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Glow-Worm, 2017 Q3 Images of Some Magazines, Published Between Glow-Worm, 2017 Q3 Images of some magazines, published between 1948 and 1965, with articles about Winston Churchill. Over the years, these magazines have been collected by Jim Lancaster, who has been the editor of Glow-Worm since 2012 Q2. Jim has recently embarked on a new project, writing a book. This issue of Glow-Worm—2017 Q3—will be his last issue. To follow any of these links, hold down the Ctrl key and click the link. The Table of Contents (TOC) The Atlantic Hugh Massingham The Earl of Swinton George Warrington Steevens Lady Diana Cooper John H. Peck Eleanor Roosevelt Sir Ian Jacob Lewis W. Douglas Ernst H. Gombrich Vannevar Bush Churchill at Harvard September 1943 Illustrated London News January 23 1965 Illustrated London News January 30 1965 Illustrated London News February 6 1965 Harold Nicolson in LIFE March 1948 Who’s Who, 1964 The special issue of the Radio Times, covering Churchill’s funeral The Order of Service for the Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill The cover of this special issue of The Atlantic, published in March 1965, is confusing. One has the impression that the ten people on the cover wrote tributes to Winston Churchill. Only nine of them wrote tributes to Churchill, but this is compensated by an interesting contribution from George Warrington Steevens (1869-1900) who wrote an item about the young Churchill in 1898. Here is the complete list of the ten people whose tributes were printed in the March 1965 issue of The Atlantic. The ten tributes to Sir Winston Churchill were all preceded by a short profile prepared by The Atlantic Here is the list of the ten tributes, plus the Atlantic editor’s profiles of the contributors, in order of publication: Hugh Massingham The Earl of Swinton George Warrington Steevens Lady Diana Cooper John H. Peck Eleanor Roosevelt Sir Ian Jacob Lewis W. Douglas Ernst H. Gombrich Vannevar Bush HUGH MASSINGHAM The Atlantic profile: One of England’s most distinguished editors, now on the staff of The Sunday Telegraph, Hugh Massingham is the son of H. W. Massingham, himself a great editor and an intimate friend of the young Churchill. Mr. Massingham here recalls the days when Sir Winston was a frequent visitor to his home, and when, to the Tory world, he was considered a radical. (editorial note: In Massingham’s long and generous tribute, he tells of an incident during one of the terrible massacres during the First World War. His father (H. W. Massingham, (known to everyone, even to his children, by his initials ‘H. W. M.’), once told him that “having just returned from Downing Street, H. W. M. saw ‘Mr. George’ coming out of the Cabinet Room, jauntily smoking a cigar. He was followed by Winston Churchill, who was not smoking. Moved beyond measure by the fearful roll call of the dead, he was unashamedly crying.” Massingham did not give a date for this incident, but it was obviously during Mr. George’s brief wartime administration, December 1916 – December 1918. Return to TOC THE EARL OF SWINTON The Atlantic profile: The Earl of Swinton served for more than a quarter of a century with Winston Churchill, or under him, in every government in which he was a minister. A Member of Parliament from 1918 to 1935, Lord Swinton was also president of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for the Colonies. In 1935 he began a three-year term as Secretary of State for Air, and, during the war, he was Cabinet Minister President for West Africa and Minister for Civil Aviation. Return to TOC LADY DIANA COOPER The Atlantic profile: Famed for her beauty, and happy in her marriage to Alfred Duff Cooper, who was one of Sir Winston’s favorite lieutenants, Lady Diana Cooper was early admitted to a delightful friendship with the Prime Minister and Lady Churchill. Who can better tell us of the happiness they shared in their marriage? Return to TOC GEORGE WARRINGTON STEEVENS The Atlantic profile: This article—When Churchill was Twenty-Three—was written more than sixty-six years ago, in 1898. The author, a war correspondent with a position in England similar to that of Richard Harding Davis in America, met young Churchill aboard ship when both were returning from the Sudan wars. So great was the impact of the twenty-three-year-old Churchill on the veteran newspaperman that he devoted an article to the young man in a series entitled Twentieth Century Men—Peeps into Futurity. In it, Mr. Steevens predicted that the time would come when Parliament and England itself would not provide a large enough stage for Mr. Churchill Return to TOC JOHN H. PECK The Atlantic profile: For six crucial years, from1940 to 1946, John H. Peck, as private secretary to the Prime Minister, was at Sir Winston’s beck and call at any hour of the day or night. How the great man looked to a twenty-eight-year-old, and how remarkably they worked together, we see in the exhilarating pages that follow. Return to TOC ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The Atlantic profile: As the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt was Sir Winston’s hostess on several occasions at the White House and at Hyde Park, beginning with that grave Christmas visit, in December 1941 when this country was still recovering from the shock of Pearl Harbor, and when Britain’s lifelines were being cut by the U-boats. Mrs Roosevelt wrote this account of her sometimes difficult guest in the spring of 1959, and revised it shortly before her death. Return to TOC SIR IAN JACOB The Atlantic profile: A career officer who began serving his country during World War One, Lieutenant General Sir Ian Jacob was Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet from 1939 to 1946. Here he pays tribute to Churchill’s qualities as a war leader, and describes the differences in his approach to Roosevelt and Stalin. Return to TOC LEWIS W. DOUGLAS The Atlantic profile: A veteran of World War One, who was gassed in the Argonne breakthrough, and was decorated personally by General Pershing, and a Democratic congressman who served three years from his home state, Arizona. Lewis W. Douglas was the American ambassador to the Court of St James during the critical period of 1947-1950, years which brought him into constant and sometimes intimate association with Sir Winston. Return to TOC ERNST H. GOMBRICH The Atlantic profile: Winston Churchill was exhibiting his paintings under a pseudonym as early as 1921. We turn to London’s foremost critic for an appraisal of Sir Winston’s canvases, and for an analysis of why he painted as he did. Director of the Warburg Institute, with which he has been connected for twenty-eight years, Professor Gombrich has taught at Oxford, at Cambridge, and at Harvard. Return to TOC VANNEVAR BUSH The Atlantic profile: Long identified with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he served as vice president and dean of engineering from 1932 to 1939, Dr. Vannevar Bush left Cambridge to become president of the Carnegie Institute in Washington. There he was selected by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to head up the extraordinary team of some six thousand American scientists, eventually known as the Office of Scientific Research and Development. With this authority, he was brought into close touch with British scientists also working on national defense, and in crises with the Prime Minister himself. Return to TOC EDWARD WEEKS (Editor of The Atlantic) From his editorial in the March 1965 issue: Anyone who ever saw Sir Winston Churchill in action will never forget it. As a director of Harvard’s Alumni Association I had the privilege of sitting directly behind him in Sanders Theater that blustery autumn day in 1943 when Harvard gave him an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. (editorial note: President Conant had hoped that Churchill would be able to receive the honorary degree at Commencement that year, but Churchill was unable to meet the timing. So an arrangement was made for a special ceremony where Massachusetts Governor Leverett Saltonstall (class of 1914) gave the welcome, and President Conant conferred the degree:) Churchill making his acceptance speech at Harvard on September 6, 1943, with James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard, standing behind him. (editorial note: Churchill conspicuously chose to wear an ordinary pair of trousers, rather than make any attempt to look like an honorary Doctor of Laws…) Following conferral of the degree in Sanders Theatre, Churchill addressed 6,000 uniformed Harvard students in front of the Memorial Church and thousands of civilians filling Tercentenary Theatre. He emphasized British-American partnership, saying, “Nothing will work soundly, or for long, without the combined effort of the British and American people” and told the soldiers, “I earnestly trust that when you find yourself alongside our soldiers and sailors in 1943 and 1944, you will feel that we are your working brothers in arms.” (editorial note: There are two full, unabreviated texts of Churchill's acceptance speech on Anglo-American Unity—(1) pages 6823-27 in The Complete Speeches by Robert Rhodes-James, and (2) pages 60-65 in volume 19 of The Churchill Documents. Conveniently, in volume 5 of his memoirs of The Second World War Churchill provided an extract of his acceptance speech—pages 123-5 in volume 5 Closing the Ring in the Houghton Mifflin edition: While in Washington I attended several American Cabinets… and was in close touch with leading American personalities… The President was very anxious for me to keep a long-standing appointment, and receive an honorary degree at Harvard.
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