CHURCHILL, Winston S. & Randolph (subjects).

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Private Eye, Number 30. The rare suppressed issue of Private Eye Number 30, which was withdrawn because of a libel against Winston and Randolph Churchill - a cartoon on the rear page which presented "the Greatest Dying Englishman" and "the Great Bumpkin himself, Rudolph Rednose".Also included is a letter from the publisher apologizing to subscribers for suppressing the issue and the copy of the Evening Standard in which they were forced to take out a full-page apology.Randolph Churchill had recently begun work on the official biography of his father, along with a team of historians. The cartoon, by Willie Rushton, depicts Randolph surrounded by "hacks" - "never was so much written by so many for so little. But, as the Bumpkin and his hirelings pay nightly homage with readings from the Great Book, as fat offers for serialisation flow in from the scoop-hungry Sunday Telegraph - a dreadful doubt arises. That like all Official Portraits this one too will bear little resemblance to the original". It then depicts Winston's actions that Randolph will surely not include - threatening to shoot workers in the Tonypandy riots, not investing in roads as Chancellor of the Exchequer, fighting Indian independence, the disaster of the Dieppe raid in 1942 ("Only 5000 dead! you should have seen what we did at Gallipoli!", Winston quips), and his insincerity in calling for a united Europe. Instead, Randolph Churchill's biography "will concentrate instead on the one short period of his life from

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