Every Briton loves a paradox. Last week the man whom many had begun to call the greatest Prime Minister Britain ever hadwhom all conceded to be one of her profoundest initiates in the artifices of rhetoricwas the subject of two.
It was a paradox that the Conservative Party, which by definition is opposed to change, to risks of any sort, to anything "unsound," should elect as its leader Winston Churchill, the most daring and, in the word's best sense, most radical leader in the country. This paradox was consummated by a unanimous vote...
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