On Baths and Bathtubs
I have spent a fruitless few hours trying to find a quote by Churchill about bathing. I interpret his remark, “why stand when you can sit down?” as suggesting that he preferred baths to showers, but recall that when he visited Russia, he said a bath there was “like lying in one’s own dirt.” Did he say that? The reason for my interest is that I want to give up baths for a month and would like to enlist the “help” of someone like WSC. —P.P., UK
Churchill's habits were well known to the Nazis, who lampooned him in this June 1941 cartoon in ILLUSTRIERTER BEOBACHTER.…