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Euston Arch to be rebuilt as nightclub
"E27002" wrote in message ... IMHO Macmillan is NOT a hero. quote Macmillan served with distinction as a captain in the Grenadier Guards during the war, [WW1] and was wounded on three occasions. During the Battle of the Somme, he spent an entire day wounded and lying in a slit trench with a bullet in his pelvis, reading the classical Greek playwright Aeschylus in his original language.[13 Publishing] On his return to London in 1920 he joined the family firm Macmillan Publishers as a junior partner, remaining with the company until his appointment to ministerial office in 1940. {Macmillan was responsible for publishing and championing the work of the Irish playwright Sean O'Casey) Housing Minister (1951-1954) With the Conservative victory in 1951 Macmillan became Minister of Housing under Churchill, who entrusted Macmillan with fulfilling the latter's conference promise to build 300,000 houses per year. 'It is a gamble-it will make or mar your political career,' Churchill said, 'but every humble home will bless your name if you succeed.'[32] Macmillan achieved the target a year ahead of schedule.[33] /quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Macmillan To say nothing of the strain of having to maintain a stiff upper lip for years, on end, for the sake of the family, while being cockolded by Robert Boothby. (i.e Boothby was shagging his missus) I wonder if any of those people moving into any of those 300,000 new houses will have bemoaned the lack of Doric arhes at the front ? Oh sorry, there's clearly no point in asking you is there ? Your knowledge of Harold McMillan is probably based on a telly programme you vaguely remember from last year. Andrew Marr perhaps ? michael adams .... |
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