Long before the Prime Minister's speaking time, the restive House was jampacked. Not in five months had the House of Commons heard from its star reporter, the man who more than any other could cast events in "scale, structure and proportion." Since then the Allied world had passed through the Moscow and Teheran meetings, known high hope and dour doubt. Now,' on his red leather bench, Winston Churchill champed, shuffled a handful of notes, twice rose in a false start before the Speaker gave him the sign. For one hour and 18 minutes, the full, familiar voice spoke.
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