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About Churchill - And Lady Bonham. Carter

r iolet Bonham Carter’s book, Inston Churchill as I Knew Him”, written and in the process of lication when the old statesman I. This portrait, as she calls it, originally intended to cover his >le life, but with an embarrass \t of material, she concluded this, first part of the story, in the • 1916, when Churchill, after the lipoli fiasco, was in eclipse.

IDY Violet Bonham Carter is the daughter of the late H. H. uith, one-time British Prime ister. She was born into British ;ics and first met Churchill—and icdiately fell under his spell— -906 when she was a girl of 19 he was making his first essays political life. icrefore she had a close-up view he remarkable man for the best of his career and she is able tell her story with a unique vledge of the background of ►st 60 years of successive British rnments, lis is not only the story of 'chill, of course. It is the story he events that preceded World I, and of the men who shaped fumbled the events that led it. It is, in a way, also the story .ady Violet Bonham Carter, as idable in her own way as chill in his, and, like him, some larger than life. ;r creation as a life peer at the of 1964 may have been some of a culmination, but in the that went before she filled a tude of high posts in British c life—from president of the al Party to Governor of the Above all and always, she has in the thick of every political comes as some sort of surprise such a woman also found time, >l5, to marry and subsequently reduce two daughters and two

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