BETTER NEWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1943, Page 3

BETTER NEWS

OF MR CHURCHILL’S HEALTH NO SPREAD OF PNEUMONIA. GENERAL IMPROVEMENT MAINTAINED. LONDON, December 17. There is better news of Mr Churchill’s health. A communique issued from Nd. 10 Downing Street states that there is no spread of pneumonia. and that the improvement in the Prime Minister’s general condition has been maintained. It is also announced that Mrs Churchill has left England to .be with Mr Churchill during his illness and convalescence. WARM TRIBUTE PAID TO PRIME MINISTER. GREAT LEADER WHO NEVER SPARES HIMSELF. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, December 17. The news of Mr Churchill’s illness has been received with profound regret and its course is being anxiously followed. Even such an exceptionally robust constitution and. vigour as the Prime Minister possesses, it is realised, are affected by the immense labours and physical exertions in which he never spares himself. He has as “The Times” writes, made himself the most mobile of the heads of the Allied governments. He has travelled further and oftener than either of his two eminent associates, and his journeys have rendered a “unique and irreplaceable service” to the Alliance. That he has found it possible to do so, the newspaper attributes to a flexible system which makes the absence of the Prime Minister from Westminster technically easier than that of the President from Washington, or the Premier from Moscow. Comfort is taken from his previous excellent recovery early this year, from the proved efficacy of modern drugs against such an illness as pneumonia and from the fact that he is being tended in a climate kindlier than that of England in December. The most ardent good (wishes from the whole nation go out to him for his speedy recovery and “The Times” expresses a hope that when the leader once more overtakes the marching column he will find it farther ad- ’ vanced along the road to victory that he has helped to mark out.