Fantome,
...to be welcomed back just eight years later as a national hero?...
There was another man in more recent times, a failed politician of 58, widely distrusted as he had "crossed the floor of the House of Commons twice" (changed political allegiance twice), and derided as a "warmonger" because he had repeatedly warned of the growing Nazi threat. His political career was finished, it seemed.
Eight years later he would take over the reins of power - and (by the sheer power of his oratory) save this country from its greatest danger in a thousand years.
Winston Churchill.
Danny.