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    SNAPSHOTS

    Jun 10, 2022 1 minute

    1932

    CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR

    Still smiling and still holding a cigar, a recovering Winston Churchill is stretchered into his London home. The past couple of years had been trying for the statesman, not least politically as he festered in his ‘wilderness years’ with

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