“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”

Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London (9 November 1954) The Unwritten Alliance, page 195, Columbia University, NY (1966),page 195,
Post-war years (1945–1955)

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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