Keith Hudson wrote: > > Brad's posting (excerpt below) reminds me of a story about Winston > Churchill during WWII. > > There'd been a Cabinet meeting concerning food rationing among other > things, so Churchill asked to see the individual food ration. > > By and by a Ministry of Food official arranged the ration one or two plates > -- two ounces of cheese, two ounces of butter (or, rather, margarine), two > ounces of meat, 2 lbs of potatoes, one pint of milk, an apple or two, four > ounces of sugar, half a standard loaf, etc. (I'm only guessing now, but the > quantities were of this order.) > > Churchill surveyed the food briefly: "M'mm . . . that would make a very > satisfactory meal." And then stalked out of the room. > > Officials were too stunned to tell him that this was a week's rations.
Just like American managers don't have the guts to tell the big boss that he's wrong. It would have been very simple for one of them to say to him: "Excuse me, Sir Winston, but I may not have expressed myself clearly: That was not one meal, but a whole week's ration. Please excuse if I spoke unclearly before." \brad mccormick > > ------- > > My father was a policeman and a very scrupulous policeman, too. During the > Blitz in 1942 when most of Coventry city centre was being flattened, my > father was on duty. Even while the bombs were still falling, people were > looting the food shops. Against everything in his nature and training > hitherto, my father joined a crowd in a baker's shop, stuffed a long > standard loaf into his uniform, ran three miles uphill to our home, opened > the front door and threw the loaf into the house and then went back to his > duties. I have a vivid memory of the way he burst through the front door > with an expression on his face showing both elation and fear. Without any > doubt he would have lost his job had it been known by his superiors, but > that's how badly we needed food in those days. > > (BMcC) > <<<< > I recently saw a program on THe History Channel which > described how pleased Winston Churchill was with the sinking > of the Lusitania, because he believed that > the loss of American lives would > motivate Americans to want to fight against Germany. > > Different day, same sh-t. > > (And I personally would rather spend it in Bletchley Park(sp?) > than on Midway or Omaha Beach. Speaking of which, what > *did* Sir Winston sacrifice for the war?) > > \brad mccormick > >>>> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > > Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com > 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England > Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ________________________________________________________________________ -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
