“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
- Winston Churchill
speech at the Lord Mayor’s Day Luncheon
London (November 10, 1942)
The one I was looking for?
No, that Scorpio isn’t it.
The one I was looking for appears to be Churchill apocrypha, as in, no reliable source. The way the anecdote was presented to me?
Scene — London, House of Parliament, ravages of war all around.
Lady Astor (female MP): The Prime Minister is drunk!
- Winston Churchill: Yes madam, and you are ugly.
LA: But the Prime Minister is drunk!
WC: Yes madam, and you are ugly.
LA: The Prime Minister is drunk!
WC: Yes madam, and you are ugly.
LA: Lords! The Prime Minister is drunk!
WC: Yes madam, and you are ugly.
LA: But the Prime Minister is drunk!
WC: Yes madam, and in the morning I will be sober.
The snippet of dialogue came from a tenured history professor, but the anecdote was not presented as fact. Inter-web searches seemed to indicate it was not a true story. Zero supporting evidence.
Verisimilitude? Sure.
I write horoscopes and I fish. No expects the gods’ honest truth from me.
The long bit attributed to Churchill comes as a follow-up to current conditions.
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