For the first time since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister, millions of Britons last week began seriously to question his abilities. The progressive, widely read News Chronicle, asked: "Have we not been hypnotized by Mr. Churchill's personality, by the force of his rhetoric, by his hold on the House of Commons? Have we not been drugged . . . into a frame of mind in which we've lost our grip on realities?"
Almost alone among the angry national newspapers, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express argued: "The horse Churchill is pulling a heavy load...
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