Lot Essay
Woods: "During the General Strike of 1926, Churchill edited the paper, which was initiated to combat the closing-down of the newspaper offices. It was published from the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street, where it was also printed by a volunteer staff ... one article at least can be conjecturally assigned to him. This was entitled 'The Birth and Life of "The British Gazette" and appeared in the final issue ... The article closes on a most Churchillian turn of phrase: 'It becomes a memory; but it remains a monument.'"