Status Updates From Winston's War

“Churchill had never cared for Wilson. He liked men of passion, of exuberance, even men of occasional folly, but Wilson was altogether much too self-contained, a civil servant to the core.”
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“They tell me,” Churchill spat, “that competitive examinations are an excellent means of weeding out idiots and imbeciles. It is a monumental pity,” he continued, “that elections don't appear to be so discriminating.”

"Not that he has been awarded the Peace Prize yet, of course. But his Noble Laureate brother had never had a poem dedicated to his honor by the Poet Laureate, John Masefield:

As Priam to Achilles for his son,
So you, into the night, divinely led,
To ask that young men's bodies, not yet dead,
Be given from the battle not begun."

Wrt Neville Chamberlain in 1938. How fortunes changed for him and Churchill a yr later!

“So whose fault was it?”
“The System.”
“What system?”
“Any System. Happens everywhere.
Politicians and rulers who decide, who decree, and who leave ordinary folk like me to pay for their mistakes.
At least one thing about the Russian Revolution, Mr. Burgess, is that when they shot the Tsar at last they got someone to pay for their own”

“Harold Macmillan, the forty-four-year-old Conservative Member for Stockton, drifted in their direction. He was not often popular with his colleagues.
Not only did he have a conscience, he would insist on sharing it.”