ABSTRACT
Churchill was never more likeable than in his periods of innocent bewilderment in the political wilderness. Until he regained his wind and organized his forces, he paused in his pursuit of power and gave his mind and energies to a variety of social and cultural activities. The war and the long, unfruitful negotiations in the aftermath had put Lloyd George and Churchill himself off course. While their stature had increased as statesmen, they had diminished as domestic politicians. Evidently the electors had their minds on other things. Furious crowds taunted him savagely and loaded him with the entire responsibility for the tragic failure of the Dardanelles. Churchill and Marsh had worked together on the first volume in the summer of 1921 at Biarritz when Churchill had been Colonial Secretary, and in one of his phases of high romanticism. Reluctantly Churchill had to accept Lawrence’s statement that all personal ambition had died in him before he had entered Damascus in triumph.
