Brad's posting (excerpt below) reminds me of a story about Winston Churchill during WWII.
There'd been a Cabinet meeting concerning food rationing among other things, so Churchill asked to see the individual food ration. By and by a Ministry of Food official arranged the ration one or two plates -- two ounces of cheese, two ounces of butter (or, rather, margarine), two ounces of meat, 2 lbs of potatoes, one pint of milk, an apple or two, four ounces of sugar, half a standard loaf, etc. (I'm only guessing now, but the quantities were of this order.) Churchill surveyed the food briefly: "M'mm . . . that would make a very satisfactory meal." And then stalked out of the room. Officials were too stunned to tell him that this was a week's rations. ------- My father was a policeman and a very scrupulous policeman, too. During the Blitz in 1942 when most of Coventry city centre was being flattened, my father was on duty. Even while the bombs were still falling, people were looting the food shops. Against everything in his nature and training hitherto, my father joined a crowd in a baker's shop, stuffed a long standard loaf into his uniform, ran three miles uphill to our home, opened the front door and threw the loaf into the house and then went back to his duties. I have a vivid memory of the way he burst through the front door with an expression on his face showing both elation and fear. Without any doubt he would have lost his job had it been known by his superiors, but that's how badly we needed food in those days. (BMcC) <<<< I recently saw a program on THe History Channel which described how pleased Winston Churchill was with the sinking of the Lusitania, because he believed that the loss of American lives would motivate Americans to want to fight against Germany. Different day, same sh-t. (And I personally would rather spend it in Bletchley Park(sp?) than on Midway or Omaha Beach. Speaking of which, what *did* Sir Winston sacrifice for the war?) \brad mccormick >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________