There was a stream of callers at the little house near the Albert Hall. Old friends, like the Duke of Windsor (see PEOPLE), made a special point of coming over. Outside the house the day "Winnie" left, and on the pier at Southampton, the crowds cheered him almost as they did during the dark blitz days. Somehow it was a very special goodbye.
All winter Winston Churchill had been troubled by coughs and colds; he badly needed the month or more of sunshine and warmth he would find in Florida. But his absence from Britain—and from the new session of Parliament—had...
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