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Article: The right photographer can strip a leader's power in a flash
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2009
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Robert Fisk's World
The photograph was taken in the Speaker's Chamber in the Canadian
House of Commons in Ottawa - only a four-hour train ride down the
old Canadian Pacific tracks from the studio in Toronto where Shelton
Chen is displaying it now - and Churchill had just delivered his
"Some chicken - some neck!" speech to a crescendo of applause. But
it wasn't the speech that made him glower. Nor was it Hitler's
apparently imminent capture of Moscow. Churchill was a sick man when
he arrived in Ottawa, "flabby and tired" according to the Canadian
prime minister, Mackenzie King. But no, it wasn't his health. It was
the little problem of his cigar.
Churchill did not know that King had trapped ...
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