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Secret areas of Winston Churchill's underground bunker, the nerve center for British military planning and intelligence in World War II, are to be opened to the public for the first time.
Access will be allowed to Churchill's private quarters, showing a personal side of the wartime prime minister, director of London's Cabinet War Rooms museum Phil Reed said.
Churchill, who died at the age of 90 in 1965, led Britain between 1940 and 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
The rooms, hidden for 60 years, are to be renovated in a $17 million project and will open in 2003, joining parts of the labyrinthine Cabinet War Rooms, which have been open since 1984.
It was in these dank and airless rooms, not far from his official residence in Downing Street, central London, where Churchill had coded telephone conversations with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, plotted campaigns with generals and slept during the heaviest nights of bombing.
The newly revealed rooms will include the family dining room and the kitchen where Churchill's cook, undeterred by food rationing, worked to sate the leader's famous appetite.
"These inauspicious yet historically important rooms have been hidden from the public for too long. This is where the country's leading figures ate, slept, sought refuge from the wartime bombs and made momentous decisions," Reed told reporters.
Reed also plans to open a Churchill museum in 2005, the 60th anniversary year of the end of the war, housing paintings, papers and school reports of Churchill.
Churchill's grandson, also called Winston Churchill, told reporters he remembered playing toy trains with his grandfather in the underground bunker. He said his grandfather would have approved of a project that taught people about the past.
"It is only by knowing where you're coming from that you can have any hope of knowing where you're going," Churchill quoted his grandfather as having said.
中文翻译
温斯顿·丘吉尔的地下掩体——二战期间英国军事规划和情报的神经中枢——的秘密区域将首次向公众开放。
伦敦战时内阁博物馆馆长菲尔·雷德表示，公众将可以参观丘吉尔的私人住所，从而了解这位战时首相的个人生活一面。
丘吉尔于1965年去世，享年90岁，他曾于1940年至1945年以及1951年至1955年领导英国。
这些隐藏了60年的房间将在一个耗资1700万美元的项目中进行翻新，并于2003年开放，成为自1984年以来已部分开放的迷宫般战时内阁的一部分。
正是在这些阴湿、密不透风的房间里（距离伦敦市中心唐宁街的官邸不远），丘吉尔曾通过密码电话与富兰克林·D·罗斯福总统通话，与将军们策划战役，并在轰炸最猛烈的夜晚在此过夜。
新开放的房间将包括家庭餐厅和厨房。在那里，丘吉尔的厨师不顾食物配给限制，努力满足这位领导人著名的食欲。
雷德告诉记者：“这些看似不起眼但具有重要历史意义的房间对公众隐藏得太久了。这是我们国家领导人物吃饭、睡觉、躲避战时轰炸并做出重大决定的地方。”
雷德还计划在2005年——战争结束60周年之际——开放一个丘吉尔博物馆，馆内将收藏丘吉尔的画作、文件和学校报告。
丘吉尔的孙子，也叫温斯顿·丘吉尔，告诉记者他记得曾在地下掩体里和祖父一起玩玩具火车。他说，他的祖父会赞同这个教育人们了解过去的项目。
丘吉尔引用他祖父的话说：“只有了解你来自何处，你才有希望知道你将去往何方。”