GREAT BRITAIN: Honor & Damnation

"You have been so faithful, and so loving to us, you have fought so stoutly for us, you have been so hearty in counseling of us that we shall never forget your favor towards us."

—John Bunyan

Beneath the mighty oak roof that Richard II built, on the spot where Charles I was condemned to the scaffold and Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector, where Britain's dead kings are mourned and its new ones feted, Sir Winston Churchill stood last week and received his country's heartfelt tributes on his 80th birthday. Before him, vast Westminster...

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