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`BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS AND SWEAT' SIR,—Perhaps Sir Winston Churchill found

the road to his Xanadu assisted by Theodore Roosevelt, who declared :

'Every man who has in him any real power of joy in battle knows that he feels it when the wolf begins to rise in his heart; he• does not then shrink from blood or sweat or deem that they mar the fight; he revels in them, in the toil, the pain, and the danger, as but setting off the triumph.' (R, Hof- stadter, The American Political Tradition, p. 212, Vintage Books edition.)

D. J. BENTLEY London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, WC2