BRITISH EMPIRE: We Shall Be Together

Last week loyal subjects glowed and grinned as they read the breezy and colloquial first messages of new Prime Minister Winston Churchill to His Majesty's farflung Governments down under and up top. Mr. Churchill, who fought as a youth in the Boer War and has taken the world for his apple all his life, whipped out a cable to South African Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts: It Is A Comfort To Feel That We Shall Be Together In This Hard And Long Trek, For I Know That You And The Government And...

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