A Look behind the Headlines

This week I am holidaying with a very dear friend, Mrs. Yvette Trevelyan, at her house in the Welsh Marches. We ended up one evening talking about old times, mostly as Mrs. Trevelyan and I were engaged about fifty years ago. Fortunately Lady Arcos knew her then as well. We moved on to talking about newspapers, most notably the Pudding Norton Herald, run by a man called Algernon.

Today's headline was: 'Churchill Dead.' This probably tells you what's going on here. About forty years ago, I stopped reading the newspapers. I started again recently, and arranged with the Herald for them to supply me with papers from when I stopped reading the English papers (when I moved to America in 1950). I was most surprised to learn that Harold Wilson was elected Prime Minister in 1964. I much preferred that nice Sir Alec Douglas-Home. So did the wife.