GIFT TO MR. CHURCHILL
In his broadcast on April 27 the Prime Minister quoted the two concluding stanzas of Arthur Hugh Clough's poem, "Say not, the struggle nought availeth.'' These lines were a reply to President Roosevelt's "message" from Longfellow, sent in .his own hand to Mr. Churchill not long before. On June 11 the manuscript of this poem, contained in a letter from Clough to the poet, William Allingham; was sold at auction in Messrs. Sotheby's rooms in London, and was purchased by Scribners, the publishers, of New York and London. On behalf of his organisations on both sides of the. Atlantic, this manuscript has been presented by Mr. Charles Scribner to the Prime Minister: as a token that the principle of "lend, lease, and give" extends beyond material aid, to those intangible weapons of the spirit which are the common armament of two free peoples.
The manuscript was handed to Mr. Churchill at No. 10 Downing Street by Mr. John Carter, managing director of Scribner's London office, who had the privilege of hearing another recitation of .the poem, this time all to himself.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 89, 11 October 1941, Page 15
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185GIFT TO MR. CHURCHILL Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 89, 11 October 1941, Page 15
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