A Lifelong Engagement:
Churchill and Secret Service

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Winston Churchill
PROCEEDINGS
of the International Churchill Societies 1994-95

A Lifelong Engagement:
Churchill and Secret Service

Professor David Stafford
University of Edinburgh, 21 May 1994

IN THE evening of Wednesday 12 July 1923, in the Upper Library of this University, the Principal held a dinner for those receiving honorary degrees. The most distinguished guest that night was the Rt. Hon Winston Churchill. In proposing the toast, the Principal joked that Mr. Churchill, like the University; was no respecter of party labels, which should only be "semi-adhesive." He himself had worked under Mr. Churchill at the Admiralty during the war, and Churchill deserved the degree as a man of letters, as a soldier, and as a statesman.

Mr. Churchill reciprocated the compliments. Scotland had been good to him, he said. Here he had found his wife. (Clementine Churchill was a granddaughter to the Earl of Airlie on her mother’s side. Her farther was educated at Edinburgh Academy and came from a Glasgow brewery family.) He ha . . .