GREAT BRITAIN: Not If but When

The only question about Sir Winston Churchill's retirement now seems to be when. His doctors are urging him to quit. So is Lady Churchill. As Parliament reassembled last week, Tory M.P. Cyril Osborne told his constituents: "Nobody knows when it will come, but many think it will be when the Queen comes home." One of the Queen's first engagements, on her return in mid-May, is to install Sir Winston as Knight of the Garter in St. George's Chapel at Windsor. By that time, with the Berlin Conference over, there may be some indication whether the old warrior has failed,...

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