
Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, London © Sue Lowry & Magellan PR
Churchill, speech at the Author’s Club, London, 17 February 1908. By a ‘squeezer’ pen, he means a fountain pen – those, new at the time, that have an inflatable rubber ‘balloon’ that takes up ink from an inkwell when the squeezed balloon is released (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words)
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