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Show WINSTON CHURCHILL CLIMBING There is good reason for the keen interest felt in this country in the recent cable dispatches to the effect that Winston Churchill bids fair to be Asquith's successor as premier of Great Britain and leader of the Liberal Lib-eral party. Half American, as he is through his mother, the present Mrs. George Cornwallis-West, who before she became be-came Lady Randolph Churchill was Miss Jennie Jerome, and who is the daughter of the late Leonard Jerome of New York, his every political act has reflected his friendliness to the United 'States and his high regard for American political institutions. Hi3 Induction into the highest political office in Great Britain should mark the beginning of even closer relations between the two countries than now exist. Almost his last political utterance utter-ance in justification of the Irish home rule bill passed in the House of Commons Com-mons offered as one of the prime rea sons for its adoption his belief that more than anything else It would tend to promote friendship between England and the United States. His country has been amazed repeatedly by his audacity, his political Inconsistencies, his dynamic energy and his unequaled power of self-advertisement. Not for one moment has he been lost to the public? eye. |