Cover 50 - VICTOR BAILEY • ETHAN BRONNER • SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL ...

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Cover 50 - VICTOR BAILEY • ETHAN BRONNER • SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL ...

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• Philosophie et théologie

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Journal of the International Churchill Society

VICTOR BAILEY • ETHAN BRONNER • SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL • RONALD I. COHEN • ALLEN DRURY • KAY MURPHY HALLE • PAUL JOHNSON • D. LUKIN JOHNSTON • RICHARD M. LANGWORTH • WILLIAM MANCHESTER • ANTHONY MONTAGUE BROWNE • JOHN G. PLUMPTON • CHRISTIAN POL ROGER • RONALD REAGAN • LADY SOAMES • LORD SOAMES • CASPAR W. WEINBERGER

NUMBER 50 • WINTER 1985-86

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How mighty is man, and how brave in the face of the infinite. Listen to him, Lord, as he assures. You how magnificently he will be housed, how astutely' he will conduct himself how comfortable he will be as he travels across Your universe. Note the perfection of his machines, the beauty of his science. Note how carefully he will be clothed, how effi- ciently his needs will be tended to, how skillfully he will meet Your problems, how shrewdly he has thought of and provided for every possible threat to his safety and ease — except his own nature and all the things Youthe threat of can devise to test it. See him as he prepares to challenge You, wired — encapsulated — suited — unsuited —experimenting—communicating—carrying his life on his back in a portable pack — scientifically eating — sleeping—doctoring himself—peering into Your hidden places —he glides in unbelievable machines at un- while believable speeds over unbelievable distances just beneath the comer of Your eye. Look very quickly and You will see him pass through Your shadow. Perhaps he will return and perhaps he will not, but he goes equipped with all the precautions You have permitted him to achieve in all the millenia of his life upon Earth. Will they be enough? Don't tell him. Let him go. He would not believe You anyway. — Allen Drury, The Throne of Saturn, 1971

New1986Hampshire, January — Sir Winston Churchill would be unsur- prised to know that within 48 hours of the destruction of the Challenger space shuttle on January 28th, there were expressions of sorrow and sym- pathy, not only from London, Ottawa, Canberra and Wellington to Washington, but from people in Britain, Canada and Australia to us here Jn New Hampshire. That they should think particularly of this state is due to the loss of Christa McAuliffe, our Concord, N.H. schoolteacher, selected from 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher in space. But in a wider sense, I think, Britons, Canadians and Australians felt a unanimity with us, a sense of mutual loss. As the English-Speaking Peoples rejoiced together in the Royal Wedding and Moon Landing, the Coronation and the end of two World Wars, so they mourned together the Blitz and Pearl Harbor, the deaths of Roosevelt and Kennedy, Churchill and Mountbatten — and of the crew of Challenger on January 28th. The Space Program will go on — as it must. More brave people will fly — for they will insist on it. I hope that some future shuttle mission will be staffed by an international crew of Australians, Britons, Americans, New Zealanders and Canadians: For the English-Speaking Peoples deserve to share triumphs, as well as tragedies. - R.M.L.