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

[Great Britain]. Churchill, W.S. (1874-1965). TYPESCRIPT LETTER SIGNED "Yours ever, Winston", to "My dear Max" (= William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook), dated "15 March, 1953", (2) lvs., the first w. the Prime Minister's oval seal and printed address "10, Downing Street, Whitehall", recto only.

- Both lvs. w. 3 filing holes.

= Gratefully turning down an invitation to spend the Easter holidays at Lord Beaverbrook's estate in Cap d'Ail, France, due to work obligations as well as reasons of personal interest. "In the first place I have two horses running on Easter Saturday and two more on Easter Monday whose fortunes are of great interest to me. But more seriously the budget comes in immediately after the recess and this affects our affairs so much that I feel bound to be in constant touch with Rab, so I am going to stay at Chartwell with a number of grandchildren (...). Hardly a week passes without some unusual misfortune. The Larne packet, the floods, the poor soldiers and their wives flying to Jamaica. The new Soviet Government shooting down our airplane and kiling six men. Neguib, Mussadiq and all the rest. However I am going to welcome Tito on monday." Ending with a manuscript PS: "Clemmie has just shown me your most kind letter which[?] she has called a reply".

Max Aitken was a British-Canadian media tycoon, wartime minister of Aircraft Production and personal friend of Winston Churchill. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.