Hero Of The Empire: The Boer War, A Daring Escape, And The Making Of Winston Churchill - Plot & Excerpts
In fact, only a handful of men knew that anything was amiss, and they were not talking. While Churchill had been strolling through Pretoria, doing his best imitation of a man enjoying a summer evening, Haldane and Brockie had been scrambling to buy him time. They did this even though the mere mention of Winston Churchill’s name filled them with fury.Since Churchill’s escape the night before, the two men had been stunned to find themselves shut out of their own plan. Brockie, who had been adamantly against even including Churchill, was unable to choke back his rage. He let loose “a full dose of opprobrious epithets of which [he] had a liberal command,” Haldane wrote. There was, in fact, “a chorus of vituperation” against Churchill, because the officers who had wanted to join the plan themselves felt certain that it would be far harder for any of them to escape now. Haldane, while enduring Brockie’s “sneering allusions to ‘Your trusted friend—a nice kind of gentleman!’ ”
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