Work Study Volume 17 Issue 9

Abstract

RETIRING prime ministers are customarily offered an earldom. Because this often involves a change of name and historical oblivion, some of the greatest among them, men like Pitt and Gladstone and Churchill, have declined the honour. They understood that it is not names which give confidence in things, but things which give confidence in names. What would an Earl Chartwell of Westerham mean to future generations compared with the clarion voice we know as Churchill?

Citation

(1968), "Work Study Volume 17 Issue 9", Work Study, Vol. 17 No. 9, pp. 5-43. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048235