One day last week, Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill sat down in a front pew in St. Paul's Cathedral for special pre-campaign services conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The day's lesson, from St. Luke 6: 39: "And He spake a parable unto them. Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?"
Next day, at Sandringham, King George VI signed a proclamation formally dissolving Britain's Parliament. A few minutes later, the Lord Chancellor was speeding back to London to have the Great Seal affixed to the...
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