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Private Secretary G.C.B. Dodds Remembers Churchill in Wartime
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May
2019
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By ROBERT LYONS and G.C.B. DODDS
One night, following my usual routine, I managed to get him to bed by about three o’clock. I thought I had him asleep. He had taken his sleeping draught and was snoring loudly. I went back to the Cabinet Office, sent the girls home and started to tidy up. Suddenly the door opened, and in he came in his dressing-gown. "You take shorthand, don’t you?” Not wanting to admit that I didn’t, I replied, “I can do my best, sir.” I picked up a pad of foolscap and a pen, and he began to dictate. “Letter to Eden, subject de Gaulle...."