WINSTON

Evening Star, Issue 23678, 11 September 1940, Page 3

WINSTON

ANOTHER PEN PICTURE [From Our London Correspondent.] August 1. There is no doubt that Mr Churchill possesses what is known in sporting parlance as “the big match temperament.” Even those who early realised his exceptional and outstanding ability are impressed by bis war-time stature. He towel's above all other personalities in the Westminster arena to-day. Most impressive of all perhaps is the way in which, under supreme responsibility. Winston’s sense of perspective values has matured. He keeps his judgment, as in the ease of the Silent Column fiasco, for instance, where people sometimes thought less impetuous seem to lose theirs. His fine sense of satirical humour, too, helps him immensely. Years ago he coined a phrase that became a parliamentary and popular slogan. “ Terminological inexactitude ” can now' be matched with ‘ innocuous desuetude.” It was the late and great Lord Oxford who constituted himself Winston’s early parliamentary mentor, and it is really interesting to observe, how our war-time Prime Minister has inherited something of the rotund Asnuithinn style, vitalised and humanised by his own genius and humour. Winston suffers fools, not more gladly, hut rather more genially than did “ 1T,1T.A.” He gets splendid practice in the House of Commons.