WINSTON CHURCHILL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 305, 14 May 1941, Page 5

WINSTON CHURCHILL

ENGLAND'S GREAT LEADER

LONG POLITICAL CAREER

It was a year on Saturday since the late Mr Neville Chamberlain resigned from the Prime" Ministership of England and was succeeded by the Rt. Hon. Winstone Churchill.

Born in 1874, Winstone Churchill's life has been full of adventure from its earliest ycarsi. Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst he had, before he was 25 „ smelt powder in three continents and written, enough books about Iris experiences to establish a first-class literary reputation, Captured in the Boar War by General Smuts, with whom his future was destined to be so nobly linked he escaped from prison and, in the "Khaki election" of 1900 began hi?, political career as Conservative mem ber for Oldham. His: genius was so indisputable that, for ncaii.v ?0 years whatever party was in officehe was on the Treasury bench, filling in succession more high offices of State than any man in England.

When for a brief period during the Great War he fell from office as the result of the Dardanelles qpisode and his quarrel with the late' Lord Fisher at the Admiralty, he resumed his military career for a time, but later returned to England. For years he warned England about the German menace.), but as he was. out of office, hisi words or warning, feil on deaf ears. When war was declared the English nation turned to him and he was. immediately brought into the War Cabinet and later, as the sky darkened, assumed supreme power.

Mr Churchill keeps; ten secretaries on the run, confers daily with the War Cabinet and other key Ministers. As his own Defence Minister, he keeps in closest touch with developments and strategy in every corner of the Empire, every phase of the imperial war effort.