Folks, I am looking for some information on the Committee "Hope Not" charged by Prime Minister Macmillan to organize the funeral for WSC. I know it was set up in 1963 under the Chairmanship of the Duke of Norfolk. Is there a more precise date on when it was established and the actual circumstances that possibly impelled the Prime Minister to set the Committee up? I was recently asked if it was because WSC had become very ill again., While so frail that he could not go to the April 9 1963 event in Washington DC when he was made an Honorary Citizen of the US, I can't find a particular event that might have led to Macmillan's action. I know he was "never the same again" after his hip fracture and surgery in June 1962. Does anyone have any background information, or can direct me to a good source, with dates etc. on the circumstances of the setting up of "Hope Not". Maybe there is something in Finest Hour but I can't find anything that answers my question. Thank you. John John H. Mather MD FACPE
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