Comment: One never hears of Baldwin nowadays — he might as well be dead.
Churchill: No, not dead. But the candle in that great turnip has gone out.


Harold Nicolson's diary, August 1950


Comment: One never hears of Baldwin nowadays — he might as well be dead. Churchill: No, not dead. But the candle in that great turnip has gone out.

Comment: One never hears of Baldwin nowadays — he might as well be dead. Churchill: No, not dead. But the candle in that great turnip has gone out.

Comment: One never hears of Baldwin nowadays — he might as well be dead. Churchill: No, not dead. But the candle in that great turnip has gone out.

Comment: One never hears of Baldwin nowadays — he might as well be dead. Churchill: No, not dead. But the candle in that great turnip has gone out.