Churchhill Takes the Challenge
In Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, 2,000 men & women in evening dress ate their way through Fumet of Gumbo Chervil, Native Guinea Hen, Bombe Glacé Britannia, and sat back to hear the Great Debater. Winston Churchill had made a Fulton (Mo.) profession of his democratic faith. Joseph Stalin had written the answer that joined the issue between two social philosophies more directly and authoritatively than it had ever been joined before.
Churchill was not the man to turn away from that challenge. The Waldorf's glitter disclosed the same enthusiastic fighter which the House of Commons' gloom and dust had known for...
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