
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 6, 1995                   TAG: 9505080079
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LONDON                                LENGTH: Short

CHURCHILL'S ROYALTIES DONATED

Staving off fresh controversy over royalties, Sir Winston Churchill's' grandson promised Friday to give veterans any profits made from VE-Day rebroadcasts of the late leader's wartime speeches.

Some radio stations had protested that the family trust was charging for any speeches rebroadcast during 50th anniversary celebrations this weekend of the end of World War II.

The Churchill legacy became a political controversy when the government paid $20 million for the former prime minister's pre-1945 private papers.

``The proceeds from any of my grandfather's speeches quoted in the context of the VE-Day celebrations will be donated to the [Royal Air Force] Benevolent Fund,'' said Winston Churchill, a Conservative member of Parliament.

The younger Churchill has vigorously defended the sale of the papers. He said they were the only sizeable asset owned by his father, who was nearly bankrupt by the end of the war.

- Associated Press

by CNB