FOREIGN RELATIONS: This Sad & Breathless Moment

He had predicted World War II: "I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow countrymen and to the world. . . . There never was a war in history easier to prevent by timely action. . . . But no one would listen."

Last week, in Fulton, Mo., in a husky, dogged voice, Winston Churchill cried aloud again.

The man who had carried, as no other living man has, the burden of high responsibility in two great conflicts had "no official mission"; 71-year-old Citizen Churchill spoke only for himself ("There is nothing here but what you see") to...

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