GREAT BRITAIN: The Outline of Churchill

Splenetic Herbert George (Outline of History) Wells is a historian whose interest in the remote past is based on his interest in the immediate present. He also brandishes words like a Martian. From the sickbed where he has lain for months, the 78-year-old socialist last week sent London's pinko Tribune a sizzling, unsolicited philippic entitled Churchill Must Go, flaying Winston Churchill's Greek policy.

Cried Wells: "Winston Churchill, the present would-be British Führer, is a person with a range of ideas limited to the adventure and opportunities of British political life. . . . When the British people were blistered with...

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