On May 27, 1944, just ten days before Overlord, he found time for:
Prime Minister to Minister of Fuel and Power
"I hope you will put a stop to nonsense like this. (Reports in the Yorkshire Post that that a householder was fined one pound, with two guineas cost, for having borrowed coal from a neighbor.) Nothing makes departments so unpopular as these acts of petty bureaucratic folly which come to light from time to time and are, I fear, only typical of of a vast amount of silly wrongdoing by small officials or committees. You should make an example of of the people concerned with this."
Winston Churchill in Closing the Ring, H/M 1951 BCE, p. 714
On second thought, this is of merely historical interest here in 21st Century America where we have entirely disposed of petty satrapy.
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I'm somewhat embarassed about linking Overlord to Wiki, but who knows when a dedicated member of the National Education Association might stumble across the post?
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