject in}damaged church, ill's bodyguard for 15 years. Lord Moran, only eight years younger than his patient, is the namic political personality of the 20th century and he was "a great bulwark in Britain's time \of stress." tory; he was never daunted in defeat. He remained through life the defender of freedom." lade ten eedee Chacrall % ston Churchill was a deposed|one form or another, not only|stone-by-stone from its site in|82 now is Britain's oldest living|bed the figure of Mr. Churchill lowed to touch his precious|prime minister, robbed of the cigars. lfruits of wartime victory, when to Soviet .influence but to aLondon and restored here as ajformer prime minister and who| wrapped up in a Chinese dress- lvery high and increasing meas-|non-sectarian chapel. Truman'served as Churchill's deputy injing gown. "Good morning,"' he the wartime coalition, said: personification of the family doctor -- kindly, wise; seldom flustered, reassuring. Ed Murray is a big, broad- shouldered plainclothes man who wears large shoes and a derby hat. But the bulge be- neath his shoulder is not a gun, it's his pipe in an inside coat "Ed not only likes a cigar,"'| Churchill once said, "he re-| spects it." | IS LIFELONG FRIEND | Moran has been Churchill's) lifelong friend and physician. He must have saved Churchill's) life several times. | ket. | Around the clock both have) beer on call. | | STANDS GUARD 'Since last Friday when Churchill was stricken, Murray) has stood for 18 hours of every! 24 outside the front door of Churchill's home at 28 Hyde Park Gate. | Like Moran, he has never lost} In Carthage in 1943, he pulled Churchill through a desperate case of pneumonia alone except) for a bodyguard. | With Churchill during _ the} war, he flew more than 140,000) miles. In the First World War,| Moran won the Military Cross} and the Italian Silver Medal for) bravery. He was mentioned) twice in dispatches for courage. | | MEDICAL BULLETINS NOTED | COURSE OF FATAL ILLNESS | LONDON (AP)--Here are the medical bulletins that reported twice daily the progression of the fatal illness of Sir Winston Churchill: Friday, Jan. 15 Afternoon--After a cold, Sir Winston has developed a cir- culatory weakness and there thas been a cerebral throm- bosis. Evening--There has been little change in Sir Winston's condition during the day. He is slipping into deeper sleep and is not conscious of pain or discomfort~ ' Saturday, Jan. 16 Midday--A peaceful night, ho material change. Evening--Sir Winston is a little weaker but he has slept peacefully throughout the day. Sunday, Jan. 17 Midday----Sir Winston had a peaceful night but has had a wather restless morning. 'There has been some irregu- larity of pulse Evening--After a_ restless start Sir Winston had a peace- ful day but has Jost ground. Monday, Jan. 18 Midday--Sir Winston had a restful night. He is a little weaker. Evening--A peaceful no change. Tuesday, Jan. 19 Morning--Sir Winston has | had a very restless night and | his condition has deteriorated. | Midday--No further deterio- | ration | Evening -- No appreciable | change | Wednesday, Jan. 20 Midday -- The restlessness has gone and Sir Winston has | slept peacefully through hte night and morning Evening--The weakness of circulation is more marked. Thursday, Jan. 21 Midday and Evening -- no change Friday, Jan. 22 Midday--No change Evening--Sir Winston had a restful day but there has been some deterioration in his . condition Saturday, Jan, 23 day, | Midday--No change ! Evening--Sir Winston's de- terioration was more marked. Sunday, Jan. 24 8:35 a.m.--Shortly after 8 o'clock this morning, Sunday, January 2, Sir Winston Churchill died at his London home. Element Of Dual Heredity Gave Ease With Americans LONDON (AP)--Sir Winston)Americans throughout his Jong little Westminster College gave) him a pulpit from which to voice his concern about "thel Iron Curtain (that) has scended across the Continent."| Churchill and his Conserva-| tive government had been dis- carded nine months before in Britain's first general .election) in a decade.. Clement Attlee| and his Labor government re-| placed them. Churchill had be-| come an observer. rather than) a participant in world affairs.) Dr. Franc L. McCluer, pres-| ident of Westminster College, | wrote Churchill in the fall of! 1945, inviting him to deliver) the annual John Findley Green| lecture the following March.) McCluer asked a fellow Mis-| sourian, President Harry S.| Truman, to endorse the invita-| tion. . | "President Truman wrote| what amounted to an invitation to him at the bottom of my letter and assured Ch would accompany and duce him if he should accept, says McCluer, now president of Lindenwood College in St. Charles, Mo On March 5, 1946 | panied. by Truman, Churchill} came to Jefferson City, the Missouri state capital, and rode} in a motorcade to Fulton, a) city of 10,000 people ' 30,000 WANTED SEATS The gymnasium where) intro- accom- \Churchill was to speak had ajrecommended that Pearson do capacity of 2,600 people, There} were requests for 30,000 seats.| From. loudspeakers al! over| the city -- in movie theatres,| parks and on Westminster} campus -- boomed Churchill's) voice "What," he asked, "is the over-all strategic concept which we should inscribe today? It is nothing less than the safety and welfare, the freedom and progress of all the homes and families of all the men and) women in all the lands... . "To give security to these countless homes, they must be} shielded from the two gaunt! marauders--war and tyranny.' For half his speech Churchill} continued in that vein. Then he said "Now, while still pursuing the; method of realizing our over-| all strategic concept, I come to the crux of what I have trav-| elled here to say. Neither the} sure prevention of war, nor the) continuous rise of world organ-! ization will be gained without what I have called the fraternal ister Pearson says urchill he|Canadian ambassador to |United States, he helped revise|Churchill was somewhat ure of contro! from Moscow." and McCluer attended the cere- Chuhrcill warned of the build-|/ mony. up of the power of the Commu-| At Westminster College Sun- ern states of Europe "to pre-jbabies when Churchill sounded eminence and power far beyond|his alarm over the Communist their numbers and are seeking/shadow '"'that falls upon the ute to the British statesman After the speech, Churchill) The memorial service was Truman, and Governor Phil M.jheld in the same gymnasium), work with people of differ-| Donnelly went to the McCluerjwhere Churchill! made the home where they received 58|/speech parents who had lost sons in| A bronze Jacob Epstein bust the war of Churchill and a large por- Ground was turned last year|trait glowered from the _plat- at the college for an unusualiform during the service. Pearson Helped Modify, Revise Famous Speech At Fulton By HAROLD MORRISON as the dominant personality of LONDON (CP)--Prime Min-|this century and said "we shal] that, as|not see his like again." the| But he suggested that 'tia and modify Winston Churchill's| comfortable" with the way the famous speech at Fulton, Mo.,;Commonwealth had developed in 1946. in post - war years, especially Churchill, in 'that speech,|with the inclusion of the new coined his widely quoted "Iron| members from Asia and Africa. Curtain" phrase Churchill would rather have Pearson, paying tribute toj|had the Commonwealth devel- the great war leader, said in/oping in the image of the old a BBC television inter view/|British Empire broadcast Sunday that Church-| Churchill "accepted" the ill wanted the late prim emin-|emerging pattern because he ister Mackenzie King to go over|was "'realistic,"' said Pearson, the speech and Mackenzie King|though he was sure the British leader would not have chosen the job in Washington. the pattern as his concept of Pearson said he was ushered|the future of the Common- into Churchill's presence and) wealth found him lying in bed. Church-| Indeed, at one Ottawa meet- ill had a cigar in his mouth andjing, Churchill said "something a Scotch whisky by his side. {about color'? which he later Churchill glared and growled|realized he had expressed im- at Pearson, who took fright and/perfectly, Pearson related. So urged that he be allowed tojlater, Churchill went up to the take the speech manuscript|Indian high commissioner and away for scrutiny elsewhere. |suggested that, when the high After looking over the manu-|commissioner wrote Prime Min- script, Pearson recommended|jister Jawaharlal Nehru, he that the introduction, which re-|should convey Churchill's view ferred to the U.S, Civil War in|that Nehru was one of the a manner that favored the| world's great contemporary North, be revised. because the|figures because he .had con- speech was being delivered in|quered prejudice and fear. Missouri, which had sentiments} That seemed to please the with the South jhigh commissioner, Pearson Pearson described Churchill'said. Grandson Exhibits Signs Of Similar Vigorous Traits LONDON (AP) ~-- Another} In 1959, on vacation in Amer-| Churchill knew and understood) life. Never did this rapport ay | association of the English-|Winston Churchill shows signs|ica from Oxford University, he! Americans and Americans un-|a more significant role than in| derstood him, He was their sortithe early days of the Second of Briton. World War. It was often said that had) The emergence of Churchill) Churchill been U.S.-born, hejas prime minister on May 10, one day would have become/1940 brought an immediate president. For Americans sawjhardening of U.S. support for) in his courage, pugnacity and/the British. | mastery of the spoken word all! Churchill, in one of his his- the qualities they admired injtoric wartime broadcasts, told! their political leaders. the U.S.: "Put your confidence! As it was, Churchill was halfjin us. Give us your faith and) American and became on April/your blessing and under provi- 9, 1963 an honorary U.S. citizen|dence all will be well give speaking peoples. . "A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by! the Allied victory. Nobody! knows what Soviet Russia and| its Communist 'international or- ganization intends to do in the| jimmediate future or what are|ton's son, Randolph. the limits, if any to their ex- pansive and proselytizing ten- dencies. . . | STATES FACTS "We understand the Russian) of the same vigorous mixture|worked for two months with the of adventurous journalism and/Wall Street Journal, partly on| political engagement. |the copy desk and partly as a) The younger Churchill is Sir)Writer, | | Winston's grandson, named) One of his editors there de-' Winston Spencer like his grand-|scribed him as an enthusiastic) father. His father is Sir Wins-|worker and talented writer. | Young Winston, a qualified) Young Winston is 24 and al-|pilot, has flown the Atlantic in ready making a career as a free-|a light plane lance writer and broadcaster.| [n'the winter of 1963-64 with| He aims eventually to specialize|his friend Arnold Von Bohien,| in political journalism and move|nephew of German industrialist | an unparalleled distinction be-|ys the tools and we will finishineed to be secure on her West-|from Fleet Street into the House) Aifred Krupp, he took the same stowed by Congress on no other the job."' person Americans understood In his special proclamation ofjadmired this straight talk the event, president John F and ern frontiers from all renewal of German aggression. It is my duty, however, to place} On the night of Deo. 7, 1941,/before you certain facts about/father started Kennedy called the former Brit-/when he heard over the radio|the present: position in Europe.|age of 21 ish prime minister "'the most honored and honorable man to walk the stage of human history in the time in which we live." Churchill's His mother was Jenny Jerome of New York, wife of Lord Ran- dolph Churchill The element of dual heredity left Churchill at ease r ! h onsgper crags ate to declare war on Japan relationship began at his birth.|"within the minute." with! news Ithat Japan had attacked Pearl "From Stettin in the Baltic to} arbor, accounts said Church-/Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron ill jumped from 'his chair andjcurtain has descended across wanted to phone his foreign of-|/the Continent | "Behind that line lie all the} capitals of the ancient states of, He was talked out of it on the Central and Eastern Europe.| reasonable grounds that one|Warsaw, Berlin, . Prague, Vi- country does not declare war on enna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bu another on the strength of a charest and Sofia, all these fa- bulletin ajone. of Commons jplane on an adventurous jaunt That, as the young Winston|through the Middle East and the! points out, is the way his grand-)East Africa to the Cape | In 1895, at the) Soon after they started, Wins-) was in Cuba reporting the re-jdispatches as a war correspon- volt against the Spaniards dent. They came from the Ye- 'A famous name can be ter-|men, where the Imam Badr's rible if you are lousy," he said.|royalist government then was "The comparisons would be un-|Struggling for survival bearable. But if you are any|Republican rebels good, it helps." He has the Churchill looks, the Churchill red hair,| WORKED IN NEW YORK and the Churchill guts. At 14 Winston's said. "It's so good of you to "Sir Winston was one of the/come. Please have a_ seat. most remarkable men of his|Would you like a whiskey and de-|nist parties in all these East-\day, hundreds of students,|time. The Second World War|S0da'" So began the first of for|many conferences in this bed- room-office at No. 28. Stacked in front jgave him the opportunity | the full display of his talents.| "He had the power of ex- Mr. of t|table was a thick manuscript on which his fingers rested lightly. "I have here some very secret ent views and different temper-|documents," he said, peering at aments."" jme over his heavy black-rim- | |med spectacles. 'I am going to EDEN PAYS TRIBUTE i Lord Avon, 67, who as Sirjthat you hear must be kept in Anthony Eden was Churchill's|the strictest confidence." |political heir, described Church-| The demonstration, complete jill as "the talisman of freejwith tears and gestures, was |men everywhere," and said: | magnificent, and lasted for "It is literally true to say,about an hour. When it was over but for this man and his lead-|Churchill explained that he had ership, we should not -have|been reading from speeches he |weathered as we did the dark-jhad delivered in the war-time est days of the war... . we can|secret sessions of Parliament. [perhaps draw some inspiration|Then he offered the publication lfrom his example of tenacity,|Tights. He was highly pleased compassion and faith." jwith the financial results. Harold Macmillan, 70, another| Sraghe-naig | aga lh yt A " \Conservative party ex - prime|V#Y Sha Mamoirs cha while minister, said Churchill - was beaded cher ansthar Wis |"'the last of the heroic figures." being produced -- until there | Speaking of Churchill's war-| were six in all -- I saw him |time leadership, he said: | constantly, | "Throughout' the Common! sir DAY OR NIGHT wealth, in Canada, Australia,) There seemed always some- |New Zealand, as well asS|thing that Churchill wanted, and through Africa and Asia, his} like every one else closely con- was the voice, he was the man,/nected with him -- whether who stood as the defender of\horse-trainer, bookie, |their present liberties and fu- fellow cabinet minister or valet ture aspirations." -- I soon got used to -- : as. .{telephone summonses rom Wenge ect thorn Te 81". They came al- Ait ini id tri hour of the day or prime minister, paid tribute to nian any 3 Churchill as "the greatest of} ; : ne war leaders" who swung the| Most of the time there was ; : 7 something on his mind about the balance in the Second World| hg War from defeat to victory. | book. He would read extracts to | 4 : 'i ime and then enlarge at great _ "For it was Winston Church-\jength on what he had written. lill above all others, with his) 4+ other times; while he talked passionate hatred of evil, whols, Anthony Eden or his horse- rallied the nation against tyr-\trainer on. the telephone, I anny and, by his willpower and) youyid read a chapter or two courage, swung the balance in|that he had just finished. He al- the war from defeat to victory.| ways watched for my reaction, jand- if I finished a chapter too | |quickly he was a little annoyed, | NEWS VETERAN probably because he thought | 'that I ve and was not | reading carefully. | PENS TRIBUTE | He soon came to treat me | jalmost as one of his own staff, iwith the functions of sounding |board and test tube of reader reaction, I was often put hard to work. Once I was handed @ massive pile of galleys totalling some 400,000 words, and told: "J would be very glad if you'd! read these and let me have your lcomments in writing. Don't jthe common people felt, what) everyone felt . . . he was able} Gregory Clark, veteran Canadian news reporter, 'was unable to be in London to cover the death of Wins- ton Churchill whom he has often reported. At his Tor- onto home, the 72-year-old columnist typed these nine lines of blank verse as the lead to the story of great- Sir Winston already|ton was in print with his first) ness he would have written: TRIBUTE. Now open the floodgates, the floodgates of memory, The floodgates of affection and of love, : Of humility in the presence of greatness, Of inextinguishable debt, of pride In having risen to his call. For not in a hundred gen- erations are we blessed With a figure of glory To rouse us from shadow Of the human condition --Gregory Clark. the ever to attempt it from the top.) He was married last year to itry to read both books at one sitting. You'd get too tired. |Read four or five hours at a jtime. That's the only way to \read."' Again, while I was on holiday with him in Marrakech, he jwould give me a set of proofs llate in the evening, asking for! my reaction. By 9 o'clock next morning his secretary would be on the phone to inquire if I had \finished.. "Mr. Churchill is jready now for your comments," ishe would say, "and would like jthe. proofs back." | During this period I saw him lat least once every two weeks, and spent many days with him on his holidays. |MANY VISITS During his second Prime Min- istership, from 1951 to 1954, I visited him from time to time at Chequers, the official coun- against|sled track, toughing 80 miles aNitry residence of British Prime jhour, where many experts have/Ministers, also at 10 Downing good|crashed. He was the youngest) street and at Chartwell. One day he asked me to come to Chartwell while he was con- dag drt obtain totalitar-|world," stood in prayerful trib- pressing in a few words what Churchill on a small tray-like| W. Earl Rowe, lieutenant-gov- ernor of Ontario: "While today leader of the last 100 years, to- of the last 1,000 years." Prince Edward Island: call in the time of peril . shall be heard down through the read to you from them, but all) years of time." Robert L. Stanfield, premier jof Nova Scotia: "He will always represent the utmost in courage, tenacity, resourcefulness and leadership."" Joseph Smallwood, premier of Newfoundland: "Every one of us alive in the world is a bigger man or a bigger woman because we have lived in the same world at the same time with this great human being." Daniel A. Riley, acting prem- ier of New Brunswick: 'His Of/memory can best be perpetu- ated by our instilling in the hearts of our children the in- spirationa] examples of courage sacrifice, determination, perse- verance, loyalty to the Crown and love of our fellow men which burned so fiercely in his heart." W. A. C. Bennett, premier of British Columbia: Sir Winston doctor, was the man "who saved the world" and people everywhere will always be indebted to him:" R. L. Hanbidge, lieutenant- governor of Saskatchewan: 'In the hearts of free men every- where the name and fame of! Winston Churchill live forever- more." Ross Thatcher, premier of; Saskatchewan: '"'The work he By LYNN HEINZERLING LONDON (AP)--The report- ers who waited quietly outside Winston Churchill's home dur- ing the last days of his life were honoring one of their kind. Chruchill gained fame at 25 as a war correspondent during the Boer War in South Africa. At one time, the Boers had a price on his head--dead or alive. He could not resist the call of action or adventure. At the turn of the century, when Boers and Britons were fighting for South Africa, Churchill hastened there by ship as a correspondent for the London Moming Post. There was plenty of action. ne day, riding an armored train, he found himself in the middle of a Boer ambush. Bul- lets and shells brought the train to a stop and Churchill was cap- tured. The Boer who made him pris- oner was Louis Botha, who later became prime minister of South Africa. Churchill went into a prison stockade with other British prisoners, but his imprisonment didn't last long. He went over the wall one dark night and territory for days, rst practical news-jhe shot alone down the Cresta'Mary d'Erlanger, daughter of ajvalescing from the 'stroke he which described him as jmous cities and the populationg;papering came in 'New York. 'run, Switzerland's toughest bob {wealthy London businessman. |suffered in June 1953. Rumorsjlows: : WAS WANTED MAN : It was then that the Boers morrow historians may well re-| cord his leadership as the finest|much to the democratic world | Walter Shaw, premier of| "The | itoba: voice that rang out its clarion| winston made his way through enemy Errick Willis, lieutenant-gov- we mourn him as the greatest/ernor of Manitoba: "I do not know of any individual in this century who has contributed as 'as Sir Winston Churchill." Duff Roblin, premier of Man- "In the death of Sir we have lost a noble |Spokesman of free people,' a |Stirring voice of liberty. .. . | With such a great spirit, no one dared falter; with him to lead no one did falter." Robert national Social Credit leader: "The death of Sir Winston Churchill marks the end of an era which at this time reminds all of us of the debt of gratitude we owe this man." Louis St. Laurent, former Canadian prime minister: "'He was one of the greatest men the world has known. (He was) a man for whom I had the greatest admiration." H. P. MacKeen, ' lieutenant- governor of Nova Scotia, in a telegram to Lady Churchill: "Nova Scotia mounrs the death of Sir Winston, one of history's greatest and most beloved Men." 6s Most Rev. H. H. Angli- can Primate of Canada: 'The news of Winston Churchill's death fills us with a sense of awe at the passing of one of the great figures of history. We feel gratitude for this man whose words and deeds rallied a people threatened with de- struction and gave the world a chance to meet the confusions of a new age with more free- dom and justice than perhaps it deserved." Fame Gained In Reporting As Boer War Correspondent "Englishman, 25 years old, five feet, eight inches tall. In- different build. Walks with for- ward stoop. Pale appearance. Reddish - brown hair. Small bee 8 hardly noticeable mous- che." The poster also said that Churchill "talks through his mose and cannot pronounce words properly."' Nobody ever collected the re- ward, Churchill found an Eng- lishman who concealed him in a coal mine. Later, when the search slackened, he made his way to freedom in Portuguese East Africa (Mazambique),. hid- den under a pile of sacks on a train. : Word that Churchill was "missing" had reached Eng- land. When he wrote the story of his escape, it was a sénsa- tion. i It was, in fact, sensational enough to win Churchill his first seat in Parliament in 1900. Between the wars, when the Conservative party leadership seemed to spurn his talents, Churchill turned again to news- papers for a platform. WARNED OF HITLER In the 1930s, he warned in jarticle after article of Hitler's rise and the catastrophe that would follow. The late Lord put a low price on his head They also circulated a_ poster, fol- Beaverbrook, whose Sunday Ex- ipress was a favorite Churchill |vehicle, was among his closest |friends. nuashenteniee ee hee