GREAT BRITAIN: An Ample Feast

The Old Man still had it in him to command the attention of the world. The weight of his years (he will be 79 next month) lay on his stooped shoulders, he had been ill for four months, yet in authority and eloquence and in the ability to rise to an occasion, there was still no other Englishman around to match Sir Winston Churchill. He proved it again last week. His platform was the Winter Gardens at Margate, where 4,000 Tory bigwigs sat in party convention beneath a panoply of Union Jacks. They sang For He's a Jolly Good...

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