Edited sentence: As one biographer explained: [Jones p 89].He 'was born fresh every morning'.He arrived in the Cabinet room with his batteries fully charged, with ideas which he wished discussed and, brushing aside irrelevant secretarial programmes, he issued a whirl of lightning instructions.He had a musician's eye for the large and rapidly turning pages of an operatic score, while conducting chorus and orchestra.He was an artist, but he was not an academician.His sheer energy controlled the war effort.The source of his leadership lay in the fire and zeal which burned within him; in his active, agile, planning, and executive brain; besides, he radiated authority and force not only to a commanding but to a dominating degree