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...enacted again. Winston Churchill had flown back to Britain and this week would again bulge up in Parliament to face, and probably outface, his critics. Though he had risked the flat statement "Egypt will be held," even the speedy fall of Egypt was not likely to upset his Prime Ministership...
...John Wardlaw-Milne's motion was tactically bad, and his friends of the arch-Tory 1922 Committee were hotly angry with him on that account. His motion would allow Prime Minister Churchill to call for a vote on the motion, rather than on dissociating the Prime Ministership and Defense Ministership. However many would vote for the latter, few, if any, would give a flat no-confidence vote to the Churchill Government...
...fade. Though a great deal came from the Left, the Left was well aware that much came from the deepest Right. And the Left was inclined to go along with a man whom the Right disliked, so long as no powerful Leftist seemed likely to get the Prime Ministership...
Speaking to the nation on the second anniversary of his Prime Ministership, Winston Churchill said in effect that the turning point in World War II had arrived. He said it persuasively. Nothing bucks up a Prime Minister like victories, and Churchill had Madagascar, the terrific R.A.F. raids on Germany, and the Coral Sea to bolster his spirits...
...America's entry into the war) to mollify the nation's dissatisfaction, Churchill faced a battle to the finish between his vanity and his stubbornness. If stubbornness won, Churchill might shortly be swept out of No. 10 Downing Street. If vanity won, to hold the Prime Ministership, he would be forced to make drastic changes in the Government's personnel and policies. It was anybody's guess what Churchill would...