SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Various Duties Resumed
(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. Sir Winston Churchill entertained Lord Ismay, Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, to lunch today at his official country residence, Chequers, near London. The Prime Minister, officially still resting after his recent spell of overwork, is now resuming various duties. Today he studied Russia’s reply to the Western invitations to attend a conference of the Big Four Foreign Ministers.
His lunch party included Lord Leathers, Minister for the Co-ordina-tion of Transport, Fuel, and Power, and Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation.
After the luncheon. Sir Winston Churchill heard from his transport experts details of the situation resulting from the Government’s recent restoration of the road transport industry—nationalised by Labour—to private ownership. Lord Ismay, accompanied by Lady Ismay, spent last night at Chequers, and left today. Over the week-end the Prime Minister gave a house party for Mr Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, now recovering from a third gall bladder operation, Mrs Eden, Lord Salisbury, the acting-Foreign Secretary, and Lady Salisbury.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27112, 7 August 1953, Page 9
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