MR CHURCHILL IN OFFICE
COMMANDING PERSONALITY IN PARLIAMENT. In three weeks (since he took office at the Admiralty) Mr Churchill has made himself the outstanding figure on the Front Bench in the House of Commons, and his translation from the corner seat below the gangway Io a seat, opposite the box has made him. without, question, the most commanding personality in Parliament, writes the Parliamentary correspondent of the "Spectator.” So long as he remained a back-bencher, a considerable number of Mr Chamberlain's supporters could find little to praise in Mr Churchill’s speeches or activities. Even after he went to the Admiralty, for a short time the whispers were suggesting that the years had taken their toll and that he was not the man he used to be. His latest speech smashed and confounded these critics and revealed to a delighted House all the weapons of leadership which the First Lord's armoury contains. It was natural for comparison to be made between the Prime Minister’s statements and Mr Churchill’s. It is acknowledged that Mr Chamberlain's burden is overwhelming. that his vigour and decisiveness are admirable; but the House was waiting for a stirring call to be delivered to the country.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 5
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199MR CHURCHILL IN OFFICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 5
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