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BOOK OF THE DAY PILOT Ur Churchill. By Philip Goedalla. Hodder and Stoughton. 347 pp. (8/6 net.) This book is rightly ■ sub-titled “a portrait." Its biographical substance —the events of an eventful progress In arms, letters, and politics—is so selected and treated as to display a character in root, growth, and final ‘‘ascendancy’’ rather than to render account of a public career. The cavalry subaltern, the war correspondent, the prisoner of Pretoria, therefore, take nearly 100 pages while Mr Baldwin’s Chancellor of the Exchequer takes two. ' There emerges, intelligible, admirable, from Mr Guedalla’s bold modelling, thp figure that cried out in ceaseless warning against Baldwin’s heedlessness and Chamberlain’s misv calculation: the figure who. in an hour that fulfilled hw worst fear, was without narcrand..without illusions. As ' Britain’s resolute pilot in this storm of war, Mr Guedalla says with truth, Churchill was in his element; with equal truth, his country’s emblem.