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[Great Britain]. Churchill, W.S. (1874-1965). TYPESCRIPT LETTER SIGNED "Yours [?],...

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[Great Britain]. Churchill, W.S. (1874-1965). TYPESCRIPT LETTER SIGNED "Yours [?], Winston Churchill", to "My dear Max" (= William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook), dated "May 31st 1918", 1 fold. leaf ((2)p.), w. blindst. oval seal of the "Ministry of Munitions of War" and "Whitehall Place, S.W.1", manuscript "Private" in heading.

- Two filing holes.

= Concerning an argument over a bet (of "£25 to £5") placed between the two regarding the distance between Paris and Chateau Thierry. Apparently, ambiguity arose on the question of how to define Paris: "The discussion arose out of the military situation, and I naturally had in my mind the great mass of houses and buildings of which Paris is composed, and not any arbitrary point in the city from which distances are measured. (...) The bet was written down by you in the form of an even fiver, although all reference to the definition of Paris was omitted." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.

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[Great Britain]. Churchill, W.S. (1874-1965). TYPESCRIPT LETTER SIGNED "Yours [?], Winston Churchill", to "My dear Max" (= William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook), dated "May 31st 1918", 1 fold. leaf ((2)p.), w. blindst. oval seal of the "Ministry of Munitions of War" and "Whitehall Place, S.W.1", manuscript "Private" in heading.

- Two filing holes.

= Concerning an argument over a bet (of "£25 to £5") placed between the two regarding the distance between Paris and Chateau Thierry. Apparently, ambiguity arose on the question of how to define Paris: "The discussion arose out of the military situation, and I naturally had in my mind the great mass of houses and buildings of which Paris is composed, and not any arbitrary point in the city from which distances are measured. (...) The bet was written down by you in the form of an even fiver, although all reference to the definition of Paris was omitted." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.

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