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And we continue with our American stories. Up next, a story on education and Sir Winston Churchill, told by Dr. Larry

Peorn, a Churchill scholar and president of Hillsdale College. Winston Churchill, do you know,

was a very great man. It's a breathtaking. He had flaws and all that, right?

But nobody like him.

He writes of Hitler,

You see these dictators on their pedestals,

surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police.

On all sides, they are guarded by masses of armed men and cannons and airplanes and forts. And they vaunt themselves before the world. Yet in their hearts there

is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words.

Words spoken abroad.

Thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because forbidden.

These terrify them.

A little mouse of thought appears in the room and even the mightiest potentates are thrown

into a panic. A tyrant is the enemy of learning any high thing. That's the worst thing about them.

And Winston Churchill knew that.

Didn't go to college.

I met Sir Martin Gilbert, through whom I met Penelope Arne, in a little library in North London

called the Viener Library.

And this library is, we were to meet there,

and then I was to walk with him to the London School of Economics

where I was supposed to be a student, although I hardly ever went there.

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