Never Give In! (86 page)

Auchinleck, General Sir Claude
265
–
6

Australia: forces in Greek campaign
223
; forces in Pacific,
306
; menaced by Japan,
329
;
see also
Anzacs

Austria: ultimatum to Serbia (1914)
48
; inter-war position,
91
; annexed by Germany (1938),
131
–
4
,
136
,
158

authors and authorship,
24
–
5

Baldwin, Stanley (
later
1st Earl): broadcast
xxii
; premiership,
xxv
,
55
; appoints WSC Chancellor of Exchequer (1924),
55
,
72
; election victory (1924),
72
; on air power,
87
; WSC attacks military unpreparedness,
116
,
119
–
21
,
123
–
5
; promises to mobilise industry,
148
–
9

Balfour, Arthur James (
later
1st Earl): and Education Bill
11
; WSC castigates for Protectionism,
16
; government resigns (1905),
17
–
18
; attacks WSC as Home Secretary in miners’ strike,
35

Balfour Declaration (on Palestine)
64
–
5
,
104
–
5
; repudiation of,
155
–
7

Balkans: German actions in
222
–
4

Battle of Britain (1940)
189
,
193
,
195
,
200
,
206
,
209
,
225
,
272

Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet David, 1st Earl
138

Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron; as Minister of Aircraft Production
202
; in wartime Defence Committee,
231

Belgium: invasion and surrender in World War II
xxvi
,
170
,
172
,
180
,
204
,
269
; in World War I,
48
; and German occupation of Rhineland,
106
; German threat to,
109
; neutrality declaration,
117
; wartime government in exile,
207
; liberated (1944),
302
; WSC addresses Parliament in,
343

Belgrade: bombed by Germans
220
,
235
,
245
,
269
,
277

Beneš, Edvard
204

Benghazi
216
,
222

Berehaven, Ireland
137
–
8

Berlin: Winston Club
333
; postwar division,
350
; airlift (1949),
376

Bermuda
269

Bevan, Aneurin
282
,
390

Bevin, Ernest
349
,
361

Bismarck
(German battleship): sunk
233
–
4
,
258

Bismarck, Prince Otto von
297
,
386

Bizerta
293

Board of Trade: WSC’s Presidency of (1908)
xxiv
,
1
,
25
–
6

Boers: WSC’s sympathy for
6
; granted self–government,
18
;
see
also
Anglo–Boer War

Bolshevism: WSC opposes
62
–
3
,
65
,
71
,
110
–
11
;
see also
Communism

Bottomley, Arthur
383

Briand, Aristide
357

Bright, John
10
,
371

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): WSC broadcasts on
xviii
,
xxii
; supports appeasement,
82
–
3
,
88

Brodrick, St John (
later
1st Earl of Midleton)
7
,
10
–
11
,
27

Bruce, David
419

Buckingham Palace: bombed
398

budget (1909)
27

Bulgaria
219
–
20
,
222

Burke, Edmund
238

Burma: campaign in
272

Cairo Conference (1921)
64

Calais: falls to Germans (1940)
172
–
3

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry
12
,
17
–
18
,
25

Canada: WSC’s lecture tours of (1900–1)
5
; (1927),
80
; and imperial unity,
154
–
5
; forces in France in World War II,
187
; defence in event of British defeat,
203
; and offer of bases to USA,
205
; WSC’s wartime visits to,
268
,
272
; army in European advance,
296
; menaced by Japan,
329
; defence agreement with USA,
348
–
9

Carlyle, Thomas
316

Casablanca Conference (January 1943)
289
,
291
,
318

casualty figures: (World War I)
57
; (World War II)
195
,
307

Cecil, Lord Hugh
13

Chaco War (1928)
100

Chamberlain, Joseph; and Workmen’s Compensation Act
11
; WSC mocks,
13
–
14
,
18
; and Free Trade,
14
–
15

Chamberlain, Neville: and Munich agreement
xxv
,
77
; resigns premiership (1940),
2
–
4
; on preventing war,
134
; visits to and agreements with Hitler,
139
–
40
; and Czech crisis,
140
–
2
; appoints WSC First Lord of Admiralty (1939),
161
–
2
; and house-building,
383

Chancellor of Exchequer: WSC serves as
55
,
70
,
74

Cherwell, Frederick Lindemann, Viscount
410

Chiang Kai-shek
259

China: attacked by Japan
151
,
158
,
249
,
267
,
280
,
329

Christ, George
xxiii

Churchill, Clementine, Lady (
née
Hozier): marriage to WSC
25
; on WSC’s grief over Dardanelles,
53

Churchill, Lord Randolph (WSC’s father): death
1
,
5
; and Army Estimates,
8
–
9
; independence,
10
; on Ulster,
40
; as Chancellor of Exchequer,
55
; WSC refers to in USA,
262

Churchill, Randolph (WSC’s son): delivers WSC’s US honorary citizenship speech (1963)
xxviii
,
419
; on WSC’s performances in Commons,
16
; accompanies WSC on North American lecture tour,
80
; stands for Parliament (1950 and 1951),
378
,
383
,
391

Churchill, Sir Winston S.: broadcasts
xxii
–
xxiii
; granted honorary US citizenship,
xxiii
,
xxviii
,
337
,
419
–
20
; writes own speeches,
xxiii
–
xxiv
; crosses floor of Commons,
xxv
,
1
,
8
,
12
,
55
,
66
,
299
; political offices,
xxv
; in Boer War,
1
,
3
,
5
; elected MP for Oldham (1900),
1
,
5
; as Home Secretary,
1
,
32
,
35
; as President of Board of Trade (1908),
1
,
25
–
6
; journalism,
5
,
24
; Commons oratory praised,
6
,
74
; elected as Liberal for North-West Manchester (1906),
16
–
17
; social concerns and reforms,
17
,
34
; in Colonial Office,
13
,
55
,
64
,
104
,
363
; authorship,
24
; wins Dundee seat (1908),
25
; as First Lord of Admiralty (1911–15),
27
,
41
,
48
; and development of military tank,
46
; removed from Admiralty (1915),
51
,
55
; serves with army on Western Front (1916),
50
,
55
,
57
; as Chancellor of Exchequer (1924–9),
55
,
70
,
74
; rejoins Conservative Party,
55
,
70
; returns to Commons (1916),
56
; as Minister of Munitions (1918),
64
; loses Dundee seat and elected for Epping (1924),
70
; opposes disarmament and appeasement,
74
–
5
,
77
,
80
,
82
,
85
–
9
,
101
–
2
; political alienation (1930s),
77
; supports Edward in Abdication crisis,
128
–
9
; fights de–selection at Epping (1939),
153
; reappointed First Lord of Admiralty (1939),
162
,
164
,
167
; appointed Prime Minister (1940),
168
–
9
; on ‘Their Finest Hour’ (1940),
180
–
9
; wins Commons Votes of Confidence: (1941),
227
–
8
; (1942),
269
–
73
; visits USA: (1941),
262
,
264
–
5
,
273
; (1943),
291
,
296
–
7
; (1952),
395
; second anniversary of premiership (1942),
274
; Commons Motion of Censure defeated (May 1942),
281
–
3
; travels to Tripoli (1943),
287
; attends Yalta Conference (1945),
310
–
14
; resumes party politics after war,
329
–
30
; resigns (July 1945),
334
–
5
; death,
337
; Fulton ‘Iron Curtain’ speech (1946),
337
,
344
–
5
,
375
; resumes premiership (1951),
337
; retires (1955),
337
; speaks in French,
376
; given
Times
Literary Award,
378
; returns as Prime Minister (1951),
393
;
80
th birthday celebrations,
408
–
9
; Sutherland portrait of,
408
; final resignation (1955),
416
–
17
; Nemon statue of,
417