More Travels with Jean Hanuman: England
You may revisit Hanuman's
travels in France here.
Jean
Hanuman/ Jack Hannon Winslow
I'd been wandering
through the stacks in the library at the fabulous Blenheim
Palace, birthplace of Sir
Winston Churchill. When I finally came to the Italian Terraced Gardens,
a crowd was gathered, listening in rapt atention. On top of a wall, wearing
a three-piece tweed suit and smoking an enormous cigar, (where he had managed
to find these was anyone's guess) cheeks puffed out, was our own Jean Hanuman,
addressing the crowd in a voice that was the perfect imitation of Churchill.
From memory, Hanuman delivers the famous speech:
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we
shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe,
this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire
beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the
struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and
might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
I doubt that the great man himself received
as rousing an ovation as did young Jean. Men shouted, women swooned, schoolchildren
threw their hats in the air, and the Oxford students did their part. One side
of the garden would shout lustily: "WE ARE" and from the other side
came the response: "ENG-LAND."
 Jean has always been attracted to sculptures. "I believe my first playground was a statue of the Buddha in my home in the jungle," he explains. |
 Jean soars on the eagle at the base of the staircase. (How happy he looks!) |
The Private
Garden of of the current Earl of Marlbourough
