Never Give In! (93 page)

society: WSC defines
20
,
25
–
6

Somaliland
203
–
4

Somerville, Admiral Sir James
191

Somme, Battle of the (1916)
57
,
196

South Africa
3
; constitutional settlement (1906),
18
–
19
;
see also
Anglo–Boer War

South Wales: industrial disorder (1911)
32
–
4

Soviet Union
see
Russia

Spanish Civil War
127
,
151

Stalin, Josef: warned of German attack on Russia
241
; Western aid to,
253
; and campaign in Russia,
276
,
327
; at Yalta Conference,
310
,
314
; on Polish settlement,
313
; at Potsdam Conference,
334
; WSC’s attitude to,
350
; death,
404

Stalingrad, Battle of (1942–3)
287
,
292

Stanley, Olivet
362

State, the: functions and responsibilities
20
,
26
,
359
–
60
; under Socialism,
330
; and tyranny,
346

Stettinius, Edward R., Jr
311

Stimson, Henry Lewis
338

Strachey, John
383
–
4

Strasbourg Assembly
376
–
7

Strasbourg
(French battle-cruiser)
189
,
191

Sudetenland
139
,
143
–
4

Suez Canal: threatened in World War II
216
,
232
,
270

Summerskill, Dr Edith
381
–
4

Supply, Ministry of: WSC urges establishment of
120
–
3
,
135
,148

Susloparov, General
322

Sutherland, Graham: portrait of WSC
408

tanks (batde)
122
–
3
,
230
–
1

Tariff Reform League
13

Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Arthur William (
later
1st Baron)
322

Teheran Conference (November 1943)
311
,
318

Tel Aviv
355

Teleki, Pal, Count
220

Territorial Army
121

Thatcher, Margaret (
later
Baroness)
372

Thiers, Louis Adolphe
214

Times, The
: denies war threat
136
; literary award to WSC (1949),
378

Tito, Josip Broz
351

Tobruk
224
,
281
,
289

‘Torch’, Operation (1942)
283

Transjordan
see
Jordan

Transvaal
18
–
19

Tripoli
222
,
287

Trotsky, Leon
63

Truman, Harry S.: at Potsdam Conference
334
; announces use of atomic bomb,
337
; and WSC’s Fulton ‘Iron Curtain’ speech,
344
,
387
; and united Europe,
357
; WSC meets in Washington (1952),
395

Tunisia
289
,
292
,
294

Turkey: and Dardanelles campaign
xxiv
,
51
,
53
; and Arab nationalism,
67
,
113

Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
7

U-boat campaign (1939–45)
125
,
164
–
5
,
175
,
217
–
18
,
225
–
6
;
see also
Atlantic, Battle of the

Uganda
22

Ulster: and Irish Home Rule
40
–
1
; and Irish Free State,
69

unconditional surrender: policy of
308
–
9

United Nations: in wartime
270
; San Francisco Conference (1945),
312
,
329
,
366
; established,
346
; WSC recommends international armed force for,
346
; Charter,
352
–
3
,
360
; and world peace,
360
; world supremacy,
366
; and Korean War,
404
–
5

United States of America: confers Honorary Citizenship on WSC
xxiii
,
xxviii
,
307
,
419
–
20
; entry into Second World War,
xxv
iii,
161
,
260
,
263
–
4
; and British Free Trade,
15
; enters First World War,
60
–
1
; Prohibition in,
79
–
80
; WSC’s lecture tours in: (1900–1),
5
; (1931),
80
; and League of Nations,
99
–
10
0; and wartime supply to Britain,
139
,
187
,
200
,
220
,
224
–
5
,
242
; and Czech crisis (1938),
140
; WSC pleads to for support from (1938–9),
150
–
3
,
158
–
60
; leases transatlantic bases from Britain,
205
; transfers
50
destroyers to Britain,
205
–
6
,
218
; wartime support for Britain,
222
; patrols Atlantic,
225
–
6
; WSC urges to enter war,
237
–
9
; Hitler’s attitude to,
251
–
2
; preparations for war,
252
; and Japanese threat,
258
; British wartime spending in,
259
–
60
; WSC visits (1941),
262
–
8
,
272
; (1943),
291
,
296
–
7
; world responsibility,
297
; shares language with Britain,
298
,
386
; military qualities,
305
–
6
; casualties,
306
; post-war supremacy,
345
,
394
; rights and freedom in,
347
; post-war relations with Britain and Commonwealth,
348
–
9
; and post-war Palestine problem,
363
; favours united Europe,
368
; WSC defends against Silverman’s moneylending jibe,
371
–
2
; and nuclear deterrence,
373
–
4
,
393
–
4
,
411
,
413
–
14
; postwar loans to Britain,
381
,
384
,
400
; In Korean War,
386
–
7
; and Communist threat,
394
; and defence of Western Europe,
396
–
7
; Constitution,
404

VE Day (Victory in Europe,
8
May 1945)
322
–
6

Venizelos, Eleutherios
284

Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
85
,
106
,
352

Vichy government (France): established
199
,
203
; and occupation of Madagascar,
279
–
80

Victoria, Queen: death
6

Victorious
, HMS
234

Viviani, René Raphael
85