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Churchill's paintings bring "peace and hope" to Queen Mary exhibit

LONG BEACH, Calif. - It was late summer 1939. Winston Churchill, then a member of the British Parliament, and artist Paul Maze were leisurely painting at their easels by a babbling brook in the French countryside. Suddenly, a messenger boy came running across the field, clutching a telegram. "Situation worsening," it read. "Advice: Come home. You might have a job," Maze later recalled in a documentary.

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