ST HOUR - Winston Churchill

Churchill in Stamps:Prime Minister AgainBY RICHARD M. LANGWORTHPages 247-252: A NEW ELIZABETHAN AGECatalogue numbers are Scott (#) and Stanley Gibbons (sg). Aslash mark (/) indicates a set with a common design from whichany value is usable. Cams and Minkus catalogue numbers aresometimes used, and identified by name.We are nearing the end of our philatelic biography—but rest assured,there is still much to come in the way of appendices andaddenda pages. Churchill commemorative stamps relating to the 247postwar years are scarce, requiring the broad use of Churchill-related(CR) stamps to fill out a chronological biography.247. To illustrate the postwar period I tried to select Churchillcommemoratives showing an older Churchill, but only partly succeeded.Montserrat #312"(sg 345) shows a WW2 Churchill. ButThe Gambia #308 (sg 322) is ideal for this page, its c. 1950s illustrationaccompanied by the caption, "'Winston the Prime MinisterAged 79." Likewise, Cook Islands #418 (sg 507) uses a Karshportrait from 1954 against a Parliamentary backdrop. Germany#574/7 (sg 928/31) and Australia #278 (sg 281) represent peaceand international understanding.248. Numerous Coronation Anniversaries have produced manystamps with this subject, but Tristan da Cunha #197 (sg 194)shows Churchill and Elizabeth II. Also appropriate is an Elizabethstamp from Fujiera's 1970 British History series, and BritishGuiana #297/8 (sg 394/5), which juxtaposes WSC and the Queen,flanking St. George's Cathedral in now-Guyana, the tallestwooden building in the world.249. More Churchill-Queen associations are represented by Belize#363 (sg 396), showing the coronation procession; Maldives1977 Coronation Silver Jubilee commemoratives, and Seychelles#321 (sg 331) showing an approximate contemporary WSC.PiilME XIKIS !•£•'. AGAIK, l^'II"'finally at 76, Cnurchiil rtct'ivufj \hf ;Jei'Lni-.ive '.ccol.'s :ehis career: He wau rocalltri tc h'.'j, nation 1 *, nigh^bt ciTics.;•cimc of pcacu. Ytu his terr. in office niic: Ic be .inticlir-fic"'There wasno Buttle o:'Britain'about tobegin, ' onlythe dull andnagging coldwar, whichChurchillset himselftc mitigate."'It seemed,during thistime, as hiswit crackle'iacross theHouse ofCommons, thatCnurchillwould defytime. But noteven he coulddo that.' 1During muchof this timein office,Jhurchill'cIT;-1 j or goalwzs internationalunderhanding.*•• riVi.ien George ~/Z JluC, in 1.^2, Churchill *ms noartbroken, an>] i'ora Urr.e ^saocJatrs tnoughl, him di.'TiJer.t -ibo^t Elizabeth II, '-.-.