4. ... (1) Churchill and de Gaulle... (2) colourful characters in their ...
(3) right. Both became national ... (4), both becoming ... (5) of this role in
the same "darkest hour". Each ... (6) eventually rejected ... (7) his own ...
(8) when the personality had outlived the symbol. Both were masterly writers
with a... (9) of history and patriotic inspiration. Both were ... (10) successful
in ... (11) ancient and unfashionable ... (12) of rhetoric. Both enjoyed without
question ... (13) strange title ... (14) "statesman" and yet they came ...
(15) it by widely differing ... (16). Churchill was a professional politician and
(17) amateur strategist; de Gaulle a ... (18) soldier with a dislike bordering
(19) contempt for politicians. As statesmen they were not merely accepted
by their countrymen as... (20).