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Historical Anecdotes

Just before he died, Brendan Behan the Irish playwright, looked up at the nursing nun who was taking his pulse. "Bless you, Sister," he said with a weak smile. "May all your sons be Bishops!"

Lady Astor was one of a group of eminent English visitors to Russia in 1931. Never one to mince her words, she asked Stalin, "How long are you going to go on killing people?" "As long as it is necessary," replied Stalin.

Entering the men's room at the House of Commons one day, Winston Churchill found Clement Attler already standing at the urinal. Churchill took up his stand at the opposite end of the urinal. "Feeling standoffish today, are we, Winston?" asked Attler. "That's right," replied Churchill. "Every time you see something big, you want to nationalize it."

Sir Austen (not Neville) Chamberlain and his wife were dining one evening with the well-known London hostess, Mrs. Ronnie Greville. The excellent food and wine were marred only by the fact that the butler had obviously been drinking. Rather than make a scene in front of her guests, Mrs. Greville surreptitiously scribbled a note and handed it to him. The message read: "You are drunk leave the room at once." The butler dutifully laid the slip of paper on a silver server, trotted around to the other side of the table, and presented it to Sir Chamberlain.

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Updated 5 June 1997