The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-21
BY PAUL MANNING NEA Service Stan Correspondent Copyright, 194l, NEA service)

(Copyright, 1o4l, NEA service)
 London, March 2i-wearing an cid suit of boiler overalls fastened ap the from by zipper and carry Mg a spade in one hand, Winston Churchill dictated to 6 secretary in ehe garden of his Westerham, Kent, county home.
 He said that if he had Q second chance in life, he might have done ] lot of things differently.
 For example, he might have placed his money on black instead of red during his visits many gears ago to Monte Carlo, Then If the ivory ball had dropped into She black slot Gas 1t so often did when he was playing red), he might have made a lot of money.
 Then if he had invested this money 20 years ago in plots of land on the lake shore at Chi. cago and had never gone to Mon- te Carlo any more, he might be Q millionaire today.
 or course, he said, he nigh. have become so fired by his good luck that he might have become on hahitue of the tables, one of those melancholy shadows you always saw creeping around the gaming rooms of Monte Carlo In tlIe old days.
 So maybe after all it's just as well you only have one chance in life. T know" said Churchill, "when survey the scene of my past life aS a whole, l have no doubt that I do not wish to live 1t over again. The Journey has been enjoyable and well worth taking-once."
 With that he turned and began spading around a pet rose bush.
 The scene just described occurred shortly before the present war, and before Winston Churchill could have known that the most vital chapter of his life story still was to be written--in the Prime Minis ters Office at No. 10 Downing Street
 GREW UP IN A
 MILITARY ATMOSPHERE
 The lives of few statesmen for whom "the journey has been enjoyable have been as closely Identified with war as has Churchill's. War Is literally in his blood. The inheritance began over 200 years ago with his ances- tor John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough one of the greatest generals of all time.
 Winston Churchill was born ton Nov. 30. 1874 in magnificent Be""eim Palace, given the first Duke py the nation, and his first years were surrounded by paint ings tM the Duke and of his fam- ovs battles. No wonder young Win ston began to dream of soldiers life, that his early games were war games, maneuvered by his 1900 toy soldiers, his toy fortress and i.is i8 toy field guns.
 Unlike most of his class (and to tte distraction of his Ameri- can born mother). he hated swank St. James and Harrow schools. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill. younger son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, despaired to making q. statesman of his son, so he sent him to Sandhurst, England's West Point. That was to young Winston's liking.
 Graduating as a lieutenant in 1895, he soon found himself at war. There was rebellion in Cuba. He was sent there to act as reporter for London paper but quickly forgot pen for sword -- just as he did in the Boer War, where he was taken prisoner and made good @ miraculous and har- rowing escape. He also saw Serv- ice in India and with Kitchener ct Khartoum.
 Forsaking war for time, Church. Ill entered politics, successfully standing for election to Parliament in 1900, By the time he became premier he had held practically every post in the cabinet, both as q Liberal and Tory, including the job of First Lord of the Admiralty from 1911 until after the disas- trous Dardanelles campaign of the First World War.
 When, for years after 1880, the services of Winston Churchill were not requested by prime min- isters, he used his enforced politt- cal leisure writing books, articles, putting up small brick walls and buildings, painting landscapes under the name of Charles Marin" It was during these settled, easy years that he was able to produce enough