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He had shown himself a highly competent First Lord of the Admiralty, his speeches in the House of Commons had been better than those of any of his colleagues, and everything that he had prophesied in the past had come disastrously true. Halifax had merely remained the Foreign Minister of Munich.

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It was high time. I am under no illusions about what lies ahead, and of the long dangerous defile through which we must march for many months. With your help and counsel and with the support of the great party of which you are the leader, I trust that I shall succeed. To a very large extent I am in your hands — and I feel no fear of that. For the rest I have faith in our cause which I feel sure will not be suffered to fail among men.

Churchill decided — the King did not require — that he would form a national government. He told Attlee that he would grant Labour one third of the seats in the War Cabinet. Chamberlain and other Tories himself objected to the inclusion of Clement Attlee and Arthur Greenwood in the War Cabinet; the ability and intelligence of Greenwood were especially questioned. We have differed and quarreled in the past; but now one bond unites us all — to wage war until victory is won, and never to surrender ourselves to servitude and shame, whatever the cost and the agony may be.

After much discussion about a position for Chamberlain, he was named Lord President, a post without specific responsibilities but which supposed general coordination of domestic issues. Unusually, Chamberlain also remained leader of the Conservative Party — a position usually reserved for the Prime Minister or leader of the opposition.

The national peril has so swamped all personal feelings that no bitterness remains. Indeed I used to say to Annie before the war came that, if such a thing happened, I thought I should have to hand over to someone else, for I knew what agony of mind it would mean for me to give directions that would bring death and mutilation and misery to so many. Chamberlain meanwhile was facing a personal battle.

He was already deathly ill with stomach cancer. Despite the failure of the Munich agreement, Chamberlain had no regrets about his policy of appeasement. Only a few months ago I saw no limit to my physical strength and endurance, and until the Norway withdrawal…I seemed to have an unshakable hold over the H. I could have survived my political fall and perhaps come back like others before me. But the break-up of my physical health cannot be overcome or repaired.

And therefore as I say it is a solace to feel that I have no terrible blunder to reproach myself with. I trust indeed that having put down this burden you find life more endurable, and that a real improvement will set in. And I add that your gentle and skilful handling of a sick comrade during the vagaries through which his mind has been passing has put even me to shame!

You have greatly softened the blow and I want to thank you. I greatly admired his fortitude and firmness of spirit. I felt when I served under him that he would never give in: and I knew when our positions were reversed that I could count upon the aid of a loyal and unflinching comrade.

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It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes, and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honour. Thomas, Churchill, the Member for Woodford , p. Churchill, The Gathering Storm , Churchill: Finest Hour, , p. Caputi, Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement , p. Churchill Finest Hour, , p. Search The Lehrman Institute Sites. Lehrman Sign Up. Gentleman lost his seat. My uncle was his constituency chairman, a strong teetotaller.

He recalls how the right hon. Member for Woodford, with tears streaming down his face, sought consolation for his defeat in two large whiskies—which my staunchly teetotal uncle had to pay for. The war-time years produced a crop of stories about the right hon. Member for Woodford, some of them apocryphal, but all told with endearment. Some are known to be true. There is the one about his famous rebuke of the pedantic civil servant, when he wrote, "This is nonsense up with which I will not put".

I remember during our darkest days, as a member of the Cabinet Secretariat, an emergency call in the small hours from President Roosevelt. The President had decided to release the 50 over-age destroyers for our use—given certain conditions. A colleague of mine was duty officer and had to decide whether to awaken the Cabinet Secretary and, after consultation, took the not inconsiderable risk of awakening the Prime Minister.

The President stated his condition—if Britain were defeated in the war the ships were to make for Canada.


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The Prime Minister, who was barely awake, and not in the best of tempers, produced a ready answer, "Yes, if that happens, the destroyers will sail for Canada, but the contingency of defeat is one more likely to befall our enemies than ourselves. Inevitably, admiring ingenuity has conferred on the right hon. Gentleman legendary epigrams and aphorisms which, true or not, we would all like to think that he coined.

I treasure particularly the story of his remarkable interview with the then General de Gaulle, who had claimed for the Free French Forces the blocked gold held on the French account by the Bank of England, when the General asked the right hon. Gentleman to intervene. The story is that the right hon. Gentleman replied—and I apologise for my French, which is rather like the right hon.

As war gave way to peace his single-minded dedication to victory gave place to growing controversy about his views on post-war planning. There is a delightful story about a Cabinet meeting when your predecessor, Mr. Speaker, the then Minister of Town and Country Planning, submitted a learned memorandum on town and country planning, establishing the best of the Scott, Uthwatt and Barlow Reports.

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It was one o'clock and this was the eleventh item on the agenda. The Prime Minister is reported to have said, "Ah, yes, I know, town planning, densities, broad vistas, open spaces. Give to me the romance of the eighteenth century alley, with its dark corners, where footpads lurk.

This Motion today honours a fellow hon. Member of wide achievements, the Cavalry officer who escaped from a Boer prison, the author of "Lord Randolph Churchill", of "Marlborough", of the "History of the English-Speaking Peoples"—favourite reading for many of us—a Nobel prize winner for literature, an Academician. It honours the warrior of the Dardenelles and of Sidney Street, it honours a controversial ex-Chancellor, a man who could write history and who could make history, a leader who, in his unconquerable faith in our people and in the ultimate victory of our cause, could yet enrich our language with the magic of speeches which will be remembered and treasured for all the years our literary heritage may endure.

For all these things we honour him today, but as parliamentarians we are conscious of something beyond, and I for my part speak as one of many present on both sides of the House who are grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the kind, almost old-world courtesies going far beyond the normal calls of parliamentary comradeship. If Winston Churchill could write his own epitaph it would be simply this, "He was a good House of Commons man.

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Today, we say goodbye as a Member of Parliament to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford Sir W. He has played a great many parts in the House of Commons. He has on occasions been very angry with the House of Commons. He has been ignored by the House of Commons. He has been howled at by the House of Commons.

He has received almost unparalleled adulation from the House of Commons, and in over 50 years he has held the highest offices and been present on the most august occasions in the House of Commons. He has also had a book thrown at him in the House of Commons, and a point of order has been taken against him for attempting to vote in his pyjamas.

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But he has never attempted to patronise or belittle the House of Commons. This is no occasion for sentimentality.


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We are here to celebrate one of the greatest careers of our history. But few people can have failed to be moved when, day after day, the right hon. Gentleman comes into this House and takes his seat below the Gangway. Few people can fail to be moved by the meticulous care which he takes to pay his respects to this assembly, in which his whole life, almost, has been spent. At this time, when so many people, with a rather superior or world-weary air, speak contemptuously of the House of Commons, of the whole rough system of party politics on which the House of Commons thrives, it is good that we should praise a famous man who, in the middle of great wars and great crises, has never failed to come here and give an account of his doings before the motley collection of Members of this House who represent the people of Britain.

In no other assembly that I know of do those who wield the highest power come to it and answer Questions in person, Questions sometimes wounding, often petty, but which are collectively one of the great foundations of our liberties. Gentleman was not only a Member of the House of Commons and a great statesman.

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He was through and through a politician. Here again, let those who, for one reason or another, deride politics and refuse to dirty their hands with what they consider a frustrating or dishonourable service, consider the career of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford. We are told that when vast projects are undertaken democratic politics must go by the board.

Yet the right hon. Gentleman led this country through one of its toughest crises by commanding the assent of the people and by making no inroads on the democratic rights of the people other than those which they accepted themselves.