President Shim'on Peres met Sunday evening with Edwina Sandys, the granddaughter of former British prime minister Winston Churchill, an internationally renownedsculptor, who is visitingIsrael as a guest of the Information and Diaspora Affairs Ministry toexplorea location to placea newsculpture on which sheis working. Peres told Sandys, "The Jewish peopleowea huge debtto your grandfatherforthe historicalpathhe laid out.Our peoplegrateful foryour family."
Sandysrepliedthather grandfather's politicallifewas not easy, andthe president saidin this context,"Anyone whoswimsagainst the stream takes a very difficult task upon him[self] but he swamand he won.The name ofChurchillis heardand rememberedthroughout history,and his wordsring everywhere." Peres shared impressions related by David Ben-Gurion after meeting with Churchill and offered to locate an emotional letter he had written him. Sandys showed the president a book of her work and he welcomed her initiative to place her work in Israel.