[Homer_J_Simpson]

The first of the following two excerpts is continued from March 8.

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Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of March 10, 1945

#1 - “Rum and Coca-Cola” - Andrews Sisters
#2 – “Accentuate the Positive” - Johnny Mercer, with Pied Pipers
#3 - “Don’t Fence Me In” – Bing Crosby, with the Andrews Sisters
#4 – “Accentuate the Positive” – Bing Crosby, with the Andrews Sisters
#5 - “Rum and Coca-Cola” – Abe Lyman, with Rose Blane
#6 - “Candy” - Johnny Mercer, with Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers
#7 - “I’m Beginning to See the Light” - Harry James, with Kitty Kallen
#8 - “Cocktails For Two” - Spike Jones, with Carl Grayson
#9 – “I’m Beginning to See the Light” - Duke Ellington, with Joya Sherrill
#10 - “A Little on the Lonely Side” - Frankie Carle, with Paul Allen
#10 - “I Dream of You” - Tommy Dorsey, with Freddie Stewart
#10 - “Dream” - Pied Pipers

[untenured]

In Churchill’s note to the Minister of Labo(u)r he criticizes the plans to direct the postwar deployment of workers, including returned military personnel, to whatever activities the ministry saw fit. I have often heard that what the British government contemplated in this regard toward the end of and after the war was sweeping in its assertion of authority over the individual, as Churchill notes here, but have done no research on it yet. (I am going to, for a book I am writing.) This is the first reference I have seen to the particulars.