Index
Compiled by the author
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
(Winston S. Churchill): work on, 509,
593,605,607,616,619,916,918,944,
949,950
Aachen: Churchill's speech in (1956),
947
Abbeville: Churchill warns of danger to
(1918), 390; German forces reach
(1940),648
Abbey Division (Westminster): Churchill
stands at (1924), 460
Abdication crisis (of 1936), 568, 569, 570
Abdullah, Emir: and Palestine, 432; and
Transjordan, 434, 435
Aboukir Bay (Egypt): Churchill visits,
434
Abyssinia: Churchill seeks action in
(1897), 81; threatened, 544 invaded,
546; and the Hoare-Laval 'pact', 548;
and sanctions, 553
Acheson, Dean: Churchill's question to
(1951),901
Adams, Vyvyan: 'I wish you could talk to
us every night', 630
Adana (Turkey): Churchill's journey to
(1943),739
Addison, Dr Christopher: wants to find
a task for Churchill (1917), 372, 374;
and Churchill's arrival at Munitions,
375
Adeane, Sir Michael: and Churchill's
resignation, 938, 939
Adenauer, Dr: Churchill's appeal to
(1954),932
Aderno (Sicily): captured, 750
Admiralty: Churchill would like to go to
(1908), 193; Churchill angered by
attitude of (1911), 236; Churchill
seeks to defend his record at, 326;
Churchill hopes to return to, 339; 'fast
asleep', 367; Churchill's 'heart in'
(1918),404; Churchill suggested for
(1924),465; Churchill's conflict with
(1925), 468; Churchill not to go to
(1931), 503; Churchill's possible
return to (1935), 547; no chance of
Churchill's return to (1936), 549;
Churchill's return to, advocated
(1939),613; rumours of Churchill's
return to Ouly 1939),616; Churchill's
return to (September 1939), 623;
caution of (1940), 674; Churchill
recalls (1944),794
Adriatic: Churchill sails through (1913},
249; proposed landingon(1915),294,
295, 296; strategy for (1943-44),751;
and British strategy (1944-45), 780,
789,806
Aegean Sea: Churchill's search for action
in (1943), 755; Stalin wants a naval
base on (1945), 853
afforestation: the State to take a lead in,
184
Afghanistan, 421
Africa: 'always claims its forfeits', 190; an
'entirely new chapter for (1938),587
Afridis: to be invaded (1897), 75
Agadir (Morocco): crisis at (1911),233;
result of Britain's firmness at, 241
Agamemnon: and the Dardanelles, 296
Agheila: battle at (1942),736
Agincourt, battleof(1415): 289
Agrah (North-West Frontier): Churchill
in action at (1897), 78
Aid to Russia Appeal: launched (1941),
708
Aidin (Turkey): Churchill visits (1910),
218
air: British supremacy in, lacking( 1916),
343; Germans 'master of (1916), 350
Air Board: established (1916), 362;
Churchill's possible Chairmanship of,
369; opposition to Churchill's
Chairmanship of, 373
984
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
air defence of Britain: Churchill takes
responsibility for (19 I 4),279
Air Defence Research: Churchill's
concern for (1934-39), 532, 536, 544
Air Department: Churchill seeks (1915),
328
Air Force: See index entry for Royal Air
Force
Air Minister: Churchill spoken of, as
(1938),591
Air Ministry: not in prospect (I 916),344;
to go to someone else (1916), 349;
Churchill's hope for (1916), 361;
Churchill's possible appointment to,
369; Churchill's return to, advocated
(1939),613; 'don't irritate' (1939), 629
air power: and Constantinople, 324; and
Sinn Fein (1920), 422; and Ireland,
446; at Chanak (1922), 452 and 'stern
justice', 769
Air Raid Precautions (1939), 608,61 I
Air Staff: and Defence deficiencies
(1937-38), 583, 592
aircraft production: to be accelerated
(1914), 281; Churchill's initiatives for
(1917-18), 380, 382; plans for (for
1919),394
airship: Churchill flies in, and steers
(1913),251
Aitken, Max: and the coming of war in
1914,272; and the political crisis of
May 1915,318; Churchill's friendship
with, 339; urges Churchill to speak in
Army debate (1916), 354; and the
political crisis of December 1916, 368;
for
subsequent
index
entries
see
Beaverbrook, Lord
Aix-en-Provence: Churchill works at
(1948),881
Ajax: Churchill on board, off Athens
(1944),810,811,812
Alam HaIfa (Egypt): battle of (1942), 730
Alamein (Egypt): Germans reach (1942),
724; Churchill visits positions at, 726;
battle of, 732
Alamein Reunion: Churchill speaks at
(1949),887
Alaska: Churchill prepared to brave
'mosquitos' of (1944), 784
Albania: invaded by Italy (1939), 612;
partisans in (1943), 749; future of
(1944),797
Albanians: 'may leap out' (1939),618
Albany (New York): Churchill visits
(1900),137
Albert Hall (London): Churchill speaks
at, 500, 547, 926, 947, 951; Churchill
watches election results at (1935), 547
Albert I, King of the Belgians, 283
Albert Medal: Churchill makes a
recommendation for, 112
Aldershot: Churchill serves at (1895),51,
53
Aldwych Club (London): Churchill
speaks at (1923), 458
Alexander, A.V.: on the Defence
Committee,673; and the break-up of
the Coalition (1945), 845; and
conscription (1947), 875
Alexander, General Sir Harold: in
Burma (1942),
719;
becomes
Commander-in-Chief, Middle East,
726; directive t<;>, 726; and Enigma,
731; and Anzlo, 763, 765, 767;
advances beyond Rome, 778; and the
prospects of continuing the battle in
Italy 0 une 1944), 780; forces the
Germans from Florence, 786;
Churchill watches battle with, in Italy,
790; a setback to, 795; to go to Vienna,
709; in Athens, 808; and Churchill's
mission to Athens (Christmas 1944),
809; reaches Trieste, 839; at Potsdam,
850; his friendly gesture, 858;
becomes Minister of Defence (1952),
905
and
the
Alexandretta
(Turkey):
Dardanelles, 302
Alexandria (Egypt): French warships at
(1940), 666; Churchill reaches
(November 1943),759
Alfonso, King of Spain: and Churchill's
plans for September 1914, 262
Algiers: landing at (1942),733; Churchill
flies to (1943), 740; Churchill returns
toOune 1943), 747; Churchill reaches
(November 1943), 758; Churchill
returns to (August 1944),786
Aliakmon Line (Greece): to be held, 691;
attacked, 696; given up, 697
Aliens Bill: Churchill opposes (1904),
165.167; 'indefensible', 194
Allahabad Pioneer: publishes Churchill's
North-West Frontier telegrams, 75,
86; Churchill's further writings for,
87
Allen, Commodore G.R.G.: works on The
Second World War, 871, 906, 916
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Alliance Aeroplane Works (London):
strike at (1918), 392
Altmark: boarded (1940), 633
Ameland (Holland): a possible assault on
(1914),277
American Civil War:
Churchill's
intended history of (1898), 87;
Churchill visits battlefields of (1929),
494
American journalism: 'vulgarity divested
of truth', 57
Amery, Julian: urges Churchill to visit
troops (1942), 724; with Churchill in
Cairo, 762
Amery, Leo: his praise, 459; protests,
481; and Protection, 491; and the
'loyalty of a leech', 496; and the
Defence Deputation (1936), 559; and
the Abdication crisis, 570; and Munich
(1938), 597; recalls the last halting
steps to war (September 1939), 620;
and the outbreak of war (September
1939), 623; and the fIOlitical crisis
(April-May
1940),
638;
and
Churchill's call for Franco-German
reconciliation (1946),873
amnesty: Churchill proposes (1952),907
Amphion: sunk (1914),277
Amritsar: Churchill upholds censure on
Army action at, 422
Amsterdam: and Churchill's support for
a European Assembly (1948), 880
Anacostia Naval Air Base (Washington):
Churchill lands at (1942), 722
Ancient Britons: Churchill 'entangled'
with (1938), 593
Anderson, Sir John: demands an
ultimatum (September 1939), 620;
and Greece, 690; and the atom bomb,
746; and the war against Japan, 850
Anderson, Squadron-Leader C.T.:
brings
Churchill
information
(1936-38),556,560,567,573,579
Anglo-American
alliance:
needed'
(1945),861
Anglo-American co-operation: no cause
for shame, 504; inTunisia(1943), 741,
743; and the atom bomb, 746;
Churchill's confidence in, 747; and
Anzio, 765; 'indispensable' (1945),
848; Churchill's plan for (1945), 851
Anglo-American policy: setback to
(1942),736'dommatingaimof(I943),
740; and Sicily, 743; evolution of (May
985
1943), 745; and the drive to Berlin
(1945),834; and Japan (1945), 851
Anglo-American Shipping Adjustment
Board: established (1942), 715
Anglo-French Entente (1904), 233
Anglo-French Union (Franco-British
Union): proposed (1940),662; and the
future, 663
Anglo-Italian Naval Convention (1915),
312
Anglo-Persian Oil Company: Churchill
secures control of (1914),260
Anglo-Polish Alliance (August 1939):
signed,619
AnglO-Russian Convention (1906): and
Persia, 261
Anglo-Soviet Agreement: signed Uuly
1941),703
Anglo-Soviet Treaty: to be resisted
(1924),463
Angouleme: Churchill attends French
Army manoeuvres near (1907), 185
Annecy: Churchill works at (1951),896
Annexe (No. 10 Annexe): Churchill
moves to (1940), 677
Anning, Miss: Churchill's first secretary,
141
Annual Register ofWorld Events: Churchill
reads and annotates (1897), 70
Anson, Sir William: his criticism, 179
Anti-Nazi Council: Churchill agrees to
speak for (1936),554,555; Churchill's
second speech at, 563; Churchill gives
luncheon for (1937),578
anti-Semitism:
dangers
of,
165;
Churchill questions Hitler's friend on
(1932),508
Antibes: Churchill stays at (1945), 860
Antwerp: Churchill visits (1894), 45;
defence of (1911), 235; Churchill's
mission to(1914), 282; final resistance
of (1914), 286; Churchill's mission to,
recalled, 321, 327, 367, 374, 419;
German military resistance at
(September 1944),792
Anzio: proposed landing at (1944), 763;
landing at, 767; continuing battle at,
770; landing at, recalled, 773; belated
success at, 775
appeasement: Churchill seeks, after the
political crisis of 1910-11, 223; the
'aim' in Europe (192 I). 439; of 'class
bitterness', 471; 'needed' in Europe,
515;and The Times, 576; and Palestine,
986
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
614; 'has had a good run', 769; of
tyranny, 884; 'has its place', 890
Arabia: and the Dardanelles, 305
Arabs: in Palestine, 432, 435, 436, 437;
need for 'appeasing' sentiment of,
432; and Zionism, 435; to veto Jewish
immigration (after 1944), 614; and
Palestine, 803; and a Middle East
Federation (1945), 825; and Israel,
903
arbitration: Churchill offers 'permanent
machinery' for (1908), 195, 199;
Churchill presides over (1908), 199; to
be 'permanent' and 'impartial', 203;
Churchill active in (1909), 205;
Churchill offers, in South Wales
(1910),220; Churchill favours, during
Liverpool dock strike (1911),231
Archangel: a possible Churchill mission
to (1915),328; British troops at 1919),
408; American troops leave (1919),
414; British troops leave (1919),416;
Polish troops evacuated from (1919),
416 British aid reaches (1941), 708
Arctic Ocean: British help to Russia in
(1941), 703; convoys to Russia
through, 708,720,724, 725, 729,730,
731
Ardennes
(Belgium):
Churchill's
concern for (August 1939),618; battle
in (1944), 809, 811, 813, 815
Argentina: neutral, 761
Aristophanes: Churchill in play by, 15
Armageddon: two and a half years of,
367; and the First World War, 506
Armenians: massacre of, 327
Armentieres: Churchill gives his officers
a farewell lunch at (1916), 360; a
German mustard-gas attack on (1918),
390
armistice: Germany accepts terms of
(1918),400
armoured train: Churchill travels to
Colenso on, 108; and Churchill's
efforts, under fire, to clear the line,
110; Churchill's second journey on,
110; derailed, 110; becomes 'famous
in the story of the war', 126; Churchill
passes wreck of (1900), 126;
Arms and the Man (Shaw), 795
Army General Staff: Churchill criticises
expenditure on (1905), 170
Army League: criticisms of Churchill by,
141
Arnhem: parachute landing at (1944),
793,794
Arnold-Forster,
Hugh:
Churchill
criticises, 170; wishes Churchill well,
173
Arras: Churchill visits front-line near
(1915), 335; battle of (1917), 371;
Churchillinconferenceat(1917),378;
Churchill visits (1940),631
Ascot: Churchill boards at, 3
Ascot races: Churchill backs some
winners at, 44
Ascroft, Robert: and Churchill's first
Parliamentary candidature (1899),
103,104; dies, 104
Ashley, Maurice: Churchill's research
assistant, 491, 508, 524
Ashton-under-Lyne: Conservatives of,
asks Churchill to stand for (1924),462
Asia: submission of 'most ferocious
savages
in (1898), 87; Islam
'triumphant' in, 345
Asiatics: and 'liberty', 163
Asquith, H.H.: Churchill meets (1893),
36; Lord Randolph's attack on, 41; at
Tring with Churchill, 61; pays 'great
attention' to what Churchill says
(1899), 104; and Churchill's 'good
fight' at Oldham (1899), 105; hears
Churchill's maiden speech, 139;
Churchill dines with (1901), 144;
presides for Churchill (1901), 144;
understands Churchill's 'point of
view', 148; not in Chamber at crucial
moment (1903), 155; and Churchill's
move towards the Liberals, 161;
becomes Chancellorofthe Exchequer,
174; becomes Prime Minister, 193;
and the Dreadnought controversy,
201; congratulates Churchill on
arbitration, 205; his praise (1910),
211; hopes Churchill's association of
Crown and Commons may be ignored,
217; and the Battle of Downing Street
(1910), 221; affected by drink, 226;
and the constitutional crisis (1911),
230; and Agadir (1911), 234; on
Enchantress with his wife Margot and
daughter Violet, 249; and the Navy
Estimates crisis (1914), 254; and the
coming of war in 1914, 265, 266, 268,
269, 271, 272; and the opening
months of war, 279, 280; 'almost
inclined to shiver', 281; 'leans on you',
INDEX
282; and A~t~erp, 282; and
Churchill's mission to Antwerp
(1914), 283, 284; and the dismissal of
Prince Louis, 287; and the return of
Admiral Fisher, 288; and the defeat
off Coronel, 289; and the Dardanelles,
290,295,297,298,300, 305,313; and
Churchill's 'plans', 290; and the
genesis of the tank, 293; and the 'glow
of genius' in Churchill's eyes, 295;
angered by Churchill's mood (1915),
300; and Fisher's resignation, 315,
316; and the political crisis of May
1915,316,317,319; and Churchill's
isolation, 323; approves Churchill's
visit to Dardanelles, 323; and
Churchill's record at the Admiralty,
327; Churchill's letter of resignation
to, 328; eventual 'dismissal' of, 337;
vetoes Churchill's command of a
brigade, 337; 'will throw anyone to the
wolves', 338; 'weak and disloyal', 340;
'my feeling against him', 342; and
Churchill's 'political...extinction', 344;
'has to be got rid of, 346; and
Churchill's call for Fisher's return
(1916),352; an 'old rogue', 358; and
the Dardanelles Royal Commission
(1916),363,366; 'supine, sodden and
supreme', 364; and tanks, 365; resigns
(December 1916), 368; and the
Dardanelles
Commission,
370;
defeated (1918), 404; his praise
(1925), 469; dies, 484; Churchill's
article on, 581; recalled, 611,
Asquith, Margot: and 'this glorious
delicious war', 294; and Churchill's
call for Fisher's return (1916), 351;
and The World Crisis, 458
Asquith, Violet: Churchill meets, 185;
recalls Churchill's appointment as
Home Secretary, 211; on Enchantress,
249; and Churchill's departure for the
trenches, 329; 'Kill the Bolshie .. .', 412;
Churchill's advice to (1936), 555;
greetings from (1939), 629; and the
Fulton speech (1946), 869; wants
Churchill to stay on (1954),925
Asquithian Liberals: oppose Churchill
(1922),455
Assam: air bases in (1943), 745
Astrakhan: Churchill wants to meet
Stalin at, 719
Aswan: Churchill present at opening of
987
dam at (1902), 153; Churchill returns
to (1908),190
Atbara (on the Nile): Churchill loses way
near (1898), 92; Kitchener impedes
Churchill's return to, 100
Athens: Churchill visits (1910), 218;
Churchill visits (1927), 480; bombed
(1940), 681; Eden and Wavell in
(February 1941), 690; Greek Prime
Minister commits suicide in, 697;
British troops for (1944), 788;
Communist forces in, 807; Churchill's
mission to (Christmas 1944),808,809,
810,811; Churchill returns to (1945),
824; 'snatched from the burning' in
1944,860; 'free to decide' (1946),866
Atkins, John: in South Africa, 107; with
Churchill at Estcourt, 108; and
Churchill's 'persuasive reasoning',
109; and Estcourt recalled, 174
Atlantic Charter (August 1941), 705
Atlantic Ocean: American commitment
in (August 1941), 706
Atlantic Pact: Churchill praises, 883
atom bomb: Anglo-American discussions
on (1942-44), 722; Anglo-American
crisis over (1943), 746; agreement on
(August 1943), 750; Churchill and
Roosevelt discuss (September 1944),
793; test of, successful Uuly 1945),
850, 853; dropped, 857; Attlee
consults Churchill on, 859; secrets of,
not to be shared with United Nations,
866; gives urgency to European
reconciliation, 872; and the influence
ofthe United States, 874; and a 'lasting
settlement, without bloodshed', 882;
and the Berlin blockade (1948), 882;
deterrent effect of, 884; and peace,
889; agreement on (1952), 901; first
British test of (1952), 908; Russia
announces possession of (1953),916;
and Korea, 920
atomic energy: future control of (1953),
921; commercial use of, 924
Attlee, Clement: and the Gold Standard,
469; opposes rearmament (1934),
526; opposes Defence proposals
(1936),551; 'will support you' (1936),
568; and Czechoslovakia, 596; and
Munich (1938), 598; 'how right you
were', 615; protests at adjournment
(August 1939), 617; and Norway
(1940), 634; and the political crisis
988
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
(April-May 1940),640; enters Cabinet
(May 1940),643; supports Churchill's
rejection of a negotiated peace (1940),
651 ; accompanies Churchill to France,
653; 011 the Defence Committee, 673;
and Greece, 690; becomes Deputy
Prime Minister (1942), 718; a rebuke
from, 816; and the break-up of the
Coalition (1945), 845; and Potsdam,
848,850,855; Churchill's support for
(1945-51), 856; his friendly gesture,
858; consults Churchill, 859; and the
Fulton speech, 864; refuses to
repudiate the Fulton speech, 868; his
appreciation (1946), 868; seeks
Churchill's help on Defence supply,
871; and Churchill's call for a United
States of Europe, 874; and
conscription (1947), 875; secures
Churchill's help on India (1947),876;
Churchill's reply to, about India, 877;
calls a General Election (1950), 888;
Churchill's praise for (1950),893; calls
a General Election (1951), 896; visits
Moscow, 931; his tribute (1954), 933;
motion of censure moved by (1955),
938; and Churchill's death, 959
attrition: Churchill's attack on (1917),
370
Aubers Ridge, battle of(1915): Churchill
watches, 312
Auchinleck, General: succeeds Wavell
(1941), 700; danger to, 703; at
Chequers, 704; his Western Desert
plans, 708; his Western Desert
offensives, 709; his Western Desert
defence, 721; and Tobruk, 722; to be
replaced, 725
Augusta: Churchill boards (1941), 705
Auriol, Vincent: 481
Auschwitz: an appeal for the bombing of
(July 1944),783
Australia: and the Dardanelles, 296, 297;
and the Chanak crisis (1922), 451;
Churchill's pledge to (1941), 694;
defence of (1942),714,715; and the
atom bomb, 90 I
Australian troops: and Tobruk (1941),
688; and Greece (1941), 691; at
Singapore, 717
Austria: and a 'German menace', 527;
begins to look to Germany (1935),544;
Churchill's concerns for (1936-38),
553; Churchill's fears for the future of,
581;
annexed
(1938),
588;
endangered (1938), 588; held down
(1941),693; to be part of a post-war
confederation, 761; a possible advance
to (June 1944), 780; continuing
military plans for, 789; and British
strategy (1944-45),806; occupation of
(1945),816; future of(1944-45), 845;
Churchill's plan for (1954),928
Austria-Hungary: shipbuilding plans of
(1912), 247; and the coming of war
(1914),261,263,264,265,267,268;
and the Dardanelles, 294; surrenders
(1918),400
aviation: Churchill's work for, and faith
in (1913), 251, 252
Avignon: Churchill hurries home from
(1931),502
Aylesbury: a possible constituency
(1898), !OI
Bachelors' Club: Churchill joins (1895),
53
Bad Godesberg: Chamberlain's talks at
(1938),596
Badoglio, Marshal: and the fall of
Mussolini,749
Baghdad: to be returned to Turkey
(1920), 428; plans for an 'Arab
Government' in (1921), 431; a
pro-German cou p in (1941), 696
Bahamas: Churchill recuperates in
(1932), 504; lease of bases in (1940),
670
Bailey, John: marries Churchill's
daughter Diana, 497
Bailleul: and Churchill's war on lice
(1916),341
Baku: Hitler plans to bomb (1942),733
Baldwin, Stanley: wants Coaltion to end
(1922), 453; becomes Prime Minister
(1923),458; and Churchill's return to
Parliament (1924), 460, 461, 462;
appoints
resigns
(1924),
460;
Churchill
Chancellor
of
the
Exchequer (1924), 465; and the Gold
Standard, 469; and Churchill's first
Budget, 471; calls on Churchill as a
mediator (1925), 173; and the General
Strike (of 1926), 476; enlists
Churchill's help asa conciliator (1926),
477; and Churchill's 'power of
attraction', 481; and Churchill's
fourth Budget (1928), 485; and the
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Ten Year Rule (of 1919) on Defence
spending, 485; his advice (1928), 486;
and Churchill's fifth Budget, 489; and
the recall of Lord Lloyd, 492; and
India (1929), 495; and My Early Life,
496; and Dominion Status (for India),
499; speaks against Churchill on India
(1931),503; a 'kind word' to, 505; and
disarmament,
510,
512;
and
Churchill's opposition over India,
517; his praise for Churchill's
Marlborough, 522, 524; air parity
pledge by, 527, 538, 541, 572, 584,
586; Churchill visits at Aix (1934),
532; answers Churchill (November
1934),538; his pledge on India(1935),
539; 'sterile and inefficient', 540;
admits he had been 'completely
wrong', 543; becomes Prime Minister
(1935),544; does not seek Churchill's
help (1935),547; 'no great armaments'
(1935), 547; not to be attacked, 548;
will not have Churchill as Minister of
Defence (1936), 550; and Churchill's
lack of 1udgment and wisdom', 556;
and the Defence Deputation (1936),
559, 561; expresses his personal
sympathy, 563; 'appalling frankness'
of, 566; and the Abdication crisis
(1936),568; 'gets stronger', 570; gives
up the Premiership, 573; Churchill
recalls his warning to, 606; his praise
(May 1940), 647; 'better. ..if he had
never lived', 862
Baldwin-MacDonald regime: and 'the
end' of Britain's glories, 548
Balfour Declaration (on Palestine), 432;
upheld, 449 'breach' of, 614; recalled,
902,947
Balfour, A.J.: Churchill meets (1893),36;
at Tring (1895), 61; helps Churchill
find a publisher (1897), 82; 'markedly
civil' (1899), 104; consoles Churchill
(1899), 105; Churchill campaigns for
(1900), 136; his 'kindness and good
nature', 145; Churchill's criticisms of,
148; becomes Prime Minister (1902),
150; Churchill's friendship with, 151;
and Free Trade, 154; supports
Protection, 157; Churchill proposes to
'have a go' at, 162; leaves the Chamber,
162; Churchill's criticisms of, 168;
Churchill's 'belittling' of, 171; his
'generous hopes' for Churchill's
989
future (1905), 171; resigns as Prime
Minister (1905), 173; Churchill's
attacks on, reprimanded, 173;
friendly to Churchill's Trade Boards
and
a
possible
Bill,
204;
Liberal-Conservative
compromise
(1911),223; and Churchill's presence
at Sidney Street (1911),224; Churchill
negotiates with (1911), 226; and
photographers, 229; and Agadir
(1911),234; impressed by Churchill's
1911 prophecy, 235; welcomes
Churchill as First Lord, 241;
Churchill's guest (1912), 245; and
Churchill's plans in 1914,280; and the
Dardanelles, 297,300,302; insults to,
recalled, 317; and Fisher's resignation,
318; approves Churchill's visit to
Dardanelles, 323; First Lord of the
Admiralty (1916), 349, 350; scathing
of Churchill's call for Fisher's return,
353; enlists Churchill's help (1916),
363; and British intervention in Russia
(1918-19),405; 'the exaggerated way
you tell the truth', 418; wantsCoaltion
to continue (1922), 453; supports
Churchill (1924),461; and Churchill's
derating plan (1928),484; Churchill's
article on, 581
Balkans: and the Dardanelles, 292, 297,
300; Churchill's possible visit to, 323;
and Gallipoli, 345; a possible rallying
point for (1938), 592; and collective
security, 613; German troops move
into (1941), 695; possible war zone in,
736; Jewish refugees from (1942),
737; partisans in, 749; strategy for
(1943-44), 751, 753, 757; possible
pursuit of Germans into (1944), 767;
Roosevelt's mistake about, 781; and
the Soviet Union, 792; a wartime
controversy over, refuelled (1949),
882
Ballin, Alfred: Churchill dines with,
265
Balmoral: Churchill 'kindly treated' at,
150; Churchill a guest at, 250, 487,
908
Balsan, Consuelo: Churchill stays with
(1927),480
Baltic: Churchill's offensive plans for
(1914-15),278,290,291; Churchill's
plan for (1936), 554; Churchill's plan
for (September 1939),626
990
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Baltic States: and the Bolsheviks, 416;
British troops to leave (1919), 416;
Churchill's fear for (1936), 553; and
Stalin, 715; Soviet designs on (1943),
756
Banff: Churchill at (1929), 493
Bangalore: Churchill stationed at
(1896-8), 63, 64, 67, 72, 102;
Churchill's political thoughts from
(1898),85
Banstead (near Newmarket): Churchill's
holiday at, 27, 28; Churchill startles
father at, 33
Barber, Anthony: and Churchill's
leadershi p (1950),889
Barham: sunk (1941), 709
Baring, Hugo: Churchill's friendship
with,63
Baring, Maurice: recalls Churchill's
defiance, 6
Barnes,
Reginald:
accompanies
Churchill to Cuba (1895), 56;
Churchill's friendship with, 63;
wounded, 107
Barnsbury (London): Churchill asked to
speak in (1895),51
Barrington-Ward, Robin: Churchill
confides in (1943),743
Baruch, Bernard: and the mumtlOns
needs of the United States, 379;
Churchill's host, 494, 503; Churchill
seeks to influence, 864
Basra (Iraq): to be retained (1920), 4211;
possible withdrawal to (1921),432
Bataan
Peninsula
(Philppines):
American surrender on (1942), 720
Bath: Churchill's first political speech at
(1897),71,78
Battenberg, Prince Louis of: First Sea
Lord, 248, 251; and the coming of war
in 1914,265,266; and Antwerp, 282;
Asquith not trustful of 'capacity' of,
285; dismissed, 287
Battle of Britain: about to begin (1940),
663; begins (1940), 670; losses during,
674; climax of, 676
Battle of the Atlantic (1941-43),690,692;
'on which our life depends', 704;
success in, 704; setback for (January
1942), 717; climax of, 735; British
successes in, 750; setback in, 755;
recalled,878
Batum: British troops in (1919), 407;
evacuation of, 418
Baudouin, Paul: at Tours (1940),659
Bavaria: to be part of a post-war
confederation, 761
Baveno (Italy): Churchill visits (1893),
39; Churchill honeymoons at, 200
BBC: and the General Strike (of 1926),
475; refuses to let Churchill broadcast,
496,507; and Czechoslovakia (1948),
879
Beatty, Admiral: and naval expenditure,
443
Beauchamp, Lord: Churchill the guest
of,294
Beaufort West: Churchill reaches, 107
Beauvais: Churchill meets Petain at
(1918), 388; Churchill recalls visit to,
658
Beaverbrook, Lord: and Churchill's
isolation (1935), 547; and aircraft
production (1940), 645, 655, 657;
accompanies Churchill to Tours
(1940), 659; on the Defence
Committee, 673; and Greece, 690; and
aid to Russia, 708; Churchill's host,
882; Churchill's visit to, opposed, 883;
Churchill's friendship with, 913, 953;
Churchill rebukes, 924
Beckenham,
Harry:
Churchill's
shorthand writer, 244, 323, 419, 455
Beda Fomm: battle of ( 1941), 689
Bedell Smith, General: and Anzio, 765;
suggests a landing in Brittany (1944),
786
Bedford: Churchill speaks at (1955),943
Bedford, Brigadier: and Churchill's
heart (1943),763
Beirut: Churchill visits (1934), 532;
United States troops in (1958), 953
Belfast: Churchill lectures at (1900),137;
Churchill speaks in, extolling virtue of
Home Rule (1912), 249; troops to be
landed near (1914), 256; deaths in
(1922),444; bombed (1941), 696
Belgians: 'bludgeoned', 647
Belgium:
Churchill
proposes
safeguarding neutrality of (1911),
235; and the coming of war in 1914,
270,273,274; Britain's war debts from
(1925), 468; Churchill visits (1932),
508; determined (1932), 510; and
'submission', 533; Churchill's fear for
(1936), 553; German attack on (in
1914) recalled, 618; and the Maginot
Line (1940),631; invaded (May 1940),
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641; seeks armistice, 650
Belgrade: possible occupation of (1914),
265; Austrians driven from (1914),
290; Churchill's articles published in
(1937),576; anti-German elements in
(1941), 693; bombed (1941), 695;
occupied, 696; 'in the Soviet sphere'
(1946),866
Bell Davies, Richard: teaches Churchill to
fly, 251, 280
Bell, Gertrude: at the Cairo Conference,
434
Belleek (Ulster): confrontation at (1922),
447
Bellman, Harold: recalls Churchill's
arrival at Munitions, 375
Ben Gardane (Tunisia): Germans driven
from (1943), 741
Benes, Edouard: and the Sudeten crisis,
593, encouragement to (1945), 827
Bentinck, Dr: Churchill's alias, 119
Berbera (Somaliland Protectorate):
Churchill visits (1907),186
Berchtesgaden: Chamberlain's talks at,
595
Beresford, Lord William: marries
Churchill's aunt, 52; and Churchill's
near escape from death, 79
Berezhkov, Valentin: at Yalta, 822
Berkeley, Captain Claude: at the
Supreme War Council (1940), 635;
finds Churchill 'sublime', 647 'we
would
never
give
In,
649;
accompanies Churchill to France
(1940),653; accompanies Churchill to
Tours (1940), 659; and Churchill's
wait at Waterloo Station (1940), 662;
and morale (September 1940), 677;
and Churchill's 'genius', 685; and the
battle in Egypt, 685; and the German
invasion of Russia, 702
Berlin: Churchill's first visit to (1906); an
emissary returns from (1912), 242; a
proposed Russian march on (1914),
290; British ultimatum sent to
(September 1939), 621; bombed
(1940), 673, 678, 682; a special
bombing raid on (March 1941),694;
to be bombed (1945), 818; an
Anglo-American strategic dispute
over (March 1945), 834; Churchill
flies to (1945), 850; 'in the Soviet
sphere' (1946), 866; Churchill seeks
Soviet withdrawal from (1948), 879;
991
181; Soviet troops reach (April 1945),
836
Berlin blockade (1948): Churchill
supports Labour policy on, 881;
Churchill's solution for, 882
Berlin Conference (1954): Soviets
obdurate at, 922
Berlin, Isaiah: helps Churchill on his war
memoirs (1947), 878
Bermuda: British air bases in, 650; lease
of bases in (1940), 670; Churchill
returns to England through (1942),
715; Churchill proposes flying to
(1944), 770; proposed conference in
(1953),911-13; conference at (1953),
920
Bernays, Robert: joins Government
(1937),577
Berne: a possible summit in, 929
Bertie, Lady Gwendeline: engaged to
Churchill's brother, 188; marries, 197;
see also Churchill, Lady Gwendeline
Besanr;on: Churchill's visit to (1944), 805
Best,James: Churchill's tutor, 14
Bethlehem
Steel
(Pennsylvania):
Churchill visits (1929), 494
Bevan, Aneurin: his criticism (1942),724
Bevan, Colonel John: and deception
(1944),769
Beveridge, William: and Churchill's
plans for social reform (1909), 197;
Churchill receives information from
(1937),571; his continuing help and
influence (1943), 742; and social
security (1945), 845
Bevin, Ernest: Churchill negotiates with
(1917), 380; enters Cabinet (May
1940),643,645; and Greece, 690; and
the break-up of the Coalition (1945),
845; and Russia, 864; and the Fulton
speech, 865; and the Berlin blockade,
881; Churchill praises, 894
Biarritz: Churchill holidays at, 185;
Churchill works at (1931),502
Bidault, Georges: at Bermuda (1953),
920
Bierut, Boleslaw: his false assurance
(1945),853,854
Biggin Hill: Churchill's visit to (1937),
579 Churchill sees fighter exercises at,
618; Churchill speaks at (1948),882;
Churchill flies to (1949), 886
Bigham,John: Churchill's advocacy, 203
Birchington (Kent): Churchill speaks at
992
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
(1936),559
Birkenhead: Churchill seeks to avoid
'collisions' with strikers in (1911), 233
Birkenhead, Earl of: see index entry for
Smith,F.E.
Birla, G.D.: his mission to Churchill
(1935),540
Birmingham: Lord Randolph stands for,
5; Churchill wants to speak at (1898),
91; riots in (1901), 146; Churchill
speaks on Free Trade at (1903), 159;
Churchill outlines social programme
at (1908), 191; Churchill speaks on
social policy at (1909), 203; Churchill
speaks at, against the power of the
Lords (1910),222; Churchill launches
derating scheme at (1928), 484;
Churchill speaks on British Defence
policy at (1933),522; a potential target
(1934), 536; will rise 'more beautiful',
679; bombed (1940),684
Birmingham Liberal Association: invites
Churchill to stand (1903), 159
Bismarck: sunk (1941),698
Bizerta: Americans enter (1943),745
'black dog': and depression, 230
Black and Tans: established (1920),422
Black Sea: threat to (1939), 611; United
Europe to stretch to, 874
Black Tuesday (1929): Churchill's losses
on,494
Blackpool: Churchill speaks at (1902),
147; Churchill too ill to speak at
(1932), 509; conference at, and the
break-up ofthe Coalition (1945), 845;
Churchill speaks at (1946), 874;
Churchill speaks at (1954),933
Bladon (Oxfordshire): Churchill visits his
father's grave at (1895), 49; Lord
Randolph buried at (1895), 49; Lady
Randolph buried at (1921), 438;
Churchill buried at (1965), 958
Blenheim (Bavaria): Churchill visits
(1704) battlefield at, 209; Churchill
re-visits battlefield of (1932),508
Blenheim Palace: Churchill born at, 1;
Churchill works on biography of
father at, 171; Clementine Hozier at,
197; Churchill honeymoons at, 200;
Churchill in camp at (1911), 228;
Churchill's speech at (1947), 877
Blequin: Churchill visits (1915), 331
Bletchley Park (Buckinghamshire): and
Enigma, 637, 665, 682, receives a
Purple machine, 689; Churchill visits,
707
Blitz (over Britain), 664, 668, 670, 675,
679,680,681,693,696,698,703
Bloemfontein: Churchill reaches. 126
Blood, Sir Bindon: Churchill's friendship
with, 72, 73, 75, 77, 78,122
Blum, Leon: Churchill visits (January
1939),607
Board of Trade: Churchill's work at,
(1908-10), 194; Churchill suggested
for (1924).465
Bobruisk: battle of (1944).782
Boers: deaths of. 122; Churchill shocked
by strength of feeling against. 125; not
to be driven to 'desperation'. 125;
Churchill in action against (1900). 126;
face to face with Britons. in Pretoria,
128; in Johannesburg as Churchill
cycles through, 128; Churchill's
tribute to, 139; Churchill's advice on
settlement with. 149, 176; secure
electoral victory. 180
Bogart. Humphrey: stars, 816
Bohemia
and
Moravia:
Hitler's
Protectorate over. 611; 'very bad
reports' from (1939),615
Bolsheviks: come to powerin Russia. 381;
make their peace with Germany
(1918),389; 'drawn towards' the Allied
democracies, 390; Churchill urges
reprisals against. for murder of
Captain
Cromie
(1918),
395;
Churchill 'all for negotiations' with
(1918),405; possible negotiations with
(1919). 407; Churchill proposes an
agreement with (1919). 415; acquire
British stores (1920).421; driven from
Kiev (1920), 421; Churchill wants
action against (1920), 423; occupy
Vilna (1920),423; 'vile'. 426; Churchill
wishes to break off negotiations with
(1920).426; 'crocodiles', 773
Bolshevism: 'fearofthespreadof(1918),
401; 'foul baboonery' of. 410; need for
a 'moral bulwark' against (1920),420;
and 'Nazidom·. 632
Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow): Churchill
and Stalin at (1944). 798
Bombay: Churchill at. 63, 71; riots in
(1931),500
bombing. and bombing policy: for 1919.
394; in 1918.398; and Ireland (1920),
422; and Iraq (1920), 422. 424. 440;
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and Defence deficiencies, 530;
potential scale of (1934), 536; and
Rommel's retreat, 734; and the
devastation of Europe, 826: 'simply a
question of fashion', 782
bombing plans (1939-45), 626, 646, 648,
655,668,673,675,678,681,702,713,
714,719,727,757,768,772,793,817
Bonar Law, Andrew: Churchill welcomes
as Conservative Leader, 240; opposes
Home Rule for Ulster, 250;
Churchill's talks with (1913),250; and
the coming of war in 1914, 269; and
the opening months of war, 279; and
Antwerp, 286; at the War Council,
302; and Fisher's resignation, 316;
and the political crisis of May 1915,
319; opposes Churchill's visit to
Dardanelles, 324; and Churchill's
'vital force', 329; a possible Prime
Minister, 339; in 1916, 344;
Churchill's contact with, in 1916,346;
and Churchill's call for Fisher's return
(1916), 353; his 'supreme chance',
359; challenges Asquith, 368;
Churchill angered by (1917), 371;
protests
(1918),
385;
opposes
Churchill (1918), 393; ill-health of
(1921), 436; and the Chanak crisis
(1922),452; becomes Prime Minister
(1922),455; supports Churchill's wish
to become Commander-in-Chief in
British East Africa (1915), 328; wants
Coalition to end (1922), 453
Bonar, Lorraine: her recollections, 863
Bone (Algeria): bombarded (1914), 274
Boniface: a deceptive codename, 707,
781
Boothby, Robert: and the Abdication
crisis, 569
Bordaberry
(near
Bordeaux):
Churchill's holiday at (1945), 850
Bordeaux: Churchill establishes an
Anglo-American tank factory at,
(1918),381; Churchill contemplates
flying to Uune 1940), 661
Borisov(Russia): Hitler at (August 1941),
706
Borkum (North Sea): 'the key' (1915),
292; Churchill recalls plans for, 336
Bornholm (Baltic Sea): Churchill
suggests seizure of (1914), 290, 291
Borthwick,
Oliver:
Churchill's
friendship with, 90, 105; and
993
Churchill's escape from the Boers, 119
Boston: Churchill's speech at (1943),753
Botha, General Louis: his triumph, 180;
in London, 185
Botha, Helen: Churchill's rumoured
engagement to, 185
Boucher, Captain Maitland: sends
Churchill information (1936), 555
Boulogne: Churchill goes on leave
through (1916), 350; evacuated, 649;
endangered (1940), 649; Churchill
suggests bombing raids on (1940),
675; and a deception plan (1944), 774;
Germans hold (September 1944), 792
Boundary Commission (for Ireland):
established, 444, 445
Bourne, Harold: and The World Crisis,
479
Bournemouth: Churchill's accident at
(1893), 35; Churchill speaks on
Defence at (1935), 546; and the
political crisis (May 1940), 640
Bouvet: sunk (1915), 304
Bovington: Clementine greets her
husband at (1944), 813
Boyd-Carpenter, Sir Archibald: and
Churchill's 'courage', 566
Brabazon, Colonel John: and 'mendacity' ,
61; 'there's grit in that boy', 78
Brendan:
Churchill's
Bracken,
friendship with, 459, 579, 596,925;
and Churchill's 'genius', 499; supports
Churchill (1938),605; and Churchill's
'foresight' ,613; and the coming of war
(1939), 620; and Churchill's stroke,
916; and Churchill's resignation, 934;
dies, 953
Bradford: vacancy at (1896), 65;
Churchill speaks at (1898), 89;
Churchill wants to speak at again
(1898), 91; Churchill interrupted at
(1910), 221; Churchill's speech on
Ireland at (1914),255
Brain, Sir Russell: and Churchill's
nervous system, 891; and Churchill's
stroke, 913
Brasier-Creagh, George: killed in action
(1900),127
Breslau: and the coming of war in 1914,
274; esca pe of, 278; bombards Russian
ports, 288; and the Dardanelles, 295
Breslau (Silesia): to become part of
Poland, 819, 852
Brest (Brittany): Churchill's plane
994
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
approaches (1942), 716; and the
Normandy landings (1944), 777
Briare (Loire): Churchill flies to (1940),
658
bricklaying: at Chartwell, 486
Bridges, Sir Edward: his advice
(1940-45), 673; an Easter instruction
to (1941), 696; and Attlee's rebuke,
816
Brigade Major: Churchill proud of
promotion to (1897), 68
Brigadier-General: Churchill's hoped
for promotion to (1915-16), 331,
335-8,356
Brighton: Churchill goes to boarding
school in, 6-15, Churchill ill at (1886),
9; Churchill critical of municipal
spending at (1886), 12; Churchill's
accident at (1893), 35; Churchill sees
anti-invasion preparations at (1940),
666
'Brimstone Chapel': celebrated in song,
121
Brindisi: Churchill leaves for (1897), 72;
Churchill returns to India through
(1898),101
Bristol: an incident with a dog whip at
(1909), 209; Churchill speaks at,
against the Lords (1909), 210;
Churchill speaks about Sudeten
Germans at (1938), 592; Churchill's
visit to (1941), 696; a target (1944),
784; Churchill speaks in (1949), 886;
Churchill speaks in (1954), 933
Bristol West: Churchill asked to stand for
(1924),460
Britain: might decide to 'stand out' of
European conflict (1912), 247; and
Munich (1938), 598; will 'fight on'
(June 1940), 663; occupies southern
Persia, 706; Churchill's post-war plans
for (1943),742; 'can take it', 770; war
dead of, after Normandy, 831;
fighting 'for survival' (1952),906
Brittany: a possible redoubt (1940),661;
and a deception plan (1943), 738;
Eisenhower suggests a landing in
(August 1944),786
British Advanced Air Striking Force:
Churchill visits (1940),631
British East Africa: Churchill wishes to
become Commander-in-Chief In
(1915),328
British Empire: 'God shield', 26; not in
decline (1897), 72; 'I shall devote my
life' to maintenance of (1897),81; and
Churchill's escape from death at
Omdurman, 100; and the poor of
Britain,146;andFreeTrade,153;and
international
commerce,
170;
'progressive' principles of, 172; 'grows
under a radical administration', 188;
and 'submission', 533; to be preserved
(1937),584; 'full war power' of, 593;
'the end of (1938), 596; survival of
(May 1940),646; 'finest hour' of, 664;
possible 'liquidation' of, 734
British Expeditionary Force: 'on its road'
(1914),277; and the outbreak of war
(September 1939), 625
British Gazette: and the General Strike (of
1926),474,475,476
British people: 'tell the truth to', 511;
They have had a very hard time', 855
British race: vitality of 'unimpaired', 72;
Churchill's faith in 'much strengthened',97
British South Africa Company Star, 62
Brockie,
Sergeant-Major:
and
Churchill's escape from Pretoria, 115,
116,117
Brodrick, St John: his perspicacity
(1900), 136 'you will never make a
better speech' (1901), 140; Churchill's
criticisms of, 141, 142, 143, 144, 150,
153; his accusation, 144; criticism of,
recalled,317
Brook, Sir Norman: and Churchill's
stroke (1953),913; his praise, 943
Brooke, General Sir Alan: and the battle
for France (1940),661; becomes Chief
of the Imperial General Staff
(November 1941),708; his enhanced
authority, 719; his advice, 720;
accompanies Churchill (June 1942),
722; accompanies Churchill to Cairo
(1942), 725; accompanies Churchill,
747; and Rhodes, 755; and the
proposed campaign in Italy (1943-44),
757; with Churchill in Tunisia
(December 1943),762; finds Churchill
'desperately
tired',
770;
and
Churchill's
continued
tiredness
(1944),771; accompanies Churchill to
Normandy (1944), 778; and the
prospects of continuing the battle in
Italy (June 1944), 780; loses his
temper, 782; accompanies Churchill
995
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to Quebec (September 1944), 792;
with Churchill In France (November
1944), 804; with Churchill in Cairo
(December 1943), 761; with Churchill
at the Siegfried Line (1945), 829; with
Churchill at the Rhine (March 1945),
832; and Churchill's farewell (1945),
855
Brooke, Ronald: rides with Churchill
(1900), 123; recalled, 709
Brooke, Rupert: commissioned, 278;
dies, 31 I
Brooke, Sir Richard: and Churchill's
challenge on India (1931), 500
Brooke, Victor: killed in action (1914),
127; recalled, 709
Brooklyn (N ew York): Churchill lectures
in (1932), 504
Browne-Clayton, Lieutenant: 'cut in
pieces' (1897),78
Bruce, Alan: and a cavalry scandal, 52
Bruce-Pryce, A.C.: his accusation, 61
Bruges: a British objective (1917), 378;
Churchill's adventure on the way to
(1918),399
Bruning, Heinrich: replaced, 507; 'must
hurry', 510
Brussels: German troopps advance
through (1914); 282 British forces
enter, 792; Churchill visits (March
1945),
829;
Churchill
VISitS
(November 1945), 861; Churchill
speaks in (1949), 882
Brussels Sugar Convention: Churchill
attacks, 161
Buc (Northern France): Churchill's
emergency landing at (1919),413
Buchan-Hepburn,
Patrick:
and
Churchill's second Premiership, 906
Bucharest: Churchill's articles published
in (1937), 576; 'in the Soviet sphere'
(1946),866
Buchenwald: Churchill send a delegation
to (1945), 836
Buckle, George Earle: Churchill thanks,
134
Budapest: Communist seizure of power
in (1919),411; a Big Three conference
envisged in (1945), 761; 'in the Soviet
sphere' (1946), 866
Buderich (Germany): Churchill shelled
at (March 1945),832
Budgets:
Churchill
introduces
(1925-29), 470,474,481,485,489
Buffalo Bill: Churchill's visit to, 13
Bulganin, Marshal: succeeds Malenkov
(1955),938; in London, 947
Bulgaria: and the Dardanelles (1915),
290, 294; surrenders (1918), 398;
begins to look to Germany (1935),544;
and Munich (1938), 599; 'might fall
into our hands', 761; surrenders
(September 1944), 792; future of
(1944),796
bulldog: Churchill sells bicycle in order
to buy (1891), 29; Churchill's
characterisation of ( 1914), 281
Buller, General, 107, 108; forced back
from Colenso, 120; Churchill reaches
headquarters of, after his escape, 121;
gives Churchill a lieutenancy, 122
Burgin, Leslie, 613
Burke, Edmond, 793
Burley-on-the-Hill (Rutland): Churchill
helps tackle blaze at, 197
Burma: annexed (1886), 9; defence of,
717; a setback in (1942),731; problems
of fighting in, 745
Burma Independence Bill (1947):
Churchill opposes, 877,878,885
Burnham, Charles: helps Churchill
escape from Witbank (1899), 120
Burnham, Lord: and India, 518
Burnley: Churchill's appeal to Liberals at
(1924),460
Burns, Robert: Churchill's request for a
volumeof(1916),340
Butler, David: and the 1951 election, 897
Butler, R.A.: and Churchill's second
Premiership,
899,
905;
and
Churchill's stroke, 913; Churchill
confides in, 923; and Churchill's
telegram to Molotov, 928; and
Churchill's resignation, 939
and
Buttle,
Lieutenant-Colonel:
Churchill's illness (1943),763
Buzzard, Dr Thomas: and Lord
Randolph's final illness, 48
Byrnes, James: meets Churchill (1946),
864
Cabinet War Rooms: see index entry for
Central War Rooms
Cadogan, Sir Alexander: accompanies
Churchill to Tours (1940), 659; his
dairy notes, 708, 739, 770, 772, 801,
831, 836; accompanies Churchill to
Boston, 753; and Rhodes, 755; and
996
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Attlee's rebuke, 816; at Yalta, 821; at
Potsdam, 852
Caen (Normandy): and the Allied
landings (1944),777; liberated, 784
Caillaux, Joseph: Churchill negotiates
with,473
Cairo: Churchill writes in (1899), 103;
Churchill presides at Conference at
(1921), 432, 434; the threat to
(1940-41), 682; Churchill's wartime
visits to (1942-45), 725, 729, 738, 739,
761; Churchill meets Roosevelt at
(1943), 759; doctors and nurses
summoned to Moscow from, 799;
Churchill suggests military action
against (1956),948
Calais:
endangered (1914),
282;
Churchill not invited to (1915), 323;
mutiny in (1919), 407; again
endangered (May 1940),649; not to be
evacuated, 650; Churchill suggests
bombing raids on, 675; and deception
(1944),
769;
Germans
hold
(September 1944),792
Calcutta: Churchill in (1896), 67;
Churchill returns to (1898), 85
Calgary: Churchill visits (1929),493
Caligula: and Sir Thomas Inskip, 552
Callagan, James: and the Fulton speech
(1946),868
Cambrai: battle of(1917), 380, 381
Cambridge: Churchill lectures in (1900),
137
Cambridge University: and 'polish' for
the mind, 55; 'exuberant spirits' at,
214
camel riding: Churchill thrown during
(1921),434
Camp Jackson
(South Carolina):
Churchill visits (1942),723
Campbell,
Mrs
Patrick:
marries
Churchill's step-father, 391
Campbell, Sir Ronald: at Tours (1940),
660; in Belgrade (1941), 693
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry: Lord
Randolph's telegram to, 44; signs
Churchill's commission (1895), 51;
hears Churchill's maiden speech, 139;
Churchill protests to, 153; Churchill
enlists help from, 155; and Churchill's
'brilliant speech', 161; as Prime Minister(1905), 173; a word of caution from,
181; praise from, 182; resigns, 193
Camrose, Lord: Churchill's friendship
with, 588; seeks Churchill's return
uly 1939), 616; and the rurchase of
Chartwell for the Nationa Trust, 873
Canada: Churchill's lecture tour in
(1900),
138;
withdraws
from
battleship construction (1913), 253;
and the Chanak crisis (1922), 451;
Churchill's visit to (1929), 492; no
paintings to go to (1940),654; convoys
from, attacked, 680; Churchill visits
(December 1941),715; and the atom
bomb, 746; Churchill's broadcast to
(1943), 752; war dead of, after
Normandy, 831; Churchill's visit to
(1952),902
Canadian Lakes: ships on (1939),629
Canadian troops: and the battle for
France (1940),653,658,661
Canford Manor: Churchill at, 151, 173
Cannes: Churchill on holiday at, 457,
532,545,607
Canopus: sunk (1914), 288
Canute, King: recalled, 920
Cap d'Ail (South of France): Churchill
stays at (1921),436
Cap Martin (South of France): Churchill
on holiday at (1937),574
Cape Town: Churchill reaches (1899),
107; Churchill returns to, 126;
Churchill's final days in (1900), 131
capitalism: 'excites my most lively terror',
115; and 'vital necessities', 468
Caporetto, battle of (1917),379
Capri: Churchill's visit to (1944), 787
Carden, Admiral: and the Dardanelles,
288, 292, 293, 295, 296, 298,
300-4
Cardiff: Churchill speaks at, 104, 159,
889
Caretaker Government: formed (May
1945),846
Carezza (Italy): Churchill at (1949), 885
Carlton Club: Churchill has to leave
(1905), 171; meeting at, rejects the
Coalition (1922), 453
Carlyle, Thomas: Churchill reads, 23;
quoted,833
Carnarvon: Churchill speaks at (1904),
169
Carrickfergus: to be defended (1914),
256; blockade off, ended, 267
Carson, Sir Edward: invites Churchill to
the Commons (1893), 37; opposes
Home Rule for Ulster, 249; Churchill
o
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proposes a compromise to (1914),257;
denounces Churchill (1914),257; and
the Irish crisis in (1914), 264; and the
coming of war in (1914), 269;
denunciation of, recalled, 318; and
Gallipoli, 343; in 1916, 344;
Churchill's contact with in 1916, 346;
his advice (1916), 355, and
conscription (1916), 360; and the
Unionist War Committee, 362;
opposes Churchill's return to office
(1917),369; a supp'0rter (1924), 463
Carthage: Churchill taken ill at
(December 1943),762,763
Cartland, Ronald: 'the time to fight', 617
Casablanca: landing at (1942), 733;
Churchill meets Roosevelt at (1943),
737
Caspian Sea: and Hitler (1940), 668;
threatened (1941), 707; Churchill
wants to meet Stalin at, 719
Cassel (France): Royal Marines move up
to(1914),282
Cassel, Sir Ernest: and Churchill's
investments, 131; Churchill stays with,
169; visits the Kaiser, 242
Cassells, Lieutenant: wounded (1897),76
Cassis (South ofFrance): Churchill paints
at,425
Castlereagh, Lord: wants Churchill as
Minister of Defence (1936), 551
Catholics: alienated (1908), 194; opposed
to Soviet domination of Poland (1945),
830
Cattaro: a proposed landing at (1915),
295
Caucasus: and the Dardanelles (1915),
291; British troops to withdraw from
(1919),414; possible German advance
through (1941), 695, 702; possible
British force to, 707
Cavalcade: and Churchill as Ministry of
Defence (1936), 551
cavalry: Churchill enters, 37; at
Omdurman (1898), 95, 96; and the
battle of Arras (1917), 371
Cavan, Lord: advises Churchill (1915),
335
Cawnpore (India): violence in (1931),
501
Caxton Hall (London): Churchill
nominatesChamberiainat(1937),577
Cecil family: 'odious', 251
Cecil, Lord Hugh: and Churchill's
997
political future, 147, 155, 158, 159,
160; Churchill's letters to, 167; and
Churchill's attacks on Ministers, 168;
an ally (1934), 528; Churchill confides
in (1945 and 1947),856,875
Cecil, Lord Robert: and the coming of
war in (1914), 271, 272
Central Party: Churchill advocates
(1902),151
Central War Rooms (1940-45): Churchill
descendsto,679,681,684, 782, 791
Centurion: Churchill launches, 240
Ceylon:
'morally
dishonouring'
explanations from, 183; 'vilestscandal'
in, 183; and the Dardanelles, 296;
Japanese air attack on (1942),720
Chamberlain, Austen: Churchill's guest
(1912), 246; and British intervention
in Russia (1919), 413; and Churchill's
search for economy (1921),433; leaves
the Treasury (1921), 436; and
Churchill's speech on the Irish Treaty,
442; and theChanakcrisis(1922),451;
wants Coalition to continue (1922),
453; and Churchill's return to the
Cabinet (1924),465; and the Ten Year
Rule (of 1919) on Defence spending,
485; and foreign policy, 488; opposes
Churchill on India (1931), 503; joins
the Defence Deputation (1936), 559;
and the Anti-Nazi Council, 564; leads
Defence Deputation (1936),567; dies,
574
Chamberlain, Ivy (Lady Chamberlain):
condolences to, 574
Chamberlain, Joseph: forms Liberal
Unionists, 11; becomes Colonial
Secretary, 54; and South Africa, 61;
'Mr Winston keeps his eyes open'
(1896), 62; and Free Trade, 66; his
influence neglected, 81; 'losing
ground' (1899), 103; his help (1899),
106; impressed by Churchill's Boer
War despatches, 124; gives Churchill
a 'flattering reception (1900), 134;
speaks for Churchill at Oldham
(1900), 135; his praise, 136; and
Churchill's maiden speech, 139;
Churchill's discussions with, 145; his
criticism, and his advice, 148;
Churchill's friendship with, 151;
Churchill answers, 154; raises banner
of tariffs (1903), 154; bears 'no malice',
157; resigns from Cabinet, 157; and
998
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Churchill's biography of his father,
169; and Churchill's change of Party,
169; Churchill suggests Order of
Merit for, 223; recalled, 436
Chamberlain, Neville: 'convinced' by
Churchill (1922), 445; and Churchill's
Exchequer years, 467, 470, 471; and
Churchill's derating scheme (1927 -28),
482, 483; and Churchill's character
(1928-29), 486, and Churchill's fifth
Budget, 489; and Protection, 491; and
Churchill's future (1929), 493; and
Indian self-government, 497; becomes
Chancellor of the Exchequer (1931),
503; and Defence deficiencies, 513; and
Churchill's possible Defence Ministry,
551; and the Rhineland crisis (1936),
553; and Defence spending (1936-39),
552, 558, 561, 566; at Defence
Deputation (1936), 567; and the
Abdication, 569; becomes Prime
Minister (1937), 573; Churchill
contemplates an appeal to (1937),582;
and the League of Nations, 585;
abandons Baldwin's air parity pledge,
586, and appeasement, 587; and the
'price' of peace (1938), 588; and
Czechoslovakia, 591, 593, 594, 595,
596; and Defence deficiencies (1938),
592; and Munich (1938),597,598,599;
and Churchill's )udgment' (1938),604;
and the aftermath of Munich
(1938-39),605,609; Churchill answers
(1938),605; and the call for Churchill's
return, 607; and Churchill's concern
about Air Raid Precautions, 611; and
the British guarantee to Poland (1939),
612; Churchill's advice to (April 1939),
612; and Churchill's wish to enter the
Cabinet (1939), 613; opposed to a
Soviet alliance (1939),614; and Hitler's
desire for Danzig (1939), 616; Hitler's
attitude to auly 1939), 616; opposes
Churchill's return aune-July 1939),
616; and the last halting steps to
war (September 1939), 619; 'good
hopes ... will stand firm' (September
1939), 619; invites Churchill to join
War Cabinet (September 1939),619;
and the outbreak of war (September
1939),623; 'defeatisttones'of,627;and
Norway (1940), 634, 635; his
confidence (April- May 1940),635; and
the political crisis (April-May 1940),
636, 637, 638, 639, 640; and the
German attack in the West (May 1940),
64 I; resigns, 642; suggests that
Churchill broadcasts (May 1940),647;
and Mussolini's proposal for a
negotiated peace (1940), 651; and the
battle in France (1940), 65 I; and the
fall of France, 661; Churchill's encouraging message to (August 1940), 67 I;
and Dakar, 678; ill-health of, 679; dies,
683; recalled (in 1945),826
Chanak: and the Dardanelles (1915),
303, 304, 311; Churchill wants 'dash'
on (1915), 327; British troops at
(1919-22), 428, 450; Greeks driven
back to (1922), 450; first Cabinet
discussions of, 450; and the
Dominions, 451; Churchill strikes a
note of caution concerning, 451; Lloyd
George gives Churchill responsibilities
for,
451;
Churchill
suggests
evacuation of, 452; Turks pull back
from, 453; recalled, 456
Channon, Henry: and Churchill's
speeches, 575; and the political crisis
(April-May 1940),637,638; his diary
notes, 770, 880, 890; and Churchill's
second Premiership, 905, 907
Chaplin, Charlie: Churchill's promise to,
494
Chapman, General: and Churchill's
Intelligence task (1895), 56
Charing Cross Hotel (London): Fisher
tracked down at (1915),315
Charles, Prince: Churchill's impression of
(1952),908
Chartwell: Churchill buys (1922), 450;
rebuilding of, 457, 458; to be 'our
home', 458; Churchill lives at (from
1924), 462; Churchill entertains
friends at (1926), 473; Ramsay
MacDonald's secret visit to (1926),
478; Churchill's life at, 482, 483;
bricklaying at, 486; Ralph Wigram's
first visit to (1935), 542; a lunch for
Wigram's mourners at (1937), 571;
possible sale of(1937), 573; Air Force
officers visit (1937), 579; a German
officer visits (1938),593; on the eve of
war, 616; Churchill seeks solitude at
(1941), 699; Churchill again seeks
solitude at (1942), 720; German
prisoners-of-war at, 861; possible sale
of (1946), 873; election consultations
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at (1950),888; and Churchill's second
Premiership,
899;
Churchill
recuperates at, 904, 905; Churchill
leaves for the last time, 958
Chateau de Muguet (Loire): Churchill
flies to (1940), 658
Chatfield, Admiral: and the Mediterranean, 545;joins Cabinet, 609
Chelsea: Churchill speaks for Free Trade
at (1903), 159
Cheltenham: Churchill lectures at
(1900),137
Chequers: Churchill's first visit to (1921),
432; Churchill's wartime visits to
(1940-5),664,670,674,676,680,681,
686,688,691,696,698,700,701,704,
706,710, 711, 731, 737, 740, 741, 747,
748,749,769,774,826; research near,
673; Churchill wartime broadcasts
from, 697,717,770; 'Are we beasts?',
748; Churchill leaves, for Athens
(Christmas 1944),809; crowds on the
way to (1945), 848; Churchill's farewell
at (1945), 856; and Churchill's second
Premiership (1951-5), 909,915,916;
Churchill's journey to (1956), 948
Cherbourg: Churchill visits (1914), 259;
Canadian troops land at (1940), 661;
Churchill's plan for a raid on (1940),
670; Churchill flies to 0 uly 1944),784
Cherbourg Peninsula: a possible landing
on (1942), 725; contingency plan to
seize (1943), 738 and the Normandy
landings (1944), 777; Churchill's
plane forced back from, through fog
(August 1944),786
Cherwell, Lord for earlier index entries see
Lindemann, Professor: Churchill's
friendship with, 878, 943; and
Churchill's second Premiership, 920;
dies, 951; recalled, 952
Chiang Kai-shek: Churchill proposes to
fly to (1942), 717
Chicago: Churchill speaks in (1929),494;
Churchill guarded in (1932), 505
Chicago (American warship): Churchill
visits (1894),45
Chiefs of Staff: and Defence deficiencies
(1934), 530; and Norway (1940),635;
Churchill's suggestions to, 674, 686;
and Greece, 682; 'subservient', 685;
approve Churchill's priorities (April
1941), 697; reject Stalin's requests,
703; reject Churchill's suggestions,
999
708; and American strategy, 713; and
bombing policy, 713; 'operational
control' of, 724; argue against a
cross-Channel landing in 1943, 736;
and Sicily, 743; and the proposed
campaign in Italy (1943-44), 757;
'indecisions' of, 758; and Churchill's
qualities, 773; and the Adriatic plan
Oune 1944), 780; approve British
troops for Greece (1944), 788; agree
to re-inforce Athens (1944), 812;
oppose Eisenhower's strategy (March
1945),834; 'architects of victory', 840;
Churchill says goodbye to (1945), 855
Chieveley: Churchill reaches, 108
Chile: Churchill negotiates with (1918),
395
China: Russian troops fighting in (1898),
89; repatriation of labourers to, 177;
attacks in (1927), 480; attacked by
Japan
(1933),
513;
Allied
disagreement on (1943), 745; transfer
of aircraft from Mediterranean to
(1944), 767; and Hong Kong, 818;
Churchill accused of wanting war with
(1952), 904; Churchill opposes
bombing in, during Korean War, 905
Chinese labour: Churchill supports
censure of (1904), 162; Churchill
opposes,
177; and continuing
'malpractices', 179
Chobham
Common:
Churchill
map-making on (1894); 44
Christ, George: helps Churchill (1950),
888; helps Churchill in retirement,
945
Christendom: madness sweeps mind of
(1914),268
Christian civilisation: 'survival of (1940),
663
Christian ethics: and 'Nazi power', 599
Christianity:
Churchill's
youthful
reflections on (1888), 19; Churchill's
thoughts on (1896),68; Churchill does
not 'accept', 92
Christina: Churchill cruises on (1958-63),
954,956,958
Church House (Westminster): House of
Commons meets at ( 1941 ), 698
Church of England: 'partisan', 70
Churchill College, Cambridge: origin of,
943
Churchill, Arabella: at La Capponcina,
954
1000
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Churchill, Clarissa: marries Anthony
Eden,907,908
Churchill, Clementine S. (for earlier irukx
entries, see Hozier, Clementine): on
honeymoon (1908), 200; expecting
first child, 204; her daughter Diana
born (1909), 205; recuperates, 206; her
husband's words of encouragement
and advice to (1909),206; first wedding
anniversary of, 207; her pride in her
husband, 208; pulls her husband back
from platform's edge, 210; expecting
her second child, 227; atthecoronation
(1911),228; her husband'sconcern for,
246; her husband's apology to (1912),
247; upset by her husband's flying
lessons (1913),252; expecting herthird
child, 259; and the coming of war in
1914,272; her advice and warnings,
282; her third child born, 285; and the
political crisis of May 1915, 320; and
her husband's last will and testament
(1915),323; 'calm and brave', 329; and
her husband's duty (1915), 334; her
husband's advice to (1915), 335;
telephones her husband in France
(1915),336; her torment (1915), 337;
her advice, 342, 359, 386, 413, 439,
440,460,465,806,876; her husband's
requests to, 344, 345, 355; opposes her
husband's call for Fisher's return, 351;
urges her husband to return to France
(1916),355; her sad confession (1916),
357; 'wise & sagacious', 394; expecting
her fourth child, 391; tenth wedding
anniversaryof( 1918),397; recuperates
(1921),433; expecting her fifth child,
448; birth of her fifth child, 450;
campaigns at Dundee (1922), 455;
accompanies her husband to Cairo
(1921), 433; an anniversary gift for,
457; at West Leicester ( 1923), 459; and
her husband's peace of mind, 470; and
her husband's visit to Canada (1929),
492; on holiday with her husband, 532;
'Baldwin must be mad', 550; and the
death of Ralph Wigram (1937), 571;
and the death of Sidney Peel, 607; and
the outbreak of war (September 1939),
623; and her husband's wartime
Premiership, 662, 665,718; at Bristol
(1941), 696; her good wishes (August
1941),705; her Aid to Russia Appeal
(1941),708; and the 'burden' on her
husband, 719; and her husband's
journey to Cairo and Moscow (1942),
725; and her husband's return from
North Africa (1943),740; accompanies
her husband to Quebec (1943), 750;
and her husband's illness (December
1943),763; and a brief wartime respite,
795; and her husband's character, 833;
her encouragement, 746, 759; and her
husband's mission to Athens (1944),
809; her mission to Russia (1945),833;
and Victory in Europe, 840; recalls
Lloyd George, 834; in Moscow, 843;
and the General Election of 1945, 848;
'difficult days' for, 861; at Choisi, 872;
her political luncheons (1949), 883;
joins her husband at Marrakech (1950),
894; and her husband's second
Premiership, 897, 900, 919; and her
husband's stroke, 917; her Golden
Wedding (1958), 954; her husband's
last letters to, 956
Churchill, Diana: born (1909), 205; her
father and her nurse, 206; Churchill's
thoughts on future for, 207; Churchill
buys toys for, 230; on holiday (1914),
264, 'very loving', 433; 'shaping into a
very beautiful being', 443; her
marriages, 497; travels with her father
(1931),503; her anxiety (1943), 747;
'gloomy' about the imminent election
results (1945), 854; at Marrakech
(1950), 894; Churchill's concern for,
954; and her father's old age, 956; dies,
958
Churchill,John George: 204, 492
Churchill, John S. Qack): Churchill's
brother,2,4,8,13,27,36,44,45;Churchill travels in Europe with, 37; and the
death of Mrs Everest, 53; Churchill's
advice to, 64;joins Churchill in South
Africa, 122; wounded, 123; engaged,
188; marries, 197; at Dunkirk (1914),
287; at Ypres (1914), 289; at the
Dardanelles (1915), 306, 311; at
Gallipoli, 325; on the Western Front
(1917),378; Churchill goes to Front
with (1918), 393; Churchill listens to
music with (1927),482; dies, 875
Churchill, Lady Gwendeline: see also
Bertie, Lady Gwendeline; and
Churchill's first steps as painter
(1915),322
Churchill, Lady Randolph: Churchill's
INDEX
birth, 1; Churchill first letter to, 2;
takes Churchill to boarding school, 3;
Churchill seeks visits from, 4, 9, 20;
her criticisms, 4, 27, 33, 56, 69;
Churchill 'afraid' of, 4; and her son's
extravagance, 6; Churchill seeks funds
from, 12; Churchill enlists help of, 13,
23,62,63,66,71,80,81,82,89,91; in
Russia, 15; 'not very kind', 22; her
advice, 24, 25, 36, 39; her criticism, 30,
36,41; and her husband's last voyage,
44; and her husband's final illness, 48;
has no home of her own, 54; acquires
a London house (1895), 55; and the
Cretan uprising (1897), 68; Churchill
helps financially (1897), 70; her
influence, 80; her extravagance, 85;
Churchill confides in, 87, 88, 97;
Churchill's legal action against (1898),
88; asked to use her influence, 114;
reaches Durban, 122; further help
sought from, 124; marries for the
second time (1900),133; her 'wit and
energy' transmitted to her son, 138;
hears her son's maiden speech, 139;
requests to, 139; recalled, 185; and her
son's destiny (1915), 334; marries for
the third time (1918), 391; dies, 438;
her death recalled, 470; her son visits
her birthplace (1953), 909
Churchill, Lord Randolph: his son's
birth, 1; his concern for his son's
health, 4; travels with his son, 5; and
his son's 'adventures', 7; leaves for
India, 7; appointed Secretary of State
for India, 8; his growing fame, 8; and
his son's pneumonia, 9; becomes
Chancellor of the Exchequer, ll;
elected for Paddington, 11; his
controversial budget, 12; resigns
(1886), 12; delighted by his son's
loyalty, 13; 'You have never been to see
me', 22; a visit of inspection from, 22;
visits Harrow, 23; 'a stony and acid
silence', 23; thinks singing 'a waste of
time', 24; advice from, 31; and a
possible business career for his son, 32;
political isolation of (1892), 32;
criticisms from, 32; Churchill listens
'spellbound' to, 33; Churchill
encourages, 36; his anger, 37;
'pleased' to see his son, 40; complaints
from, 40; a sympathetic letter from,
42; angered, 43; worsening illness of,
1001
43; his last voyage, 44; his son's
farewell, 44; his final illness, 48; dies,
48; and the Primrose League, 71;
Churchill contemplates writing a life
of (1898), 87; his 'abilities'inherited,
100; 'a certain splendid memory', 139;
Churchill recalls policy of(1901), 142;
Churchill's biography of, 150, 151,
153, 169; and the making of the
Conservative and Unionist Party, 151;
and Tory Democracy, 151; and a
'national party', 154; a former ally of,
speaks up for Churchill, 163;
Churchill chooses seat of (1904), 165;
his Ulster dictum challenged by his son
(1914), 255; his 'renegade son'
denounced, 257; a memorandum of,
quoted, 871; recalled, 2, 55, 65, 67,
101,103,152,158,159,163,169,175,
176,180,185,186,198,201,333,344,
365,436,465,721
Churchill, Marigold: born (1918),403; at
Chequers, 432; and the Zoo, 433; dies
(1921),439
Churchill, Mary: born (1922), 450;
'flourishing' (1925), 470; her father
builds a cottage for, 486; her
recollections, 169, 199, 679, 850; at
Bristol (1941), 696; and her father's
wartime Premiership, 718, 719, 737,
accompanies her father to Quebec
(1943), 750; her wartime recollections,
754; and her father's 70th birthday,
806; awarded the MBE (1945), 835;
accom panies her father in celebration,
843; accompanies her father to
Potsdam, 850; and her father's defeat
(1945), 856; her words of comfort,
862; at Choisi, 872; and her father's
'largeness of heart', 873; marries
Christopher Soames, 875; and her
father's stroke, 912; and her father's
possible resignation, 931; and her
father's final decade, 945; and 'the
qualities of your heart', 959
Churchill, Pamela: the birth of her son,
680; and the invasion of Sicily, 748;
Churchill's sympathy for, 863
Churchill, Randolph S.: his recollections,
20; publishes letter about Lord
Randolph's final illness, 49; on holiday
(1914), 264; 'will carryon the lamp',
324; no need to be 'ashamed', 333; his
father's letter to (1916), 344; recalls
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CHURCHILL: A LIFE
childhood games, 372; 'very sprightly',
433; hears his father's Budgets, 470; a
visit to (1925), 470; on holiday with his
father (1928), 483; a 'corrective'
influence for, 484; in Canada with his
father (1929), 492; on holiday with his
father (1931), 50 I; stands a 'hard test'
(1933),513; on holiday with his father
(1934), 532; and India, 538; gives a
party for his father (1934), 538;
defeated (1935), 547; his father's
warning to (1935), 548; challenges
MacDonald's son (1936),549; marries,
627; accompanies his father to France
(1940), 631 ; and the German attack in
the West (May 1940), 641; and the
political crisis (May 1940),641,643;
his encouragement, 655; elected to
Parliament (1940), 679; in Cairo
(1941), 698; his father confides in,
706; lands near Algiers (1942), 733;
with his father in Cairo (1943), 739;
with Tito (1944), 774; with his father
in Algiers, 786; and Victory in Europe,
841; defeated (1945), 855; his divorce,
863; an unsuccessful Parliamentary
candidate (1950,1951), 889; and his
father's last years, 954
Churchill, Sarah: born (1914), 285; and
her brother, 433; 'full of."human
qualities',
443;
and
Professor
Lindemann, 512; her marriage to Vic
Oliver, 563; accompanies her father
(1943), 759; her father confides in,
762;
with
her
father
(in
Carthage 1943), 763; serves with
Photographic Reconnaissance, 774; at
Yalta, 817, 819; and housing, 847; and
the 'Gestapo speech', 847; and her
father's
defeat
(1945),
856;
accompanies her father to Italy (1945),
858; accompanies her father to the
United States and Cuba (1946), 864;
her condolences, 875; encourages her
father, 879; Churchill's concern for,
954
Churchill, Winston S.: born (1940), 680;
visits his grandfather at Monte Carlo;
957
Churchill, Winston S. (Sir Winston
Churchill): born (1874), I; first
surviving letter of (1882), 2; at St
George's School, Ascot (1882-84), 3-6;
first journey overseas (1883), 5; at
Miss Thomsons' School, Brighton
(1884-88),6-17; and Queen Victoria's
Diamond Jubilee (1887), 13-14; at
Harrow School (1888-92), 19-34; at
CaptainJames's Crammers ( 1893), 35;
at the Royal Military College,
Sandhurst (1893-95), 39-47; death of
his father (1895), 48-9; his early years
as a soldier (1895-1900), 51-131; in
Cuba (1895), 56-60; in India
(1895-98), 63-103; in action on the
North-West Frontier (1897), 75-79;
publishes his first book (1898), 86; in
action in the Sudan (1898) 92-100;
charges with the cavalry at Omdurman
(1898), 92; stands unsuccessfully for
Parliament (1899), 104; in action in
South Africa (1899-1900), 107-131;
taken prisoner of war (1899) 113;
escapes from captivity (1899), 115;
elected to Parliament (1900), 135; his
maiden sBeech(1901),139;crossesthe
floor of the House from the
Conservative to the Liberal benches
(1904),165; Under-Secretary of State
for the Colonies (1905-08), 174-191;
President of the Board of Trade
(1908-10),
194-210;
marries
Clementine Hozier (1908),200; Home
Secretary (1910-11), 211-237; and
Tonypandy (1910), 220; at Sidney
Street (1911), 223-224; First Lord of
the Admiralty (1911-1915), 239-320;
at
Antwerp
(1914),
283-286;
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
(1915) 320-328; out of office
(1915-17), 328-373; serves on the
Western Front (1915-16), 331-360;
Minister of Munitions (1917 -18),
374-402; Secretary of State for War
and Air (1919-21),405-429; Secretary
of State for the Colonies (1921-22),
429-454; death of his mother (1921),
438; out of office (1922-24), 454-465;
Chancellor of the
Exchequer
(1921-29), 465-489; returns to the
Conservative Party (1925),467; out of
office (1929-30), 489-621; serves on
Air Defence Research Sub-committee
(1935-39), 544; First Lord of the
Admiralty (1939-40), 623-642; and
Narvik (1940), 626-657; Prime
Minister and Minister of Defence
(1940-45),642-855; at the Casablanca
INDEX
Conference (1943), 737-738; at the
Teheran Conference (I 943), 756-761;
at the Yalta Conference (1945),
816-824; at the Potsdam Conference
(1945), 816-824; Leader of the
Opposition (1945-51),855-897; Prime
Minister (1951-55), 897-939; at the
Bermuda
Conference
(1953),
920-921; Knight of the Garter (1953),
911; Nobel Prize for Literature (I 953),
919; retirement years (1955-65),
943-958; dies (1965), 958
Churt (Surrey): secret meeting at (1924),
462
City ofBenares: torpedoed (1940),677
Clark Kerr, Sir Archibald: in Moscow
(1942), 725, 730
Clark, General Mark: and Anzio, 767
Clarke, Colonel Frank: Churchill's host
(1943),752
Clemenceau, Georges: Churchill hears
(1917), 380; Churchill's mission to
(1918), 385, 386, 387; Churchill visits
(August 1918),394
Clydeside: strike spreads to (1908), 195;
strike on (1917), 376
Co-ordination of Defence: Churchill a
possible Minister of (1936), 549;
Inskip appointed (1936), 552
coal industry: Churchill's efforts to
secure a settlement in (1925-26), 472,
477,478; worsening crisis in (1926),
474; and Churchill's derating scheme
(1928),483
coal mines: Churchill's reforms for
(1908),196
Coal Mines Bill (1911): Churchill
introduces, 226
coalition: the possibility of (in 1914),269;
and the Dardanelles (1915), 302; and
an 'effective WarGovernment' (1939),
621; Churchill advocates (1952), 905
Cobden-Sanderson, Mrs: Churchill
orders arrest of, 221
Cockran, Bourke: Churchill's friendship
with, 58, 61; Churchill's letter to, 1I5,
136
Codrington: Churchill crosses Channel on
(1940),631
Cold War: 'frightful waste' of, 899
Colenso: Churchill reaches (1899), 108;
Churchill returns to outskirts of, 109;
General Buller forced back from, 120
collective security: Churchill advocates
1003
(1934),533,564; in prospect (1935),
543; and Abyssinia, 544; abandoned
(1935), 548; and the Soviet Union,
553; Churchill's plan for (1936), 556;
and Halifax's visit to Hitler, 585; and
'Britain's
word',
589;
and
rearmament, 589; and Czechoslovakia, 594; and Munich (1938),
599; and Hitler, 611
Collins, Michael: Churchill negotiates
with (1921-2), 441, 444, 445, 446;
becomes Prime Minister in Dublin,
444; assassinated (August 1922),449;
recalled,456
Cologne: air raid on (1914), recalled,
352; Churchill's visit to (1919), 415;
bombed (1942), 721; Germans
abandon (1945), 830
Colonial Office: and an 'accomplished
fact', 188; Churchill offered (1915),
318; Churchill begins work at (1921),
431; Churchill suggested for (1924),
465
Colonist II: Churchill's racehorse, 886,
895
Colville, General Sir Henry: Churchill
urges enquiry into dismissal of, 140
Colville, (Sir) John: his diary notes (193945),627,647,655,658,668,670,674,
677,678,680,686,688,689,692,700,
701,718,765,771,772,805,815,816;at
Bristol (1941), 696; and Churchill's
qualities, 773; accompanies Churchill
to Athens (Christmas 1944),808; and
Poland, 827; with Churchill at the
Rhine (March 1945), 832, 833; his
diary notes (after 1945), 878; and
Churchill's
second
Premiership
(1951-5),900,905,906,908,909,918,
926; and Churchill wish for talks with
Russia, 91I; and Churchill's stroke,
913; and Churchill's continuing
search for a summit (1953-55), 915,
916,920; at Bermuda (1953), 920;and
Churchill's last years, 943, 950
Combined Chiefs of Staff Committee:
established (1942), 715
Combined Raw Materials Board:
established (1942), 715
Committee of Imperial Defence: and
flying, 202; and the 'war against
poverty', 205; and the Ten Year Rule,
485
Committee of National Organisation:
1004
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Churchill proposes for 'war against
poverty', 205
Commonwealth Conference: Churchill
chairs (1953), 912
Commonwealth immigration: a future
problem, 922
Communism: and the English-speaking
peoples, 504; and the Spanish Civil
War, 575; Churchill a 'consistent
opponent' of, 701; and Greece (1944),
796; and Italy (1944), 796; and Istria,
806; and 'the soul of man', 884;
opposition to, a 'bond of unity' (1949),
885; Eastern Europe to be 'free of,
909; a 'tyrant', 927
Communists: to be forestalled in Greece
(1944),788; in Athens, 806
Compiegne: Churchill visits front line
near (1918),391
compulsory military service: Churchill
prepared to accept (1910), 217;
Churchill's call for (1915), 327; crisis
concerning (1916),341,344,359,360,
361; and the British army on the Rhine
(1919),406; the call for (in 1939),608,
614
Concarneau (Brittany): Churchill to sail
to (1940), 662
concentration camps, 546, 562, 589;
entered by the Allies, 836; a book
about, 918
Concert of Europe: and Spain (1937),
575
conciliation: in South Africa, 179;
Churchill seeks, during a shipbuilding
dispute (1908),195; Churchill's search
for, in South Wales (1910), 220; and
Ireland (1914),255
Concorde, Place de la (Paris): Churchill
visits (1883), 5
Congo: Churchill's scheme to 'catch'
trade of, 190
Congress of Berlin (1878), 946
Congress of Europe: inaugurated (1948),
880
Coningsby (Disraeli): Churchill reads, 918
.Connaught, Duke of: Churchill escorts
(1895),53; talk with, 54
Conservative and Unionist Party:
created, I 1; 'too brilliant altogether',
54
Conservative Central Office: arranges
for Churchill to speak (1897), 71;
Churchill sends election address to
(1898), 85; Churchill's criticism of
(1899),
104;
and
Churchill's
opposition over India, 499; Churchill
offers his services to (1935), 546; and
Munich (1938), 603
Conservative Party: Churchill's youthful
hopes for, 11; Churchill stands for
(1899), 104; Churchill's victory 'of
great use and value' to (1900), 136;
Churchill's work for praised (1900),
136; Churchill angers leaders of
(1901), 141; in a 'very brutal and
bloody frame of mind', 147; a 'fatal
doctrine' for, 147; Churchill's growing
disillusionment with (1901), 147;
Churchill wants creation of a
'Democratic or Progressive wing' of
(1902), 150; and Churchill's plan for a
'central coalition' (1902), 152;Joseph
Chamberlain's challenge to (1903),
154; and Protection, 155, 486, an
'awful slide' in store for, 162; and the
defeat of the Tibetans at Guru (1904),
163; Churchill denounces (1904), 164;
Churchill's attacks on, 167; 'constant
conflict' with (1905), 171; Churchill
defends his defection from, 175; and
the Dreadnought crisis (1908), 201;
sees itself as 'the ruling cast', 222;
Churchill
envisages
Liberal
'reconciliation' with (1910), 222; and
the constitutional crisis (1911), 230;
and the coming of war in 1914,269,
270; and a possible wartime coalition
(March 1915), 302; and criticism of
Churchill's wartime visits to Paris
(1915),314; and Fisher's resignation,
316; and the political crisis of May
1915,317; 'dream & intention' of, 344;
Derby's warning about, 365; and the
Chanak crisis (1922), 452; returns to
power (1922), 457; defeated (1923),
460; and the defeat of Socialism
(1924), 462; Churchill gives 'whole
support' to (1924), 464; returns to
power (1924), 464; Churchill returns
to (1925), 467; defeated (1929), 489;
leadership of, and Churchill's future
(1929), 493; abandons Free Trade
(1930),496; unease of, over Dominion
Status (for India), 497; and Churchill's
opposition over India, 499, 509, 516;
spirit of 'with me' (on India), 500;
victory for (1935), 547; Churchill
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critical of the 'machine' of (1936),559;
and the Freedom and Peace
movement, 580; and Munich (1938),
603; and Churchill's emergence as
Prime Minister (May 1940), 645;joins
in 'solemn ...accord' Ouly 1940),667;
Churchill becomes Leader of (October
1940),679; Stalin's toast to, 761; social
reform plans of (1945), 847;
Churchill's pre-war attacks on,
recalled (1945), 849; Stalin forecasts a
majority for (1945),852; Eden reports
confidence of (1945),853; Churchill's
two conflicts with (1948), 880; unease
in (1949), 883; and Churchill's
leadership (after 1945),889
Conservative Peers: Churchill's attacks
on,217
Conservative Shadow Cabinet: and India
(1929), 495; Churchill resigns from
(1931),499
Constantine, King of Greece: 297
Constantinople: Churchill visits (1910),
218; and the Dardanelles, 291, 292,
294,295, 297,299,300, 301,302; an
Entente objective, 291; and the
'coalition plan' (1915), 302; Churchill
proposes bombing of (1915),324; and
the battle of Loos, 327; 'take it soon',
329; British troops at (1919-22), 428;
to be held (1922),450; Greek 'dreams'
of,825
Constitution Square (Athens): Churchill
speaks in (1945), 825
Constitutional History (Hallam): Churchill
reads, 68
Constitutionalist: Churchill stands as
(1924),462
Copenhagen: Churchill visits (1950),893
Corfu: Italian bombardment of (1923),
458; Churchill suggests occupation of
(April 1939),612; and the iron curtain
(1945),844
Cork (Ireland): violence in (1920), 427
Cork and Orrery, 12th Earl of: and
Norway,637,638,639
Cornwallis-West,
Captain
George:
marries Churchill's mother (1900),
133; marries Mrs Patrick Campbell,
391
Coronel: British navaldisasteroff( 1914),
288; recalled, 319, 327
Corpus Christi Day (1918): 'abject'
suspension of air raids on, 392
1005
Corregidor (Philippines): American
forces on, surrender (1942), 721
Corsica: Churchill visits (1913), 249;
occupied by Allies (1943), 755;
Churchill flies to (1944), 788
Cosgrave, William: Churchill's help for
(192),449
Cossack: exploit of (1940), 634
Cote d'Azur: Churchill works at (1948),
882
Council of Europe: inaugural meeting of
(1949),885
Courseulles (Normandy): Churchill goes
ashore at (1944), 778
Courtney, Ivon: teaches Churchill to fly,
248
Cove,
William:
and
Churchill's
'scaremongering' (1935),542
Coventry: anti-aircraftdefenceof( 1940),
683; bombing raid on (1940), 684;
bombed (1941), 696
Coward, Noel: Churchill dines with (May
1945),838
Cox, Sir Percy: and Iraq, 431, 434
Cradock, Admiral: defeated, 288
Craig, Sir James: and Churchill's efforts
atan Irish settlement (1922), 444, 445;
a gift from (1938), 608
Crathie Kirk: Churchill worships at
(1953),917
Creil (France): Churchill sets upa factory
near (1917),380
Creswell, Lieutenant Thomas: teaches
Churchill to fly, 259; killed, 260
Creswell, Michael: and German air
strength (1935),542; brings Churchill
information (1938),587
Crete: Churchill wants to report from
(1896), 62; rebellion on (1897), 68;
possibility of further action in (1898),
100; Churchill visits (1910), 218;
British troops withdraw to (1941),
697; evacuation of, 698; German
onslaught on, 698; nature of fighting
on,699
Criccieth: Churchill's holiday at (1910),
218
Crimean War (1854-56): Churchill visits
sites of (1945), 824
Cripps, Sir Stafford: mocks Churchill's
call for rearmament (1934), 531; and
the call for Churchill's return Ouly
1939),616; and the imminent defeat
of Russia (1941), 701
1006
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Crisp, Charles: Churchill invests with,
137
Cromarty: British ships at, 236
Cromer (Norfolk): Churchill on holiday
at, 9, 264, 265; hazards of (in 1914),
277
Cromer, Lord: offers to help Churchill
(1898), 90; helps Churchill with his
book The River War, 103; and the
Dardanelles
Royal
Commission
(1916),366
Cromie,
Captain:
murdered
by
Bolsheviks (1918), 395
Cromwell, Oliver: recalled, 638; and
Lloyd George, 833
Crookshank, Harry: and Churchill's
second Premiership, 906, 923, 929
cross-Channel air service: Churchill
institutes (1918), 391
cross-Channel landing: Stalin seeks
(1942), 719; Churchill's plans for, 721;
discussion of (June 1942),722; Stalin
learns of postponement of, 725; and
the Dieppe raid, 729; continuing plans
for (1943), 736; setbacks to plans for
(December 1942), 736; reduced
priority of (January 1943), 737; and
Sicily, 744; Churchill worries about,
751; primacy of assured (August
1943), 751; and the landing craft
needed to attack Rhodes, 755;
Churchill's alternate plan to (October
1943),
756;
Stalin
rejects
postponement of (November 1943),
760; and Anzio, 764; discussed at
Marrakech (December 1943), 765;
final plans for, 767, 769, 771,772,773;
Churchill's briefing for, 771
Croydon: Churchill's air crash at (1919),
414
Crystal Palace: Churchill's visit to (1891),
28
Cuba: Churchill visits (1895), 56, 58;
Churchill under fire in, 59; Churchill's
vision for, 60; an article by Churchill
on (1896), 62; American invasion of
(1898),88; Churchill's further articles
on (1898), 88; Churchill's visit to
(1946),864
Cudlipp, Percy: and the call for
Churchill's return (1939), 613
Cumberland: hit (1940),678
Cunningham, Admiral Sir Andrew:
appointed First Sea Lord (1943), 755;
finds Churchill 'at his best', 779; finds
Churchill 'very tired', 782; and
Churchill's
pneumonia
(August
1944), 791; accompanies Churchill to
Quebec (1944), 794
Cunningham, Admiral Sir John: and
Anzio, 764, 767
Curragh: 'mutiny' at (1914), 257;
recalled,264
Curzon Line: and Poland's post-war
frontiers, 760, 795, 835
Curzon, Lord: foresees a Churchill
'triumph', 136; advice from, 141;
opposes
Churchill's
visit
to
Dardanelles, 324; Churchill confides
in, 329; and the Dardanelles, 336;
Churchill's contact with in 1916, 346;
Churchill's unexpected guest (1916),
347; invites Churchill to Air Board
(1916), 363; resigns (1916), 368;
opposes Churchill's return to office
(1917),374; and British intervention
in Russia (1919),413; wishes to retain
Gallipoli (1922),450; dies, 470
Custance, Admiral Sir Reginald:
supports Churchill (1933),515
Cuxhaven: air raid on (December 1914),
290; recalled, 352
Cvetkovic, Dr: Churchill appeals to
(1941),692; signs pact with Hitler, 693
Cyprus: Churchill visits, 186,739
Cyrenaica: Italians driven from (1941),
689; Churchill's plan for (1941),690
Czechoslovakia: determined (1932),510;
endangered (1936-38),553,584,589,
590, 592, 593; and the road to the
Black Sea (1938), 596; Anglo-French
plan for (1938), 596; 'silent. .. broken',
598; Hitler's final assault on (1939),
611; 'lost', 617; Churchill's broadcast
to (1940), 679; Soviet forces enter,
800; to be part of a Central European
Customs union, 800; Churchill's
hopes for (1945), 827; Churchill seeks
American liberation of (1945), 838;
Communists seize power in (1948),
879; future of (1944-45),845
Czechs: 'in bondage' (1939), 615;
'bludgeoned', 647; held down (1941),
693; under Soviet control, 860
Daily
Chronicle:
Churchill
seeks
commission from (1896), 62; and
Churchill's maiden speech, 140
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Daily Desp!!tch: and anger against
ChurchIll (1933), 515
Daily Express: and Churchill's maiden
speech (1901), 139; and Churchill's
popularity with the lower deck (1912),
245; l'nd Churchill's fifth Budget,
489; apologises to Churchill (1935),
543; Churchill praises (1954),924
Daily Graphic: an article on Churchill's
father in, 8; Churchill becomes
correspondent of (1895),
56;
Churchill's despatches to, 58, 59, 60
Daily Herald: denounces Churchill
(1919),413
Daily Mail: wants Churchill as its
correspondent in South Africa (1899),
denounces
Churchill's
105;
radicalism, 163; and Antwerp, 286;
recalls Antwerp and Gallipoli, 367;
and the Chanak crisis (1922),451; and
the General Strike (of 1926), 474;
Churchill's article in, on India (1929),
495; Churchill's warning on India in
(1931), 502; its lucrative commission
(1931-32), 503; Churchill's articles in,
504,506,509,510
Daily MiTTOT: and the 1951 election, 897;
calls for Churchill's resignation
(1954),922; mockery of, 924
Daily Telegraph: publishes Churchill's
North-West Frontier letters (1897),
75,80,82,86; and Churchill's maiden
speech, 139; and a 'weighty and
eloquent' speech (1914), 255;
Churchill's articles in (1938-39), 588,
592,615
Dakar: French warships at (1940), 666;
operation against (1940), 677
Daladier, Edouard, 523; and Munich
(1938), 597; and Churchill's pledge
(November 1939),628
Dalmatian Coast (of Yugoslavia):
strategy
for
(1943-44),
753;
Churchill's proposed commando
operation on, 767
Dalmeny: Churchill stays with Lord
Rosebery at, 150
Dalton, Hugh: and the Anti-Nazi Council
(1936),555; and Churchill's rejection
of a negotiated peace (1940),651; and
a 'new instrument of war', 668
Damascus: and Gallipoli, 309
Damaskinos, Archbishop: Churchill
uneasy about (1944), 808; Churchill
1007
81l;
'extremely
meets,
810,
determined', 813; becomes Regent,
814
Danes: 'may leap out' (1939), 618;
'bludgeoned', 647
Danube, the: and the Dardanelles,
(1915),294,297; and Munich (1938),
599; Roosevelt proposes an advance to
(1944), 760; a possible advance to
Uune 1944),780
Danzig: and danger for Europe (1932),
511 ;anda 'German menace', 527; and
the coming of war (1939), 615, 623;
Churchill asks for Soviet attack on
(1945),817
Dardanelles: to be blockaded (1914),
278; Churchill suggests a 'prompt
blow' at, 288; first bombardment at,
288; and Churchill's wish for a 'heroic
adventure' against, 290; genesis of the
attack
on,
291;
continued
bombardment at, 298, 300; a landing
at (I March 1915),301; discussion of a
renewed naval attack at, 304; naval
attack at (18 March 1915), 304;
repercussions of, 309, 31l, 313, 315,
317,319,321,323,325,327; failure
of, 309; renewed possibility of action
at, 312; Kitchener asks Churchill to
visit, 323; Curzon opposes Churchill's
visit to, 324; Balfour rejects
Churchill's advice on (August 1915),
326; Churchill proposes a further
naval attack at (August 1915), 326;
Churchill taunted with, 327; Asquith
declines to defend, 328; recalled, 340,
342,374,421,458,461,492; shadow
of, 361; Royal Commission on
(1916-17), 363, 366, 367, 369, 370;
crisis at (1922), 450, 'I glory in it', 459;
recalled (1943), 749; Russia 'welcome'
at (1945), 852; Stalin wants a naval
base at (1945), 853
Dardanelles Committee: Churchill a
member of, 321,322; disbanded, 328;
Churchill recalls, 334
Darlan, Admiral: Churchill meets
(1939-40),628; loyal to Vichy (1940),
666; supports Allies (1942), 733;
assassinated,737
Darling, (Sir) William: 'men seem to
turn ... to you' (1934),533
Dartford (Kent): Lord Randolph speaks
at, 12
1008
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Dartmouth: Churchill visits (1914), 259
Davidson,j.C.C.: and the General Strike
(of 1926), 474; and Churchill's
challenge over India, 499; Churchill
not trusted (May 1940),645
Davidson, Henry: his complaints (1888),
20; praise from, 21; and Churchill's
first lecture (1900),137
Davies, Marion: Churchill meets, 493
Davis, Bette: stars, 816
Dawnay, Hugh: Churchill dines with
(1914),281; killed (1914), 289
Dawson, Geoffrey (formerly Geoffrey
Robinson): and appeasement, 576
De Aar: Churchill reaches, 107
de Broqueville, Charles: and Antwerp
(1914),283
de Forest, Baron Maurice Arnold:
Churchill the guest of, 180, 181, 185;
Churchill honeymoons at castle of,
200; Churchill and his wife on holiday
cruise with, 217; and the coming of
warin 1914, 270
de Gasperi, Alcide: Churchill's dinner
for (1953), 912
de Gaulle, General Charles: and the battle
for France (1940), 657, 658; and the
Anglo-French Union, 662; and Dakar,
677; and his rival for leadership, 747;
angers Churchill, 764; visits Churchill
at Marrakech, 766; 'frustrated', 787;
Churchill the guest of (November
1944), 804; and Churchill's call for
Franco-German reconciliation (1946),
874; decorates Churchill (1958), 954
de Hirsch,Baron Maurice: takes Churchill
to a Morgue (1891), 31
De La Warr, 9th Earl: demands an
ultimatum (September 1939),620
de Ramsey, Lady: hears her nephew's
maiden speech, 139
de Robeck, Admiral Charles: and the
Dardanelles, 304, 305, 306, 310, 311,
312,314; his naval attack recalled, 370
de Souza, Louis: Churchill appeals to,
114; Churchill's last letter to, 116;
Churchill sends assurance to, 120
de Valera, Eamon: rejects the Irish
Treaty, 442; resigns, 444; and the Irish
'genius for conspiracy', 446
Deakin, E W: helps Churchill, 557, 871,
873,885, 887,888,891,894,906; and
Yugoslavia (1943), 739, 908; helps
Churchill in retirement, 945; his last
visit (1964),958
Death: 'swimming in the water at our side'
(1894),45
death duties: a compromise plan for, 223
Deauville: Churchill on holiday at, 180
Declaration of Union (1940), 662
Declaration on Liberated Europe (1945):
signed, 822; flouted, 830
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
(Gibbon): Churchill reads, 55, 66
Dedeagatch: Stalin wants a naval base at
(1945),853
defeat: 'odious', 195; a 'blessing in
disguise' (1908, 1945), 195, 855; the
'certain features' of a policy for, at
sea, 242
Defence Committee: 673, 676; and the
defence of Singapore, 694; opposes
military help to Russia, 709
Defence Deputation: Baldwin receives
(1936),559,560,567
Defence of Peace and Freedom:
established, 563
demobilisation: Churchill in charge of
(1919), 404, 405; Churchill's scheme
for, 406, 407
democracy: not possible east of Suez, 69;
the 'will' of, and the avoidance of war,
199; 'unsuited' to India, 507; and 'Nazi
Power', 599; the 'foundation' of, 802;
contrasted with 'mob law', 807; and
Victory in Europe, 841; and the 1945
election result, 856; and the atom
bomb,884
Denikin, General: and the anti-Bolshevik
Russians (1919), 409; British help to,
410,414,415; French withdraw from,
411; approaches Moscow, 415; his
military successes, 415; in retreat, 417;
flees, 418; Churchill still wishes to
support (1920), 419; Churchill urges
negotiations on (1920), 420; invited to
'give up the struggle', 421
Denmark:
Churchill
proposes
safeguarding neurality of (1911),
235; and the Entente (1914), 290; and
collective
security,
524;
and
'submission', 533; protests (1940),
633; occupied by Germany (1940),
636; a Soviet threat to (1945), 839;
Churchill visits (1950),893
departmentalism: British the 'victims' of
(1940),657
depression: Churchill refers to (1911),
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230; witnessed (1916), 364; and an
injury (1931), 504; after defeat (1945),
856; at Marrakech (1947),878; and the
Cold War (1953), 916; and a stroke
(1953),917
derating: Churchill's plan for (1927 -28),
481,482,483,484,485
Derby, 17th Earl of: protests, 365, 374,
377, 423; his warning (1928), 486;
Churchill's charge against (1934),
527; and the Freedom and Peace
movement, 584
Dervishes: Churchill's 'aboriginal desire
to kill' (1898), 91; attack Kitchener's
Army at Omdurman (1898), 92;
Churchill reports on, 94; Churchill's
first contact with, 94; Churchill in
cavalry charge against, 96; Churchill
in danger from, 97; Churchill's last
encounter with, 98; Kitchener and the
fate ofthe wounded, 99
deterrents: and the atom bomb, 859,
903; and disarmament, 935
Detroit: Churchill guarded in (1932),
505
Devon Regiment: at Ladysmith, 124
Devonport:
Churchill
launches
battleship at (1911), 240; field guns
embarked at, against Ulster (1914),
257; Churchill speaks at (1950),
889
Devonshire, Duchess of: Churchill rides
with, 228
Dewar, Rear-Admiral: and Churchill's
exclusion (1931),503
Dewetsdorp (Orange Free State):
Churchill in action at (1900), 126,
127
Dewsnap, Dan: hides Churchill during
his escape from the Boers, 119; his
wife in Churchill's audience at
Oldham, 133
Diamond Hill (Transvaal): Churchill's
bravery at (1900), 129
Diego Suarez (Madagascar): secured
(1942),721
Dieppe: Churchill in a car accident on the
way to Paris from (1919), 409; raid on
(1942), 729; lessons of landing at,
736; and deception (1944), 769
difficulties: 'will argue for themselves',
721
Digby, Lady: Churchill confides in,
863
1009
Digby, Pamela: marries Randolph, 627;
for later index entries see Churchill,
Pamela
Dill, General: accompanies Churchill to
France (1940), 653; Chief of the
General Staff, 672; and Greece, 690;
and Greece (1941), 691; and the
imminent defeat of Russia (1941),
701; replaced, 708
disarmament: Churchill's unease at
(1928), 486; Churchill's warnings
against, 506, 510, 527; Britain
pursues, in the air (1932), 512; and
appeasement, 515; Baldwin calls for,
522; the 'ultimate aim' (1934), 530;
proposed by Hitler (1937), 585; a
possible 'advance' towards (1939),
610; and deterrents, 935
Disraeli, Benjamin: dies, 2; recalled, 71,
152, 176, 945; Churchill wants
speeches of, 72
Distinguished Service Order (DSO): and
Churchill, 78
Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM):
Churchill's rescuer awarded with,
127
Ditchley Park: Churchill's wartime visits
to, 680, 687; Churchill breaks off
journey to, 683
Dixon, Pierson: and foreign policy
(1953),911,912
Dodds, Christopher: and Churchill's
disregard for danger (1944),779
Dogger Bank: three cruisers sunk near
(1914),281
Domadola
(North-West
Frontier):
Churchill in action at (1897),77
Dominion Governments: and the
Chanak crisis ( 1922), 450
Dominion Status (for India): 'a crime',
495; continuing debate on (1929-35),
496,497,498,499,500,501,502,503,
507, 509, 516; Churchill's alternative
to,498
Don, Group Captain Frank: brings
Churchill information (1938),587
Doncaster: Churchill at races at (1953),
917
Donner, Patrick: and the Commons
'uneasy' , 566
Douglas, Lewis: reports Churchill's
drastic proposal (1948),879
Douglas-Jones, Wing Commander Eric:
and the Battle of Britain, 676
1010
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Dover: Churchill's telegrams from (1893),
37; Churchillspeaksat(1898), 101;and
the coming of war (1914), 270;
Churchill's troubled journey to (1916),
355; Churchill visits defences at (1940),
674; Churchill visits (1941),688
Dover Strait: First Fleet sails through
(1914),268; sealed (1914), 277
Downing Street: Churchill enters No.1 0
for the first time (1898), 90
Dreadnought: controversy over, 201
Dresden: to be bombed (1945), 818;
bombed,824
Drocourt: Churchill visits captured
German positions at (1918), 396
drunkards: Churchill proposes curative
institutions for, 219
Drury: General Rawlinson at (1918), 386
Dublin: Churchill goes to, as a child
(1877), 1; Churchill lectures in (1900),
137; violence in (1920),427; to be held
by Britain in certain circumstances
(1922),446; battle in 0 une 1922),448
Dublin Fusiliers: at Khartoum (1907),
189
Dubrovnik (Dalmatia): and Tito, 806
Duchy
of Lancaster:
Churchill's
appointment to (1915),320
Dudley. 2nd Earl of: 'you are of course
right', 161
Duff Cooper, Alfred: and Abyssinia, 546;
not at Defence Deputation (1936),
567; becomes First Lord (1937), 577;
his advice rejected, 592; and Munich
(1938), 597; resigns, 598; and the
coming of war (1939), 620
Duff, Lady Juliet: Churchill dines with
(May 1945),838
Dufferin and Ava, 4th Marquess of:
killed in action (1945), 835
Duke ofYork: Churchill crosses Atlantic on
(1941),713
Duke of York's Theatre, London:
Churchill seesJustice at, 212
Dukedom: Churchill only two removed
from (1892), 34;
Dulles, John Foster, 916, 927, 938, 955;
at Bermuda (1953), 920; opposes
Churchill's summit plans, 927
Dum Dum bullet: 'appalling' effects of
(1897),79
Dundalk: blockade off, ended, 267
Dundas, Kenneth: killed in action (1915),
325
Dundee: Churchill lectures at (1900),
137; Churchill elected for(1908), 195;
Churchill speaks at, on need for State
intervention to fight poverty (1908),
200; Churchill speaks at (1909), 209;
Churchill re-elected for (1910), 211;
Churchill defends Dardanelles at
(1915), 321; a warning to Churchill
from (1916),359; Churchill and Lloyd
George in (1917), 374; Churchill
speaks in (1918), 403; Churchill
denounces Bolsheviks and Sinn Fein
at (1920),426; Churchill sets out Irish
conciliation plan at ( 1921 ), 440;
Churchill campaigns at (1922), 456;
'many excuses' of (1922), 456
Dundonald, Lord: invites Churchill to
ride with him into Ladysmith, 123
Dunkirk: air activity based on (1914),
280; Churchill visits (1914), 280;
endangered (1914), 282; evacuation
of (1940),650,652,653,654; fear of a
disaster 'greater than' (1944), 756;
Germans hold (September 1944),792
Dunottar Castle: Churchill sails on, to
South Africa (1899), 107
Dunrobin (Scotland): Churchill seeks
solitude at (1921),439
Durban: Churchillhurriesto(1899), 107;
Churchill returns to, from captivity,
121
Durdans (near Epsom): Churchill dines
at, 144
Dusseldorf: bombed (1914), 287; air raid
on (1914), recalled, 352; Churchill
visits (1956),948
Dutch: 'may leap out' (1939), 618;
'bludgeoned', 647
Dutch East Indies: Japanese threat to
(November 1941), 710; Japanese
landing on (December 1941), 711
Dvina, River (North Russia): British
naval action on (1919), 412
Dyer, General: Churchill upholds
criticism of, 422
Eadon, Captain: Churchill makes good
impression on (1898),100
Earl's Court (London): Churchill visits
(1887),14
East Anglia: and the atom bomb, 901
East Fulham: by-election at (1933), 523;
recalled,566
East London (South Africa): Churchill
INDEX
travels through (1899),107
East Prussia: a Russian setback in (1915),
298; and Poland, 756
Eastchurch (Isle of Sheppey): Churchill
learns to fly at (1912-3),248,252
Eastern Europe: and Munich (1938),599
Eastern Germany: Churchill seeks Soviet
withdrawal from (1948),879
Ebenezer Farm: a 'pulverised ruin', 332
economy: the 'tattered flag' of (1901),
142; Churchill's search for, in the
Middle East(1921),431; a controversy
over (1921-22),442
Eden, Anthony: attacks Churchill (1933),
515; disarmament 'the ultimate aim'
(1934), 530; his mission to Moscow
(1935),541; received by Hitler ( 1935),
542; not to be attacked, 548; becomes
Foreign Secretary, 548; thanks
Churchill (1937), 576; and the
Freedom and Peace movement, 580;
resigns (1938), 587; and Munich
(1938),597; 'shy', 603; Goering's fear
of (March 1939), 610; advocates a
Soviet alliance (1939), 614; protests at
adjournment (August 1939),617; and
the last halting steps to war
(September 1939), 620; and the
political crisis (April-May 1940), 641;
enters Cabinet (May 1940),645; on the
Defence Committee, 673; and Dakar,
678; and Greece (1940-41), 682, 687,
690; Churchill confides in, 685; and
Churchill's 66th birthday, 685; and
the imminent defeat of Russia (1941),
70 I; feels Churchill would be 'in the
way' (1942), 724; accompanies
Churchill to Athens (Christmas 1944),
809; with Churchill at Malta (1945),
816; at Yalta, 817, and Victory in
Europe, 841; at Potsdam, 850; and
Churchill's farewell (1945), 856;
Churchill's successor (from 1950),
889;
and
Churchill's
second
Premiership, 899, 904, 907, 916; and
Churchill's possible resignation, 909;
his own ill-health (1953-55), 910; and
Churchill wish for talks with F'· .ia,
911; seeks Churchill's resignation
(1952-55), 919, 923, 926, 928, 931;
opposes Churchill's efforts for a
summit, 928, 929, 930; Prime Minister
(1955-57), 943; and the Suez Crisis
(1956),948; resigns (1957),950
1011
Edinburgh: Churchill's meeting at,
cancelled (1903), 156; Churchill
speaks at (1904), 169; Churchill
addresses Conservatives at (1924),
463; Churchill speaks at (1929), 489;
possible Big Three conference at
(1943), 752; Churchill speaks at
(1950),889
Edinburgh Evening News: and a 'nail' in
Churchill's coffin (1936),549
education: to be 'universal', 69; to be
'equal', 70; 'scientific and technical',
156; 'less valued', 170; and Ireland,
175; plans for (1943), 742
Education Bill (1944): dispute over, 770
Edward VII (formerly Prince of Wales):
and Lord Randolph's final illness, 48;
speaks to Churchill (1895), 52; his
influence sought, 80; advice from, 86,
10 1; Churchill sends account of
armoured train ambush to, 110;
invites Churchill to Balmoral, 150;
and Churchill's criticism of the
General Staff, 170; and the 'error' of
Churchill's ways, 173; protests at
Churchill's 'objectionable language',
179; a warning from, 181; 'very well
disposed', 185; and Churchill's
Cabinet rank, 193; his wedding gift,
200; congratulates Churchill on
arbitration,
205;
angered
at
Churchill's remarks, 206; alarmed by
Churchill's association of Crown and
Commons, 216; dies, 217
Edward, Prince of Wales, 485; abdication
of, when Edward VIII (1936),568
Edwards,
Brigadier
Harold:
his
recollections (of 1945), 858
Eggishorn (Switzerland): Churchill
climbs, 181
egoism: 'I am so devoured by', 358
Egypt: Churchill seeks action in (from
1896), 62, 69, 80, 89; Churchill
reaches (1898), 91; Churchill returns
to (1899), 103; Churchill visits (1902),
153; and the coming of war (in 1914),
267; troop withdrawals in (1929), 491;
convoys to (1940-41), 674; Italian
advance into (1940), 677; and British
aid to Greece (1940),682; a successful
convoy to, 682; and aid to Greece
(1941), 691; possible evacuation of
(1941), 697; threats to (July 1941),
704; and the United States, 895;
1012
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
possible control of oil to (1953), 917
Egypt, Khedive of (Abbas Hilmi):
Churchill meets (1899),104
Egyptian Cavalry: Churchill seeks
transfer to (1898), 92
Eichhorn (Moravia): Churchill stays at,
181; Churchill revisits, 185; Churchill
honeymoons at, 200
Eindhoven (Holland): Churchill visits
(1945),829
Eisenhower, General: dines with
Churchill(1942), 730; in Tunisia, 736;
and Sicily, 741, 743, 744, 745; and
Italy, 747; his bet with Churchill, 748;
and the proposed campaign in Italy
(1943-44), 758; and Anzio, 763;
Churchill inspects troops with, 770;
suggests alandingin Britanny (August
1944),786; Churchill's visits to (1945),
814, 829, and the drive to Berlin
(1945), 834; telephones Churchill
about the concentration camps, 836;
and the liberation of Prague, 839;
Churchill's protest to (June 1945),
848; his friendly gesture, 860; and
Churchill's American visit (1946),864;
Churchill advocates 'settlement with
Soviet Russia' to (1948), 881; elected
President (1952), 908; and Churchill's
second Premiership, 909; and
Churchill's continuing search for a
summit (1953-55), 915; at Bermuda
(1953),920; and Churchill's desire for
a summit, 923, 927; thought to have
suggested a summit (1955), 936, 938;
and the Suez Crisis (1956), 950;
Churchill the guest of (1959),955
Elbe: importance of an Anglo-American
advance east of (April 1945), 834;
Allies reach (April 1945), 835
electoral defeat; and democracy, 456
Elgin, Lord: Churchill stays with (1898);
at the Colonial Office, 174,177,182;
and Churchill's 'disquiet', 183;
Churchill 'happy to go on working
under', 184; Churchill hopes to
succeed, 193
Elibank, Master of: and the 'new spirit',
167; advice from, 171; and intense
political bitterness', 171
Elizabeth I, Queen: and the Spanish
Armada, 778
Elizabeth II, Queen: and Churchill's
'vision', 188; 'authority & reflective
ness' of, 487; her sympathy (1941),
697; and horse-racing, 895; and the
Victorian Era, 903; and Churchill's
second Premiership, 908; Coronation
of, 911; and Churchill's resignation,
938; and Churchill's death, 959
Elliot, Walter: demands an ultimatum
(September 1939),620
Elliott, Maxine: Churchill stays with, 532
607
Emho (Kenya): Churchill visits (1907),
187
Empire Theatre (Leicester Square): Lord
Randolph takes son to, 41; Churchill
advised not to visit, 43; Churchill visits,
44; Churchill protests at proposed
closure of (1894),46
Enchantress: Churchill lives and works on
(1911-14), 240, 244, 246, 247, 248,
249,259; summer cruise on (1913),
249; Asquith 'keen' to join (J uly 1914),
263
England: need for 'faith in ourselves'
(1933), 520; 'will go on to the end'
(1940),646
English Channel: crossing of, 'worse than
a flogging', 101
English-Speaking Union: Churchill
speaks to (1921),433
Enigma: and the Norwegian campaign
(April-May 1940), 637; further
successes of (1940), 649; and the
prospect of invasion, 654; and
Germany's invasion plans, 670; and
invasion, 681, 682; and Greece, 687;
and the battle of the Atlantic, 692; and
Hitler's plans with regard to the Soviet
Union, 695; and German plans against
Yugoslavia and Greece (1941), 695;
and Crete (1941),698; and the German
invasion of Russia (1941), 699; and the
German
advance
into
Russia
(1941-42),702; and the war at sea, 704,
710, 717; and Churchill's confidence
(September 1941),707; 735, 750; and
the Western Desert, 709, 710, 730, 731;
and a threat to Baku, 733; and Tunisia,
735,741; and Churchill's transatlantic
crossing (1943), 744; and German
plans in Italy (1943), 756; and the
cross-Channel landing, 769, 774; and
the battles in South Russia and Italy,
771; and Italy, 780; and the Adriatic
plan (June 1944),780
INDEX
Enterprise: Churchill sleeps on board Uuly
1944),785
Enver Pasha: Churchill's talk with (1909),
208; and the Dardanelles (1915), 295
Epping: Churchill stands for (1924),463;
Ch urchill re-elected for (1929), 489;
Churchill re-elected for (1931),503;
Churchill warns about German
rearmament (1933), 522; and Munich
(1938), 603; Churchill defends
himself at (March 1939), 610
Epsom: Churchill visits (1949),886
Eritrea: Italians defeated in (1941), 693
Estcourt (Natal): Churchill at (1899),
108; Churchill prevents withdrawal
from, 109; Churchill leaves in
armoured train, 110; recalled, 174
Eton College: 3, 39, 64
Etruna: Churchill sails across Atlantic on
(1895),56
Eu (France): Churchill hunts wild boar at,
481
Europe: 'germsofdanger'in (1912), 246;
'misguided', 508; need for a 'reign of
law' in, 552; Britain's policy to 'oppose
the strongest power' in, 555; and the
annexation of Austria (1938),589; the
'whole equilbrium of deranged
(1938), 600; 'danger months' in
(1939), 617; the German 'walk'
through, 699; liberation of 'from the
pit of misery', 734; future Soviet
power in, 826, 835; need for 'law and
justice' in (1945),844; 'bolshevization'
of (1945), 860; and the deterrent
effect of the atom bomb, 884; 'to live
again' (1950), 890; need for a 'united
command' in (1952),903
European Army: Churchill calls for
(1950), 891; Churchill supports, 90 I
European Assembly: Churchill supports
(1948),880
European Court of Human Rights:
Churchill supports establishment of
(1948),883
European
Defence
Community:
Churchill favours (1951), 900; and
German participation, 921; France
rejects, 932
European Morals from Augustus to
Charlemagne (Lecky): Churchill reads,
55
Evans, Murland: recalls Churchill at
Harrow,23
1013
Evening News: Churchill's article in
(1920), 423; and the Abbey
by-election, 461; Churchill's India
statement in (1933), 518; and the call
for Churchill's return, 613
Evening Standard: Churchill's articles in
(1936-8), 552, 559, 576, 580; opposes
Churchill (1938), 588
Everest, Anne: Churchill's nanny, 1-4, 8,
10, 15, 16, 21, 27; leaves Lady
Randolph's
employ,
30;
encouragement from, 31; her advice,
40; dismissed, 41; Churchill visits, 43;
dies (1895), 53; recalled, 56
Excess Profits Levy: Churchill proposes
(1951),896
Eze (South of France): Churchill on
holiday at (1927), 480
Falcon: Churchill inspects, 240
Falkland Islands: battle of (1914),289;
defence of (1952), 904
Fardell, Sir George: Lady Randolph
'hotting up', 81
Farnborough: Churchill's oxygen mask
test at (1942), 725
Farouk, King of Egypt: Churchill meets
(1945),825
Feilding, General Geoffrey:
and
demobilisation (1919), 406
Feisal, Emir: and Iraq, 431; and
Palestine, 432
Female Suffrage: Churchill votes for
(1917),379
Fenians: 'wicked people', I
Ferdinand,
Archduke
Franz:
assassinated (1914), 261, 264, 265
Fermanagh (Ireland): border of, 264;
the 'dreary steeples' of, 445
Fifty-Sixth Brigade: Churchill to
command (1915), 336; Churchill's
command of, vetoed, 337
filming: Churchill's hopes for, in South
Africa (1899),106
Financial Secretary to the Treasury:
Churchill declines, 174
Fincastle, Lord: wins Victoria Cross, 83
Finland: and armaments, 507; invaded
by the Soviet Union (1939), 630;
'sublime', 632; Anglo-French help for
(1940), 633; makes peace (March
1940),635
Firefly (Churchill's horse): to be sold, 70
Firket: 'battle' at (1897), 82
1014
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
First Lord of the Admiralty: Churchill's
appointment as (1911),239
First World War: many of Churchill's
friends killed in, 23, 35; and Britain's
earlier 'littler wars', 93; Churchill
recalls 'hecatombs' of (1944),773
Fisher, Admiral of the Fleet, Lord:
Churchill establishes close relations
with (1911), 241; returns as First Sea
Lord
(1914),
287;
and
the
Dardanelles, 288, 291, 294, 295, 296,
302,303,305,312,313; and Sylt, 289;
resigns, 315, 316; Churchill's criticism
of, 328; willing 'to bury the hatchet',
339; Churchill's call for the return of
(1916),351; urges Churchill to speak
in Army debate (1916), 354
Fisher, Herbert: and Churchill's 'great
brilliance', 445; and Churchill's
defence of democracy (1936),563
Fisher, Sir Warren: and the call for
Minister of Defence (1936),550
Fiume: Tito's design on (1944),806
Fleet Air Arm: problems in (1936), 555
Flixecourt: Churchill visits Rawlinson at
(1918),393
flogging: at Churchill's first school, 3
Florence: Germans withdraw from
(1944),786
Florida: Churchill travels through
(1895), 58; Churchill recuperates in
(1942),715
Flower, Desmond: and The Second World
War, 887
flying: Churchill supports experiments
in (1909), 202; the 'Stephenson age'of,
248; Churchill learns, 249, 251, 252;
Churchill's delight in (1913), 251;
Churchill agrees to give up, 259; and
Churchill's near accident (1918), 392;
Clementine's continued unease about
(1918), 396; Churchill continues
(1919),413; Churchill's brief return to
(1942), 715; Churchill's second
wartime venture in, 747; and the
human race, 918
flying bombs: over Britain (1944), 779,
781,782,784
Flying Fortresses: Churchill watches
arrival of (1941), 699
Foch, Marshal: at Beauvais (1918), 386;
appointed Generalissimo, 389
Foreign Office: a possible post for
Churchill
(1929),
488;
enlists
Churchill's help (1936), 554
forests: and the State, 191
Fortress Europe: Alliedassaulton (1944),
775
fortune: 'capricious', 95; 'in the giving
mood', 100; 'caprice' of, 123; 'tempted
so often', 123
Fortune, General: forced back (1940),
657; surrenders, 659
Four-Year Plan (1945), 845, 847
Fourth Hussars: Churchill joins, 51; and
the possibility of war with the United
States, 61; Churchill sails to India with
(1896),63
Fox, Robert: and Churchill's battalion
days (1916), 343
France: Churchill does not want to study
in (1891), 30; and Agadir (1911), 233;
not to be 'trampled down', 236; naval
responsibilities to be shared with
(1912),246; alliance system of (1912),
247; and the coming of war( 1914), 261,
265, 266, 269; Churchill's visits to
(1914-15), 280, 281, 282; and the
Dardanelles, 296; criticism of
Churchill's visits to (1915), 314;
Churchill offered a military command
in (1915), 318; Churchill's missions to
(1917-18),373,378,380,382,384,385,
390, 393; Churchill proposes extra
troops for (1918), 375; Churchill's
interwar visits to, 407, 409, 420, 425,
431,436,443,457,458,460,468,480,
483,501,532,545,562,574,586,592,
607; and the Chanak crisis (1922),451;
and the Versailles Treaty, 464;
Britain's war debts from (1925), 468;
Churchill opposes Treaty with (1925),
471; under no 'moral obligation' to
disarm (1928), 486; and disarmament,
511; pact with Soviet Union (1935),
543; the German threat to (1936-39),
553; and British security (1937), 585;
Churchill advocates alliance with
(1938),591; and Munich (1938), 597;
Churchill's wartime visits to (1939-40),
628,631,647,649,653; invaded (May
1940),641; British help to (1940),647;
fallof( 1940), 658; seeks armistice (June
1940), 661; evacuations from, 664; fate
of the Fleet of (July 1940), 666;
Churchill broadcasts to (October
1940), 681; Stalin wants a British
landing in (1941), 703; civilian
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casualties in, from Allied bombing
(1944), 772; Churchill appeals to, for a
reconciliation with Germany (1946),
872; the fall of (in 1940) recalled, 881;
a 'sublime act' by (1950), 892; and
ChurchiII's second Premiership, 900;
and the struggle in Indo-China (1952),
901; and the Suez Canal, 902;
ChurchiII's postwar visits to, 917;
Churchill's appeal to, at Bermuda
(1953),921
franchise: ChurchiII advocates extension
of(1897),69
Franco, General: Chamberlain's hopes
for (1939), 609
Franco-German Armistice (1940): not to
be breached, 666
Franco-Russian Pact (1935): and
Czechoslovakia, 595
Franconia: ChurchiII on (1945), 824
Frankfurt: Churchill drives to (1909),
207; bombed (1941), 703
}'rankland, Lieutenant: his captivity ends
(1900),129
Franklin, Hugh: Churchill struck by, 221
Franks, Sir Oliver: and Churchill's
different appearances (1954),933
Fraser, Forbes: brings Churchill
information (March 1939),611
Free Food League: Churchill active in
formation of (1903), 155; Churchill to
be 'special candidate' for, 162
Free French: and Dakar (1940),678
Free French Division: and the
cross-Channel landing, 773
Free Italy: and Cyrenaica (1941),690
Free Trade: Churchill's warning of a
revival of 'party bitterness' over
(1902), 147; ChurchiII a leading
campaigner for, 152, 157; Churchill a
'sober admirer' of, 152; 'essentially
Liberal', 158; and public information,
170; Churchill's banner(in 1923),459;
Conservative Party abandons (1930),
496
Free Trade Party: Churchill forecasts, 66
Freedom and Peace Movement:
meetings of, 580, 584
French Army: Churchill attends
manoeuvres
of
(1907),
185;
importance of, to Britain (from 1925),
487; its last years of preponderance
(1937-39),580,585
of
National
French
Committee
1015
Liberation: established (1943), 747
French Fleet: possible surrender of
(1940), 661 ; surrenders, 666
French Indo-China: occupied by Japan
(1941),705; struggle in (1952), 901;
Churchill
opposes
British
involvement in (1954), 925
French language: importance of
knowledge of, 81; and wartime, 954
French North Africa: plans for Allied
landings in (1942), 713, 715, 725, 728,
730; Allied landings in, 733; 'a
springboard', 734; effect of landings
in, for Russia, 735
French sailors: 'detestable', 90
French troops: at Gallipoli (1915),312;
occupy Narvik (1940), 650; and the
Dunkirk evacuation, 652
French, General Sir John: Churchill the
guest of (1910), 218; Churchill's
mission to (1914), 281; Churchill's
friendship with, 326; to be replaced
(1915),337,338; recalled, 366
Frere: Churchill reaches in armoured
train, 110; soldiers at, praise
Churchill's bravery, 113
Freund, Richard, 594
Frevent: Churchill flies to Haig's
headquarters at, 394
Frewen, Clara (Aunt Clara), 7
Frewen, Hugh: and 'the Den', 27;
Churchill writes to, on need to be
'cheerfully determined', 122
Frewen, Moreton, 10; ChurchiIIconfides
in,87
Friedrichshafen: air raid on (1914),
recalled,352
Fry, Roger: recalls floggings, 3
Fulton speech (1946),865
Gairloch (Scotland): Churchill at
Ministerial meeting at (1921), 440
Gale, General: and Anzio, 765
Gallipoli: John Milbanke killed at, 23;
Lieutenant Frankland kiIIed at, 129;
and the Dardanelles, 290, 291, 294,
295, 297; Churchill's proposal for
(March 1915),303; landings at, 309,
310; further landings at, 325; to be
evacuated, 332; evacuation of, 336;
recalled, 367, 413, 419; and the
Somme, 370; to be held (1922), 450;
landings on, recalled (1943),749
Galsworthy,John: and ChurchiII's prison
1016
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
reforms (1910), 212, 215
gambling: at Deauville (1906),180; 'I lost
a little', 222; 'after dark', 574; at
Cannes (1939),608
Gamelin, General: and Munich (1938),
608; Churchill meets (1940),631
Gandhi, Mahatma: supports full
independence for India (1930), 496;
his meeting with the Viceroy (1931),
499; visits London (1931), 502; his
emissary to Churchill (1935), 540
Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931): dispute over,
500
Gardone (Lake Como): Churchill works
at (1949),885
Garibaldi:
Churchill
contemplates
writing a biography of (1898), 87
Garnett, Theresa: assaults Churchill with
dog whip (1909), 210
Garron Towers Estate (Northern
Ireland): Churchill inherits (1921),
439,451
Garvin, J.L.: and Churchill's departure
from the Admiralty (1915), 320; seeks
a Fisher-Churchill reconciliation, 339,
351, 354; 'keep in touch with, 355; a
warning
from,
359;
his
encouragement (1935), 545; favours
Churchill's return Ouly 1939),616
gas: and GaIlipoli, 327; and the
Bolsheviks, 411; and Normandy, 782;
and Germany, 784
Gastein (Austria): Churchill visits (1883),
5
Gauche Wood: Churchillinspects(1918),
384; overrun, 384
Gaza: Churchill greeted at (1921),434
Geddes, Eric: protests (1917), 377;
Churchill in dispute with, 442
Geldrop (Holland): Churchill visits
(1945),829
Gemmell, Chips: Churchill's secretary,
871
General Election: of 1886, 9; of 1895, 54;
of 1900, 135; of 1906, 174; of
February 1910, 211; of December
1910,222;ofI918,403;ofI922,455;
of 1923,459; of 1924,464; of 1929,
489; of 1931, 502; of 1935, 547; of
1945,846;ofI950,888;ofI951,896;
of 1955,943; of 1959,956
General Strike: General Strike (of 1926),
474,475,476,477; prospectof(1929),
488
genius: and 'plod', 125
Genoa: Churchill works at (1927), 480;
Churchill stays near (September
1945),859
Gensoul, Admiral: his options (1940),
666
George II, King of Greece: Churchill
talks with (1944), 814
George V: becomes King, 217; angered,
226; offers Clementine a seat in the
Abbey, 227; coronation of, 228;
on
congratulates
Churchill
preventing loss of life (1911), 232;
and Churchill's 'rats in a hole' speech,
281; opposes appointment of Fisher
(1914), 287; Churchill the guest of
(1928),487
George VI, King: and the magnetic mine,
629; and the political crisis (May 1940),
642; and Alamein, 732; and Victory in
Europe, 840; asks Churchill to form
Caretaker Government (1945), 846;
Churchill tenders resignation to
(1945),855; dies, 903
Georges, General: and Munich (1938),
608; Churchill's talk with (August
1939),618
German language: Churchill starts
learning, 24
German Air Force: and Enigma, 649
German Air Mission: visits Britain
(1937),581
German
Army:
'magnificent
&
formidable' (1906), 181; 'theatrical
display' of (1906), 185; a 'terrible
engine' (1909), 208; Churchill's
thoughts on future of (1918), 401;
'they are strong' (August 1939), 619;
and Enigma, 649
German nation: to take 'its true place'
(1954),932
German Navy: possible increase in
(1909),206; intentions of (1909),209;
dispositionsof(1911), 236; Churchill's
concerns about (December 1911),241;
expansion of imminent (1912),242
German Navy Law (1912): Churchill
studies, 243; passed (1912), 245
German prisoners-of-war: Churchill
enters cages with (1918), 393; at
Chartwell (1945), 861
German South-West Africa: revolt in
(1906),181
German weapons: 'terrible power' of
INDEX
(1906),181
Germans: 'their turn will come' (1912),
244; 'my hate died with their
surrender', 850; and monarchy, 851;
sufferings of understood, 880
Germany:
and
the
'commercial
supremacy of the world' (1898), 89;
Churchill impressed by social reform
schemes in (1907), 190; war not
inevitable
with
(1908),
198;
Churchill's impressionsof( 1909), 207;
Churchill wants joint action by (1910),
218; and Agadir (1911), 233; military
advance into France, forecast (1911),
235;
possible
emergence
of
democratic forces in (1911), 242;
Russiaa 'corrective'to( 1912), 242; and
the coming of war in 1914,267,270,
272,273; and Turkey, 291; and the
Dardanelles, 302; need for a
'preponderance of strength' against
(1916), 362; renewed offensive by
(June 1918),391; 'whining in defeat'
of, 397; asks for armistice (1918),398;
Churchill urges a moderate peace for
(1918),403; Churchill's policy towards
(1919), 412; and a 'moral bulwark'
against Bolshevism (1920), 420;
Britain to be the 'friend' of (1921),
439; 'cannot be kept in permanent
subjugation' (1924), 464; Churchill
seeks to avoid isolation of (1925),471;
naval rearmament of (1929), 487;
Britain's undertaking to (from 1925),
487; Hitler's path to power in, 506,
507; Churchill visits (1932), 508;
bands of 'Teutonic youth' in (1932),
510; triumph of Hitler in (1933), 513;
persecution in (1933), 514; 'grim
dictatorship' in, 520; rearmament of,
521, 523, 529, 535; 'arming fast'
(1934), 526; Churchill warning of
growing air strength of (1934), 531;
Churchill's broadcast on (1934), 533;
'fertile in military surprises' (1934),
537; 'rearming at breakneck speed'
(1935),545; 'outstripping us more and
more' (1936), 552; and The Times, 576;
Churchill's advice to (1937), 581; her
guarantees to Belgium (1937), 586;
'good will or pleasure' of (1938),599;
her
capacities
and
intention
'underestimated', 605; fear of (in
Poland, Roumania and Greece), 614;
1017
Churchill opposes concession to (J une
1939), 615; tramp of armies of
(August 1939), 618; ultimatum to
(September 1939), 621; iron ore
supplies of (1939-40),626,630,631,
632; invades Norway (April 1940),
635; occupies Denmark (1940), 636;
Churchill addresses (J une 1940),656;
and Yugoslavia (1941), 695; invades
the Soviet Union (June 1941), 701;
declares war on United States
(December 1941), 712; to be defeated
before Japan, 713; occupies Vichy
France (1942), 734; priority of defeat
of, reasserted (January 1943), 738;
'main hopes' of (May 1943),746; the
'prime foe', 750; Churchill and Stalin
discuss future of (1943), 760, 761;
possible mustard gas attack on (1944),
784; continued military resistance of
(September 1944),792; plans for the
future of (1944-45), 793, 800;
Churchill crosses into (1945),829; not
to be dismembered, 832; Soviet Zone
of, 838; surrender of (May 1945),839;
scientific establishments in (July
1945), 850; 'might have been saved'
(before 1939), 867; and possible
reconciliation with France (1946), 872;
and the Council of Europe (1949),885;
Churchill's visits to (1956),947
Gerrard, Eugene: teaches Churchill to fly
(1913),251;in 1914,280
Gestapo: executions by (1939),615; grip
of Oune 1940), 656; Churchill's
question concerning (March 1941),
694; Churchill rejects a cynical offer
from (1944), 783
Gestapo speech (1945): 846,848
Ghengis Khan: recalled (in 1945), 827
Ghent: Churchill visits Montgomery's
headquarters near (1945),814
Gibbon, Edward: Churchill plans to read
(1895), 55; Churchill reads, 66;
Churchill 'lured' from, 67; trains the
'muscles', 70
Gibraltar: Churchill visits (1901), 141;
and the Dardanelles, 295; successful
convoy from (1940), 674; an incident
at the time of Churchill's return from,
747; a lightning strike on the way to
(1943), 747; Churchill reaches
(November 1943), 758; Churchill
returns to England through (January
1018
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
1944), 766; Churchill sails to (1958),
954
Gibson, Guy: at Chequers, 749
Gillespie, Dr James: and Churchill's
escape from Pretoria (1899), 119
Gilliatt, Elizabeth: Churchill's secretary,
863, 871, 872, 908, 916;
and
Churchill's stroke (1949),886
Ginderich (Germany): Churchill watches
start of offensive from (March 1945),
831
Giraud, General: 737; and de Gaulle, 747
Gladstone, Herbert: and a possible
'understanding', 161
Gladstone, William Ewart: 'a brute', 8;
forms Government, 9; and Irish
Home Rule, II; become Prime
Minister again (1892), 32; 'a great
white eagle', 36; his 'sustaining power'
lost, 54; Churchill wants speeches of,
72; and Tory Democracy, 151;
Churchilljoins Liberal heirs of (1904),
165; and Ireland, 442; recalled, 489,
900,909,933
Glasgow: Churchill unveils social reform
scheme in (1906), 183; speaks at
(1918), 398; speaks at (1929), 489;
speaks at (1941), 688; speaks at( 1953),
910
Glasgow Herald: and individualism, 460
Glencorse Wood
(Ypres Salient):
Churchill visits (1918), 382
Goch (Germany): Churchill at (1945),
829
Goebbels, Dr Josef: doctrine of, 562
Goeben: and the coming of war in 1914,
269, 274; escape of, 278; bombards
Russian ports, 288; and the
Dardanelles, 295
Goering, Marshal Hermann: his fears
(March 1939),610
Gold Standard: return to (1925), 469
Golden Age: in the aftermath of Munich
(March 1939),611,612
Goliath: torpedoed ( 1915), 314
Goodacre, Melville: and Churchill's
arrival at the prison, to hoist the Union
Jack (1900), 129
Goodenough, Admiral Sir William:
disappointed,552
Goodwood: Churchill at races at (1897),
72
Gorst, Sir John: speaks up on Churchill's
behalf(l904),163
Gort, Field Marshal Lord: Churchill visits
(1940), 631; and the Dunkirk
evacuation (1940),653
Goschen, Sir Harry: and Munich (1938),
603
Gott, General: his short-lived Command
(1942),726
Gough, General: and the 'Curragh
mutiny' (1914), 257
Government of the Middle: Churchill's
hope for (1902), 152
Graebner, Walter: and The Second World
War, 917
Graf Spee: its depredations, and
destruction (1939), 630; fate of
prisoners of, 633
Grand Alliance: endangered (1939),614
Grand Canyon (Arizona): Churchill visits
(1929),494
Grand Coalition: end of (1945), 845
Grandi, Count Dino: Churchill warns
(1935),546
Grattidge, Captain: his recollection, 824
Gravelotte (Lorraine): Churchill visits
1870 battlefield of(1909), 207
Great
Contemporaries
(Winston
S.
Churchill): published (1937), 580
Great Wall of China: and Hitler, 668
Greaves, Lieutenant: killed in action
(1897),83
Greece: Cypriot Greeks demand union
with (1906), 186; and the Dardanelles,
290, 291, 294; Lloyd George's
support
for
(1921-22),
434;
parliamentary democracy restored in
(1927), 480; Churchill's articles no
longer to appear in, 614; invaded
(1940), 681; German designs on
(1941), 687; German plans to
conquer, 690; German invasion of,
imminent, 695; British troops
withdraw from, 697; partisans in
(1943), 749; German withdrawal
from (1944), 788; British military
expedition to (1944-45), 789; future
of (1944-45),795; Britain's 'particular
interest' in, 796; 'which we still hope to
save' (November 1944),804; increase
in Commiunist activity in, 806; the
struggle for (December 1944),808; to
be reassured, 865; 'free to decide'
(1946), 866; no longer to be protected
(1947),876; and a 'world front against
Communist aggression' (1954),926
INDEX
Greek Communists: want to meet
Churchill (Christmas 1944),812
Greeks: on Crete, 62; rebellion by, on
Crete
(1897),
68;
Churchill's
sympathies with (1897), 71
Greenwood, Arthur: and the outbreak
of war (September 1939), 623; and
Norway (1940),634; and the political
crisis (April-May 1940), 640; enters
Cabinet (May 1940), 643; supports
Churchill's rejection of a negotiated
peace (1940), 651; and Greece, 690
Grenadier Guards: Churchill trains with
(1915),332,333,335
Grenfell, Robert: killed in action (1898),
98
Grenoble: Churchill drives to (1934),532
Grey, Sir Edward: Churchill's friendship
with, 144; absent during crucial
debate (1903), 155; and the
suffragettes, 172; and Churchill's
work as an arbitrator, 205; opposes
Churchill's visit to Kiel (1914), 259;
and the coming of war (1914), 261,
264,266,267,270; and Antwerp, 282;
and Churchill's 'genius for war', 285;
and the genesis of the Dardanelles,
291, 297, 298; and the Adriatic, 295;
and independence for the Arabs, 305;
and the political crisis of May 1915,
319; his praise (1925), 468
Grey, Spenser: teaches Churchill to fly
(1913),248; severely injured, 248; in
1914, 280; leads bombing raid on
Cologne (1914), 287; and Churchill's
exclusion (1935), 544
Griffith, Arthur: Churchill negotiates
with (1921), 441, 447
Guards Chapel (London): flying bomb
hits (1944), 779
Guards Division: Churchill's training
with (1915), 331, 336
Guest, Alice: her depression cured, 230
Guest, Frederick: Churchill's cousin,
197; accompanies Churchill, 207; his
encouraging message (1936),568; and
the immediate aftermath of the
Abdication crisis, 569
Guest, Ivor: his advice (1898), 91;
Churchill confides in, 102; and the
election of 1906, 176
Guildhall (London): Churchill speaks at
(1914), 279; speaks at (1940), 634;
speaks at (1955), 945
1019
Gulf of Finland: Royal Navy in (1919),
417
Guru (Tibet): defeat of Tibetans at
(1904),163
Guthrie, Murray: and a film scheme, 106
Gwynne, H.A.: protests (1926),476
Habbaniya (Iraq): besieged (1941),696
Habsburgs: not to be hunted down
(1945),837
Hacket, Polly: Churchill smitten by, 42;
Churchill lunches with, 44; marries,
52
Haggard, Rider: Churchill corresponds
with (1888),16
Haifa: and Gallipoli (1915), 309; Arab
riots in (1921), 434
Haig, General: and Churchill's command
of a battalion (1915), 338; wishes
Churchill luck (1916), 360; and the
battle of Arras, 371; Churchill's
discussions with (1917-18), 373;
appeals to Churchill, 379; Churchill
sends munitions to (1918), 390; and
Churchill's 'energy and foresight'
(1918), 393; wishes to shoot Calais
mutineers (1919),407
Haile Selassie: Churchill meets (1945),
825
Haileybury School: mock battle with
(1888),19
Hailsham,
Lord:
and
Defence
deficiencies, 513; and India, 517
Haldane, Captain Aylmer (later
General): Churchill's friendship with
(1898), 86; asks Churchill to
accompany armoured train (1899),
109; ambushed, 110; obliged to
surrender, 112; Churchilljoins escape
plan of, 115; escapes from Pretoria,
126; in Iraq (1920),424,431
Haldane, R.B. (later Lord): Churchill
meets, 144; and the Agadir crisis
(1911),234; and Churchill's 'inspring
spirit', 279; seeks to dissuade
Churchill from resignation (1914),
286
Halifax (Yorkshire): Churchill speaks at
(1903), 160
Halifax (Nova Scotia): Churchill travels
through (1943), 750, 754
Halifax, Lord (formerly Lord Irwin): at
Defence Deputation (1936),567; visits
Hitler (1937), 584; and the need to
1020
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
improve relations with Germany, 586;
becomes Foreign Secretary (1938),
588; rejects call for Grand Alliance,
591; doubts Germany's 'lust for
conquest', 592; and Czechoslovakia,
594; and a possible 'understanding'
with Germany (1939), 615; Hitler's
attitude to 0 uly 1939), 616; favours
Churchill's return 0 une 1939), 616;
neutrals protest to (1940), 633; and
Churchill's qualities, 634; and the
political crisis (April-May 1940),636;
keen on the Trondheim landings
(1940), 636; and a proposal to
negotiate (1940), 650; accompanies
Churchill to Tours (1940),659
Hamblin, Grace: at Chartwell, 557, 579,
873
Hamburg: bombed (1940), 685; (1941),
703; (1943), 750
Hamilton, General Sir Ian: Churchill's
friendship with, 94; Churchill
describes cavalry charge to, 95;
Churchill dines with, after relief of
Ladysmith, 124; Churchill joins
advance of, 126; entrusts Churchill
with a despatch, 128; and Churchill's
'conspicuous gallantry', 129; and
Churchill's change of Party, 171; and
the Dardanelles, 303, 304; and
Gallipoli, 312, 325; and the Royal
Commission on the Dardanelles, 363;
and Churchill's recollections of Suvla
Bay, 754
Hamilton, Sir Edward: helps Churchill,
148
Hanfstaengel, Ernst: seeks to introduce
Hitler to Churchill (1932),508
Hankey, Maurice: and Turkey, 291; and
the Dardanelles, 292, 294, 300; and
the genesis of the tank, 293; and
Fisher's resignation, 319; suggests a
Churchill mission to Russia (1915),
328; and Gallipoli, 332; misses
Churchill's 'courage & power to take a
decision', 336; visits Churchill (1917),
375;
and
Churchill's
'gr-eat
moderation' (1919), 409; and British
air weakness (1934), 530; seeks
Churchill's sources of information
(1936), 549; and the call for Minister
of Defence, 550; and Churchill's plans
(1936),554; and Defence deficiencies,
556; Churchill's appeal to (1937),58 I;
his rebuke, 583; and Eden's
resignation (1938), 588; 'to keep an
eye on Winston' (1939),620
Hanley: Churchill's speech at (1901), 145
Hanover: bombed (1941), 703
Harcourt, Lewis (later Lord): his praise,
170
Hardie, Keir: his protest, 221
Harington, General Tim: begins
negotiations (1922), 452, 453; and the
Cabinet's ultimatum, 452
Harlebeke (Belgium): Churchill visits
(1918),399
Harmsworth Magazine: Churchill's short
story in (1898), 87
Harri!11an, Averell: his mission (1941),
692; accompanies Churchill, 696,744;
in Egypt, 702; and aid to Russia, 708;
and Pearl Harbor, 711; and
Churchill's proposed letter to Stalin
(October 1944), 797; Churchill
confides in (1945),858
H aTTovian: Churchill's poem published in
(1889),
25;
Churchill's letters
published in, 29; praises Churchill's
'dashing attack', 32
Harrow (Middlesex): Churchill's lecture
at (1900),137
Harrow School: Churchill to go to, 15,
16; Churchill at, 19; 'stirring
patriotism' of songs at, 20; Churchill's
ill-health at, 27; fever at, 36;
Churchill's visit to (1940), 685;
Churchill visits (1944), 806; Churchill
speaks at (1955), 945; recalled, 3, 79,
557
Harvey, Oliver: and rearmament (after
Munich), 607; his diary notes
(1942-45), 717, 719, 749; and
Churchill's 'painful' meeting with the
London Poles, 799
Harwich: result of Churchill's visit to
(1912),247
Hastings: Churchill lectures at (1901),
141
Havana (Cuba): Churchill seeks cigars
from (1895), 56; Churchill reaches,
58; cigars of, 60
Havrincourt: Churchill at (1918),384
Hawaii: American Fleet at (November
1941),710
Hayter, William: and Churchill's
continuing search for a summit
(1953-55),920
INDEX
Hazebrouck: Churchill entertains his
officers at (1916), 344
Hearn, Major: 'placid, sensible', 340
Hearst, William Randolph: Churchill
visits (1929), 493
helicopter: Churchill's flight in (1958),
954
Heligoland Bight: victory in (1914), 279
Hellfire Corner (Ypres Salient): Churchill
shelled at Uanuary 1918),382; Churchill
revisits(October 1918),400
Helsinki: Churchill's articles published in
(1937),576
Henderson, Arthur: Churchill's retort
to, about India (1947), 877
Henderson, Sir Nevile: in Berlin, 610
Hendon: air show at (1913), 249; special
air squadron at (1914), 279; Churchill
flies to France from (1940), 659
Henlein, Konrad: Churchill meets
(1938), 592; and the Sudeten crisis,
593
Her Majesty's Theatre, London:
Churchill plans to write a play for
(1900),124
Hereros: their fighting qualities, 181
Herne Bay (Kent): Churchill recuperates
at (1883), 4
Herodotus: Churchill reads in original
Greek (1887), 16
Herring, Group Captain Justin: and
German rearmament, 521
Herriot, Edouard: and the fall of France
(1940),660; recalls 1940,841,859
Hesdin (northern France): Churchill flies
to (1918), 391, 393
Hesse (Germany): Hitler's electoral
success in (1932), 507
Hetherington, Major T. G.: and the tank,
298
Heybeli Island (Sea of Marmara): possible
negotiations with Bolsheviks at, 407
Higham, John: recalls Churchill's tears,
628
Highbury (Birmingham): Churchill stays
at, 169
Hill, Colonel H.W.: brings Churchill
information, 578
Hill, Kathleen: Churchill's secretary,
579, 712; her recollections of
September
1939,
620,
624;
accompanies Churchill (1940), 631;
and
Churchill's
obituary
of
Chamberlain, 683
1021
Himmler, Heinrich: offers negotiations
(1945),836
Hindenburg Line: battle for (1918), 398
Hindenburg, Field Marshal: President,
506; invites Hitler to be Chancellor,
513; dies, 529
Hiroshima: atom bomb dropped on, 857
history: a prize for, 21; importance of
knowledge
of,
81 ; and
the
Dardanelles, 371; and the Abdication
crisis (1936), 570
Hitler, Adolf: his rise to power in
Germany, 506; declines to meet
Churchill (1932), 508; Churchill's
warning about (1932), 510; becomes
Chancellor, 513; and German
rearmament, 515; extends internal
powers, 520; murders opponents
(1934), 529; Attlee's assessment
(1934), 530; introduces conscription
(1935), 541; and German air parity
(1935), 542; Churchill's article on
(1935), 546; and Churchill's possible
return to the Admiralty (1939), 547;
remilitarises Rhineland (1936), 551;
his offer of negotiations to be 'utilised'
(1936),553; Baldwin assesses plans of
(1936), 561; Churchill appeals to
(1937), 580; Churchill's article on,
581; Lord Halifax visits (1937), 584;
and Africa, 587; and Austria (1938),
588; and Czechoslovakia (1938), 594,
595; Chamberlain's talks with (1938),
595; attacks Churchill (1938),600; the
need to anticipate his actions (March
1939), 611; Churchill opposes
discussions with Uune 1939), 615;
and Danzig, 616; and the call for
Churchill's return Uuly 1939), 616;
'we shall have him', 619; invades
Poland, 619; peace terms of (October
1939),627; has 'missed the bus' (A pril
1940),635; invades Belgium, Holland
and France (May 1940), 641; no
negotiations with (May 1940),651; the
'curse' of, 663; and the Battle of
Britain, 664; and British bombing
policy (1940), 668; Churchill seeks to
undo 'first great achievement' of, 674;
and the bombing of London, 675; his
fate, 679; his pact with Yugoslavia
(1941),693; his defeat 'certain' (1941),
697; 'he will find ... no parley', 699; his
aim in invading Russia, 701; and
1022
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
British bombing policy (July 1941),
703; visits his troops in Russia, 706; his
plan tobombBaku, 733; tobeattacked
through Italy (1943), 733; and
Stalingrad, 735; and the battle for
Tunisia (1943), 742; and German
plans in Italy (1943), 756; to be
relieved his 'anxieties' in Italy, 781; a
ploltokiIl (July 1944),784; and Attlee,
816; his gift, becomes Churchill's
residence (at Yalta), 817; and
monarchy, 837; dead, 838; recalled,
860; and The Unnecessary War', 861,
867; Stalin compares Churchill to
(1946),869
Hoare, Reginald: Churchill's friendship
with,103
Hoare, Sir Samuel: and British
intervention in Russia (1919), 412; at
Chartwell (1926), 473; and the
General Strike (of 1926), 475; and
Churchill's opposition over India
(from 1929),495,509,516,517,518;
and the formation of the National
Government (1931), 502; Churchill's
charge against (1934), 527; and
Churchill's criticisms of air policy, 535;
and Defence deficiencies, 538;
Churchill's India challenge to (1935),
539; becomes Foreign Secretary, 544;
mocks Churchill, 544; and the
Hoare-Laval 'pact', 548; resigns, 548;
and the Rhineland (1936), 552;
opposes emergency powers (1936),
558; not at Defence Deputation
(1936), 567; at the Home Office
(1937),577; and Czechoslovakia, 594;
and the aftermath of Munich
(1938-39), 610; and British air
weakness (1939), 626; critical (1940),
634; and the German attack in the
West (1940), 641; his understanding
(1940),665
Hobart. Brigadier: visits Churchill
(1936),564
Hodge, Alan: helps Churchill (1953-56),
916; helps Churchill in retirement,
944,945,946,949,950
Hodge, Jane: and 'the world's kindest
great man', 949
Hoe Farm (near Godalming): Churchill's
weekend retreat at (1915),322,324
Hohenzollerns: and Hitler, 837, 851
Holland:
Churchill
proposes
safeguarding neutrality of (1911),
235; neutral (1914), 277; and a
proposed British Baltic initiative
(1915),294; and Britain's 'proper line
of strategy, 301; Churchill suggests
'action in' (1915), 295; Churchill
recalls plans for (1915),336; Churchill
visits (1932), 508; and collective
security, 524; and 'submission', 533;
Churchill's fear for (1936), 553;
protests (1940), 633 invaded (May
1940), 641; Churchill's plan for a
landing in (1940), 670; German air
attack on (1945), 816
Holland, Sydney: at Sidney Street, 223
Hollywood: Churchill meets Chaplin in
(1929),494
Holman, General: in South Russia
(1919),415; leaves Russia (1920), 420
Holmes, Marian: Churchill's wartime
secretary, 743, 755, 770, 775, 782, 794;
in Moscow (1944), 796, 798;
accompanies Churchill to Athens
(Christmas 1944),809,810; at Malta
(1945),817; contrasts Churchill and
Attlee, 856
Home Guard: Churchill proposes (1939),
628; and anti-invasion plans, 668;
revived (1952),904
Home Rule: Gladstone supports, 9;
and Lord Randolph Churchill, II;
Churchill will 'never consent' to
(1897), 69; 'odious' (1899), 104; an
obstacle to Churchill joining the
Liberal Party (1904), 164; Churchill
will not commit himselfto (1908), 194;
Churchill urges Ulster to accept
(1913),249
Hong Kong: Japanese attack on (1941),
713; surrenders, 714
Honor: Churchill's holiday cruise on, 217
Hood: in pursuit (1941), 698; sunk, 698
'Hooligans', the: Churchill a member of,
144; vote against the Government, 148
Hopkins, Harry: Churchill confides in,
661,706; Churchill confides in (1941),
667; Churchill his mission to Britain
(1941),687,688; a welcome message
from, 692; his second mission (1942),
725;
Churchill
confides
his
frustrations to (1943), 741; and the
atom bomb, 746; Churchill appeals to
(August 1944), 786; and Yalta, 814
Hopkins, Richard, 261; recalled (in
INDEX
1957),951
Hopwood, Sir Francis: and Churchill's
'restless energy', 186
Horabin, T.L.: his by-election victory
Ouly 1939),616
Hore-Belisha, Leslie: at the War Office,
577; his proposed Army increases
rejected (1939),609; and conscription,
614;
demands
an
ultimatum
(September 1939),620
Horne, Sir Robert: acquires the prize
(1921), 436; and the Chanak crisis
(1922),451; a supporter (1924), 463;
and a possible Defence Ministry
(1936),551
horse-racing: Churchill's new pleasure
(1951),895
Horsham and Worthing Conservative
Association: and India, 518
Hosey Rigge (Westerham): Churchill
lives at, 458
Hotel de Paris (Monte Carlo): Churchill
stays at, 860, 882, 956, 957
Hotel Metropole (London): Churchill's
Ministerial headquarters (1917-18),
375,385,391,401
House of Commons: Liberals defeated in
(1885),8; Churchill becomes frequent
visitor to (1893), 36; Churchill's
reflections on (1897), 68; Churchill
treated with 'great civility' in (1900),
134; Churchill takes seat in (1901),
139; 'you filled ... and held it' (1901),
140; the 'Hooligans' dine in, 144;
'purred like an amiable cat' (1903),
153; Churchill insulted in (1904), 162;
Churchill unable to finish speech in
(1904), 163; Churchill 'leads by a
natural right' in (1905),172; and 'an
immoral contract', 177; and a 'message
of tolerance' (1906), 179; Churchill
introduces prison reforms to (1910),
213; 'persistent free-masonry of, 227;
need to state case 'plainly and boldly'
to, 247; Churchill's frankness to
(1914), 277; Churchill criticised in
(1915),314; Churchill out of (1922),
456; 'uneasy' (1936), Churchill returns
to (1924), 464; 566; duty of (in 1936),
566; and the Abdication crisis, 569;
'honest differences' in, 577; and the
Czech crisis (1938), 595; and the
Munich Agreement (1938), 598; and
Churchill's )udgment', 604; and
1023
'independent judgment' (1939), 610;
protests at adjournment of (August
1939), 617; and the last halting steps
to war (September 1939),620; in 1914
(recalled), 620; impact of a single
speech on (September 1939),627; and
the political crisis (April-May 1940),
636; no 'inquest' by (1940), 663;
bombed (December 1940), 685;
bombed again (May 1941),698; Yalta
debate in (1945), 827; Churchill 'a
child of, 893; Churchill's last visits to
(from 1955),944,946,948,952,953,
954
House of Lords: and Home Rule, 36;
Churchill in forefront of struggle
against, 209; rejects the budget (1909),
210; 'played out', 211; and the
constitutional crisis (1910), 216; its
powers to be curbed, 217; Churchill
urges end to veto of, 222; accepts end
to its veto powers, 230
House, Colonel E. M.: and United States
intervention in Russia (1918-19), 409
housing: Churchill's plans for (1924),
467; (1945), 847, 849
Howard, Hubert: Churchill's friendship
with, 87; killed 'with a friendly shell'
(1898),98; Churchill reflects on death
of,100
Howard, John: hides Churchill during
his escape from the Boers (1899),119
Howard, Leslie: killed (1943),747
Howe, Lady: hears her nephew's maiden
speech, 139
Howells, Roy: and Churchill's old age,
952
Hoxton: Churchill answers Joseph
Chamberlain at (1903), 154
Hozier,
Clementine:
Churchill
introduced to (1904), 168; Churchill
meets again (1908), 191; Churchill's
third meeting with, 194; Churchill's
letters to, 195, 198; invited to
Blenheim, 197; hesitates, 199;
marries, 200 (for subsequent index entries
see Churchill, Clementine S.)
Hozier, Lady Blanche, 200, 463; dies, 470
Hozier, Nellie: birth of her son, 367
Hozier, William: and his sister's
engagement, 199; Churchill confides
in (1916), 366
Hughes, Lieutenant: killed in action
(1897),76
1024
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Hull: dock strike at (1911), 229
Hull, Cordell: Churchill rebukes, 751
Hulme, John: decribes Churchill on the
hustings (1900),135
Hungary: begins to look to Germany
(1935),544; 'might fall into our hands'
(1943), 761; to be part of a post-war
confederation, 761; Jews deported to
their deaths from (1944), 783; future
of (1944), 796, to be part of a Central
European Customs union, 800; fear of
Communism spreading from Greece
to (1944),808; signs armistice, 815
Hunt, David: and Churchill's second
Premiership, 899
Hurlingham Club: 60; Churchill
blackballed for, 171
Hussein, King, of the Hejaz, 431
Hyde Park (New York): Churchill's visit
to (1943), 750; Churchill's plans to fly
to (April 1945), 835
Hyderabad: Churchill's elephant ride in
(1896),65
hydrogen bomb: United States acquires
(1954), 923; Churchill's speeches on,
924, 925; Britain to produce (1954),
927; and detente, 930
Hamilton's March (Winston S.
Churchill): published (1900),136
Ibn Saud, King: Churchill's talk with
(1945),825
Iceland: American occupation of (1941),
699
Illustrated Sunday Herald: Churchill's
articles in (1920), 419, 429
Import Executive: established (1941),
688
Inayat Kila (North-West Frontier):
Chl'rchill's fever at (1897), 78
'Independent Capitalist Party': Churchill
afraid of, 169
Independent Labour Party: Churchill
not so afraid of, 169
India: Churchill wants to join his sick
father in (1894),47; the 'tedious land'
of, 62; sails for, 63; 'land of snobs and
bores' (1896), 65; to be governed on
'old principles', 69; Churchill's near
escape from injury in (1897), 70; life
in 'not big enough', 80; Churchill
leaves, for the last time (1899), 103;
Churchill a possible Viceroy of (1920),
428; and the offer of Dominion Status,
Ian
495; democracy 'unsuited' for, 507;
violence in (1932), 507; debates on,
517, 518, 520, 538, 539 Churchill
proposes to fly to (1942), 717;
proposed new constitution for (1942),
717; to be self-governing, 772; road to
independence of (1946-47), 874;
contrasted with Burma (1947), 877;
conciliation toward (1949), 884
India Defence Committee: established
(1933),517
India Defence League: its final challenge
(1935),539
India Office: Churchill suggested for
(1924), 465; a possible post for
Churchill (1929), 488; Churchill's
charge against (1934),527,528
India
White
Paper:
Churchill's
opposition to (1933-35), 517, 518, 520
Indian Empire: Churchill's pride in
(1897),75
Indian Empire Society: Churchill speaks
for (1930), 497; its influence
diminished, 503
Indian Independence Bill (1947):
Conservatives support, 876
Indian Mutiny (1857): recalled, 498
Indian National Congress: rejects
Dominion Status, 495
Indian troops: at Singapore, 717
individual: wars of the future to be
fought for the existence of, 115
individualism: Churchill a 'predestined
champion' of, 460
industry: and 'sufficient hours ofleisure',
196; and war preparation (from 1935),
546,550,558,559,560,562,565,572,
578, 580, 609, 625; and war
production, 694
Inflexible: sunk (1915), 304
influenza: Churchill's poem about, 25;
and 'a good conscience', 572
Ingr, General: seeks Churchill's advice
(1948),879
Inskip, Sir Thomas: Minister for
Co-ordination of Defence, 552;
supports Churchill, 554; seeks
Churchill's advice, 558; Churchill's
criticism of, 559; and the Defence
Deputation (1936), 559; echoes
Churchill's arguments, 561; at the
Defence Deputation (1936); 567;
Churchill's advice to (1937); 572; and
the burden of Defence spending, 586;
INDEX
and the abandonment of air parity
(1938). 590; and Czechoslovakia. 591;
and Defence deficiencies. 594
Institute ofJournalists: Churchill speaks
at (1900). 135
insurance: and State intervention. 194
intelligence: filtered down and withheld
(1939).612
Inter-Allied
Munitions
Council:
established (1917). 379; plans for
(1919).394
intercepted letters: and the Agadir crisis
(1911).234
International Tribunal (at The Hague).
265
invasion: prospect of (1940). 648. 649.
654.662.666; plans to combat (1940).
667; awaited (1940).668; and Enigma
(1940). 670; false alarm concerning.
674; postponed. 675; no longer
imminent. 681; 'we are waiting'. 681;
no longer a German design (1941),
688; and Easter (1941), 696; plans to
combat (1941). 702; renewed danger
of (1941), 702; further postponed,
707;
Invergordon (Scotland): a possible Big
Three conference at ( 1944), 784
Inverness-shire: Churchill hunts stag in.
218
Iraq: British policy in (1920), 422; need
for 'vigorous action' in (1920), 424;
Churchill's evolution of policy in
(1921),431; rebellion in (1921). 439.
440; a pro-German coup in (1941),
696; and a 'world front against
Communist aggression' (1954). 926;
rebellion in (1958). 953
Ireland: Churchill in. as a child, I;
terrorism in (1896), 61; Churchill's
plan for (1904), 164; Churchill's
prescriptionfor(1906),174; Churchill
suggests federal scheme for (1910),
217;
Churchill
seeks
Liberal-Conservative conversations
on (1911), 223; and the Home Rule
Bill (1912-14),249; and the coming of
war (in 1914),263; Lloyd George seeks
Churchill's help over (1920), 422;
mounting violence in (1920), 427;
Churchill supports a truce in (1920),
428; Churchill's search for a solution
in (1921-22), 433; Churchill pursues
reconciliation in (1922), 444; the
1025
uncertain future of, 447; Churchill's
'settlement of. approved, 455;
Churchill asked to mediate on (1925),
473
Irish Catholics: 'sulky', 195
Irish Free State: Churchill supports
forces of (1922), 446; Churchill
negotiates debt agreement with
(1925),473
Irish Free State Bill: Churchill pilots
through the Commons (1922),444
Irish Free State Constitution: Churchill
helps devise (1922), 447-48; recalled,
488
Irish Nationalists: hold balance of power,
9; cheer Churchill (190 I), 139; on the
eve of war (in 1914),263,265,267,
269,271,273,275
Irish Statehood: Churchill's proposal for
(1921),441
Irish Treaty: negotiations for (1921),
441; Churchill pilots through the
Commons (1921-22), 442; recalled,
464
Irishmen: 'military capacity' of, 139
Irkutsk: Bolsheviks enter, 418
iron curtain: 'drawn down' (1945). 844;
the 'facts' of (1946), 866; no ill-will to
those east of, 877; the 'true facts' to be
conveyed behind (1952), 903
Ironside,
General:
and
British
intervention in Russia (1919), 407,
412; Churchill's talks with (1937-39),
585, 617; and the political crisis
(April-May 1940), 637; and the
German attack in the West (May
1940), 642; and the Weygand Plan
(1940),649
Irresistible: damaged (1915), 304
Irwin, Lord: and India (1929), 495; fears
'mischief, 498; a possible Minister of
Defence, 550;forsubsequent index entries
see Halifax, Lord
Islam: 'please don't become converted
to', 188; 'triumphant in Asia', 345;
unity of (1956), 949
Isle of Wight: Churchill visits (1882), 3;
further boyhood visits to, 15, 21;
Churchill returns to (1907), 184; First
Fleet concentrated off (1914),267
Ismay, General: Churchill's minutes to
(1940-45),649,655; his recollections,
650, 671, 675, 840; accompanies
Churchill to France (1940), 653, 659;
1026
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
his advice, 662; heads Churchill's
Defence Office, 672; at Bristol (1941),
696; atChequers, 741 ;and Churchill's
worriesaboutSalerno(1943),753;and
Churchill's 'fiery energy', 768; gives
advice on The Second World War, 871,
885
Ismet Inonii: and the Chanak crisis
(1922), 452; Churchill's talks with
(1943),739; Churchill meets, in Cairo,
761
Ismid (Turkey): to be held (1922), 450;
French and Italians withdraw from
(1922),451; Turks pull back from, 453
Israel: Churchill advocates recognition of
(1948),880; and the Suez Canal, 895;
and Churchill's second Premiership,
902; possible admission of, to the
British Commonwealth (1955), 934;
and Britain's 'honour' (1956), 947;
frontiers of, 949
Istria: and the Adriatic plan (J une 1944),
780; Roosevelt agrees to a British
landing on (September 1944), 793;
Tito's design on, 806; Churchill wants
occupation of (April 1945),838
Italian East Africa: surrenders (1941),
698
Italian Fleet: and the battle of Taranto
(1940), 683; and the battle off
Matapan (1941),693
Italian people: Churchill's message to
(August 1944),790
Italy: Churchill's sightseeing tour
through (1906), 181; Churchill's
second holiday in, 185; Churchill
honeymoons in, 200; a potential ally
(1915), 295; and the Entente, 312;
Churchill proposes extra troops for
(l9!8), 375; a defeat for (1917),379;
munitions needs of (1917), 380;
Churchill's visit to (1920),425; and the
Chanak crisis (1922), 451; Churchill
negotiates war debts agreement with
(1925),468; and sanctions, 545; and
Munich (1938), 597; invades Albania
(1939), 612; tramp of armies of
(August 1939),618; neutral (1939-40),
627; Churchill's appeal to (May 1940),
646; Churchill addresses (J une 1940),
656; declares war (June 1940), 657;
Churchill's plan for invasion of( 1940),
670; Churchill's questions concerning
(March 1941), 694; declares war on
United States (December 1941), 712;
Churchill's desire to attack through,
733; armistice negotiations with
(1943), 750; restrictions on Allied
advance in, 751; Allied landing on
(September 1943), 752; surrenders
(September 1943), 753; proposed
campaign in (1943-44), 756,757,759;
Churchill opposed to going on
defensive in (1944), 767; and an
Anglo-American dispute (June 1944),
780; Churchill visits battlefield in
(1944),788; futureof(1944), 789; fear
of Communism spreading from
Greece to (1944), 808; surrender of
German armies in, 838; Churchill
recuperates in (September 1945),858;
Churchill's visit to (1949),885
Jacob, Colonel Ian: his recollections, 672;
with Churchill at Placentia Bay (1941),
705; with Churchill at Tripoli (1943),
739; with Churchill at Algiers (1943),
740; and Czechoslovakia (1948),879
Jaffa (Palestine): riots in (1921),437
Jamaica: Churchill's planned visit to
(1949), 883; Churchill visits (1953),
909
James of Hereford, Lord: disagrees, but
congratulates, 144
Jamrud: Churchill sees warring tribes in
(1898),87
Japan: Lord and Lady Randolph reach
(1894),46; Britain's war debts from
(1925),468; Admiralty fear of (1925),
469; attacks China (1933), 513;
'spectators' in (1940), 664; and the
battle of Taranto (1940), 683; its
secrets breached (January 1941),689;
Churchill's questions to (1941), 693;
and French Indo-China, 705; fears of
an attack by (November 1941), 710;
invadesJava, 718; first losses in the war
of Signals Intelligence, 721; proposed
'unconditional surrender' of, 738;
'main hopes' of (May 1943), 746;
timetable for defeat of, agreed, 751;
and the atom bomb, 794, 853; and
Allied bombing, 794; Russia to declare
war on, 800, 822, 845; 'unsubdued',
841; needs of the war against (J ul y
1945), 850; and unconditional
surrender, 851; surrenders, 858
Japanese: sufferings of, understood, 880
INDEX
Java: invaded (1942), 718
Jefferis, Major: his task (from 1940),673
Jellicoe, Admiral Sir John: 279
Jerome,
Leonard:
Churchill's
grandfather, 1
Jerusalem: Churchill visits (1921), 434;
riots in (1921), 440
Jeune, Lady: helps Churchill get to the
Sudan (1898), 90
Jewish Brigade Group: Churchill
authorises (1944), 789
Jewish immigration (to Britain):
Churchill opposes curbs on, 165
Jewish immigration (to Palestine): Arab
protests against, 434, curtailed (1939),
614; Churchill refuses veto, 803
Jewish National Home: to be established,
432; Churchill defends, 435, 448
Jewish refugees: 737; and Israel, 902
Jewish State: Churchill envisages (1920),
429; emergence of (1946-48),874
Jews: prejudice against, 165; Churchill's
hosts (1906), 181; in Palestine, 432,
436,437,448; 'persecution of, 516;
Hitler legislates against (1933), 520;
'brutal vigour' of persecution of
(1935), 546; Churchill appeals to
Hitler to end persecution of, 580;
Churchill denounces persecution of,
585; 'may leap out' (1939), 618;
'cold-blooded extermination' of,
denounced (1942), 737; laws against,
in Algiers, to be repealed, 740; a film
of atrocities against, shown at
Chequers (1943), 749; news of mass
murder of, reaches London (J une
1944), 783; and a Middle East
Federation (1945), 825; in Israel, 947
jingoism: Churchill 'revolt against', 145
Jinja (Uganda Protectorate): Churchill
reaches, 188
Joan of Arc, 607
Jodi, General Alfred, 839
Johannesburg: Churchill cycles through
(1900),128
John the Baptist: Palestine in time of, 19
Joint Planning Committee: 672,674; and
Greece, 682; and Pantelleria, 686; and
Sicily, 743; and Rhodes (1943), 755;
and the Anglo-American dispute over
Italy (June 1944),780
Jones, Dr Thomas: 411; and the
Dardanelles, 461; and Churchill's
Exchequer years, 467; and Churchill's
1027
'conciliatory' tone (1926), 478;
welcomed as a 'corrective' influence,
484; pleased at Churchill's exclusion
(1935), 547; and Churchill's 'driving
power'
(1938),
591; contrasts
Churchill
and
Chamberlain
(September 1939),627
Jones, R.V.: and the German bombing of
Britain (1940),666
Jordan: hostility of (1956),949
Joubert, General P.]., 109, 113
justice: and Britain's colonial duty, 183
Justice (John Galsworthy): Churchill at
opening night of (1910), 212
Jutland, battle of (1916): Churchill's
communique after, 363; re-fought, at
Chartwell,483
Kamenev, Lev: at 10 Downing Street, 423
Karachi: civil air route to, 434
Kasserine Pass (Tunisia): Americans
driven from (1943),741
Keble, Colonel: and Yugoslavia (1943),
739
Keith, Dr George: and Lord Randolph's
last voyage, 44; and Mrs Everest's final
illness, 53
Kelly, Air Commander Thomas:
accompanies Churchill to Marrakech
(1943),765
Kelly, Denis: works on The Second World
War, 871, 886, 887, 891, 894, 906, 916;
and Churchill's stroke (1949), 886;
helps Churchill in retirement, 944,
945,950
Kenley (Kent): Churchill flies to (1918),
395
Kennedy, Joseph: Churchill shocked by
(June 1939), 615; and a possible
negotiated peace (1940),648
Kennedy, Major-General John: and
Churchill's leadership (1942), 724;
and the possible evacuation of Egypt
(1941), 697; and Churchill's lack of
'fire' (1944), 771; and Churchill's
'great vigour' (1944),774
Kenny, Annie: arrested, 172
Kensal Green Cemetery (West London):
Marigold Churchill buried at, 439
Kenya Protectorate: Churchill travels
through (1907),186
Key West (Florida): Churchill takes ship
for Havana from (1895), 58
Keyes, Sir Roger: and the German attack
1028
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
in the West (May 1940),642
Keynes, J.M.: and the Gold Standard,
469; and a 'tractate against war', 481
Khartoum: Churchill seeks to enter
(1897),80; Churchill hopes to be 'in at
thedeath' at(l898),88; battle near, 92;
Churchill
reaches
(1898), 98;
Churchill revisits (1907),189
Kherson (South Russia), 415
Khrushchev, Nikita: succeeds Malenkov,
938; and the Soviet Army, 944;
Churchill sits next to (1956),947
Kiel: German High Sea Fleet at (1911),
236; Churchill invited to (1914), 258
Kiel Canal: to be deepened (1912), 243;
possible bombing of (1914),277; and
the Dardanelles, 302
Kiev: Denikin enters (1919), 415;
Bolsheviks enter, 418; Polish forces
enter, 421
Kimberley: Churchill on board (1944),788
King George V: Churchill's voyage on
(1944),766; recalled,806
King, Admiral: and the Cherbourg plan
(1942),725; and Greece, 808
King, W. Mackenzie: 861
Kinna,
Patrick:
and
Churchill's
pneumonia (1943),762
Kinsk y, Count: takes Churchill to Crystal
Palace (1891), 28
Kipling, Rudyard: 75
Kirkwood, David: finds Churchill 'a
friend' (1917), 376
Kitchener, General: Churchill seeks
action with (1896), 62; Churchill seeks
action with (1897),80; Churchill seeks
action with (1898), 89; critical of
Lieutenant Churchill (1898), 92;
Churchill reports to (1898), 93;
Churchill's intelligence task for
(1898), 93; Churchill's pencilled
messages to (1898), 94; and an 'act of
vandalism and folly', 99; 'a vulgar
common man', 102; his continuing
hostility to Churchill (1900), 126; his
powers curtailed (1901),145; a libel on
(1902), 148; dines at Other Club
(1911), 228; Churchill's talks with
(1913), 249; Churchill lunches with
(July 1914), 267; and the opening
months of war in 1914,278; Churchill
consults, 282; and Churchill's mission
to Antwerp (1914), 283, and the
Dardanelles, 291, 293, 294, 297, 298,
299, 300, 302,303, 305; and Mecca,
305; and Gallipoli, 306, 309, 321; and
Churchill's departure from the
Admiralty, 320; and Churchill's
isolation, 323; and Lloyd George, 327;
eventual 'dismissal' of, 337; Churchil
urged to call for 'removal' of, 354; and
Churchill's request to leave the Army
(1916),354; drowned (1916),363; and
the Dardanelles Commission, 370
Knight of the Garter: Churchill
appointed (1953), 911
Knollys, Lord: and Churchill's future
(1922),446
Knox, Frank: and Pearl Harbor (1940),
683
Knox, General: in Siberia (1919), 412;
leaves Siberia, 418
Kolchak,
Admiral:
and
the
anti-Bolshevik Russians (1919), 409;
British help to, 410; in retreat, 417;
flees, 418; shot (1920),420
Kopjes Station: an episode of the Boer
War in, 130
Korean Armistice: possible breach of,
and the atom bomb (1953),920
Korean War (1950-53), 891, 892, 894,
901,902,904,905; ends, 916
Kos: to be given up (1943),755
Kotlas (North Russia): a military plan for
(1919),412,413
Krasnoff,
General:
and
the
anti-Bolshevik Russians (1919),409
Krassin, Leonid: at 10 Downing Street
(1920),423
Kristallnacht (November 1938): 604, 606
Kronstadt: Churchill's proposed visit to
(1914),259
Kurds: Churchill's proposal of autonomy
for (1921), 434
La Capponcina (Cap d'Ail): Churchill
works at (from 1948), 882, 886, 907;
Churchill recuperates at, 917;
Churchill stays at, in retirement, 945,
952,953
La Creche: Churchill at (1916), 344
La Ferte: Churchill visits (January 1940),
631
La Gorgue: Churchill at (1915),331
La Panne (Belgium): Churchill visits
trenches at (1915), 335
La Pausa, Roquebrune: Churchill's
retirement haven (1956-60), 946, 948,
INDEX
949,950,951,952,954,956
Labouchere, Henry: his accusations
against Churchill, 52, 64,65
Labour Exchanges: Churchill's proposal
for (1908), 194; to go ahead, 202;
Churchill visits in Germany, 208
Labour Exchanges Bill: Churchill
prepares, 203; introduced (1909), 204
Labour Government: and the financial
crisis of 1931, 502; and 'some form of
Gestapo' (1945), 846
Labour
Government
(1945-51):
Churchill supports US loan by, 863,
864, Churchill does not criticize
abroad, 864; Churchill's support for,
875,876,884; Churchill rallies forces
against (1947), 877; wins General
Election (1950), 889; Churchill's
criticisms of, 890, 891, 892; Churchill's
revelation concerning (1952),904
Labour
incriminations:
'general
currency' of, 477
Labour movement: a 'Central Party'
needed to fight against (1902), 151
Labour Party: and the General Election
of 1923, 460; Churchill attacked by
(1924), 461; and the 'Russian
Bolsheviks', 488; electoral losses of
(1931), 503; criticises rearmament
(1934), 538; and the Anti-Nazi
Council, 554; and rearmament, 563;
and the Spanish Civil War, 575; and
the last halting steps to war
(September 1939), 621; and the
political crisis (April-May 1940), 637,
638, 640; and the return to Party
politics (1945), 801; opposed to Soviet
domination of Poland (1945), 830;
and the break-up of the Coalition
(1945), 845; and Potsdam, 849; forms
Government ( 1945), 855; and censure
of the Fulton speech (1946), 868; a
10y-day' for, 877; Motion of Censure by
(1952),904
Ladysmith: struggle for (1899), 107;
besieged, 108; Churchill present at
relief of (1900), 123; victory parade
in, 124
LakeComo(Italy):Churchilirecuperates
at (September 1945),858
Lake Louise (Canada): Churchill paints
at (1929),493
Lake Lugano (Switzerland): Churchill
paints at(1945), 858
1029
Lambert, George: 'I shall live to see you
Prime Minister' (1924), 465
Lambton, Lady: her friendship, 529
Lamlash: warships ordered to (1914),
256
Lamotte: Churchill sees tank tracks at
(1918),393
Lampedusa Island: captured (1943),748
Lancashire: cotton of, 60; a political
vacancy in (1897), 80; and India
(1934),527
Lancastria: sunk (1940), 663
land nationalisation: father and son
disagree over (1946),873
land taxes: Churchill supports (1904),
162
land values: taxation of, 174, 184
Lane-Fox, George: and Churchill's
opposition to Dominion Status (for
India), 499
Laniel,Joseph: at Bermuda (1953), 920
Lansdowne, Lord: a warning from
(1896), 62; Churchill deprecates
proposed military expenditure by, 67;
Churchill's attack on (1910), 211; at
the War Council, 302; mockery of,
recalled, 318
Laos: Churchill 'ignorant' of (1953),911
Larne: gun-running at (1914), 257
Laski, Harold: and the Labour Party
Executive (1945),849
Laski, Nathan: and Churchill's 'splendid
victory' (1904),167
Latvia: and armaments, 507
Lauder, Harry, 387
Laurence Farm: Churchill's front line
headquarters (1916), 345, 346, 347,
349, 350, 359; Churchill revisits
(1918),382
Lautre (a Frenchman): accompanies
Churchill on a risky journey (1900),
128
Laval, Pierre: and the Hoare-Laval pact
(1935),548
Laventie: Churchill in training at (1915),
336
Lavery, Hazel: and Churchill's first steps
as a painter (1915), 322
Law, Richard: and Munich (1938),598
Lawrence, T.E.: Churchill's adviser, 432;
at the Cairo Conference, 434;
commiserates (1922),456; 'I want him
to be PM somehow' (1929), 489; and
My Early Life, 496
1030
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Lawson, J.J.: Churchill's praise for
(1945),856
Layton, Elizabeth: Churchill's wartime
secretary, 704, 721, 733, 741, 782;
accompanies Churchill to Athens
(Christmas 1944),809; with Churchill
in Cairo, 826; and Churchill's farewell
(1945),856; Churchill's comment to,
857
Le Bourget: Churchill institutes flights
from (1918), 391
Le Cateau: Churchill visits battlefield of
(1918),399
Le Havre: in flames (1940),659
League of Nations: Churchill supports
idea of (1918),404; and Iraq, 431; and
Ireland, 441; and Palestine, 449; and
collective security, 523; and Abyssinia,
544,545; and the Rhineland (1936),
552; Baldwin's attitude to, 562; moral
forces of, 573; largely a sham
(Chamberlain), 585; to be 'sustained'
(1938),590; and Czechoslovakia, 598;
feebleness of (recalled), 862
League of Nations Covenant: adherence
to, 585, and Czechoslovakia, 594; and
Munich (1938), 599; and Churchill's
'wise counsel', 607
Leahy, Admiral: and the Fulton speech,
865
Lee of Fareham, Lord, 432; and the
Chanak crisis (1922), 451
Leeds: munitions workers strike at
(1918), 393; Churchill speaks at
(1942),
721;
Churchill's
denationalisation pledge at (1950),888
Leeper, Reginald: enlists Churchill's help
(1936), 554; in Athens (December
1944),808, 809
Lees-Milne, James: at Chartwell (1928),
483
Leicester: Churchill speaks at, of the
dangers of class war (1909), 206
Leicester Mail: hostile (1923), 459
Leipzig: not to be bombed (1940), 674; to
be bombed (1945),818
Lemnos: troops to be sent to (1915), 297
Lend-Lease: the condition for, 688 comes
into being, 690; Churchill's thoughts
on, 692; and Churchill's air escort to
Moscow (1942),727
Lenin, Vladimir: to be 'aided' (1918),
389; reprisals threatened against, 395;
his 'sway', 408; tyranny of, 412; his
triumph, 414; 'demoniacal', 418; his
'diabolical' purpose, 419; and the
existence of God, 492; recalled, 921
Leninism: 'bestial appetites' of, 480
Lenox Hill Hospital (New York):
Churchill at (1931),504
Leopold, King: and the Maginot Line
(1940),632; and the German attack in
the West (May 1940), 642; seeks
armistice, 650
Leros: in British hands (1943), 757
captured by the Germans, 758
Leslie, Lady (Aunt Leonie): Churchill
stays with, 3; Churchill confides in, 88,
127; her son Norman's death in action
(1914), 289; 'spared to still do great
things' (1931), 504; her encouragement (1942), 731
Leslie, Norman: killed in action (1914),
289
Leslie, Shane: his recollection, 2; and 'the
Den', 27; and Sinn Fein, 425
Leven (Scotland): Churchill attacks
Lords at (1910), 211
Leveson-Gower, Lord Alastair: his death
(1921),440
Lewis, Lieutenant-Commander Roger:
and the magnetic mine, 629
Leyte Gulf, battle of (1944): recalled, 917
Liberal Imperialists: Churchill sees 'a lot
of (1901),144
Liberal Opposition: cheers Churchill
(1901),140; Churchilljoins in division
lobby (1903), 153; Churchill praises
(1903),160
Liberal Opposition benches: Churchill
sits on (1904), 167
Liberal Party: Churchill attracted by
(1897), 69; better at 'pushing their
propaganda' (1899), 104; Churchill's
forecast for (1902), 151; Churchill
proposes to act with (1903), 158;
Churchill joins (1904), 165; and the
'rights of individuals', 183; 'a good
Party to fight with', 195; and the
coming of war in 1914, 269; no
independent future for (1924), 462;
future alignment of (1929), 491; and
coming of war (September 1939), 621
Liberal-Conservative Party: a possible
new grouping (1924), 462
Liberalism: Churchill's declaration of
faith in (1904), 164; 'sure, sober, safe',
459; 'superseded', 519
INDEX
Liberalism and the Social Problem (Winston
S. Churchill): published, 209
Liberty: Churchill's battle cry (1894),46;
and religion, 102; a nation's debt for,
959
Libya: and Greece (1940), 687; hostility
of (1956),949
Life: serialises Churchill's war memoirs
(1948),879
LiIle: Churchill visits (1918), 399
Lindemann,
Professor
Frederick:
Churchill's friendship with (from
1924), 463, 508, 512, 532, 548, 579;
and the General Strike (of 1926), 475;
a 'corrective' influence to, 484; and
Caligula, 552; Churchill's scientific
adviser (1939-45), 625; accompanies
Churchill (1940), 631; Churchill
criticises, 655; and wartime research,
673; and the atom bomb, 746; for
subsequent index entries see Cherwell,
Lord
Linlithgow, Lord: and Churchill's
opposition over India (1933),518
Linosa Island: captured (1943), 748
Linz: Eisenhower to advance no further
than (1945), 838
Lippmann, Walter: Churchill's message
to (June 1939), 615
Lisbon: 'unnecessary ever to see it again',
67
Lithuania: independent (1919),416; and
armaments, 507
Little,John: Churchill's tutor, 37, 39, 45
Livadia Palace (Yalta): conference at, 817
Liverpool: Churchill lectures at (1900),
137; Churchill's speech in (1901),141;
riots in (1911), 231; Churchill speaks
at (1914), 281; Churchill addresses
Conservatives at (1924), 462; will rise
'more beautiful', 679; bombed (1941),
698; Churchill speaks at (1951),896
Livorno: Churchill fires a howitzer near
(1944),788
Ljubljana Gap: and British strategy
(1944-45),806,817
Llandudno: Churchill speaks at (1948),
882
Llanelli (South Wales): riots in (1911),
232
Llewellyn Smith, Sir Hubert: and
sweated labour (1908), 197
Lloyd George, David: 'a vulgar,
chattering little cad' (1901), 146;
1031
Churchill seeks common ground with
(1903), 160; Churchill sits next to
(1904), 165; Churchill's talks with,
168; Churchill shares platform with,
169; Churchill seeks help of (1908),
195; at Churchill's wedding, 200; his
budget to be rejected, 205; the
Churchills the guests of (1910), 218;
Ch urchill gives dinner for ( 1911),228;
and unemployment insurance, 226;
and Agadir (1911), 233; rebukes
Churchill (1912), 247; and the Naval
Estimates crisis (1914), 253; and
Ireland (1914), 255; and the coming
of war in 1914,271,273; and the early
months of war, 278; and the search for
an alternate British war plan
(Decemberl914), 291; wants an
Adriatic landing (1915), 294; and the
Dardanelles, 295, 298; and Salonica,
295; and Palestine, 302; and Fisher's
resignation, 315; and the political
crisis of May 1915, 318; Churchill
wants Kitchener to be replaced by,
327; isolated, 339; Churchill exhorts
(1915), 339; wants 'Winston back'
(1915),339; Churchill's contact with,
in 1916,344, and Churchill's call for
Fisher's return (1916), 353; his
'supreme chance', 359; Churchill
appeals to (1916), 363; seeks
Churchill's views, 365; and the
political crisis of December 1916,368;
and Churchill's return to office
(1916-17),369,373; becomes Prime
Minister (December 1916), 369; a
gesture of friendship from, 370; and
'love of arbitrary power', 371; and
Churchill at the Ministry of Munitions
(1917-18),375; and Caporetto, 379;
Churchill's advice to (January 1918),
381; seeks Churchill's advice and help
(March 1918),384; Churchill's reports
to (March 1918), 386, 387, 388;
supports Churchill's strike-breaking
proposal (1918),393; and the tanks for
1919,394; Churchill reports on battle
of Drocourt to (1918), 396; and
Churchill's Cabinet future (1918),
400; Churchill dines with (11
November 1918),402; calls General
Election (October 1918),403,404;and
British intervention in Russia
(1918-19),405, 408, 409,410,411,
1032
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
412, 413; Churchill rebukes (1919),
411; rebukes Churchill (1919), 415;
and Churchill's war memoirs (1920),
419, 443; seeks Churchill's help over
Ireland, 125, 422; and a British
ultimatum to Russia (1920), 423; and
the Chanak crisis (1922), 450, 451;
seeks Churchill's help over the Middle
East, 429; Churchill dissuades from
resignation (1921), 441; entrusts
Churchill with the Irish Treaty
debates (1921-22), 442; Conservative
MPs turn against (October 1922),453;
resigns (October 1922),453; Churchill
seeks Conservative link with (1924),
462; political discussion with (1929),
491; fails to prevent National
Government (1931), 502; seeks to
return (1935), 540; at Marrakech
(1935), 548; Churchill's article on,
581; advocates a Soviet alliance (1939),
614; and the political crisis (May 1940),
638; declines to enter Cabinet (May
1940),645; Churchill offers of a War
Cabinet place to (1940), 652; dies,
Churchill's tribute to (March 1945),
833; on Socialism, 889
Lloyd, Lord: dismissed (1929), 491,492;
and Defence policy (1933), 522; and
Czechoslovakia, 596; and the Altmark,
634; and Oran (1940), 666
Lloyd, Selwyn: and Churchill's wish for
talks with Russia ( 1954), 911, 912
Locarno Treaties (1925): 471,487
Loire: Churchill flies to (1940),658
London: Churchill's frequent visits to
(1894), 45; Churchill advises his
brother to volunteer for service in
(1900), 129; Churchill lectures in
(1900),137; airdefenceof(1914),279;
a potential bombing target (1934),
536; possible surprise attack on
(March 1939), 611; to be fought for
'street by street' (1940), 667; bombed
by day (1940), 673; intensification of
bombing of (1940), 675; parachute
mines dropped on, 677; rate of
bombing of, 679; will rise 'more
beautiful', 679 and the British people,
680; death toll in (by October 1940),
680; a raid expected on, 683; further
air raids on (1940-41), 684, 686, 692,
696; possible Big Three conference at
(1943), 752; a possible rocket bomb
target, 755; Churchill taken ill
returning to, from Italy (1944), 791;
Churchill returns to, from Moscow,
801 (1944); crowds in,'beyond control'
(1945),840; 'a great rhinoceros', 843;
Churchill speaks in (1949), 886; a
possible summit in (1954-5), 929,937
London dockers: strike spreads to (1911),
230; have 'a real grievance' (1911),232
London Magazine: Churchill's articles in
(1916),366
London Poles: Churchill and Stalin talk
to (October 1944), 797; Churchill's
discussions with (in Moscow), 798, 799,
800; Churchill's continuing talks with,
801; and Yalta (1945), 819, 820; after
Yalta, 826
London Support Farm: Churchill's
temporary headquarters (1916),347
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (Winston
S. Churchill): published in London
(1900), 128; published in New York,
130; success of, 131;
Londonderry, Lady: regrets Churchill's
move to the Liberals (1904),168; her
advice, 414
Londonderry,
7th
Marquess of:
Churchill stays with (1901),145; and
Churchill's resignation from the
Carlton Club, 171; and Defence
deficiencies, 513; and air policy, 523;
and
Churchill's
'anti-German
obsession' (1936),555; and the 'villain
of the piece', 566; Churchill's rebuke
to (1937),581
Londoners: 'tough fibre' of (1940),675;
high spirits of, 686
Loos, battle of(1915): 327; recalled, 340,
348
Loraine, Sir Percy: and a possible
negotiated peace (September 1939),
625
Lord Nelson: and the Dardanelles, 296
Lord Randolph Churchill (Winston S.
Churchill): Lorraine, financial success
of, 171; published, 175; offered, but
not sent, 191
Lorraine: Churchill learns about (1883),
5; 'Cross of', 766
Los Angeles: Churchill speaks in (1929),
494
Loucheur, Louis, 379, 381, 394, 481
Louren~o Marques: Churchill sets off for
(1899), 1I8; Churchill reaches 'black
INDEX
as a sweep', 120
Low, David: his cartoons, 419
Lubeck: British forces reach (1945),839;
and the iron curtain, 844
Lublin Poles: Stalin's nominees, 785, 814;
Churchill and Stalin meet (October
1944), 798; contrasted with Greek
Communists, 811; and Yalta, 819,
820; after Yalta, 827; Churchill meets
(at Potsdam), 853
Lucas, General John P.: and Anzio, 767
Luce, River: Churchill and Clemenceau
cross (1918),387
Lucerne: Churchill visits (1893), 37
Ludlow: Churchill issues letter of
support for Liberal candidate at
(1903),159
Ludlow-Hewitt, Air Chief Marshal Sir
Edgar: and the German Air Mission
(1937),582; and the battle in France
(1940),647
Lullenden (Sussex): Churchill's house at
(1917-19),372,375,379,395
Lush, Brigadier Maurice: with Churchill
in Rome (1944), 789
Lushington, Captain Gilbert: teaches
Churchill to fly, 252; killed in a flying
accident (1913), 253
Lutz von Krosigk, Count: his advice to
Britain (J uly 1939), 616
Luxembourg: and the coming of war in
1914,273
Luxor (Egypt): Churchill contrasts with
London (1898), 91
Lvov (Galicia): future of, discussed
(1943),761; dispute over, 799
Lympne (Kent): Churchill flies to France
from (1918),396; Churchill a guest at,
419,428
Lyneham (Wiltshire): Churchill returns
from overseas to, 730, 740, 826
Lyttelton, Alfred: criticises Churchill's
reduction of prison sentences, 229
Lyttelton, Oliver: a warning from (1941),
704; and Churchill's death, 959
Lytton, Lady (Pamela Plowden): her
delight
(1940),
645;
her
congratulations (1953),911
MacArthur, General Douglas: a message
from (1942),730
Macaulay, Lord: Churchill learning
poetry of, 19; Churchill receives works
of, 67; trains the 'muscles', 70; an
1033
'arch-offender', 88; his style recalled,
458
MacCallum Scott, Alexander: his
biography of Churchill (1905), 172
MacDavid, Jock: recalls Churchill's
battalion days (1916), 342; injured
(1916),347
MacDonald,
Malcolm:
Randolph
challenges (1936), 549; and Munich
(1938), 600; and the call for
Churchill's return (1939), 616
MacDonald, Ramsay: and the Agadir
crisis (1911), 234; becomes Prime
Minister, 460; Churchill praises
moderationof(1926),4 75; Churchill's
secret meeting with (1926), 478;
becomes Prime Minister for the
second time (1929),489; and the offer
of Dominion Status to India, 495; and
My Early Life, 496; heads National
Government (1931), 502; and the
financial crisis of 1931, 502; 'lurid
sunsets' of, 505; and disarmament,
511,512, 514; 'almost a mental case',
540; resigns (1935), 544
MacDougall, Donald: his recollection (of
1952),900
Mackesy, General P. J.: and Norway
(1940),636,637
MacLean, Group Captain Lachlan:
brings
Churchill
information
(1937-38),573,574,579,582,587
Macmillan, Harold: an ally (1927), 483;
wants Churchill as Minister of Defence
(1936), 551; supports Churchill
(1938),605; at Chartwell (April 1939),
612; protests at adjournment (August
1939),617; and the political crisis (May
1940), 639; meets Churchill at
Gibraltar (1943), 758; with Churchill
at Carthage, 763; with Churchill in
Rome (1944), 789; and the Vote of
Confidence on Greece (December
1944),807; in Athens 808, 809, 812,
825; with Churchill at Strasbourg,
885; and Churchill's 'vitality' (1951),
894; and the 1951 General Election,
and
Churchill's
second
896;
Premiership (1951-5), 899, 907, 935;
and Churchill's stroke, 913; and the
call for Churchill's resignation, 926,
931; and Churchill's call for a summit,
930; and Churchill's resignation, 938;
and Churchill's last years, 944; and the
1034
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Suez Crisis (1956), 948; Prime
Minister (1957-63), 950, 951,953; and
Churchill's death, 959
Macroom (Ireland): violence in (1920),
427
Madrid: Churchill visits (1901), 141
Madagascar: secured (1942), 721
Maginot Line: Churchill visits (1936),
562; Churchill visits (January 1940),
631; German troops break through
(May 1940),647
magnetic mine: sin kings by (November
1939),629; mastered, 630
Mahdi: 'a boy deprived of his father's
care', 103
Mahdi's Tomb: 'profaned', 99
maiden speech: Churchill delivers
(1901),139
Maikop (Caucasus): German troops
reach (1942), 729
Maine, hospital ship: Lady Randolph
brings to Durban, 122
Maisky, Ivan: 553, at Chartwell (1938),
594; and the British bombing of
Germany
(1941),
702;
greets
Churchill in Moscow (1944), 795
Majorca: Churchill on way to (1935),548
Makhno, Nestor: attacks Denikin (1919),
417
Makins, Sir Roger: his 'summit' telegram,
936,937,938
Malakand Field Force: Churchill joins
(1897), 75; Churchill in action with
(1897),76,77; Churchill's reflections
on, 82; recalled, 88; ribbon of, 91
Malaya: Japanese landing on (December
1941),711,712
Malenkov, Georgy: and Churchill's wish
for a summit (1953),915,920
Malta: Churchill visits (1907), 186;
Churchill visits (1913), 249; and the
coming of war in 1914,267; and the
Dardanelles, 296; Churchill visits
(1927), 480; first convoy to (1940),
674; under air bombardment (1942),
721; losses to a convoy to (1942), 728;
Churchill unwell at (1943), 758;
Churchill proposes flying to (january
1944), 765; Churchill and Roosevelt
meet at (1945),814
Maltese: 'very real' complaint of, 186
Manchester: Churchill campaigns for
Balfour at, 136; Churchill attacks
Protection at, 164, 167; Churchill's
election campaign in (1906), 175;
Churchill outlines social programme
at (1908), 190; Churchill speaks at,
linking Crown and Commons (1910),
216; dock strike at (1911), 229;
Churchill's speaks about Ireland at
(1913), 250; Churchill speaks at
(1918), 398; Churchill appeals for
Liberal unity at (1923), 459; will rise
'more beautiful', 679; Churchill
speaks at, against Socialism (1947),
878; Churchill speaks at (1950),889
Manchester Courier: and Churchill's first
polling night (1899), 105; praises
Churchill's novel (1900), 124
Manchester
Guardian:
publishes
Churchill's attack on Aliens Bill
(1904), 165; praises Churchill's
reluctance to use troops (1910), 220;
praises Churchill (1914), 277; and
Churchill's Royal Opera Housespeech
(1914),281
Manchester North-West: Churchill
asked to stand for (1904), 162, 163
Mandalay: occupied (1885), 9; bombed
(1942),720; surrenders, 721
Mandel, Georges: and the fall of France
(1940),660
Manila: Americans enter (1945),822
Mansion House: Lloyd George's warning
at (1911),234,235
Mansion House (London): hostile
demonstrations near (1911), 228;
Churchill speaks about Russia at
(1919), 410; Churchill speaks at
(1941),703; (1942), 734
Mantanzas (Cuba): sugars of, 60
Manual of Political Economy, (Fawcett):
Churchill reads, 55
Mareth Line: battle for (1943), 742
Margate: Churchill's speech at (1953),
918
.
Margesson, David: Churchill's request to
(1939), 613; and the call for
Churchill's return (June 1939),616;
and the political crisis (April-May
1940), 639, 640; and Churchill's
reaction to defeat (1945),855
Marine Brigade: sent to Ostend (1914),
279; sent to Dunkirk (1914), 280; and
Antwerp (1914), 283
Marjoribanks, Edward (later Lord
Tweedmouth): Churchill's uncle, 36
Marjoribanks, Lady Fanny: visits
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Churchill,20
Markhanai (North-West Frontier):
Churchill in action near (1897),76
Marlborough, 1st Duke of: Churchill's
ancestor, 1; Churchill contemplates
writing a biography of (1898), 87;
recalled, 334, 579; and destiny, 549
Marlborough, 7th Duke of: Churchill's
grandfather, 1; dies, 5
Marlborough, 8th Duke of: dies, 33
Marlborough, 9th Duke of (Sunny):
succeeds to Dukedom, 33; Churchill's
friendship with, 42,89; his advice, 91;
Churchill rides towards Pretoria with
(1900), 127; at marriage of Churchill's
mother, 134; rents Churchill a
bachelor flat (1901), 135; forecasts
Churchill's 'severance from the Tory
Party' (1903), 156; urges Churchill to
propose to Miss Hozier, 198; urges
Churchill to give up learning to fly,
248; dies, 529
Marlborough, Dowager Duchess of
(Fanny): Churchill'sgrandmother, 16,
38, 41, 47, 48; and her grandson
'beginning to be ambitious', 24; advice
from, 25; encouragement from, 26;
Churchill confides in, 79; dies, 104
Marlborough, Dowager Duchess of
(Lily): Churchill's aunt, 35, 36, 37, 51,
52,72
Marlborough, Duchess of (Consuelo):
'very kind to me', 42; for subsequent
index entry see Balsan, Consuelo
Marlborough, His Life and Times (Winston
S. Ch urchill): genesis of, 488; work on,
491,502,508,509,512,524,532,557,
579,580,586,593; payment for, 494;
published (from 1933), 522, 533, 563
Marmara, Sea of: and the Dardanelles,
295, 300; and the Gallipoli landings,
311 ; and Stalin, 853
Marne, battle ofthe (1914), 280
Marrakech: Churchill stays at (1935),
548; Churchill takes Roosevelt to
(1943),738; Churchill recuperates at
(1943-44), 765; Churchill's return
visits to 878, 894, 954
Marsh, Edward: joins Churchill (1905),
174; accompanies Churchill, 175, 186;
joins Churchill at Board of Trade,
197; sends Churchill work, to Athens,
218; with Churchill at the Admiralty,
290; and Churchill's first steps as a
1035
painter, 323; 'blinking back his tears',
329; with Churchill at the MinistrY'of
Munitions (1917-18), 377; with
Churchill in France (1917-18), 378,
399;
Churchill's
continuing
friendship with, 502; helps Churchill
on his war memoirs (1947), 878
Marshall, General George C.: Churchill's
talks with (1941), 714; offers to help
Oune 1942),723; and the Cherbourg
plan, 725; and Churchill's hopes for
the battle in Italy, 771
Marston, Lettice: Churchill's secretary,
871, 872
Martin, (Sir)John: his recollections,673;
with Churchill at Carthage (1943),
764; and the surrender of Germany
(1945),839; and the 'common people',
848
Martin, Flight-Lieutenant Trevor: flies
with Churchill near Rhine (March
1945),832
Martini-Henry rifle: Churchill fires
(1888),19
Martyrdom of Man (Winwood Reade):
Churchill reads, 67
Marx, Karl: Churchill's parody of (1945),
820
Mary, Queen: coronation of (1911),228
Masaryk, Jan Garrigue: Churchill's
encouragement to ( 1945), 827
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) (Boston): Churchill's speech at
(1949),884
Masterton-Smith, James: with Churchill
at the Admiralty, 290; and Fisher's
resignation, 315; and Churchill's
record at the Admiralty, 323; and
Churchill's qualities, 329; with
Churchill at Munitions (1917-18), 377
Matabeleland: Churchill seeks action in
(1896),62,63
Matsuoka, Yosuke: Churchill's message
to (1941), 693
Maturin, Gillian: Churchill's secretary,
944,946
Maudling, Reginald: helps Churchill
(1950),888
Maurois, Andre: and Churchill's war on
lice (1916), 341; Churchill's request to
(1916),346
Maxwell, Sir Alexander: helps Churchill,
563
Mayer, Rene: and Churchill wish fortalks
1036
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
with Russia, 911
Maynard, General Charles: and British
intervention in Russia (1919), 407,
412,414
Mayo, C.H.P.: encouragement from, 33;
his praise, 180; at Churchill's wedding,
200
Maze, Paul: paints alongside Churchill
(August 1939),619
McCloy, John J.: Churchill confides in
(1944),773
McKenna, Reginald: Churchill's clash
with (1908), 20 I; Churchill fears
'cocksuredness' of, 236
McKinley,
President:
Churchill
'impressed' by (1900),137
McNeill, Angus: Churchill joins action
with, 126
McNeill, R:mald: Churchill's guest
(1926),473
Mecca: and the Dardanelles, 305
Medenine (Tunisia): Germans driven
from (1943), 741
Melbourne Argus: a description of
Churchill in (1901), 142
Melchett, Lord: and Churchill's tact, 578
Memel: and a 'German menace', 527
Mendes-France, Pierre: and a possible
summit (1955), 934
Menin Road (Flanders): Hugh Wyllie
killed on (1915), 35; Churchill shelled
on(1918),382
Menzies, Colonel Stuart: and the
despatch of intelligence to Russia, 708
Menzies, Robert: and Churchill's mood
(March 1941),691; and Greece, 691
Merris (France): Churchill dines with
officers at (1916), 340
Mers el-Kebir (Algeria): French warships
at (1940), 666
Merseyside: strike on (1908), 195
Meru (Kenya): Churchill authorises
incorporation of, 187
Merville (France): Churchill sees
wounded at, 312; Churchill at, 334
Mesopotamia: and the Dardanelles, 305
Messe, General: confronts Montgomery
(1943),742
Metropolitan Police: Churchill sends to
South Wales in place oftroops (1910),
219; sent to Hull(1911), 229; to be sent
to Liverpool (1911), 231; and the
Agadir crisis (1911), 234
Metternich, Count: Churchill's warning
to, 206
Metz: Churchill visits (1883), 5; (1909),
German
forces
retake
207;
(September 1944),792
Meux, Admiral Sir H.: and Churchill's
call for Fisher's return (19 I 6), 353
Mexico: Britain not to 'sink to the
condition of', 255
Miami: Churchill's speech in (1946),864
Middle East: Churchill's proposals for
(1920), 428; Lloyd George seeks
Churchill's help in (1920), 429;
Churchill's search for economies in
(1921),431; andAustralia(1941),695;
possible collapse in, 698; and
Churchill's second Premiership, 902
Midway Island: battle of (1942),722
Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw: his talks with
Churchill (October 1944), 798, 800;
and Yalta, 821
Milan: Churchill receives letter of rebuke
at (1893),37
Milbanke,John: Churchill gives dictation
to (1889), 23
Milch, General Erhard: visits Britain
(1937),582
Miles, Doris: recollections ( 1943), 742
militarism: 'degenerates into brutality',
89
Military Co-ordination Committee:
Churchill made Chairman of (May
1940),637
Military Service Act: Churchill wishes to
use against strikers (1918),393
Millerand, Alexandre: and the Middle
East, 431
Milner, Sir Alfred (later Viscount): in
South Africa, 106; Churchill's talks
with, at CapeTown, 107; informed of
Churchill's escape, 120; Churchill's
criticisms of, 178; answers Churchill
(1909),210; criticism of, recalled, 317;
his protest (1918), 386; Churchill's
anger with (1918), 392; and British
intervention in Russia (1918-19), 405;
praise from (1921), 432
Mimizan (France): Churchill on holiday
at 421,425,460
Mindszenty,
Cardinal:
imprisoned
(1948),883
Mines Eight Hours Bill (1908): Churchill
introduces, 196
minimum standards: of 'life and labour'
(1906), 184; Churchill reiterates need
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for(1907),189,193
minimum wage: principle of, established
(1909),203
Minister of Defence: Churchill advocates
creation of (1934),527; no place for
ChurchiII as (1935-36), 544,547,550;
growing demand for (1936), 550;
ChurchiII's plan for (May 1940), 641;
ChurchiIl's appointment as, 672;
ChurchiII retains (1942),718
Minister of Munitions: Churchill hopes
for appointment as (1916), 363, 364;
ChurchiII appointed (1917), 374;
recalled,
537,
578;
ChurchiII
advocates (1936), 551
Minister without Portfolio: proposed for
ChurchiII (September 1939),619
Ministry for Co-ordination of Defence:
ChurchiII not to succeed Inskip at
(1939),609
Ministry of Health: Churchill suggested
for (1924),465
Ministry of Supply: ChurchiII advocates
(1936),554; Government rejects, 565,
585; Church iII advocates, 604, 605;
established (1939), 613; not properly
working in 1940,632
Minney, R.J.: and public 'apathy' (1938),
604
Minssen, Bernard: Churchill studies
French with, 31
Minto, Countess of: Churchill rides with,
228
Mississippi: 'let it roll', 671
Missouri: its mission (1946),865,869
Mitford, Tom: killed in action (1945),
835
Moberly Bell, Charles: Churchill thanks,
134
mobilisation: and the search for econom y
(1913-14),250
Modderspruit: Churchill and other
prisoners marched to, 113
Moerel (Switzerland): Churchill stays at,
169; Churchill returns to, 181
MohamedAliel-Kebir: sunk (1940), 669
Mohammed V, Turkish Sultan: and the
Dardanelles, 299
Mohmand Valley: Churchill recalls, 91
Mohmands: 'need a lesson' (1897), 76
Mojave Desert (California): Churchill
visits (1929),494
Moliere: Churchill in play by, 15
Molotov, Vyacheslav: at Yalta (1945),
1037
819; and Persia, 865; Churchill's letter
to (1953), 910; ChurchiII's telegram to
(1954),928
Molyneux, Richard: Churchill offers skin
to (1898), 100; his death (1954), 922
Mombasa: Churchill at (1907), 186
Moneypenny,
William:
his
congratulations, 176
Mons: retreat from (1914), 280
Montagu-Chelmsford
Reforms (of
1917),519
Montague Browne, Anthony: Churchill's
Private Secretary (from 1952), 908,
925,944,947,950,955,957
Montdidier: battle near (1918), 392
Monte Carlo: Churchill 'sick' at his
mother's departure for (1892), 31;
Churchill stays at (1945), 860;
Churchill's fall at (1963), 35, 957
Monte Cassino: German defence of
(1944),770
Monte Rosa (Switzerland): Churchill
climbs (1894), 45
Montgomery, General (later Field
Marshal Viscount Montgomery of
Alamein): in Lille (1918), 399;
Churchill impressed by (1940), 666;
commands Eighth Army, 726;
Churchill visits (1942), 729; and
Enigma, 731; attacks German-Italian
forces, 732; enters Tobruk, 734; his
confidence, 736; Churchill at Tripoli
with (1943),739; and the battle for the
Mareth Line, 742; with Churchill at
Marrakech, 765; Churchill visits, in
Normandy (1944), 778; Churchill
criticises, 782; Churchill's visit to 0 uly
1944),785; Churchill's visit to (1945),
814; Churchill rebukes, 815; with
Churchill at the Rhine (March 1945),
832, 833; and the drive to Berlin
(1945), 834; at Potsdam, 850; and
German research establishments 0 uly
1945),850
Montreal: Churchill lectures in (1900),
138; ChurchiII speaks in (1929), 493
Montreuil: Churchill at (March 1918),
384; Churchill visits Haig's new
headquarters at, 385; Haig withdraws
to, 385; Churchill returns to, 396
Montreux Convention (1936): discusssed
at Yalta, 822
Moolenacker: Churchill in reserve at
(1916),341,342,343
1038
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Moran, Lord: Churchill's doctor, 714,
715,717,752,762,763; accompanies
Churchill to Cairo and Moscow (1942),
725; and the election defeat (1945),
855; and Churchill's war memoirs,
858; and Churchill's postwar illnesses,
878, 886; Churchill's generosity to,
887;
and
Churchill's
second
Premiership,
904,
907;
and
Churchill's
stroke,
913;
and
Churchill's 'innings', 917; and
Churchill's stamina (1954),923
Moravia: Churchill visits, 181, 185
Morel, E.D.: stands against Churchill
(1922),455; elected, 456
Morgenthau Plan: Churchill's reaction to
(1944),793
Moriarty, Louis: encourages Churchill
(1892),32
Morin, Charles: a pseudonym, 431
Morley,
John
(later
Viscount):
Churchill's friendship with, 146, 148;
Churchill's appeal to, 158; believes
'nothing can be done' in social sphere,
194: and Churchill's engagement,
198; Churchill's guest( 1912), 245; and
the coming of war in 1914, 273
MorningPost: and Churchill's letters from
the Sudan (1898), 90; Churchill
becomes South Africa correspondent
of(l899), 105; and Churchill's maiden
speech, 139; and Churchill's 'costly
blunder', 286; Churchill at printing
presses of (1926), 475; reports
Churchill's first speech, 72; payment
from
(1898),
\0 I;
Churchill's
despatches to, \09; Churchill's Boer
War telegrams to, 121-29, 131;
protests from (1917), 374; hostility of,
376
Morocco: and the Agadir crisis (1911),
233; need to forestall Germans in
(1941),697
Morrison, Herbert: enters Cabinet (May
1940), 643; and the break-up of the
Coalition (1945), 845; at Strasbourg,
885; thanks Churchill, 895; 'geniality
and venom' of, 906
Morton, Desmond: helps Churchill
(from 1933),515,530,535,538,550;
encourages Churchill, 575; helps de
Gaulle, 663
Moscow: Bolsheviks pressed back to
(1918-19), 405; not to be bombed
(1919),415; Eden's mission to (1935),
541; Germans advance towards
(1941), 703; Churchill sends Stalin
details of assault on, 707; Churchill
first visit to (1942), 726; Churchill
reaches, 795; Churchill's visit to
(October 1944),795; Churchill unwell
in, 799; Churchill leaves, 800; a
possible summit at (1953), 909, 911,
Churchill's proposed visit to (1954),
927,928
Moses: and Churchill, 136
Mosley, Sir Oswald: 651
Mosul (Iraq): to be returned to Turkey
(1920),428
Mount Everest, 469
Mount Sinai: 'glow of (in 1940),672
Mountbatten, Lord: his recollection (of
1913), 249; Chief of Combined
Operations (1942), 719; and the
Dieppe raid, 729; and cross-Channel
plans, 736; 'young, enthusiastic and
triphibious', 750; and Churchill future
plans (1945),854; sees Churchill about
India (1947), 876
Mowatt, Sir Francis: helps Churchill
(1901),145,154,164
Moyne, Lord: a cruise with (1934), 532;
and Churchill's foreboding (1938),
595; murdered (1944), 803
Mozambique: Churchill's plan to reach,
115
Mr Brodrick'sArmy (Winston S. Churchill):
published (1902), 153
Muirhead-Gould, Captain Gerald: and
a German fear (1935), 547
Munich: Churchill spends three days in
(1932),508
Munich crisis (1938): reflections on, 608;
Churchill's criticism after, resented
(1948), 880; Churchill fears a
repetition of (1948),881
Munitions Council: Churchill sets up
(1917), 377; Churchill's warning to,
379
Munitions Office: Churchill's hopes for
(1915-16),339,359
Murmansk: British troops at (1919),408,
416
Muslims: in India, 500, 501
Mussolini, Benito: a 'swine', 458;
Churchill meets (1927), 480; and
Abyssinia, 544,546; Churchill willing
to undertake mission to (1935), 546;
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and Eden's resignation (1938), 587;
and Munich (1938), 597; invades
Albania
(1939),
612;
neutral
(1939-40),627; Churchill's appeal to
(May 1940), 646; proposes a
negotiated peace, 651 ; invades Greece
(1940),681; his defeat 'certain' (1941),
697; resigns (1943), 749; seized by
German parachutists, 754; and the
enthusiasm ofthe Italians, 797; killed
(1945),838
Mustafa Kemal: Churchill proposes
coming to terms with (1920),428; and
the Chanak crisis (1922),452
mustard gas: Churchill's plans for, on the
Western Front (1918-19), 390, 394; a
'hamper of, on its way (September
1918), 397; and a 'fiend', 398;
Churchill caught in an attack of, 399;
to be used in Iraq (1920), 424; not to
be sent to China (1927), 480; possible
useof(1944),782
My African Journey
(Winston S.
Churchill): based on articles (1907-8),
188
My Early Life (Winston S. Churchill): in
preparation, 482, published (1929),
496
Myers, Major G.P.: sends Churchill
information (1936),567
Nagasaki: atom bomb dropped on
(1945),857
Nairobi: Churchill visits (1907), 187
Namur (Belgium): fall of (1914),278
Naples: ancient ruins at, 657; bombed
(1940), 681; British troops enter
(1943), 755; Churchill at (August
1944), 787; Churchill telegraphs to
Clementine from (Christmas 1944),
809; Churchill returns to Britain
through, 813
'Napoleonic spirit': Churchill appeals for
(1908),195
Napoleon: his 'supreme strategic
principle', 242;
recalled, 374;
Churchill's proposed film script on,
494; Churchill wants to write a life of
(1934),532
Narvik: and German iron ore supplies
(1939-40), 626, 630, 631, 633, 634;
British lay mines at, 635; proposed
landing at (1940), 635; battle for, 636,
638; Germans land at, 636; to be
1039
evacuated, 650; occupied by the Allies,
650; evacuation of, 657; troops from,
sent to France, 658
Nash's Pall Mall: Churchill's article in
(1924), 463; Churchill's earnings
from, 494; Churchill's article in
(1925),955
Nasrulla Khan: inspects troops at
Aldershot, 53
Nasser, Colonel: and the Suez Crisis, 948
Natal: Zulu revolt in, 183
Natal Witness: reports Churchill's bravery
(1899), 112; Churchill denounces
vengeance in, 125
'National Minimum': to be established
(1907),191
National·
Defence
Contribution:
Churchill opposes (1937),577
National Government: Churchill calls for
(1910), 217; no place for Churchill in,
502; formed (1931), 502; Churchill's
praise for, 505
National Health Service: to be established
(1943),742; Churchill calls for (1945),
847
National Hunt Committee: vindicates
Churchill (1896), 66
National Infirmity Insurance: Churchill
wishes legislation for (1908),203
National Insurance Scheme: Churchill
calls for (1945), 849
National Liberal Club: Churchill speaks
at (1908), 190, 350
National Party: Lord Randolph's 'grand
ideal' of, 154
National Service Bill (1947), 875
National Tribunal: Churchill offers
(1926),479
National Trust: and Chartwell, 873
national unity: ChurchiII hopes for
emergence of 'truer sense' of (1911),
230
nationalisation: 'nothing immoral in',
848; Churchill's attack on (1950),888
naval defence: the means to avoid war,
198
'Naval Holiday': Churchill's offer of
(1912),243,245; Churchill re-iterates
call for (1913), 250; Germany rejects
(1913),253 Churchill seeks to revive
(1914),258; recalled, 523
Naval War Staff: Churchill wants
creation of (1911),237; plans for, 239
Navy Estimates (1914-15): Churchill
1040
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
prepares, 246,253, 255
Nawagai
(North-West
Frontier):
Churchill rides to, 'pistol in hand'
(1897),76
Nazi atrocities: Churchill speaks of
(1940),633
Nazi criminals: not to find refuge, 794
Nazi Party: its road to power (1932-33),
507,508, 510; dominance of, 523
Nazi-Soviet Pact (August 1939): genesis
of, 615; signed, 619; activated
(September 1939), 626
Nazidom: 'cruelty and intolerance' of
(1935), 546; 'brutal intolerance' of,
581; and Bolshevism, 632
Nazism: and the Spanish Civil War, 575
negotiated peace (1939-40): suggested,
625,627; shameful, 632; and 'a spasm
of fear', 637; Churchill rebuts, 648;
Mussolini proposes, 651; and the
'finest hour', 664
Negus, Sir Victor: and Churchill's
deafness, 891
Nehru, Jawaharlal: demands full
independence for India, 495; his
magnanimity,
885;
Churchill
encourages, 935
Neisse rivers: dispute over (1945),819,
852,857
Nelson, Horatio: recalled, 374; Churchill
visits scene of victory of (1798), 434
Nemon, Oscar: his statue, 945
Neptune: sunk (1941), 710
neutrals: and collective security (1933),
524; and the crocodile (1940), 632;
protest, 633; invaded, 636
Neuve Chapelle: Churchill in trenches
near (1915),332; Churchill visits front
line at (1915), 339
New Hackensack (New York): Churchill
flies to (1942),722
New Statesman: and The World Crisis
(1923), 458; allegations of, after the
General Strike (of 1926),477
New World, the: war to be waged from
(1940),
654,
656;
and
a
Nazi-dominated Europe, 661
New York: Churchill's first visit to (1895),
56; Churchill interviewed in (1895),
60; Churchill lectures in (1900),137;
Churchill in, on 'Black Tuesday'
(1929), 494; Churchill's accident in
(1931), 503; Churchill speaks against
'panic and despair' in (1932), 505;
Churchill re-visits (1953),909
New York (cruiser): Churchill visits, 57
New York Stock Exchange: Churchill
visits 'at the worst moment of panic'
(1929),494
New York Times: praises Churchill (1946),
869; finds Churchill 'only a shadow'
(1954),924
New York World: Churchill interviewed by
(1895),60
New Zealand: and Churchill's good
fortune (1890), 26; and the
Dardanelles (1915), 297; and the
Chanak crisis (1922), 451; Churchill
inspects troops from (1943), 740
New Zealand troops: and Greece (1941),
691; Churchill visits, in Italy (1944),
790
Newall, Sir Cyril: Chief of the Air Staff,
672
Newcastle: Churchill's call for social
change at (1909), 203
Newfoundland: and the Chanak crisis
(1922), 451; British air bases in, 650;
lease of bases in (1940), 670
Newmarket: 'whole world' agreeable at
(1895),52
Newport (South Wales): by-election at
(1922),453
News Chronicle: and the call for Ch urchill' s
return (1939), 614
News of the World: Churchill writes for
(1932), 508; Churchill's articles for,
532
Nicholas, Grand Duke: and the
Dardanelles, 30 I
Nicholson, Otho: defeats Churchill
(1924),461
Nicolson, Harold: and Churchill's
speeches, 566, 590,627,629, 718, 774,
801,802,805,815; and the effect of
the Abdication crisis on Churchill,
569; and Czechoslovakia, 596; and
Munich
(1938),
597;
records
Churchill's defiance 0 une 1939),615;
and Churchill's broadcast (1944),770;
and Churchill's return from Yalta, 827
Nicosia (Cyprus): a demonstration in
(1907),186
Nikolaiev: bombarded (1914), 288
nitrates: Churchill secures Chilean
production of (1918),395
Nixon, Richard M.: greets Churchill
(1954),927
INDEX
Nobel Prize for Literature: Churchill
awarded (1953), 919
Normandy: Churchill crosses to(l2June
1944),778; military success in at Ouly
1944),784; Churchill's second visit to
beach-head at Ouly 1944), 785;
Churchill's third wartime visit to
(August 1944),786
Normandy landings Oune 1944), 777,
781, 782
North Africa: Italian advance in (1940),
677; in Allied hands (May 1943),745
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
(NATO), 883, 901, 902, its aim, 918
North Russia: British troops in (1919),
405,407,411; and the anti-Bolshevik
Russians (1919),412; British troops to
withdraw from, 414
North Sea: imminent danger in (1912),
243; Churchill sends First Fleet to
(1914),267; plans for, 289, 292-3, 294
North-West Frontier: Churchill seeks
action on (1897),72,73,75; Churchill
in action on, 76, 77
North-West Manchester: by-election at
(1908),194
Northern Ireland: and Churchill's work
at the Colonial Office (1921-22), 443,
444, 455; American troops to go to
(1942),714
Northern
Nigeria:
'odious
and
disquieting' policy in, 183
Norway: and collective security (1933),
524; and 'submission', 533; and
German iron ore supplies (1939-40),
626, 630, 631, 632; protests (1940),
633; and the political crisis (April-May
1940),636,637; and Enigma (1940),
637; Stalin wants a British landing in
(1941), 703; ChurchiII urges action
against (October 1941),708
Norway Debate (May 1940): Churchill a
target in, 638; recalled, 724
Norwegian Campaign (1940): recalled,
690
Norwegians: 'bludgeoned' (1940), 647
Nottinghamjournal: helps (1923), 459
Novorossiisk (South Russia): Denikin
evacuates (1920),421
Noyon: battle near (1918), 392
Nunburnholme, Lord: Churchill's host
(1910),222
Nuremberg: American forces enter
(1945),836
1041
Nurlu (Western Front): Churchill spends
night at (March 1918), 384
O'Connor, Terence: encouragement
from (1933),521
O'Neill, Ronald: draws blood (1913),250
Oberon, Merle: Churchill amuses (1949),
886
Obseroer: and Churchill's staying on
(1954),933
Ocean: strikes a mine (1915), 304
Oder River: and Poland's post-war
frontiers, 760; Soviet forces reach
(1945),822
Odessa: bombarded (1914), 288; French
withdraw
from
(1919),
411;
Bolsheviks enter (1920),420
oil: secured (1914), 260; and the power
of a would-be aggressor, 895; and the
Middle East, 947
Oldham: Churchill asked to stand for
(1899), 101, 103; Churchill speaks at
(1899), 104; ChurchiII defeated at
(1899), 105; ChurchiII's continued
efforts at (1899), 106; a mine engineer
from, hides Churchill during his
escape from the Boers, 119;
Churchill's return to (1900), 133;
Churchill's election campaign at
(1900), 135; ChurchiII elected for
(1900),135; Churchill's letter to, about
the Boer settlement, 149; ChurchiII
unseals 'volcanoes' at, 157; ChurchiII
defends Free Trade at (1903), 159;
soldiers from (1942),726
Oldham Chronicle: Churchill accused of
inconsistency in (1902), 152
Oldham Conservative Association:
Churchill accepts offer to stand
(1900),
127;
Churchill
loses
confidence of, 160
Oliver, Vic: his marriage to Sarah
Churchill (1936), 563; at Chequers
(1940),686
Olivier, Laurence, 795
Ollivant, Major Alfred: and the coming
of war in 1914,271
Omdurman: battle of (1898), 92,95,97;
recalled, 122,739,754
Onassis, Aristotle: Churchill's friendship
with, 951, 954,956
Onega (North Russia): mutiny at (1919),
414
Oosthuizen, Field Cornet: ChurchiII
1042
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
captured by (1899), 112, 114
Orakzais: to be invaded (1897), 75
Oran (Algeria): action at Ouly 1940),666;
becomes a symbol, 667; landing at
(1942),733
Orange Free State: Churchill in advance
through (1900), 126; responsible
government for, 182
Order of Merit, 223; Churchill awarded
(1946),862
Orion (British battleship): Churchill visits
(1912),245; Churchill on (1945), 816
Ormsby-Gore, William: and the need for
'drastic improvement' (1936),550
Orpen, William: Churchill sits for (1916),
364
Osiris: Churchill sails to IndIa on (1898),
101
Oslo: Germans land at (April 1940), 636;
Churchill proposes capture of (August
1940),674
Ostend: Marine Brigade sent to (1914),
279; Germans reach (1914),287
Other Club: founded (1911), 227;
Kitchener
dines
at,
228;
a
founder-member
of,
becomes
Conservative Leader, 240; and Ulster,
250; and the Munich crisis (1938), 597;
Churchill dines at after Anzio (1944),
767; Churchill at, 922, 950, 952, 954;
Churchill's last dinner at (1964), 958;
Churchill recalled at, 959
Ottawa: Churchill lectures in (1900), 138;
Churchill speaks in (1929), 493;
(1941), 715; (1952), 902; Churchill's
visit to (1954), 928
Ottley, Sir Charles, 236
Ouchy (Switzerland): Churchill nearly
drowns at (1894), 45
Ouvry, Lieutenant-Commander J.G.D.:
and the magnetic mine (1939), 629
Oxford: Churchill lectures in (1900),
137; Churchill speaks in (1901),141;
denounces Communism at (1920),
426; speaks about Germany in (1933),
513; speaks about rearmament at
(1936),556
Oxford Union: 'King and Country'
debate in (1933), 513
Oxford Ur.iversity: and 'polish' for the
mind, 55; 'exhuberant spirits' at, 214
Oxfordshire Yeomanry: Churchill in
camp with (1909),204
Pacific Ocean: and the European theatre
of war, 689; Soviet ships 'welcome' in
(1945),822
Paddington:
Churchill
seeks
Parliamentary seat at (1897), 81;
Churchill speaks at (1899), 104
Paget, General, and Ulster, 256
painting: Churchill studies (1890), 24;
Churchill's hobby (1915), 322;
Churchill embarks on, on the Western
Front (1916), 349; in France (1920),
421; in Italy, 425; Churchill's first
exhibition of (1921), 431; at the
Pyramids (1921), 434; 'for your
leisure', 439; at Cannes (1922-23),
457; in Venice (1927), 482; at Lake
Louise (1929), 493; at J uan-Ies-Pins
(1931), 502; at the Pyramids again
(1934),532; near Cannes (1935), 545;
at Cap Martin (1937), 574; at
Chartwell, 580; near Paris(1939),618;
at Marrakech (1943), 738; Churchill
'not strong enough' for (Marrakech,
December 1943),765; at Bordaberry
(1945),850; at Lake Lugano and Lake
Como (1945),858; 'a wonderful cure',
859; at Recco (1945), 859; at Choisi
(1946),872; at Marrakech (1947),878;
at Marrakech again (1950), 894; in
Jamaica (1953), 909; at Cap d'Ail
(1953),918; in Syracuse (1955), 940;
at La Capponcina (1955), 945; at La
Pausa (1956-60),951,952
Pakenham-Walsh, Lieutenant-Colonel R. P.
(later General): visits Marlborough's
battlefields with Churchill (1932),508;
and the 'glow of Mount Sinai', 671
Pakistan: to be created (1947), 876;
American military aid to (1954), 922;
and a 'world front against Communist
aggression' (1954),926
Palace Theatre (London): and a newsreel
film of Churchill at Sidney Street
(1911),224
Palestine: Churchill's school essay on, 19;
and the Dardanelles, 302; Churchill's
search for economies in (1921-22),
431; riots in (1921), 434, 437, 440;
Churchill's policy for (1921-22), 435,
438; Churchill visits (1934), 532;
possible German advance through
(1941), 702; possible battle in, 704;
future of (1944), 803; Churchill's
hopes for (1945), 825
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Palestine White Paper (1939): not to be
implemented, 803
Pall Mall Magazine: Churchill's article in
(1896),64
Pankhurst, Christabel: arrested, 172
Pantelleria Island: Churchill wants
capture of (1940), 686; Churchill
watches bombers set off for (1943),
747; captured, 748
Panther (German gunboat): sent to
Agadir (1911), 233, 235
paper money: 'disreputable', 57
paratyphoid: Churchill taken ill with
(1932),508
Paris: Churchill's first visit to (in 1883),5;
Churchill visits (1901), 141; Churchill
visits (1915), 314; Churchill's wartime
missions to (1917-18), 373, 379, 380,
383, 385, 391, 394; Churchill's
interwar visits to, 409, 431, 457;
Churchill negotiates in (1925), 468;
Churchill's speech in (1936), 562;
German march on (in 1914) recalled,
618; Churchill's wartime visits to
(1939-40), 628, 633, 647; German
offensive towards Oune 1940), 656,
657; Germans enter, 661; liberated
(August 1944), 790; Churchill's visit,
after liberation, 804; Churchill visits
Eisenhower's headquarters near
(1945),814; Churchill's postwar visits
to, 861, 876, 882,900
Park, Air Vice-Marshal: and the Battle of
Britain, 676
Parliament: Churchill's intention to
stand for (1897), 80; Churchill
expected to enter 'as soon as he can'
(1898), 101; Churchill fails to enter
(1899), 105; Churchill elected to
(1900), 135; passim
Parliament Bill (1910): to go ahead, 217;
Churchill supports, 222; Churchill
helps in behind-the-scenes talks about,
226; Churchill reports progress on,
227
Parliament Square (London): and
Churchill's retirement (1955), 935;
Churchill's speech in (1956),950
Passchendaele: battle for (1917), 378;
battle for, recalled, 680,773
Paterno (Sicily): captured, 750
Pathan tribes: in revolt (1897), 72
patience: the gospel of, 63; 'the only grace
you need', 343; and destiny, 549
1043
Patras (Gulf of Corinth): British troops
land at (1944), 795
patriotism: 'shades into cant', 89 'at other
peoples' expense', 165
Pavlov, Vladimir: his award, 800, 817
Pax Britannica: violated (1897),75
peace: 'the last prize', 897
Pearl Harbor: Japanese attack on
(December 1941), 711; recalled, 851
Pearman, Violet: Churchill's secretary
(from 1931),501. 509, 532, 557,579,
586; 'standing up to the bully' (1940),
634; and Churchill's generosity, 887
Peck,.(Sir) John: his recollections, 672;
and Churchill's homecomingO anuary
1944), 766; has bad news, 794; at
Potsdam, 852
Peel, Robert: Home Secretary (1828),
211; recalled, 489
Peel, Sidney: Clementine Hozier
engaged to, 191; death of (1938), 607
Peenemunde (Baltic): to be bombed
(1943),748; bombed (1943), 751
Pemberton Billing, Noel: by-election
success of (1916),354
pensions: Churchill presses for, for
widows (1914), 260; Churchill's wider
plans for (1924-25), 467, 470, 471
Pentonville Prison: Churchill's visit to
(19Il),225
Percival, General: and Singapore, 717
Peronne: Churchill drives through
(1918),384
Persia (Iran): and the Bolsheviks (1920),
421; Churchill secures oil supply in
(1914), 261; Anglo-Soviet forces
occupy, 706; Soviet pressure on
(1945), 815; and the Soviet Union,
865; nationalisation of oil in (1951),
895
personal courage: Churchill's 'ambition'
for, 79
Peshawar: Churchill hurries to( 1898), 86
Petain, Marshal: at Beauvais(1918), 388;
and the battle for France (1940), 653,
658, 660; forms Government, 663;
Churchill's contact with (December
1940), 685, 687
'Peter the Painter': at Sidney Street, 223
Petra: Churchill visits (1934), 532
Petrograd: and the British Fleet (1919),
417
Pettigo (Ulster): confrontation at (1922),
447
1044
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Pharisees: their faults, 19
Philippeville (Algeria):
bombarded
(1914),274
Phillips, Admiral Tom: and Oran (1940),
666; drowned (1941), 712
Philppines: Japanese land on (December
1941),714
photographic
reconnaissance:
and
invasion (1940),681
physical pain: Churchill's 'keen aversion'
to,71
Pietermaritzburg: Churchill takes train
to (1899), 108; Churchill returns to,
after his escape, 121
pilots: 'everything turns on' (1936), 560;
their task (1940), 663
Pim, Captain: and Churchill's worries
(1942),718; accompanies Churchill to
Quebec (1943), 750; accompanies
Churchill to Algiers, 758; at Yalta,
817; and the liberation of Rangoon,
839; and the surrender of Germany
(1945), 839; Churchill thanks, 840;
takes Churchill first election results
(1945), 855 and Churchill's farewell
(1945),856
Piraeus: bombed (1941),695
Pisa: Alexander enters (August 1944),
791
Pitt, William (Pitt the Younger): his
words of 1805 echoed in 1920,424;
and Ireland, 442; recalled, 489
Placentia
Bay
(Newfoundland):
Churchill and Roosevelt meet at
(1941),705
Plastiras, General: in Athens ( 1944), 808;
forms Government, 814
Plato: Churchill reads, 67, 68; trains the
'muscles', 70
Pleven, Rene: and the fall of France, 662
Ploegsteert (Belgium): Churchill in the
trenches at (1916), 345; Churchill
leaves, 360; a 'costly excursion', 369;
Churchill revisits (1918), 382;
recalled,383
Plowden, Pamela: Churchill's friendship
with (from 1896),65; Churchill sends
account to, of his first attempt to enter
Parliament, 104; Churchill's letters to,
from South Africa, 122, 123; needs
Churchill's 'attention', 129; Churchill
meets in Canada, 138; comments on
Churchill's character,
174; for
subsequent index entries see Lytton, Lady
Plymouth: Churchill speaks at (1900),
134; Churchill visits (1914), 259;
bombed (1941),698; Churchill's plane
approaches (1942), 716; Churchill
speaks at (1951), 897
pneumonia: Churchill struck down by
(1943), 741; Churchill again ill with
(December 1943), 762; Churchill's
further affliction of (August 1944),
791
poetry: Churchill writes (1890), 25
poison gas: and the Bolsheviks, 411
Poisy (near Soissons): Churchill sees
German shells explode at (1914),281
Poland: and Silesia, 182; and the
Bolsheviks (1919), 416; advances into
Russia (1919),418; Churchill prepares
military support for (1920), 423;
'will ... save Europe', 424; Churchill's
advice to (1925), 472; and armaments
(1932),507; determined (1932), 510;
danger of German conquest of, and
the fate of the Jews (1933), 516;
Churchill's fear for (1936), 553; and
Munich (1938), 599; Churchill fears
threat to (1938), 607; British
guarantee to (March 1939), 611; and
collective security, 613; Churchill's
articles no longer to appear in, 614;
and the coming of war (1939), 615;
and the outbreak of war (September
1939),623; in defeat (October 1939),
627; Nazi atrocities in, 633; frontiers
of, discussed (1943-45), 756, 760, 761,
768,795,797,799,801,819,822,852;
needed in the 'orchestra of Europe',
760; British aid to, (1944), 768; to be
part of a Central European Customs
union, 800; at Yalta (1945), 818, 820;
after Yalta, 826, 827, 829, 830; arrest
offourteen leaders in (1945),833,835,
841, 843, 847; importance of an
Anglo-American advance to (April
1945),834; and the iron curtain, 844;
at Potsdam, 851; future of (1944-45),
845
Poles: 'bludgeoned' (1940), 647; held
down (1941), 693; under Soviet
control, 860
Polish Army: and Dalmatia (1943),753
Polish Corridor, 612; and the coming of
war (1939), 615
Polish troops: occupy Narvik (1940),650
and the battle for France (1940), 653
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politics: 'a fine game to play', 55; and
originality, 85; and 'mud-slinging',
170
polo: Churchill plays (from 1895),52,64,
65, 67, 71; limitations of, 66; 'no
longer satisfies', 80; Churchill
continues to play, 180, 424, 439;
Churchill's last game of (1927), 480
Polygon Wood (Ypres Salient): Churchill
visits (1918), 382
Pompano (Florida): Churchill recuperates at (1942), 715
Pompeii: ancient ruins at, 657
Pond, Major James: Churchill's lecture
agent (1900), 124, 137,138
Poona (India): Churchill at (1896),63
Poperinghe (Western Front): Churchill
meets his brother at ( 191 7), 378
Popov, Colonel Grigori: in Athens
(1944),808,810,811
Porch, Montagu: marries Churchill's
mother (1918), 391; and Lady
Randolph's death, 438
Port Arthur (battle of, 1894): and the
coming of war in 1914,269
Port Said: captured (1956), 949
Portal, Jane (Lady Williams of Elvel):
Churchill'ssecretary(from 1950),890,
896,908,912,917,919,923,935
Portal, Sir Charles: Chief of the Air Staff,
681,694
Portland: Churchill's naval enquiries at
(1912), 244; First Fleet sails from
(1914),268
Portland, 6th Duke of: attacks Lloyd
George's budget, 206
Portsmouth: Churchill's visits to (1912),
240; Churchill's visits to (1913), 248
Portuguese East Africa: Churchill
reaches border of, and safety (1899),
120
Potsdam: conference at (1945), 844, 848,
850; Churchill returns to England
from, 854
Pound, Admiral Sir Dudley: First Sea
Lord,624,627,630,657; and Norway
(1940),635; his advice, 662; Churchill
confides in, 667; his fateful telephone
call, 712; and Churchill, 725; resigns,
754; dies, 756
poverty: the 'cruel abyss' of, 200
Poverty, A Study of Tount Life (Seebohm
Rowntree): Churchill influenced by
(1901),146
1045
power: and jealousy, 12; 'God for a
month of, 341
Pownall, General: works on The Second
World War (from 1946),871,906
Prague: Churchill's articles published in
(1937), 576; and the Sudeten crisis,
593; Hitler sleeps in (March 1939), 611 ;
'banish despair' (1940),632; Churchill
seeks American liberation of (1945),
838; 'in the Soviet sphere' (1946), 866
praise: 'delicious', 82
Pravda: attacks the Fulton speech (1946),
868
Presidency of the Board of Trade:
Churchill accepts (1908), 194
Presidency of the Local Government
Board: Churchill declines (1908),
193
Presidency of the Board of Education:
Churchill considered for (1906),
184
Press Association: Churchill speaks to
(1952),906
Pretoria: Churchill imprisoned in (1899),
113; Churchill's escape from, 115,
117, 1I8; Churchill advances towards,
127; Churchill enters with the victors
(1900),128
preventive detention: Churchill uneasy
about, 225
Pride and Prejudice Uane Austen):
Churchill reads at Carthage, 763
Primrose League: Churchill's first speech
for (1897), 71
Prince of Wales: in pursuit (1941), 698;
Churchill's journey to Roosevelt on,
705; at Singapore, 711;sunk, 712
Prinz Eugen: pursued (1941), 698
Pripet Marshes: and the Poles, 799
prison
lectures
and
concerts:
establishment of (1910), 215
prison libraries: establishment of, 212
prison reform: Churchill embarks on
(1910),212; and the perspectiveofthe
prisoner, 214; Churchill pursues, 215,
218,219,225
Prisoners' Aid Societies: to be woven
together, 215
Production
Executive:
established
(1941),688
profit-sharing: Churchill in favour of
(1897), 72; Churchill reiterates need
for (1946), 874
profits tax: to replace the rates, 482
1046
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Protection: Churchill forecasts future
political split over (1895), 54;
Churchill's warning of a revival of
'party bitterness' over (1902),147; 'the
politics of the future' (1902), 148;
'damned', 152; 'Tory electorate mad
for', 158; Churchill attacks, 164; a
'monstrous fallacy', 459; a possible
return to (1928), 486; and the
Conservative Party, 491
Protestantism: Churchill's preference
for, 102
Providence: and the Dardanelles, 305;
and the 'plum', 352
Prussian methods: not to be used in
Ireland (1920), 422
public life: the 'rival', 199
public opinion: 'prostrate' (1920), 424;
and rearmament, 561 ; and 'One poor
wretch,' 572; and Nazism (1937), 581;
and 'moral forces', 586; and Munich
(1938),600; and the 'impulse to resist',
614
Public schools: 'I do not want to go there
again', 34
Pugh, Doreen: Churchill's secretary
(from 1955),944,948
Pugh, Dorothy: accompanies Churchill
to Quebec (1944),792
Punch: and Churchill's maiden speech
(190 I), 139; calls for Churchill's
resignation (1954), 922
punishment: and the public mood, 214
Purple machine: sent to Britain Oanuary
1941),689
Purvis, Arthur: in Washington (1940),
655
Pyramids: Churchill paints at (1921),
434; Churchill takes Roosevelt to
(1943),759
Quain, Sir Richard: and Lord Randolph's
final illness, 48
Quebec: Churchill at (1929),492; second
conference at (1944), 787; Churchill
leaves England for (September 1944),
792
Quebec Conference (1943): Churchill
leaves London for, 750; conclusions
of,751
Queen Anne's Drive, Windsor: Churchill
rides in (1894),44
Queen Elizabeth (battleship): and the
Dardanelles (1915), 295, 296
Queen Elizabeth (ocean liner): Churchill
sails in (1946), 862; Churchill sails to
New York on (1949), 883; Churchill's
voyage on (1954), 928
Queen Mary (ocean liner): Churchill
crosses Atlantic on (1943), 744;
Churchill again crosses Atlantic on
(August 1943), 750; and Churchill's
transatlantic journeys (September
1944), 792; Churchill returns to
Britain on (1946), 869; Churchill's
subsequent voyages on, 884, 900, 909
Quincy (US cruiser): Churchill meets
Roosevelt on (1945),825
Rabat: Churchill travels through (1944),
791
Raczynski, Count Edward: and the
coming of war (September 1939), 619
radar: success of experiments with
(1935), 544; Churchill's help sought
over, 558; Churchill urges greater
vigour with, 560; and the United
States, 669; and the defence of
Singapore, 694; and a 'hostile' aircraft,
716; and a commando raid (1942), 718
Radescu, General Nicolae: threatened
(1945),830
Radford, Admiral A. w.: Churchill's
warning to (1954), 925
radicalism: 'dried-up drain-pipe of, 72;
'ofthe reddest type', 163
railway strike (of 1911): Churchill
maintains food supplies during, 231
railways: and the State, 184, 202;
Churchill proposes nationalisation of
(1918), 404; not to be denationalised
(1952),906
Ramsay, Admiral Bertram: brings
Churchill information (1937), 578;
and the North Africa landings (1942),
733; and the invasion of Sicily (1943),
748; and the cross-Channel landing
(1944),775
Ramsgate: Churchill visits defences at
(1940),674
Rangoon: evacuation of (1942), 719
British forces enter (1945),839
Rashid Ali: seizes power in Baghdad
(1941), 696; prompt action against,
700
rationing: Churchill abolishes (1953),
910
rats: commandeer Churchill's candle
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while he is in hiding (1899), 119
Rawlinson, General Sir Henry: and
Churchill's mission to Antwerp (1914),
284, 285; at Drury (1918), 386;
Churchill visits (1918), 393; launches
offensive (August
1918), 393;
Churchill on holiday with (1920), 421
Reading (Berkshire): Clementine joins
her husband at (1945), 826
Reagan, Ronald: stars (1945), 816
rearmament: and economic restraints
(1933),
513;
Churchill
seeks
acceleration of( 1936), 559; and public
opinion, 561 , 565; and the 'focus', 584;
and 'moral forces', 586; and collective
security, 589; and the aftermath of
Munich (1938), 604; and back-bench
MPs, 605; and Churchill's 'wise
counsel', 607; after Munich (1938),
607; delays in (1938-39), 609
Red Sea: Churchill's work during voyage
through (1907), 186
refugees: Churchill's heart 'saddened' by
(1945),816
Remagen: American troops cross Rhine
at (March 1945), 830
Remarque, Erich: Churchill reads book
by, 918
Renoum: Churchill returns to Britain on
(1943), 754; Churchill travels to
Algiers on (November 1943),758
reparations: in prospect (1940), 627;
discussed at Yalta, 818, 821, 822
repatriation: Churchill scandalised by
(1919),412; Churchill rejects use of
force during (1945), 853
reprisals: Churchill opposes (1940),680;
Churchill opposes (1944),803
Repulse: at Singapore (1941), 711; sunk,
712
resignation: Churchill contemplat~s
(1920),
426;
Churchill
agam
contemplates (1921), 434; and the
proposed campaign in Italy (1943-44),
757;
Churchill
contemplates
(1951-55),917,925,928; resignation
demands (1952-55), 904, 906, 919,
922,923,925,926,931
Resolution: hit (1940),678
responsibility: an 'exhilaratingdrink', 68;
of Ministers, 512, 525, 526, 565; 'glad
not to have', 532; not to be grasped,
596; and back-bench MPs, 605
retirement: reflections on (1955), 945
1047
Reuter: announces Churchill's escape
from the Boers, 119
Reves, Emery: helps Churchill, 576; his
warning, 614; and The Second World
War, 864, 873, 878; Churchill's host,
946
Reves, Wendy: at La Pausa, 946, 954
Reynaud, Paul: Churchill confides in
(1938),600; Churchill visits Oanuary
1939),607; and the battle for France
(1940),649,652,653,657; at Tours,
659; resigns, 663
Rheims: Churchill visits (1940), 631;
Churchill visits Eisenhower at (1944),
805; Germans sign surrender at (May
1945),839
rhetoric: Churchill'sarticleon (1897),81;
and survival (1940), 664
Rhine: Churchill's plan to mine
(1939-40), 629, 657; British and
Canadians reach (1945),
822;
Americans cross (March 1945), 830;
Churchill crosses (March 1945), 832
Rhineland: German remilitarisation of
(1936),
551;
bombed,
702;
remilitarisation of, recalled, 861
rhinoceros: an encounter with (1907),
187; and London (1945), 843
Rhodes: Churchill wants capture of
(1943),755,759
Rhondda Valley: strikes and riots m
(1910),219
Rhone Valley: proposed campaign in
(1944),781
Rice, Lieutenant-Commander Arthur:
killed,259
Richard/II (Shakespeare), 795
Richards, A.H., 595; and the 'Defence of
Freedom and Peace' movement, 564;
and Churchill's exertions (1938), 607
Richardson, Ralph, 795
riches: 'valued more and more', 170
Richmond, Captain Herbert: and
Admiral Fisher, 296
Rickmansworth: mock battle at (1888),
19
Riddell, Sir George: and Churchill's
departure from the Admiralty (1915),
319; and Churchill's war memoirs
(1920), 419; and Churchill's singing,
428
Riga: Soviet forces enter (1944),798
rights of the individual: to be 'exalted',
790
1048
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Ripon Falls: Churchill foresees dam at
(1907),188
Rishon-Ie-Zion (Palestine): Churchill
visits (1921), 436
Ritz Hotel (London): Churchill stays at,
457; Churchill's sixtieth birthday
party at, 538
Ritz Hotel (Paris): Churchill at, 379, 386
Roberts, Cecil: his help (1923),459
Roberts, Frank: his Victory Day telegram
(1945),841
Roberts, Field Marshal Lord: his hostility
overcome (1900), 126; receives
Churchill, 128; enters Pretoria, 129;
British troops march past, after
Diamond Hill, 130; accepts Churchill's
advocacy, 150
Roberts, Trooper Charles: saves
Churchill's life (1900), 127
Robertson, General: protests (1917),377
Robey, George, 387
Robinson, Geoffrey: and the coming of
war in 1914,275
Robinson, Sir Arthur: and Defence
deficiencies, 578
rocket bombs: in prospect (1943), 748,
754,770 in existence (1944),784
Rodney, Lady: Churchill confides in, 23
Rolls, C.S., 202
Roman Catholicism: Churchill's reflections on, 102
Roman Empire: recalled, 862
Romans: and Palestine, 19; Churchill
'entangled' with (1938),593
Rome: Churchill takes passage to Indiaon
(1897),72
Rome: Churchill visits (1927), 480;
Churchill willing to undertake mission
to (1935), 546; Churchill wants
bombing of (1940), 681; Churchill's
desire to advance to (1943), 749;
Germans occupy (September 1943),
753; Churchill's hopes for a follow-up
from (1944), 772; captured Oune
1944), 775; Churchill in (August
1944),789
Rommel, General Erwin: reaches Tripoli,
690; in the Western Desert, 695, 696,
698,699; in action, 709; in the Western
Desert, 721, 722, 723, 726; and
Enigma, 732; and Montgomery, 736;
his suicide, 785
Roose, Dr Robson: and Churchill's
health, 6, 9,10; and a knife-wound, 7;
and Lord Randolph's worsening
health, 44; and Lord Randolph's final
illness, 47
Roosevelt, President Franklin D.:
Churchill's admiration of (1933),522;
Churchill praises (1934), 524;
Churchill's messages to (1939-40),
630; and British action off Norway
(December 1939), 630; and the first
year of Churchill's Premiership, 646;
and aid to Britain (1940), 648, 655,
669, 670; and the fall of France, 660,
re-e1ected (1940), 682; and Taranto,
683; and the London Blitz, 686; his
emissary (1941),687; and Lend-Lease,
688; Churchill's broadcast message to
(February 1941), 690; a second
emissary from (1941), 692; his
continued help to Britain, 696;
Churchill's warning to, about Egypt,
697;
meets
Churchill
off
Newfoundland (1941),705; 'our great
friend', 706; not aware of the 'risk' of
neutrality, 706; and Siam, 710; and
Pearl Harbor, 711; unable to see
Churchill, 711; Churchill visit to
(December 1941), 713; and the
problems of a cross-Channel landing
(1942), 719; and the Arctic convoys,
720; and Churchill's second wartime
visit to the United States Oune 1942),
722; and thefallofTobruk, 723; meets
Churchill at Casablanca (1943), 737;
and a limited second front (1942),725;
and China, 745; strategic decisions of
(May 1943),745; and the atom bomb,
746; and Burma, 751; and Rhodes,
755; a'nd the proposed campaign in
Italy (1943-44), 758; at Teheran
(December 1943), 760; and Anzio,
764; and the Adriatic plan Oune
1944),780; declines to meet Churchill
and Stalin in Scotland (1944), 784; and
the Warsaw uprising, 791; a special
request to, 792; contrasted with
Churchill, 793; and Yalta, 814; at
Malta (1945),816; at Yalta, 817; and
Poland, 818; and war criminals, 821;
Churchill's last meeting with, 825;
Churchill appeals to, on Poland, 831;
his friendship a 'rock', 831; dies, 835;
Churchill's tribute to, 836; recalled,
896
Roosevelt, Theodore: Churchill meets
INDEX
(1900),138; Churchill's proposal for,
389
Rosebery, 5th Earl of: Churchill meets
(1893), 36; sees Lord Randolph off,
44; defeated (1895), 54; and Free
Trade, 66; urges Churchill to take
elocution lessons, 135; Churchill's
friendship with, 144; invitations from,
147; Churchill outlines schemes to,
150;
Churchill
encourages
intervention of, 150; and Tory
Democracy, 151; Churchill's closeness
to, 153; praises Churchill's life of his
father, 175; Churchill's article on, 581
Rosehall
(Scotland):
Churchill
recuperates at (1928),485
roses: beauty of, at Bangalore, 67
Rotherhithe: Churchill speaks at (1898),
101
Rothschild, Lionel: Churchill's host, 181
Rothschild, Lord: Churchill the guest of,
41,61; Churchill seeks help from, 71
Rothschilds, the: and a possible business
career for Churchill, 32
Roumania: and the Dardanelles (1915),
294; and the Bolsheviks (1918), 389;
determined (1932), 510; Churchill's
fear for (1936), 554; and Munich
(1938), 599; and collective security,
613; Churchill's articles no longer to
appear in, 614; British guarantee to
(1939), 617; 'might fall into our
hands', 761; abandons Germany
(1944), 792; future of (1944), 796;
future of (1944-45), 804; Soviet
intimidation in (1945), 828, 829, 830
Roumanians: slaves (1945),824
Rowley, Squadron Leader Herbert: visits
Churchill (1936),564
Royal Academy Dinner (London):
Churchill speaks at, about naval policy
(1912), 245; Churchill's humour at
(1932),505
Royal Air Force: Churchill wants
responsibility for (1919), 404;
Churchill in ministerial charge of
(1919-21), 405, 413; and the
importance of training (1922), 442;
Churchill's policy for (from 1932),
510,513,525,526,527,530,532,535,
536,537,541,560,564,567,572,574,
599
Royal Commission on the Dardanelles:
Churchill's evidence to, 363
1049
Royal Horse Artillery: at Sidney Street,
224
Royal Marines: and the Agadir crisis
(1911), 234; Churchill's advice to
(1914),282; and the Dardanelles, 301;
sent to Falkland Islands (1952),904
Royal Naval Air Service: Churchill
establishes (1911), 240; Churchill's
efforts for, 253, in action near
Dunkirk (1914),280; and the bombing
of Germany (1914), 287
Royal Naval Division: established (1914),
278 and Antwerp, 283, 285; and the
Dardanelles, 299; and Gallipoli, 311,
312,322
Royal Navy: and the 'command of the sea'
(1896),67; to be 'mighty', 69; and the
Dreadnought
controversy,
20 I;
developments in (1911-14), 241;
and the Ulster crisis (1914), 256;
Churchill secures oil for (1914),261;
Churchill's plans for (1917), 373;
strength of, to be maintained (1922),
442; and Abyssinia, 544; and the
submarine war (1939), 627; wins
victory offMatapan (1941),693; losses
of, off Crete (1941),699
Royal Oak: sunk (1939), 628
Royal Opera House (London): Churchill
speaks at (1914),280
Royal Scotsman: Churchill on board
(1944),788
Royal West Kents: on North-West
Frontier (1897), 78
Rugby: Churchill plays polo at (1920),
424; bad news recieved at (1944),794
Ruggles-Brise, Sir Evelyn: and solitary
confinement, 212
Ruhr: Churchill's plan for a raid on
(1940), 670; bombed (1941), 702;
cities of, and mustard gas, 782; to be
put 'out of action', 800; Allied advance
through (April 1945), 835; Stalin
wants coal from, 854
Rumbold, Sir Horace: and the Chanak
crisis (1922), 453; and Hitler, 553
Runciman, Walter: Churchill sends
railway-building scheme to, 190;
'smug', 251; and Czechoslovakia, 593
Russia: 'bound to get' Constantinople
(1896),68; never acts 'disinterestedly',
69; calls for war against (1898), 89;
recovering (in 1912) from her 1905
defeat by Japan, 242; and the coming
1050
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
of war (1914), 261, 263, 265, 270;
appeals to Britain (December 1914),
290; a further appeal from (January
1915),291; and the Dardanelles, 293,
294; revolution in (1917), 381; the
intellect of, 'drawn towards' the Allied
democracies, 390; British troops in
(1918-20), 405; to be 'saved by
Russians', 410; Churchill plans
mission to (1919), 417; and the future
of Poland (1925), 472; for subsequent
index entries see Soviet Union
Russian Army Corps: not to be financed
(1919),418
Russian people: Stalin's criticsm of, 852
Russians: sufferings of, understood, 880
Saar: to be put 'out of action' (1944), 800;
Churchill appeals to France for
moderation over (1953),921
Sackville-West, Vita: shivers down spine
of (1940), 656
Saddleworth (Yorkshire): Churchill's
speech at (1901),145
Safety First: the 'road to ruin', 682; a
'stately hymn', 708
Saki (Crimea): Churchill's speech at
(1945),824
Sakkara (Egypt): Churchill sketches at
(1921),434
Salerno: landing at (1943),753
Salisbury Plain: Churchill at Army
manoeuvres on (1910), 218
Salisbury, 3rd Marquess of: becomes
Prime Minister, 8; forms second
administration,
11; and
Lord
Randolph Churchill's resignation, 12;
defeated (1892), 32; becomes Prime
Minister again (1895), 54; supports
Turks against Greeks, 68; Churchill's
meeting with, 89; agrees to The River
War dedication, 105; and Churchill's
'splendid fight' at Oldham (1899),105;
and Churchill's biography of his
father, 150; succeeded as Prime
Minister by his nephew (1902), 150;
and Tory Democracy, 151
Salisbury, 4th Marquess of: leads Defence
Deputation (1936), 567; and the
German attack in the West(May 1940),
641
Salisbury, 5th Marquess of: and Burma,
885;
and
Churchill's
second
Premiership, 906; opposes Churchill's
telegram to Molotov, 929; and
Churchill's resignation, 937
Salonica:
Lloyd George's plan for
(1914-15),291,292,295; troops to be
sent to( 1915), 297; Churchill proposes
use of troops 'idle' at (1917), 375;
German forces enter (1941),696
Salzburg: Churchill recuperates In
(1932),508
Samuel, Sir Herbert: in Palestine, 432;
mocks Churchill's call for rearmament
(1934), 525, 530, 531; his mockery
recalled, 542, 606
San Francisco: Churchill visits (1929),
493
San Simeon (California): Churchill visits
(1929),493
sanctions: Churchill supports (1935),
544; and Italy, 545; spurned (1935),
548; Churchill opposes (1936),553
Sandhurst, Royal Military Academy:
Churchill prepares for (1889), 22;
Churchill fails examinations for, 32,
33; Churchill looking forward to, 37;
Churchill passes into (1893), 37; the
fate of Churchill's friends from, 41;
Churchill gets influenza at, 42;
Churchill passes first examination at,
42; an incident at, 43; Churchill's
riding success at, 47; contrasted with
West Point, 57; Churchill accused of
immorality at, 61; Churchill writes
about, 64; Churchill takes up case of
cadets sent down from (1902), 149
Sandown (Isle of Wight): Churchill visits
(1882),3
marries
Diana
Sandys,
Duncan:
Churchill, 497; and rocket bombs,
748; defeated (1945),855; re-e1ected
(1950),889
Sandys, Edwina: born (1938),607
Sarajevo (Bosnia): assassination In
(1914),261
Sardinia: a possible priority (1943), 746;
occupied by Allies (1943), 755
Sargent, Orme: helps Churchill (1934),
533
Sassoon, Sir Philip: Churchill a guest of,
419,428; and British air policy, 511,
513
Saturday Review: Churchill's article in
(1896),62
Savory, Albert: Churchill's friendship
with,103
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Savoy Hotel, (London): Other Club dines
at (from 1911),227
Savrola (Winston S. Churchill): in
preparation (1897), 72; Churchill
writes, 81, 87, to be serialised, 101;
published (1900), 124
Scadding,
Professor
John:
and
Churchill's heart (1943),763
Scapa Flow: Churchill visits (September
1939), 626; Churchill returns to
(October 1939), 628; Churchill's
advice concerning (October 1939),
628
Scarborough: Churchill speaks at (1952),
908
Schleicher, General: insists on Germany's
right to rearm (1932), 509, murdered
(1934),529
Schuschnigg, Kurt von: resigns, 588
Schwab, Charles, 493
Scobie, General: Churchill's instructions
to (1944),807; takes action, 808; and
Churchill's miSSIOn to Athens
(Christmas 1944), 809; in Athens
(1945),825
Scotland: fear of a Sinn Fein attack on
Churchill in (1920), 427; Churchill on
holiday in (1927),482; a possible Big
Three conference at (1944),784
Scots: Churchill an admirer of, 340
'formidable', 360
Scots Guards: at Sidney Street (19Il),
223
Scott, C.P.: seeks a Fisher-Churchill
reconciliation, 351; 'keep in touch
with', 355; his advice (1916), 357;
Churchill confides in (1917), 371
Scott, Captain Percy: forecasts Churchill
will be Prime Minister (1900), 125
Scott, Colonel Jack: Churchill's flying
instructor (1919), 413
Scrivings, George, 185; dies, 189;
Churchill's concern for wife and
children of, 189
Scrymgeour, Edwin: stands against
Churchill, 455; elected (1922), 456
Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, James: at
Chartwell (1928),486
seajourneys: 'necessary evils', 56
Seal, Eric: at Chequers (1941), 689 and
an air raid, 692
Sebastopol: bombarded (1914), 288;
Churchill at (1945), 824
Second Front: sought (1941), 703;
1051
sought (1942), 719
secrecy:
Churchill
proposes
'abandonment' of (1914),258
Secret Session: Churchill speaks in
(1916), 360; Lloyd George accepts
Churchill's request for (1917), 372;
Churchill proposes (1935), 543;
Churchill again asks for (1936), 559;
held Uune 1940), 664; held (April
1942), 720; Churchill calls for (1950),
891
Secret Session Speeches (Winston S.
Churchill): to be published (1946),863
Secunderabad: Churchill meets Pamela
Plowden at (1896), 65
Security Council: establishment of
(1945),818
Selborne, 2nd Earl of: and Chinese
labour, 179; and native grievances,
182
Semon, Felix: and Churchill's speech
defect, 65; and a possible operation,
173
Senegalese troops: at Gallipoli, 311
Serbia: and the coming of war (1914),
261,264; and the Dardanelles, 290
Service Departments: and Defence
deficiencies, 521, 538; and air policy,
535
Seydlitz
(German
battle-cruiser):
'superior' (1912), 247
Seymour, Horatia: a lifelong Liberal, 849
Shadow Armaments Industry: Cabinet
rejects (1936), 550
Shadow Cabinet: meetings (1945-51),
861
Shakespeare, Geoffrey: 'I thought his
career was over' (1922), 457
Shakespeare,
William:
Churchill
learning lines from ( 1889), 21
Shangri-La (Maryland): Churchill and
Roosevelt at (May 1943), 745
Sheean, Vincent: his recollections (of
1935),545
Sheerness: Churchill flies in an airship
from (1913), 251
Sheffield: cutlery of, 60; Churchill speaks
at (1910),222; troops sent to (19Il),
231; a potential target (1934), 536;
Churchill speaks at (1938),592
Sherborne School: and corporate
punishment, 149
Sheridan, Captain William: killed in
action (1915), 327
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CHURC HILL: A LIFE
Sherida n, Clare: Churchi ll's cousin, 327
shippin g losses (1939-4 5),680, 704, 724,
728, 735
Shock, Maurice : helps Churchi ll in
retireme nt, 949
Shoebur yness: and the magneti c mine
(1939),6 29
Shops Bill (1911): emascul ated, 226
Shore, Captain : and reprisal s in Ireland
(1920),4 25
Shuckb urgh, Sir Evelyn: and Churchi ll's
second Premier ship, 908, 909, 925
Shukri Qwatli: Churchi ll meets (1945),
825
Siam: Japanes e threat to (Novem ber
1941), 710; Japanes e landing on
(Decem ber 1941),7 11
Sibenik (Dalmatia): and Tito, 806
Siberia: Churchi ll's poem about Russian
exiles in (1890), 25; British troops in
(1919), 405; and the anti-Bol shevik
Russians (1919), 408, 412; British
troops to withdra w from, 414; British
troops to leave (1919), 416; and the
pros pect of atomic war, 912
Sicily: Churchi ll visits (1913), 249;
Churchi ll urges action against
(Octobe r 1941), 708; propose d
landing at (1943), 738, 743; and the
Pacific theatre, 744; Anglo-A merican
crisis over, 746; invasion of, 748;
Allied conques t of, 751; Churchi ll's
holiday in (1955),9 40
Sidney Street: siege of (1911), 223,224 ,
225; recalled , 229, 233, 419
Siegfrie d Line: Churchi ll visits position s
opposite ( 1939),6 18;and theoutb reak
of war (Septem ber 1939), 624;
breache d (1945), 821; Churchi ll visits
(1945),8 29
Sikhs: on the North-W est Frontier
(1897),7 6
Silesia: Churchi ll watches German Army
manoeu vres at (1906), 181; 'well worth
fighting for', 182; and Poland, 756
Simba: a hunting expedit ion from
(1907),1 87
Simon Note (1932): opposes German
rearmam ent, 509
Simon Report (1933): and Churchi ll's
oppositi on
over
India,
516;
Churchi ll's support for, 538
Simon, Sir John: advocat es disarma ment
(1932),
506;
and
German
rearmam ent, 510; and India, 516; and
the directio n of 'a German menace' ,
527; spurned by Hitler (1935), 540;
received by Hitler, 542; and the cost of
reserves, 586; demand s an ultimatu m
(Septem ber 1939),6 20
Simonst own (South Africa): British gold
at (1940), 687
Simovic, General : Churchi ll seeks to help
(1941),6 95
Simpson , General W. H.: his wise caution
(March 1945).8 32
Simpson , Wallis: and the Abdicat ion
crisis, 568
Sinai Desert: war in (1956),9 49
Sinclair, Sir Archiba ld (later Viscoun t
Thurso) : Churchi ll confides in (1915),
324,
369;
Churchi ll's
second- in-comm and (1916), 340; his
encoura gement,
360;
opposes
rearmam ent
(1934),
526;
his
condole nces. 529; and the Abdicat ion
crisis, 569; and Czechoslovakia, 596;
and Munich (1938), 598; protests at
adjourn ment (August 1939),6 17; and
the political crisis (April-May 1940),
641; enters Cabinet (May 1940),6 45;
Secretar y of State for Air (1940-45),
657; on the Defence Commit tee, 673;
Churchi ll's friendsh ip with, 849; at
Chartwe ll (1949),8 88; and Churchi ll's
vitality (1954), 922
Singapo re: German s wantJap an to attack
(March 1941), 693; Churchi ll's
concern with defence of (April 1941),
694; attack on, 712; defence of, 716,
surrend er of, 717,718 ,720; battle for,
717
Sinn Fein: refuse to take seats at
Westmi nster (1918),4 04; acts ofterro r
by (1920), 422; Churchi ll's advice to,
425; reprisals against, 425; Churchi ll's
policy towards , 426; Churchi ll
support s truce with (1921), 440;
Churchi ll advises waiving death
penalty for, 441; Churchi ll among
negotiat ors with, 441
Sitwell, Osbert: apologis es (1935), 546
Sixth Royal Scots Fusiliers: Churchi ll
comman ds (1916), 340, 341, 342, 343,
345,347 ,349; Churchi ll leaves (1916),
360
Skipwith , Captain : Churchi ll sees things
'with his own eyes' (1900), 124
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slander: 'difficult to overtake', 959
slavery: a 'terminological inexactitude',
178
Slovakia: independent (1939),611
Smethurst, Samuel: Churchill confides in
(1902),150,151,162
Smillie, Bob: Churchill's work with, 196
Smith, F.E. (later Earl of Birkenhead):
Churchill's friendship with (from
1906), 185, 198,227,318,334,339,
346, and Ulster, 250; urges Churchill
to give up learning to fly, 253; and the
coming of war in 1914,269,270; and
the political crisis of December 1916,
368; with Churchill on armistice night
(1918),402; his friendship, 426; and
India, 488; dies (1929), 496; his
dictum recalled, 511
Smolensk: Soviet forces liberate (1943),
755
Smuts, General: his encouragement,
690; Churchill confides his fears to
(1943),753
Smyrna: Churchill's expedition from
(1910), 218; Greeks driven back to
(1922),450
Snowden, Ethel: and Churchill's
character, 887
Snowden, Philip: and the Gold Standard,
469,470; and 'election bribery', 489;
and the financial crisis of 1931, 502
Soames, Christopher: marries Mary
Churchill (1947),
875; enters
Parliament
(1950),
889;
and
Churchill's continuing search for a
summit (1953-55), 920; Churchill
speaks for, 943
Soames,Jeremy: christened, 907
social reform: Churchill's appeal for
(1900), 124; and the 'true happiness'
of
nations,
172;
Churchill's
philosophy of, 183; Churchill stresses
need for (1907), 188; Churchill
immersed in (1925), 470
social security: plans for (1945), 845
Socialism: and the Conservative Party,
462; Churchill warns of perils of
(1945), 846; Churchill's further
warnings (1947),878; 'the community
in bonds' (Lloyd George), 889;
contrasted with Conservatism, 897
'socialistic': a Churchill comment
criticised as, 226
Sofia: 'in the Soviet sphere' (1946), 866
1053
Soissons: Churchill watches artillery in
action at (1914),281
soldiering: 'not my metier', 55
soldiers: and 'pseudo-soldiers', 205
solitary confinement: reform of, 212
Solomon Islands: Japanese land on
(1942),720
Somervell, Robert: an inspiring teacher
(1889),24
Somerville, Admiral: opens fire (1940),
667
Somme: battle of (1916),362, Members
of Parliament serve at, 369; recalled,
370,773
South Africa: Churchill leaves for (1899),
106; Churchill offers to withdraw
altogether from, 114; Churchill
leaves, 131; Churchill's search for a
settlement in, 176; and the native
franchise, 182; Churchill inspects
troops from (1918), 384
South Africa Medal, 62
South African Light Horse: Churchill
accepts commission in (1900), 121
South African War: many of Churchill's
friends killed in, 42
South Russia: British troops in (1919),
405, 410; and the anti-Bolshevik
Russians (1919),408; possible landing
at (1943), 733; proposed landing in
(1944),751,780, landing on (1944),
787
South Wales: troops sent to, then
de-trained (1910), 219; bombed
(1940),668
Southampton: Churchill leaves for South
Africa from (1899), 106; Churchill
returns to (1900),133; Churchill to sail
from (1940), 662; Churchill watches
cross-Channel preparations at (1944),
775
Southport: electors of, seek Churchill as
their candidate (1900), 122
Soviet Union: Churchill prepared 'to
make peace with' (1920), 420; and a
British peace initiative (1920), 421;
incitement by (1920), 426 Churchill
speaks against loan to ( 1924),462; fear
of a 'ferocious deluge' from, 507;
wants to be 'left alone' (1935), 541; to
be a 'friend' of a United Europe, pact
with France (1935),543; and collective
security, 553, a potential ally, 554; and
Czechoslovakia (1938),594; call for an
1054
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Alliance with (1939),614; negotiations
with (1939), 614; not 'gained' for the
Allies, 617; advances into Poland
(September 1939), 626; invades
Finland (November 1939), 630; and
Anglo-French help for Finland
(1940),633; signs peace with Finland
(March 1940), 635; invaded by
Germany (J une 1941),701; British aid
to (1941-45),704; American aid for,
705; occupies northern Persia, 706;
battles
in
(November-December
1941), 709; convoys to, 720; and the
post-war world, 731; Churchill's fears
of European domination by, 743;
convoys to, resumed, 755; political
pressure from (1943-45), 756; and the
postwar world, 768; and the campaign
in Italy (1944),771; and Roumania,
772; and Greece, 773; and Poland,
784,785,837; Churchill's fear of, 826,
832,835: Britain might go 'to the verge
of war with' (1945), 828; and
Yugoslavia, 835: Churchill's support
for (since 1941), 835; and Denmark
(1945),839; a Victory Day complaint
from, 841; a possible 'understanding'
with,844; continued demand for bases
by, 860; and an Anglo-American
alliance, 861; and the mission of the
Missouri (1946), 865; Churchill's
words of welcome to (1946),866; need
for a 'settlement' with (1946), 866;
leaves Persia, 869; Churchill calls for
an understanding with (1946-51),872,
879, 881, 884; restraints on, 874;
Churchill's advice to (1948), 882;
peace with, through 'superior force',
883; Churchill critical of machine-tool
sales to (1950), 892; and oil, 895;
Churchill's call for an underst'>_!lding
with (1946-51), 899; to be told the
'true facts', 903; a warning signal to,
904; Churchill seeks talks with
(1952-55), 909, 910, 911, 912, 915,
918,920,921,922,923,924,925,926,
931, 932, 934, 936, 937: and the
prospect of atomic war, 912; possesses
atom bomb (1953), 916; discussed at
Bermuda (1953), 920; a 'provocative
gesture' to (1954), 922; the first
postwar summit with (1955),944; and
the Suez Crisis (1956), 948; and the
first satellite (1957),952
Soyer Farm: Churchill's reserve billet at
(1916),348,350,355
Spain: and Cuba (1895), 58; and the
Agadir crisis (1911), 234; 'spectators'
in (1940), 664
Spanish Armada (1688): recalled, 778
Spanish Red Cross (military decoration):
Churchill receives (1895),60
Spanish troops: and the 'art of retreat', 60
Spears, Captain Edward Louis: Churchill
befriends (1915), 335; Churchill
confides in, 339; campaigns at Dundee
(1922), 455; Churchill confides in
(1922), 457; accompanies Churchill
(August 1939), 618; and the fall of
France (1940), 654; with Churchill
(1940), 658; at Tours, 660; and de
Gaulle, 766
Special Operations Executive (S.o.E.):
established (1940), 668; in Belgrade
(1941),693
Spectator: finds Churchill's criticism of the
judges 'deeply deplorable', 228; and
the effect of the Abdication crisis on
Churchill,569
Spencer, I st Earl: Churchill's ancestor, I
Spender,J .A.: Churchill stresses need for
social reform to, 188
Spier, Eugen: his recollection (of 1937),
578
Spion Kop, battle of (1900): 'terrible'
scenes on, 122
Spithead: Churchill visits (1912), 246
Split (Dalmatia): and Tito, 806
St Andrews: lectures at (1901), 144
St George's School, Ascot (1882-84):
Churchill boards at, 3, 5, 6
St Helena, 296
St Margaret's Bay (Kent): a brief respite
at (1918),396
St Margaret's, Westminster: Churchill
married at (1908), 200
St Nazaire: Lancastriasunk at (1940),663;
Germans hold (September 1944),792
St Orner: Churchill's visits to (1915-18),
331,334,335,336,337,341,346,373,
378
St Paul's Cathedral: Churchill's funeral at
(1965),958
St Valery-en-Caux: British driven back to
(1940),657,659
Stalin, Joseph: Churchill sends secret
information to (from April 1941),695,
699, 702; Churchill promises aid to
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ouly 1941),703; seeks British military
diversions, 703; and British aid to
Russia, 704; Arctic convoys to, 708;
Churchill's offer oftroops to, 709; and
the Baltic States, 715; Churchill's
proposed visit to, 719; Churchill's first
visit to(1942), 725; and the suspension
of Arctic convoys, 725; Churchill
sends secret information to (from
April 1942), 733; 'wooed', 743;
rumoured to be in Canada (1943).
750; to be invited to Britain (1943),
752; and the proposed campaign in
Italy (1943-44). 758; at Teheran
(December 1943).760; his assurance
on Poland (February 1944), 768;
Churchill's warning to, about Poland.
769; and the Anglo-American
Adriatic dispute Oune 1944), 781;
Churchill appeals to, to help the
Warsaw
uprising.
785,
787;
Churchill's visit to (October 1944),
795; and the Italian people, 797;
Churchill upholds agreement with,
804; and Greece. 805, 808, his
'thrilling' message, 815; at Yalta, 817;
promises free elections for Poles
(1945),820; and war criminals, 821;
Churchill's musical rebuke to, 822;
and Japan, 822; and the Western
democracies, 826; and Poland. 826;
Churchill's impression of, 827; and
Roumania,
830;
and
the
Anglo-American drive to Berlin
(1945), 834; Churchill's protest and
appeal to (April 1945), 835;
Churchill's final appeal to (April
1945), 837; and Victory in Europe
(1945),840; and the atom bomb, 851;
a cigar smoker, 851; Churchill dines
alone with, 852; 'againstSovietisation',
possible atomic
852; and a
'show-down' with, 857; attacks
Churchill in Pravda (1946), 868;
Churchill wants a Big Three meeting
with 0 anuary 1953), 909; dies (March
1953),910
Stalingrad: battle for (1942), 735;
Germans surrender at (1943),739
Standard: sold to a Protectionist. 170
Standing Court of Arbitration: Churchill
seeks to establish (1908), 199
Stanley. Oliver: and the German attack in
the West (May 1940).641
1055
Stanley , Venetia, 271; and the political
crisIs of May 1915, 316; Churchill
dines with (May 1945),838
Stanmore: Churchill follows course of air
battle at (August 1940),671
Star: an anti-Churchill cartoon in (1919),
419; and Churchill's defence of
democracy (1936),563; its praise, 590;
and the call for Churchill's return
Oune 1939),616
State action: and social amelioration, 202
State aid: the ambulances of, 471
State enterprise: and free enterprise, 742
States Model School, Pretoria: Churchill
imprisoned in (1899),113
steeplechasing: Churchill's accident at
(1895). 51; scandal at, 52
stenographer: Churchill's first use of
(1899),104
Step by Step (Winston S. Churchill):
published (1939),615
Stern Gang: and the murder of Lord
Moyne (1944), 804
Stettin (Pomerania): to become part of
Poland,852
Stevenson, Frances: and Churchill's
portrait by Orpen, 364; and
Churchill's return to office (1917),
373; and a 'madman'. 419; and the
)oke of the moment' (1921),436; and
Churchill's air speech (November
1934),537
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 6
Stimson, Henry: and the atom bomb
(1945),850,853
Stockholm: a possible summit in (from
1953),909,927,929
Stockport: Churchill campaigns for
Balfour at (1900), 136
Stockton-on-Tees: Churchill stays at
(1901),145
Straelen (Germany): Churchill stays at
(March 1945),831
Strait of Messina: Allies cross (1943),752
Strand (London): a poster in (August
1939),618
Strand Magazine: Churchill's articles to
(1907), 188; Churchill's article on
Hitler in (1935), 546
Strang, Sir William: at Chartwell, 915
Stranraer (Scotland): Churchill leaves,
for Washington (1942), 722
Strasbourg: Churchill visits (1909). 207;
Churchill speaks in (1949), 885;
1056
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Churchill speaks in (1950),891
Stuart, Captain William: in Yugoslavia
(1943),739
Stuart, James: and Churchill's second
Premiership, 906
Stumme, General: at Alamein, 732
Sturdee, Jo (Lady Onslow): Churchill's
secretary, 871
Subasic, Dr: and the future of Yugoslavia
(1944-45), 787; and the future of
Yugoslavia, 815
Sudan: Churchill hopes to see action in
(1898),88,89
Sudeten Germans: autonomy for, 592;
incited,593
Sudetenland: a Nazi-type movement in
(1935),543
Suez Canal: troop withdrawals to (1929),
491; Germans drop mines in (1941),
691; possible German advance to
(1941), 702; and Israel (1951), 895;
and Churchill's second Premiership,
90 I; crisis over, 917; and the United
States, 921; and the hydrogen bomb,
930; Suez Crisis (1956),946,948,949,
953
suffragettes, 172; in action, 210; and the
battle of Downing Street (1910), 221 ;
Churchill protests at 'insults' from, 222
Sumatra: Churchill wants landing on
(1943),745,751
summit: Churchill calls for (from 1950),
889,892,893
Sunday Graphic: and the call for
Churchill's return 0 uly 1939),616
Sunday Pictorial: Churchill's articles in
(1916-17),364,367,371; and the call
for Churchill's return (1939),613
Sunday Times: a warning from (1917),
373; and Churchill's hydrogen bomb
speech (1955),936
Sunderland: Churchill asked to stand as
a Liberal at (1903), 159
Supreme War Council (1939-40):
Churchill attends, 633; and Norway,
635; meets at Tours, 660
Surgham Hill (Omdurman): Churchill's
intelligence task on (1898),91,93
Sutherland, 5th Duke of: Churchill finds
solitude with (1921), 439
Sutherland, Graham: his portrait (1954),
932,933
Sutton Courtenay: Churchill offers to
resign at (1915), 316
Suvla Bay: John Milbanke killed at, 23;
landing at (1915), 325-26; recalled
(1943),753
Svaars, Fritz: at Sidney Street, 223
Swansea: Churchill deprecates wartalk in
(1908), 198
sweated labour:
Churchill wants
Government legislation to curb
(1908), 197; abuses of, to be
eliminated, 202
Sweden: and collective security, 524; and
'submission', 533; and German iron
ore supplies (1939-40),626,630,633,
634; 'spectators' in (1940),664
Swindon: Churchill attends manoeuvres
at (1909), 206; troops ordered to halt
at(l9IO),219
Swinton, Lord: shares Churchill's
anxieties (1936), 549, 551; and war
production (1936), 558; not at
Defence Deputation (1936), 567; and
Churchill's visit to Biggin Hill (1937),
579; and Defence deficiencies, 584; his
air expansion scheme rejected (1938),
587; Swiss: 'may leap out' (1939),618
Switzerland: Churchill's holiday in
(1893),39; Churchill nearly drowns in
(1894), 45; Churchill's holiday in
(1906), 181; and collective security,
524; and 'submission', 533; protests
(1940),633
Sylt: Churchill's plan for (1914),289
Syracuse (Sicily): Churchill's first visit to
(1907), 186; Churchill's holiday at
(1955),940
Syria: and the Dardanelles, 305;
Churchill visits (1934), 532; Allies
advance into (1941), 699; possible
German advance to (1941), 701, 702
Tangier: Churchill spends Christmas at
(1935),548
Tank Board: Churchill sets up (1918),
383
tanks: genesis of (1915),293,298; first
trialsof( 1916), 349; to be used in battle
(1916), 365; the success of, 367; in
action at Cambrai (1917), 380; to be
manufactured in France, 381; and
minefields, 383; and a strategy for
1919,383; Churchill replaces losses of
(1918),
390;
production
of
endangered by strikes (1918),392; in
battle (August 1918),393; 'invincible',
INDEX
394; and the lesson of Drocourt
(1918), 396; and China (1927), 480;
neglected, 565; Churchill proposes a
raid by (1940), 656; sent to Russia
(1941),707; received from America,
707; losses of, on the way to Russia
(1942),724
Taranto: battle of (1940),683
tariffs: demand for (1895),54; a 'priceless
secret', 148; and a 'Tory-Liberal'
coalition, 152; Joseph Chamberlain
raises banner of, 154; Churchill's
motion against (1905), 170
taxation: and Lord Randolph Churchill,
12; to be 'light', 156; and land values,
174, 184; the need to adjust 'more
fairly', 191; and 'the ability to pay',
404; Churchill's plans for (1924-29),
467; 'shackles of, 471; and the motor
car, 474; to replace the rates, 482
taxation without representation: a fateful
'anomaly', 61
Taylor Woodrow (Engineers): their task
(1942),721
tea duty: abolished (1929), 489
tea-break: Churchill enshrines into law
(1911),226
Teheran: Russian occupy (1941), 706
Churchill wants to meet Stalin at, 719;
Conference at (December 1943),756
Tel Aviv: Churchill visits (1921), 436
Temple Magazine: and Churchill's
speech-making (1900), 135
Ten Year Rule (of 1919): and Defence
spending, 485; Churchill urges
annual revision of (1925), 515;
Churchill urges abandonment of
(1933),514
Tenedos: and the Dardanelles, 296
Tennyson d'Eyncourt, Captain Eustace:
and the tank, 298; Churchill receives
information from (1937), 572
Thaelmann, Ernst: Hitler wins more
votes than (1932), 506
The Fighting Line (Winston S. Churchill):
published (1916), 363
The Hague: and Churchill's call for a
United Europe (1948), 880
The Nation: Churchill sets out social
reform programme in (1908), 191;
debate on the suppression of (1917),
371
The Peoples' Rights (Winston S. Churchill):
published (1909),209
1057
The River War (Winston S. Churchill): in
prospect, 91; Churchill critical of
Kitchener in, 99; and the difficulties
of authorship, 102; Churchill writes,
103; published (1899),108
The Second World War (Winston S.
Churchill): in preparation, 858; work
on, 874,877,885,887,888,890, 891,
894, 896, 906, 907, 909, 916;
serialised, 879
The Story of the Malakand Field Force
(Winston S.Churchill): in prospect,
78; Churchill writes, 81; completed,
82; published (1898), 86; Lord
Salisbury reads, 89
The Times: Lord Randolph's letter to
(1886), 11; and Churchill's illness
(1893),35; Churchill defends British
Army in letter to (1898),86; Churchill
sends account of battle of Omdurman
to (1898), 99; asks Churchill to be its
correspondent (1898), 100; reports
Churchill's Plymouth speech (1900),
134; erroneously reports Churchill
defeated, 136; on Churchill's 'qualities
as a lecturer (1900), 137; Churchill
requests 'complete files' of (1901),
139; Churchill criticised in columns of
(1901), 141; Churchill's letters to, 142,
149, 150, 156; praises Churchill as
'an effective advocate' (1902), 150; a
rebuke to Churchill in, 206; a letter
to, about Churchill's prison reforms,
215; attacks Churchill's 'rosewater
of conciliation' (1910), 220; Churchill
protests to, about 'spiteful comments', 225; an 'innocent enough'
announcement in (1914), 266; and
Churchill's 'grasp of the situation' in
1914, 274; Churchill protests at
'panic-stricken stuff in (1914), 280;
and the return of Admiral Fisher, 288;
Churchill's obituary of Rupert Brooke
in (1915), 311; criticises Churchill's
'personal
adventures',
318;
Churchill's memoirs to be serialised in
(1920), 419; protests (1920), 423;
praises Churchill's Irish conciliation
plan ( 1921),441 ; and the Chanak crisis
(1922), 452; Churchill warns of a
Labour Government in (1924), 460;
Churchill's appeal to Liberals in
(1924), 460; denounces Churchill
(1924),461,520; Churchill's obituary
1058
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
of Lord Birkenhead in (October
1930),496; Churchill's obituary of the
9th Duke of Marlborough in (1934),
529; and Churchill's 'brilliant' speech
(1936), 566; and 'the most striking
rebuff (1936),569; and appeasement,
576; and Czechoslovakia, 594, 595;
and the British guarantee to Poland
(1939),612; praises Churchill's call for
conscription (April 1939), 614;
publishes an appeal for Churchill's
return (August 1939), 618; and
Churchill's message to the Italian
people (1944), 791; critical of the
Fulton speech (1946), 867; and The
Second World War, 896; and Churchill's
lack of vigour (1954),925
The Times Literary Supplement: praises
Churchill's life of his father, 175
The World Crisis (Winston S, Churchill):
genesis of, 443; work on, in progress,
457; first volume published (1923),
458; work on, 458; work on, in
progress, 458; continued work on,
479,480,486, continued publication
of, 481; final volume of, 488, 502
Theebaw, King: taken prisoner (1885), 9
Theron, Captain Daniel: opposes
Churchill's release (1899),114
Thika (Kenya): Churchill hunts lions at
(1907),187
Thomas, Albert, 389
Thompson,
Lieutenant-Commander
Tommy: accompanies Churchill
(1940),631
Thompson,
Walter:
Churchill's
bodyguard,
427,
455,
462;
accom panies Churchill (1940),631
Thomson sisters: Churchill goes to school
run by (1884), 6; Churchill's
recollections of, II
Thomson,
Charlotte:
Churchill's
headmistress, 7, 8,13,17
Thorndike, Sybil, 795
Thornton-Kemsley, Colin: challenges
Churchill (1938-39), 603, his apology
(September 1939),624
Thurso (Scotland): Churchill leaves, for
Newfoundland (1941), 704
Tibetans: right to resist (1904), 163
Tiger(British battle-cruiser): her German
rival (1912),247
'time to pay': Churchill establishes
principle of (1910),213
Time: and Churchill's vigour (1948),882
Tinerhir (Morocco): Churchill visits
(1950),894
Tirah campaign: Churchill hopes to see
action with (1897), 77, 82
Tirah Expeditionary Force: Churchill
attached to (1898), 86
Tirpitz: disabled (1943), 755
Tirpitz, Grand Admiral: asks to see
Churchill (1914), 258
Tito (Josip Broz): British help to (from
1943), 739; Churchill meets (August
1944),787; Churchill's protest to, 806;
signs agreement (1945), 815; and
Yalta, 821; not to be fought, 838; and
the 'Muscovite tentacle', 840
Tobruk: struggle for (from January
1941),687,688,696; surrenders (J une
1942), 723; final Allied entry to
(November 1942), 734
Togliatti, Palmiro: and Communism in
Italy, 796
Tonypandy (South Wales): disturbances
in (1910), 220; recalled, 229, 233
Toole, Joseph: and the Freedom and
Peace movement, 584
Topping, Hugh: and Churchill's
challenge on India (1931),500
Toronto: Churchill lectures in (1900),
138; Churchill speaks in (1929),493
torpedoes: shortage of (1911), 239;
Churchill studies (1912),246
Tory Democracy: launched,S; future
leaders of, 66; the creed of, 69; values
of, 71; Churchill's support for, 72;
Lord Salisbury's forecast concerning,
151
Tory Democrat: Churchill stands as
(1899),104
Tory Party: 'dirty ... hacks' in, 608
Tory Press: 'malevolence' of, 371
Toryism: 'sordid selfishness' of, 152
Totalitarianism: and Socialism, 846
Toulon, 259; French warships at (1940),
666; Churchill flies over (1944),813
Tours: Churchill flies to (1940), 659
Tower of London: troops from, sent to
Sidney Street (1911),223
Trade Boards Bill: Churchill introduces
(1909), 203'
Trade Union Bill: Churchill's suggestion
for (1927),480
Trade Unions: Churchill supports rights
of (1904), 162, 163; Churchill attacks
INDEX
unfairness of judges towards (1911),
227; and munitions, 377, 554, 580; and
political parties, 580
Trades Union Congress: Churchill's
praise for (1936), 563
Trafalgar Square (London): and victory
(1918),401
Tranby Croft: Churchill practises letter
's' at, 135
Transjordan: Churchill visits (1934),532
Transvaal: possibility of war in (1899),
105; Churchill offers to give his parole
to, 114; a search for Churchill
mounted in, 118; Churchill drafts
constitution for, 176, 488; Churchill
announces responsible government
for, 180
Transvaal State Library: Churchill
allowed to become a member of, while
in captivity, 115
Transylvania, 511
travel: a 'constitutional aversion' to, 101
Treasure Island: Churchill reads (1884), 6
tree-felling: and civilisation, 492
trench warfare: Churchill's thoughts on
(1915),
294;
Churchill
seeks
mechanical means to break stalemate
on, 334; trenches; Churchill decides
not to return to (1916), 364;
Churchill's concern for men in, 365
Trieste: a possible landing near Gune
1944), 780; Tito's design on, 806;
fighting in (April 1945),838; and the
iron curtain, 844
Tring (Lord Rothschild's house at):
Churchill a guest at (1893, 1896), 41,
61
Trinidad: British air bases in, 650
Trinity House Dinner (London):
Churchill expresses unease at (1937),
581
Triple Alliance: Churchill proposes
(1911),235
Tripoli: Rommel reaches, 690; entered
by the Eighth Army, 738; Churchill
visits (1943), 739; Russians seek naval
base at (1946), 865
Tripolitania: Russia wants bases in
(1945),860
Trondheim: landings near (1940),636
Trotsky, Leon: to be 'aided' (1918),389;
reprisals threatened against, 395;
atrocities committed under, 412; his
triumph, 414; and the existence of
1059
God, 492; doctrine of, 562
Troup, Sir Edward: and Churchill's time
as Home Secretary, 212, 225
Trouville: Churchill plays polo at, 180
Truman, President Harry S,: 'not to be
bullied', 836; Churchill's telephone
call to (April 1945), 836; Churchill's
appeals to, 838; Churchill's advice to,
839; and Victory in Europe (1945),
840; Churchill appeals to, 843; at
Potsdam, 850; his 'weakness', 857;
invites Churchill to Missouri, 860;
and the 'iron curtain' speech, 864, 865;
and the Truman Doctrine, 876;
Churchill's talk with (1949), 884; his
statement on the atom bomb (1949),
884; Churchill's talks with (1952),900;
Churchill visits (1953),909
truth: and Lenin (1919), 418; and
armaments (1932), 511; and Munich
(1938),600; 'very powerful' (1942), 959
Truth: Churchill denounced in (1895),
52; harmful effects of accusations in,
62; reiterates accusations in, 65
Tudor, General Sir Hugh: visits Churchill
(1916), 348; with Churchill in
Ploegsteert Wood (1916), 348;
Churchill visits (March 1918), 384;
Churchill's adventure with (October
1918), 399; in Ireland (1920), 422;
Churchill confides in (1946),864
Tugela River (Natal): Churchill reaches,
108; battleof(1900), 122
Tunis: and cross-Channel landing timetable(1943), 735;captured(1943), 744;
Churchill and troops at (1943), 747
Tunisia: Germans rush reinforcements
to (November 1942), 735: battle for
(1943),744; Churchill taken unwell in
(December 1943),762
Turkey: seeks to suppress Cretan revolt,
68; declares war on Greece (1897), 71;
and the Dardanelles, 278; and the
coming of warin 1914,288; Churchill's
mind 'set on', 290; war plans against
(1914-15),291; and mustard gas, 327;
Churchill suggests a landing against
(1917), 375; surrenders (1918), 400;
Churchill proposes return of Baghdad
to (1920),428; Churchill wants a 'good
peace' with (1920), 428; Churchill
urges peace with (1921-22), 433, 439;
neutral, 687; possible German
advance through
(1941),
702;
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CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Churchill's journey to (1943), 739;
remains neutral, 761; futureof( 1944),
796; declares war on Germany (1945),
820; to be reassured, 865; no longer to
be protected (1947),876; and the Suez
Canal, 902; her military co-operation
with Pakistan (1954),922; anda 'world
front against Communist aggression'
(1954),926
Turks: rulers of Crete, 62; 'the filthy
oriental',69
tutoring: a 'dark shadow' (1887), 14
Twain, Mark: introduces Churchill
(1900),137
Tweedmouth, Lady: hears her nephew's
maiden speech, 139; advice from, 168
Tweedmouth, Lord: Churchill's Liberal
uncle, 144; urges Churchill and
Unionist Free Traders to stand as a
Liberal (1903), 158; asks Churchill to
stand as a Liberal, 159; acts as an
intermediary, 161; advice from, 168;
at the Admiralty (1908), 193
Twenty-First Lancers: Churchill joins
(1898),90
Twenty-Ninth
Division:
and
the
Dardanelles (1915), 297, 298, 299,
300,301,302,303,305,310
Tyne: a dispute on (1908), 195
Tyrone: border of (1914), 263, 264; the
'dreary steeples' of (1922),445
Uganda Protectorate: Churchill crosses
(1907),188
Ukraine: danger to (1941),695
'Ulster Pogrom': Churchill accused of
(1914),257; recalled,473
Ulster: 'will fight', II; and Home Rule,
249; search for a compromise for
(1913), 250; crisis in (1914), 254;
blockade of, ended, 267; Churchill's
autonomy plan for (1921), 441
Ulster Unionists: on the eve of war in
1914,263
Ulster Volunteers: challenge by (1914),
254; threats from (1914), 256,257
unconditional surrender: genesis of
(1943), 738; Churchill's defence of,
815; and Japan, 851
unemployment:
and
Government
contracts,
195;
and
direct
Government intervention, 200
unemployment insurance: Churchill
advocates (1907), 189; and naval
spending, 20 I; Churchill wants to
devise a scheme for, 201; Churchill's
proposals for, 20 I; Churchill urges
legislation for,
203; Churchill
'elbowed out' of, 226
Union Jack: Churchill hoists, in Pretoria
(1900), 129; burned, at Lahore (1930),
497
Unionist Free Traders: Churchill a
leading figure among (1903), 156;
seek electoral pact with Liberals, 156;
can expect no help from Liberals, 158,
161; Churchill left alone with, 162;
and Home Rule, 165; reduced to
eleven (1906), 176
Unionist Party: Churchill's 'atttachment'
to (1902), 151; members of, vote
against Government (1903), 153
United Europe: to unite both Eastern
and Western Europe (1949), 883
United Nations: to be established (1942),
715; establishment of (1945), 818;
proposals of, 'meaningless', 851; a
'European unit' in, 885; a possible
'obnoxious phrase' at (1953),921
United Seroices Magazine: Churchill's
article in (1898), 87
United States: Churchill learning
geography of (1888), 16; Churchill's
first visit to (1895), 56; 'great and
utilitarian', 57; Churchill returns to
(1895),60; need for Britain to avoid
quarrels with (1896), 61; Churchill's
advice to (1896), 61; contrasted with
India, 63; and the Spanish-American
War (1898), 88; Churchill sails for
(1900),137; Churchill's lecture tour in
(1900), 137; and the Western Front
(1917-18),372; and the 'winning the
war' (1917-18), 378; and the
Inter-Allied
Munitions
Council
(1917), 379; munitions needs of
(1917-18),380,394; and the German
breakthrough of March 1918, 388;
Churchill responds to an appeal from
(1918), 390; and 'the only one road to
tread' (1921), 433; Churchill supplies
nitrate needs of, 395; intervention in
Russia (1918-19),409; help for Poland
from (1920), 423; possible transfer of
Palestine and Iraq Mandates to, 437;
Churchill's warning of the nature of
future war circulated in (1924), 463;
Britain's war debts to (1925), 468;
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Churchill plans to tax films from
(1926),474; and disarmament (1928),
486; Churchill's visit to (1929), 493;
Churchill's message to (1929), 494;
Churchill and his wife visit (1931-32),
503; Churchill lectures in nineteen
cities in (1932), 505; Churchill
broadcasts to, 506; Churchill's
confidence in the economic future of
(1932),508; opinion in, and Nazism
(1937), 581; signals encouragement
(1937),584; 'strongly anti-Nazi', 593;
a message to (june 1939), 615;
Churchill's broadcast to (August
1939),617; and Norway (1940), 634;
voice of ,may count for nothing', 646;
aid from (1940), 646, 648, 650, 655,
664,669,671,686; and Britain's 'fate'
if alone, 648; and the fall of France,
660; 'will sink into the abyss', 664;
'spectators' in (1940), 664; start of
strategic co-operation with (1940),
671; and the 'deeds done by others',
672; aid from (1941), 687; and
Lend-Lease, 688; co-operation with
(1941),689,696; and the Battle ofthe
Atlantic, 692; Churchill's questions
concerning (March 1941), 694; wealth
and resources of, 697; Churchill's
broadcast to (june 1941), 699; and
Hitler's invasion of Russia, 701; aid to
Britain (1941),702,705; aid to Russia
(1941),704; pledges by (August 1941),
705; Churchill wants warning to Japan
from (August 1941),705; takes risk by
remaining neutral, 706; and the
Japanese threat (November 1941),
710; declares war on Japan, 711;
future of aid to Britain from (after
1941), 711; Churchill wishes to visit,
but cannot (December 1941), 711;
Churchill's first wartime visit to
(january 1942), 713; lack of
preparedness of (1942),
719;
Churchill's second wartime visit to
(june 1942),722; and cross-Channel
plans, 736; Churchill's third wartime
visit to (july 1943),749; and Poland,
768; and the Adriatic plan (june
1944), 781; Churchill plans a crisis
journey to (june 1944),781; 'might be
shocked', 796; in dispute with Britain
over Greece (December 1944), 808,
812; Churchill defends military effort
1061
of, 815; war dead of, after Normandy,
831; troops of, to leave Europe (1945),
843; withdraws troops in Central
Europe (june 1945), 848; and the
atom
bomb,
859;
'fraternal
association' with Britain, and security
(1946),867; Churchill's postwar visit
to (1946), 862; 'fear of Russia' in
(1946),864; tobea 'friend' ofa United
Europe, 873; Churchill encourages
greater role by (1951), 895; and
Churchill's second Premiership, 900;
and the Suez Canal, 921; and the
hydrogen bomb, 923; a breach with,
'fatal', 924; 'never be separated from,
939; and Israel, 947; and the Suez
Crisis, 949; future 'U nion' with (1957),
952; sends troops to Lebanon (1958),
953; Churchill visits (1959),955
United States Congress: Churchill's
speeches to, (1941),714; (1943), 745;
(1952),902
United States of Europe: foreseen, under
Nazi domination (1940), 661;
Churchill's hopes for (1942), 731;
Churchill calls for (November 1945),
862; Churchill's appeals for, 872;
Churchill's calls for (1946), 874
Untouchables: in India, 495, 497, 501
Uxbridge: Churchill follows course ofair
battles at (1940),671,676
V for Victory: 787,957,958
Valdez, General: Churchill marches with
(1895),58,59
Vancouver: Churchill speaks in (1929),
493
Vanity Fair: and Churchill's character
(1900),133
Vansittart, Sir Robert: and German
rearmament, 522; and Abyssinia, 546;
and collective security, 553; enlists
Churchill's help (1936), 554, 564;
mourns, 571
vengeance: the dregs of, 'filthy tasting',
99
Venice: Churchill stays at (1906), 181;
Churchill honeymoons at (1908),200;
Churchill on holiday in (1927), 482;
Churchill works at (1951), 896
Venlo (Holland): Churchill flies to
(March 1945),831
Ventnor (Isle of Wight): Churchill stays
at (1882), 3
1062
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Verchocq: Churchill's headquarters in
France (autumn 1918),393,394,395,
396,397,398,400
Verdun: battle for (1916), 359
Versailles: Churchill stays at (1891),31
Versailles Treaty (1920): and Poland,
423; and Germany, 464; and German
rearmament, 509, 521; revision of,
and disarmament, 511,512; demands
for revision of (1933),513; breaches
of, 526; German violations of, 535;
recalled (in 1945),837
Vian, Captain (later Admiral) Philip:
liberates prisoners (1940), 634; at
Normandy, 778
Vichy: Government at (1940), 666, 678;
Churchill's message to (December
1940),685
Victor Emmanuel, King: and the fall of
Mussolini (1943), 749
Victoria Cross (VC): and Churchill, 78,
113,127,730; won, 83
Victoria Station (London): Churchill
recalled from (1914), 282
Victoria, Queen: Jubilee of (1887), 13;
Churchill's commission from (1895),
51;dies, 139
Victory in Europe: to be proclaimed (May
1945),840; and democracy, 841
Victory Parade (Berlin 1945), 852
Vienna: 'banish despair' (1940), 632; a
possible pursuit of Germans to (1944),
767; Churchill regrets loss of the
'prize' of, 789; still the prize, 789; 'our
objective', 793; Alexander to reach 'as
soon as possible', 799; Russians enter
(April 1945), 834; 'in the Soviet
sphere' (1946),866; a possible summit
at (1953-5), 910,929
Villa Choisi (Lake Geneva): Churchill
stays at (1946),872
Villa delle Rose (Como): Churchill stays
at (September 1945),858
Villa Pirelli (near Genoa): 859-60
Villa Politi (Sicily): 940
Villa Reve dDr (Cannes): a haven (1922),
457
Villacoublay: Churchill at (1940),653
Villiers, Francis: to be rewarded, 520
Vi my Ridge: Churchill visits front (1915),
340; returns to (1918), 382
Vincennes: Churchill visits (1940), 631
Vincent, Lady Helen: and a motoring
holiday (1906), 181
Virginia: Churchill speaks in (1946),868
Vladivostok: a possible Churchill mission
to (1915), 328; danger of Lenin's sway
in, 408; last British troops sail from
(1919),418
Volga: Poles deported to (1945), 830
von Kleist, Major Ewald: visits Chartwell
(1938),593; executed Q uly 1944),785
von Papen, Count: becomes German
Chancellor (1932), 507; demands
'equality' of armaments for Germany,
509; Churchill's warning about, 510
von Paulus, General: at Stalingrad, 735
von Spee, Admiral Count Maximilian:
the victor (1914), 288; defeated, and
drowned, 289
Vorontsov Villa (Yalta): Churchill's base,
817,822,823
Vote of Censure: brought against
Churchill Quly 1942),724
Vote of Confidence: Churchill demands
Qanuary 1942), 716; on the
Government's
Greek
policy
(December 1944),807
Votes for Women, 172; Churchill favours,
221
Vyshinsky, Andrei: greets Churchill in
Moscow (1944), 795
Wadi Akarit: battle of (1943),743
Wagner, Charles: with Churchill during
armoured train ambush (1899), 110,
III
Walden, Thomas: sails with Churchill to
South Africa (1899), 106; and the
armoured train ambush, 110; guards
Churchill's kit, 113
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York):
Churchill stays at (1931),503,504
Wall Street (New York): Churchill visits
during the crash (1929),494
Wall Street Journal: critical of the Fulton
speech (1946), 867
Walls, Private: describes Churchill's
efforts during the armoured train
ambush (1899), III
Walmer Castle (Kent): Churchill a guest
at(J915),294
Walpole, Horace: recalled, 489
Walthamstow: Churchill heckled at
(1945), 849; Churchill speaks in
(1959),956
Walton Heath (Surrey): Lloyd George
summons Churchill to (1917), 379
INDEX
Wandsworth: bombed (1940),677
war: the 'shoddiness' of (1898), 98;
'medley of the glorious and squalid'
(1900), 122; and duty, 123; the future
nature of (as envisaged in 1901), 143;
'draining, dangerous', 149; and
tactical combinations, 205; 'vile &
wicked folly & barbarism' (1909),208;
'will never come in our time' (1912),
245; nations will become 'heartily sick
of (1912), 245; the 'unknown and the
unexpected', 268; Churchill's 'genius'
for (1914), 285; 'delicious', 294;
'action, energy & hazard', 350; its 'iron
slavery' (1920), 423; God's wish to
'sicken mankind of (1929), 492; and
the Nazi doctrine, 524; reorganisation
of factories for (1934), 525; and 'the
end of the world', 541; and 'shame',
595; 'to establish ... the rights of the
individual', 623; 'prior claims' of, 731;
and the hydrogen bomb, 932
War Cabinet: (in 1940),645,646,647,
650,651,652,653,657,661,662,667,
668, 676; its responsibilities (from
1940), 673; and Greece, 682, 690;
'wave of depression', 706; and the
Western Desert, 709; and 'all major
decisions', 724; Churchill reports to
after Casablanca (1943), 740; and
Churchill's threat to resign (1943),
757; 'Overlord' Committee of (1944),
768; supports active intervention in
Greece (1944), 808; and Poland's
and
post-war
frontiers;
822;
reparations, 822; takes a tough stance
on Roumania (1945), 830; farewell
party for, 846
War Council: established (1914), 289 and
an appeal from Russia, 290; and the
com peting war plans ofJan uary 1915,
292; Churchill's service on, recalled,
332
war criminals: their fate duscussed at
Yalta (1945), 821
war
debts:
Churchill
negotiates
settlement of (1925),468,472
'War of the Unknown Warrior', 668
War Office: not on offer (1917), 371;
Churchill suggested for (1924), 465
war profits: Churchill urges tax on
(1918),403
warmonger: or 'Cherub Peace Maker'
(1922), 455; 'a lie', 523; Churchill
1063
rebuts charges of, 506, 556
Wars of the Roses, 607
Warsaw: danger of Lenin's 'sway' in
(1919),408; threatened (1920), 423;
Churchill's articles published in
(1937), 576; 'banish despair' (1940),
632; unlikely liberation of, from
Russia, 768; uprising in (1944), 785,
787, 791, 794, 795; Soviet troops in
(1945), 823; 'in the Soviet sphere'
(1946),866
Warter Priory (York): Churchill goes
shooting at (1910), 222
Washington: Churchill visits (1900),137;
Churchill visits (December 1941),713;
Churchill returns to Oanuary 1942),
715; Churchill's postwar visits to, 864;
Churchill-Truman talks in (1952),
901,903; Churchill returns to (1953),
909; Churchill's talks in (1954), 926;
Churchill's visit to (1959),955
Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty
(1922): and Germany, 487
Washington Post: Churchill's secret
instructions published in (1944),808
Washington, George, 1
Waterloo Station (London): Churchill
waits at (1940),662
Waterloo, battle of (1815): Churchill
visits battlefield of (1894), 45; battle
recalled,289
Watson, Edith: and Churchill's election
broadcasts (1945), 847
Watson-Watt, Robert: appeals to
Churchill
(1936),
558;
helps
Churchill,560
Watt, A.P.: impressed by Churchill's
writings (1897), 82
Wavell, General: his plans (1940), 682;
Churchill's exhortations to, 683; his
battles (1940-41),685,687,695; enters
Tobruk, 688; and Greece (1941),690;
and Crete, 698; to be replaced, 700;
possible Caucasus command of, 707;
to command in the Far East, 714; and
Singapore, 716, 718; and Burma, 731;
and Sumatra, 745
Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith):
Churchill reads, 68
Weaslet, Miss, 30
Webb, Sidney: and Labour Exchanges,
197
Wedgwood, Josiah: and a possible
Churchill Premiership (1927), 482;
1064
CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Churchill's assurance to (1940),667
Weir, Lord: and Churchill's derating
scheme (1928),483
Weizmann, Dr Chaim: his appeal for
bombing (1944), 783; Churchill's
advice to (1944),803
Welldon, Dr: Churchill's headmaster
(from 1888), 15,21,23,27,28,29,33;
'I rejoice in your success', 37; his
advice, 64; gives wedding address
(1908),200; his confidence (1922),457
Wells, H.G., 463
Wemyss, Admiral: and the Dardanelles,
336
West German Army: Churchill supports
(1953),918
West Germany: Churchill welcomes to
the Council of Europe (1948), 880;
needed for the defence of the West
(1950), 890; Churchill supports
rearmament of, 893; a 'great power',
919; rearmamentof(1953), 921; to be
'an equal partner', 928; future 'moral
dignity' of, 932
West Indies: British bases in, 670
West Leicester: Churchill stands for
(1923),459
West Point: Churchill visits (1895), 57
Westcott, the Reverend Frederick:
Churchill crosses swords with (1902),
149
Western Desert: Italian defeat in (1940),
685; Churchill's visits to (1942), 726,
729
Western Front: Churchill's possible
service on (May 1915),318; Churchill
leaves for (November 1915), 329;
Churchill serves on (1915-16), 331,
332,333,334,355; recalled,557
Western Germany: rearmament of, 924
Westminster Abbey (London): Churchill
a pall-bearer at (1940),683
Westminster College (Fulton, Missouri):
Churchill to speak at, 860; speaks at
(1946),864-69
Westminster Gazette: Churchill's letter to
(1894), 46; reports Churchill's New
York lecture (1900), 138; Churchill
defends his opinions in (1901), 140
Westminster St Georges: by-election at
(1931),501
Westminster, 2nd Duke of: Churchill
rides with to Pretoria (1900), 127;
Churchill's friendship with, 421, 458,
481,482,485
Weygand, General: Churchill VISitS
(1940), 649; and the fall of France
(1940), 658, 660, 661; Churchill's
message to (December 1940),685; his
comment recalled (1941),715
Weymouth: Churchill watches naval
advances at (1912), 245; a detour to
(1940),653
Wheldon, John: Churchill's research
assisstant, 532
Whitby,
Brigadier:
accompanies
Churchill to Quebec (1944), 792
Whitch urch (near Chequers): research at
(1940-45),673
White House (Washington): Churchill
taken ill at (December 1941), 714;
Churchill learns bad news at Oune
1942),723; Churchill's return to (May
1943),745; Churchill stays at, 927
White, Sir George: Churchill dines with
(1898), 85; in Ladysmith, 108;
Churchill dines with after relief of
Ladysmith (1900), 124
Whitehall (London): troops protest in
(1919),406
wickedness: 'not going to reign', 685
widows' pensions: Churchill presses for
(1914),260
Wigram, Ava: at Chartwell (1935), 543;
her loss, 571
Wigram, Ralph:
helps Churchill
(1935-36),542,547,553,560; dies, 571
Wilde, Oscar: an allusion to, 61
Wilhelmshaven: bombed (1941), 703
William II, Kaiser: Churchill sees (1891),
28; his Army, 60; Churchill the guest
of (1906), 181; his 'magnificent &
formidable' Army, 181; Churchill's
second talk with, (1909), 208; an
emissary visits (1912), 242; Churchill's
message to (1912), 245; invites
Churchill to Kiel (1914), 258 and the
coming of war in 1914, 265, flees to
Holland (1918), 400
Willingdon, Viscount (later Marquess):
imprisons Gandhi (1932),507
Wilson, Admiral Sir Arthur: 'deficient in
imagination' (1911), 236; about to go
on holiday, 236
Wilson, Sir Charles: Churchill's doctor,
714,715,717,752;seealsoMoran,Lord
Wilson, Gordon: Churchill travels with
(1907), 186; killed in action (1914), 186
INDEX
Wilson, General Sir Henry: Churchill's
discussions
with
(1911),
236;
Churchill lunches with (1917), 373;
and tanks, 383; finds Churchill 'a real
gem in a crisis', 384; protests (1918),
385; insists on Churchill's exclusion,
389; with Churchill on armistice night,
402; and British intervention in Russia,
407; and British intervention in Russia
(1919),408; assassinated (1922), 448
Wilson, Sir Horace: his influence (1939),
609,612
Wilson, General Maitland: Churchill
confides in (1943), 759; and the
Adriatic plan (June 1944), 780
Wilson, Muriel: Churchill befriends
(1895), 52; helps Churchill to speak
the letter's', 135; and a motoring
holiday,
181;
and
Churchill's
rumoured engagement, 185
Wilson, Lady Sarah (Sarah SpencerChurchill), 186
Wilson, President Woodrow: and the
German breakthrough of March
1918,388; and the German armistice
(1918), 398; and United States
intervention in Russia (1918-19), 409
Wilton, Lady: encourages Churchill, 26
Wimborne, Lady (Aunt Cornelia): hears
her nephew'S maiden speech, 139;
Churchill stays with, 151; hopes Churchill will join Liberals (1903), 158;
Churchill recuperates with, 173; her
words of caution (1917), 374
Winant, John G.: and the imminent
defeat of Russia (1941), 701; and Pearl
Harbor, 711
Winchester: Churchill hoping to go to
school at, 8, 14
Winchester House (London): Churchill
wins Vote of Confidence at (1938), 603
Wingate, Colonel: helps Churchill, 99
Winnipeg: Churchill lectures in (1901),
139
'Winston': Churchill's terrier (1896), 67
Winterton, Lord: attacks Churchill for
reducing prison sentences (1911),
225; a member ofthe Other Club, 227;
his praise (1927), 481
Witbank Colliery: Churchill reaches
during his escape from Pretoria
(1899), 118; Churchill hidden in, 119;
Churchill describes his helpers at, 133;
Churchill thanks his helpers at, 138
1065
Wolfe, Humbert: commiserates (1922),
456
Wolseley, Field Marshal Lord: helps
Churchill's Cuba design (1895), 56;
presides at Churchill's lecture (1900),
137
Wolverton, Lord: Churchill dines with,
44
women: and Churchill's 'loneliness'
(1908), 197; 'new world opening out to
(1918),397; votes for, 172,221
Women's
Trade
Union
Advisory
Committee: Churchill meets (1917),
379
Wood, GeneralSir Evelyn: helps Churchill
get to the Sudan (1898), 90; Churchill
writes to, from South Africa, 108
Wood, Sir Kingsley: and a possible
Defence Ministry (1936),551; and the
aftermath of Munich (1938), 605;
invites Churchill to fighter exercises,
618; and Britain's air weakness
(September 1939), 626; and the
political crisis (April-May 1940),640;
and the German attack in the West
(May 1940),642; and Greece, 690
Woodford: Churchill's constituency
(from 1945),883; Churchill's speeches
at, 888,955,956
Woolwich Arsenal: Churchill making
mortars at (1914),280
Worcester (Massachusetts): Churchill
lectures in (1931), 503
working classes: 'awful uncertainties' of
lives of, 189; and the need for
'security', 190; demand 'time ... to live',
196;
'common
interests'
of,
and
the
worldwide,
199;
imprisonment of young offenders,
214
Workmen's Compensation Bill (1897):
Churchill supports, 71
World: and Churchill's political future
(1898),101
World
Disarmament
Conference
(Geneva): in session (1932), 506;
widespread hopes for, 506; Germany
withdraws from, 509; Britain submits
proposals to, 514; French proposals
to, 521; Hitler withdraws from, 522;
Churchill proposes an end to, 524;
remaining hopes in, 525
Wrangel, General: in the Crimea (1920),
421,422
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CHURCHILL: A LIFE
Wright, Orville: Churchill urges contact
with ( 1909), 202
writing: 'an adventure', 887
Wuppertal: bombed (1943), 748
Wiirzburg: Churchill watches German
Army manoeuvres near (1909), 208
Wyllie, Hugh: Churchill befriends, 35
Wyndham,
George:
Churchill's
friendship with, to I, 134
Wytschaete Ridge: Churchill visits
(1917),378
Yalta: conference at (1945), 814, 816-24
Yalta Agreement (on Polish elections):
violation of, 835
York: poverty in, 147
York: sunk (1942),693
York, Duke and Duchess of (later King
George V and Queen Mary):
Churchill meets (1895), 54
Yorkshire: Churchill visits troops in
(1944),771
Yorkshire Post: praises Churchill (1938),
588
Yosemite Valley (California): Churchill
visits (1929),494
Young, Alexander: his hopes (in 1934),
533
Younghusband, Colonel: his successful
book, 81; and the Guru massacre
(1904),163
Ypres: Germans reach (1914), 282; the
'profitless slaughter pit' of, 325;
Churchill listens to an artillery duel
north of, 349; renewed offensive at
(1917), 378, 379; Churchill visits
battlefield of (1918), 382; Churchill's
plans for ruins of, 400
Yudenitch, General: advances on
Petrograd (1919),415; British help to,
417; in retreat, 418
Yugoslavia: determined (1932), 510;
'begins to look to Germany (1935),544;
Churchill's fear for (1936), 553; and
Munich (1938), 599; German alliance
with (1941), 692; 'has found its soul'
(1941), 693; Churchill warns of
imminent invasion, 695; surrenders,
697; partisans in (1943),749; future of
(1944-45), 787, 795, 796, 806, 835,
845;
at
Yalta,
821;
and
Czechoslovakia, 838; and a 'world
front against Communist aggression'
(1954),926
Yusupov Palace (Yalta): Stalin host at
(1945),820
Zagai (North West-Frontier): Churchill
in action at (1897),77
Zagreb: and British strategy (1944-45),
780,806
Zeebrugge: a British objective (1917),
378
Zermatt: Churchill visits (1893), 39
Zionism: Churchill's support for (1920),
429,435; French criticism of, 432; and
the murder of Lord Moyne (1944),
803; 'I am of course a Zionist', 947
Zulu revolt: 'disgusting butchery' during
(1906),183
Zurich: Churchill's speech at (1946),872