Churchill Fille

A year ago last week Winston Churchill wrote his name after a vague list of war aims, the Atlantic Charter, to which last week a fresh young (19) brain contributed recommendations. Sergeant Mary Churchill of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (army), who a week before had been spanked by a Yank (TIME, Aug. 10), wrote for her anti-aircraft battery's newspaper an editorial on "Life After the War."

A verdant slip off the old stock, the Prime Minister's youngest and favorite child walks like her father, talks like her father, thinks as she pleases. Thoughts:

> "I wonder how many people think we've only got to win the war and everything will be hunky-dory? [Many people think this is what Churchill Pere thinks, but Churchill Pere knows he is too old to win both the war and the peace.] You and I are the English-speaking peoples, and the doughboy who came to the dance last night. It will be YOUR responsibility and MINE and HIS to see that the world becomes a fairer . . . place. . . . It won't be enough to go back [home after the war] and let the world go hang.

> "If we had taken a livelier interest in world affairs before this war . . . Europe might still be free.

> "Democracy doesn't mean the hiring of a government, paying them to get on with it, and then sacking them when they've muddled into war. Democracy means caring and striving and quite often fighting.

> "If our post-war world is going to be brave and new, it will be because WE MAKE IT SO, because we fight to win the peace as sternly as we are now fighting to win the war."

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