“I cannot remember that he ever did anything that helped us.”

—  Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford

Christopher Hinton, undated recollection, according to page 449 https://books.google.ca/books?id=7h7aRGdorPoC&pg=PA449 of 2008 book "Austerity Britain" by David Kynaston
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