Richard K. Munro

Was wonderful seeing you again last month. Have just started your latest book.

In May 1959, Sir Winston Churchill - age 84 - visited the United States to see some “old comrades.” During a dinner Churchill had in the White House, President Eisenhower - with tears in his eyes - told his daughter-in-law, “I only wish you could have seen him in his prime.”

On the 16th June 1941, after almost a whole year of Britain and her imperial family fighting alone as the only major power; Winston Churchill broadcasted to the world, “And now the old lion with her lion cubs at her side stands alone against hunters who are armed with deadly weapons and impelled by desperate and destructive rage. Is the tragedy to repeat itself once more? All no! This is not the end of the tale. The stars in their courses proclaim the deliverance of mankind. Not so easily shall the onward progress of the peoples be barred. Not so easily shall the lights of freedom die. But time is short. Every month that passes adds to the length and to the perils of the journey that will have to be made. United we stand. Divided we fall. Divided, the dark age returns. United, we can save and guide the world!”

Following Sir Winston Churchill’s death, his widow Clementine received many letters. One particularly poignant, “That he died is unimportant, for we must all pass away. That he lived is momentous to the destiny of all. He is not gone. He lives wherever men are free.”