“In the twinkling of an eye I found myself without an office, without a seat, without a party, and without an appendix.”

— Winston S. Churchill

"Election Memories", The Strand Magazine (September 1931).
Reproduced in Thoughts and Adventures, 1932.
The 1930s

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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