17 MAY 1940, Page 13

The Prime Minister himself appeared totally unaware of these currents

of feeling. There is a certain naiveté about Mr. Churchill as about all truly great men. He sat there, hunched like a surly bulldog, with Mr. Attlee peeping out behind his left shoulder. He is a great-spirited man and therefore generous, nor has he ever allowed rancour to infect his lavish zest or to check the rush and thunder of his adventure. A great Elizabethan sat there hunched between a great Victorian and the agreeable, able, admirable representative of the shape of things to come.