Torr Anderson, one of Churchill’s advisers on defence, Addison was briefed on matters concerning power. Anderson informed Addison in March 1938 that Churchill deemed him ‘a good ally to have’. Addison in turn gave input into the Labour Party leadership’s thinking on air defense” (ibid., pp. 4–5). Churchill did not offer Addison a ministerial post in his wartime government, but did offer him the post of vice chairman of the Development Commission, which Addison declined to concentrate on the Lords. Addison held further ministerial posts under Attlee. Christopher and Dorothy married in 1937. “The new Lady Addison manifestly did not share Addison’s radicalism. However, as a poised and supportive wife she sustained his morale and enduring ambition. They lived in the village of Radnage, in Buckinghamshire, quite near Chequers” ( ODNB ). The Second World War was Churchill’s masterpiece, the single most important historical account of the conflict, and a major factor in Churchill being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. The US editions were published slightly earlier due to contractual obligations, but Churchill treated the UK Cassell editions as the authorized firsts and reserved his final proof corrections for them. 6 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, grey endpapers decorated with a design that alternates a lion rampant with the initials W.S.C, top edges pink. With typographical dust jackets with background design to match the endpapers. Light spotting to edges and endpapers and sporadically to contents, first volume with a few instances of pencilled sidelining and with last few leaves a little creased, a very good set in very good jackets, minor edgewear and slight sunning and spotting, all without repair and with prices intact. ¶ Cohen A240.4; Woods A123(b). Kenneth O. Morgan, P ortrait of a progressive: the Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison , 1980; Chris Wrigley, Winston Churchill A Biographical Companion, 2002. £8,750 [157325] 31 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Painting as a Pastime. London: Odhams Press and Ernest Benn Limited, 1949 PRESENTATION COPY TO THE ARTIST LADY LE ROUGETEL, wife OF BRITAIN’S WARTIME REPRESENTATIVE IN BUCHAREST First separate edition, third impression, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “To Lady Le Rougetel from Winston S. Churchill, 1950”. Mary
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Geraldine Harriet Le Rougetel ( née Penrose, 1892– 1984) was a keen painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy; her husband, a career diplomat, served Churchill’s wartime ministry as Britain’s senior emissary to Romania. Between 1920 and 1955, Sir John Helier Le Rougetel (1894–1975) served in the diplomatic corps in a number of high-level postings. In 1940 he spent a year as Counsellor in the Moscow embassy before being posted to Shanghai, where he was captured and interned by the Japanese. Following his release, in 1944 he was appointed as Britain’s representative in Romania. His concern regarding Soviet suppression of Romanian democrats clashed with Churchill’s pragmatic desire not to upset relations with Moscow. Octavo. Original light green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. With half-tone frontispiece, 18 colour plates. Gilt bright, head of boards lightly sunned, marking at foot of rear cover, endpapers lightly foxed, split at gutter between plates 9 and 10, still sound, illustrations bright. A very good copy in like dust jacket, not price- clipped, with rubbing to extremities and a few minor chips. ¶ Cohen A242.1.a. £6,500 [155176]
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“Between 1910 and 1922, Churchill and Viscount Addison maintained amicable relations as fellow reforming Liberals and then as Liberal coalitionist supporters of David Lloyd George. Their main difference was over intervention in Bolshevik Russia. Churchill was by far the more charismatic figure, yet Addison also enjoyed a long ministerial career . . . In Lloyd George’s government, Addison was initially minister of munitions, a post he held from December 1916 until Churchill succeeded him on 17 July 1917. Addison was supportive when Lloyd George strengthened the Liberal part of the coalition government and saw Churchill’s return as especially important . . . He also continued to be one of the main organizers of Lloyd George’s support within the Liberal Party, and he and Churchill usually agreed about political issues” (Wrigley, p. 4). In 1937 Addison was elevated to the Lords. “In the House of Lords, Addison was a notable critic of appeasement. Through Wing Commander Charles
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