When Winston Churchill walked out of Admiralty House to take up residence at 10 Downing Street, he appointed as the successor to himself a middle-aged leader of the Cooperative Movement, writes Francis Williams in the "Stfand" Magazine. The whole nation applauded his choice, and the Navy applauded it loudest of all.
Mr. A. V. Alexander was no stranger to Admiralty House; he had been there before as First Lord from 1929 to 1981. "The most successful First Lord," as one of his bitterest political opponents honestly said when Winston Churchill summoned him to that office for the second time, "between Churchill in 1914 and Churchill in 1939." And I do not think I am breaking any secret now when I say that from the outbreak of hostilities he was a regular visitor to the Admiralty and probably Winston Churchill's most constant confidant on
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