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Continued from December 22.

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Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

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Battle in 2d Phase (Middleton) – 2-3
French-Canadians Bar a Christmas truce; Answer German Request with Mortar Fire – 3
Grit of Yanks Clinging to Bastogne Spurs Relief Units to Speed Drive – 4
Belgian Foxhole Belies Christmas (Denny) – 4
Bringing Up Guns and Laying Mines to Check the German Counter-Offensive (photos) – 5-6
War News Summarized – 5
Red Army Touches Budapest on West – 7-8
Russia Sees Truce with Miklos Body – 8
‘Greatest Japanese Defeat’ Ends Campaign on Leyte (Kluckhohn) – 9-10
U.S. Warships Join Air Blows at Iwo (Horne) – 10
Army’s Needs Mount (Baldwin) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 12-14
German Version of the Break-Through into Belgium (photos) – 14

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Once again I am reminded that our President Wimp sent Churchill’s bust back to the UK as I read that 70 years ago today this 70-year-old man personally wrote of attempting to save the Greek people from Communist tyranny and was worried about whether his party was properly armed!

“On the morning of the 26th, ‘Boxing Day’ I set out for the Embassy. I remember that three or four shells from the fighting that was going on a mile away on our left raised spouts of water fairly near the Ajax as we were about to go ashore. Here an amoured car and military escort awaited us. I said to my Private Secretary, Jack Colville “Where is your pistol?” and when he said that he had not got one I scolded him, for I certainly had my own. In a few moments when we were crowding into our steel box, he said, “I have got a tommy gun.” “Where did you get it from?” I asked. “I borrowed it from the driver,” he replied. “What is HE going to do?” I asked. “He will be busy driving.”

I just love Churchill!

“Where is your pistol?”