The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (59 page)

United Europe speech in Scotland,
289
–90

United States of Europe,
288
–89

see also
Schuman Plan

European Parliament and Council,
284

European Union,
295

Britain misses opportunity to join,
284
–85

Everest, Elizabeth Ann (WSC’s nurse),
99
,
108
–11

Executive Committee of the Arab Palestine Congress,
307

fascist dictators,
153
–54

Fellowes, Daisy,
122
–23

Financial News
,
32

First World War

blame for,
164
–66

deaths,
158
–59

final stages,
156
–57

German military expansion prior to,
164
–66

record of WSC,
178
–80

role of WSC during,
5

Royal Navy blockade,
178
–79

WSC gloomy about the prospects of,
157
–58

Fisher, John, 1st Baron (Lord Fisher),
108
–9,
201

Foden,
173

Foster,
173

France

British opposition to WSC’s plan to attack fleet,
224
–25

capitulation to German forces,
220
–21

defences overrun by German forces,
9
,
10
,
12

massacre at Mers-el-Kébir,
216
–18,
225
–27,
229
–31

meeting with WSC at Tours,
219
–20

sailing/scuttling of fleet,
224
–27

state-of-the-art fleet,
220
–21

supports negotiations with Germany,
12

WSC’s fear of Germany capturing fleet,
220
–21,
223
–24

WSC’s love of,
218
–19

free trade,
152
–53

French, Sir John

memo from WSC,
169
–70

replaced as Commander-in-Chief,
170
–71

Fulton, Missouri,
272
–75

Funk, Dr Walter,
26

Gallipoli,
37
,
161
–62,
200
–201,
251

Gandhi, Mahatma,
142
,
207
–9

Garnett, Theresa,
115

Gaulle, Charles de,
132

General Strike (1926),
142
,
148

Gensoul, Marcel,
226

George VI, King

dissuades WSC from witnessing D-Day landings,
247
–50

witnessing D-Day landings,
246
–49

Germany

chaos at end of the First World War,
157
–58

damaged morale by introduction of British tanks,
175
–77

equal division of land impresses WSC,
145

fleet badly damaged in Norwegian campaign,
229
–30

losing the First World War,
156
–58

military expansion prior to First World War,
164
–66

naturism,
280
–81

overwhelms French defences,
9
–10

paritatisch
,
151

severity of terms of Versailles,
158
–59

signing the armistice,
157
–58

starvation of people,
157
–59

troops captured by Allies,
156
–58

WSC’s sympathy for plight of people,
157
–59

see also
Hitler, Adolf; Nazis

Gerrard, A. N.,
91
–92

Gettysburg Address,
92

Gibbon, Edward,
77
,
187
,
208

Gilbert, Sir Martin,
1
,
100
,
131
,
256
,
310

Gladstone, William Ewart,
47
–49

Goebbels, Joseph,
90
,
127
,
214

Goering, Hermann,
16
,
29
,
229

Gold Standard,
205
–7

Golding, Ron,
134

Gordon, General Charles,
61

Goschen, George, 1st Viscount,
51
–52

Graham, Winston,
321

Greenwood, Arthur: meeting of the War Cabinet,
8
,
13
–14

Grenfell, Ettie,
116

Grey, Sir Edward,
89
,
160

Grey, Spenser,
57

Guderian, Heinz,
21
,
28
–9

Guinness, Walter, 1st Baron Moyne (Lord Moyne),
123

death,
315

Hacket, Polly,
116

Haig, Douglas, 1st Earl

tank proposal from WSC,
170
–71

war strategy,
176

Haldane, General Sir Aylmer,
103
,
106

Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount (Lord Halifax)

background and appearance,
10
–11

challenged by Clementine,
122

declines offer to be Prime Minister,
15

failure to build relations with United States,
238

on listening to WSC,
34

meeting of the War Cabinet,
8
,
11
,
15
–18

meeting with Ribbentrop,
23

nicknamed ‘Holy Fox’ by WSC,
20

relationship with WSC,
13
–15,
17
–18

support for negotiations,
15
–16,
18

visits Hitler and Goering,
16

Hall of the People,
25
–6

Hamel, Gustav,
58
–59

Hanfstaengl, Ernst ‘Putzi’,
194
–96,
214

Hankey, Maurice,
33

Harrow,
45
,
85

Hastings, Max,
254

Hasty Pudding Club,
194

Healey, Dennis Winston,
320
–21

hereditary peerage,
145

Hill, Kathleen,
137

Himmler, Heinrich,
25
,
29

Hitler, Adolf

anti-Semitism,
194
,
196

blame for Second World War,
165

conquests of European countries,
10

death,
261

declaration of war on United States,
242
–43

feeler to War Cabinet,
12

hypnotic oratory qualities,
89
–91

invasion of Russia,
234
–35

meeting with Unity Mitford,
195

missed opportunity to defeat Britain,
9
–10,
21
–22

no-show for meeting with WSC,
195
–96

Operation Sea Lion,
29
,
228

overtures to British establishment,
22
–23

planned annihilation of British forces,
29

prank played on Ernest ‘Putzi’ Hanfstaengl,
213
–14

questions from WSC about Jewish policy,
196