GREAT BRITAIN: The Hen-Lion

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The triumphant Churchillian cock-a-doodling reflected a soberer opinion on the part of many Tory mentors that Churchill's stock did in fact stand far higher in the country than it had a year ago, when many Britons felt he might take unnecessary foreign risks. The assembled Tories found that he could still roar defiance at his enemies. "Let us go forward," he told the conference, brandishing a party symbol aloft, "with our sturdy, our unconquerable lions." Hen-like, the Tories thought they could still deliver the goods.