Churchill Dies: War Leader's Legacy Ends
Winston Churchill was voted out of office in July 1945, before World War II was even officially over. The man who'd rallied Britain through the Blitz, who'd given the speeches about fighting on the beaches, who'd held the alliance together — gone, replaced by a Labour government while he was at Potsdam negotiating the postwar world. He'd spent the 1930s as a political embarrassment, warning about Hitler when everyone else wanted to appease him. He was right. He came back as Prime Minister again in 1951, at 76, already declining. He died in 1965, 70 years to the day after his father died. The state funeral lasted 10 days.
January 24, 1965
61 years ago
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