Winston S. Churchill by Martin Gilbert Volume VIII Never Despair 1945-1965 (1988)
Epilogue
...After a short private service, Churchill was buried next to his father, his mother and his brother Jack in Bladon churchyard, less than a mile from his own birthplace, Blenheim Palace.
...Lord Chandos, the other speaker that evening, recalled Churchill the Club member, and the statesman:He enjoyed a good dinner. He made jokes at the expense of all but at the cost of none. He enjoyed a conflict of ideas, but not a conflict between people. His powers were those of imagination, experience, and magnanimity. Perhaps not enough has been made of his magnanimity. He saw man as a noble and not as a mean creature. The only people he never forgave were those, who, in the words he so often used, ‘fell beneath the level of events’.
Notes
...The Times, 3 May 1945. A considerable literature has been built up around the phrase ‘Iron Curtain’. In 1918 the Russian émigré philosopher Vasily Rozanov wrote in his book Apocalypse of our Time: ‘With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.’ In 1920 Ethel Snowden, returning from Soviet Russia, described that country, in her book Through Bolshevik Russia, as being behind an ‘iron curtain’. The phrase had later been used by Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Dr Goebbels, when he referred on 25 February 1945 to ‘ein eiserner Vorhang’.