Churchill was not yet Prime Min­is­ter, but soon eclipsed Cham­ber­lain in cartoonists’
imag­i­na­tions. One of many rarely seen draw­ings in Tim Benson’s book was by Harold Hodges in
the “West­ern Mail” of 29 Jan­u­ary 1940, two days after WSC’s great Man­ches­ter speech: “Let us
to the task!” Ben­son accom­pa­nies this car­toon with the com­plete peroration.