ABSTRACT
Winston Churchills tribute to Sir James Hawkey, Woodford Guardian, 30 May 1952. Sir Roger Hawkey suggested in correspondence that it was apolitical. He wrote to Donald Forbes expressing his view that during the Munich Crisis of 1938 Sir Stuart sat on the fence. Sir James Hawkey addressed the meeting: You have every reason to feel a sense of pride in churchill for the years of warning he has given for which he was described as a warmonger, repeated in such a scandalous way. Sir James Hawkey died. Churchill issued a formal statement later: he was generous in his appreciation: In the death of Sir James Hawkey he feel we have lost a distinguished friend and colleague. The coffin was taken to the family grave where Lady Hawkey had been buried three years previously, the long procession of mourners treading the winding path through the brilliant sunshine. One mourner recalls Churchill standing by the grave in tears.
