The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-17
Winston Churchill, at 65, Is Britain'S "StrOng Man.
BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Correspondent

|
 London, Aug. 17-In his 65th year an age which most Americans deem period for retirement rather than for further strenuous efforts Winston Churchill finds the Eng lishman -in- -the-street and many jn high places leaning upon him as upon a strong man in time of crisis
 The popular demand to include Churchill in the British cabinet is based upon the fact that the Nazis hate and fear him. His boosters point to his bound- less, youthful energy compared with the apathetic, footling, aged efforts of some of the pet cabinet eers to whom Premier Chamber lain clings. They call attention to Churchill's record - that of man who has held practically every big political cabinet post, except that of the Premiership. They cite his books and speeches in which for the past six years he has been warning Britain that the ! Nazi regime constitutes dire dan- ger to democracy and that Britain should arm.
 They assert - and with good reason that almost more than any man now living in Britain, Churchill could issue the trum- pet call on the stump which would arouse the whole people.
 HE COMES OF
 EICHTVNn cTnrx
 There is fighting blood in his veins. He is direct descendant Of a great Churchill who became the first Duke of Marlborough. He IS grandson of the seventh Duke. His father was Lord Randolph Church. i'll, himself brilliant politician. winston Churchill was educated at Sandhurst, England's West Point. He fought with the Spanish in Cuba. He saw service in his own country's army in India, Egypt and South Africa. He made fame for himself as war correspond ent. Then he entered politics first as conservative, later as Liberal, and. still later, as Conservative once more.
 That the British fleet was all to- gether in the North Sea and ready to the last button when he world war broke out, was largely due to the foresight of Churchill, who was at that time First Lord of the Ad- miralty. Later in the war, after serv- ing for a time with the troops at the front, he was successively Min- ister of Munitions, War Secretary, Air Minister and Colonial Secretary. His last ministerial post was as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Premier Baldwin-1924-29
 HIS ORATORY
 A POTENT WEAPON
 Since then he has been just private member of the House of Commons, left out in the wilderness by Chamberlain. But his is one of the most potent voices in the House of Commons, and on the stump. See him when he gets up to speak. His round, ruddy, almost cherubic countenance belies his years. His eyes sparkle with youth and fire. He has no old mans stoop.
 But he has what, to an Amer ican, seems a sort of stammering, halting style - until he gets going. He has no notes before him. They say he writes all his speeches, polishes them to the last adjec- tive, commits them to memory and practices them before a mir TOT. Maybe so. It's what makes him the virtuoso that he is in any set speech he makes.
 He is just as efficacious in de- bate. On the spur of the moment, he cuts and thrusts with his ora torical rapier. He can make glor- ious fun of an opponent or he can scar him with invective.
 They say President Roosevelt has enjoyed being President more than any man within living mem- ory - taking the work in his stride. It's the same ways with Winston, as his friends affection ately refer to him. As cabinet minister he loved tough prob- lems, immersed himself in them, mastered them.
 Driving himself, he also drove those who worked with him. But he managed also to get their af- lection and devotion. In other words,