The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (60 page)

rhetorical tricks,
95
–97

Second World War success,
4
–5

strategic imperative to attack Britain,
227
–29

see also
Germany; Nazis

Holland, Captain ‘Hookie’,
226

Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
324

homosexuality,
106

Hood,
HMS,
216
–17,
236

House of Lords

hereditary peerage criticised by WSC,
145

opposition to Britain’s continuation in First World War,
221

Hozier, Clementine
see
Churchill, Clementine, Lady (
née
Hozier; WSC’s wife)

Hozier, Lady Blanche (Clementine’s mother),
118

Hughligans,
47

Hurd, Douglas,
49

Hussein, King,
304
,
307
,
309
,
311
–12

Hyde Park,
2
–3

India

denouncement of Gandhi by WSC,
207
–8

India Bill passed,
209

political positioning of WSC,
207
–9

prophesies of bloodshed by WSC,
207
–9

resistance of WSC to Indian self-government,
207
–8

insults
see
witty insults, WSC

Iraq (
formerly
Mesopotamia),
302
,
304
,
313
–17

Iron Curtain,
268
,
271
–77

Irving, David,
322

Ismay, General Hastings ‘Pug’,
94

Israel

finding a homeland,
305

security guarantee,
301

WSC’s role in creation of,
5
,
187
,
302
,
316

see also
Jews

Jacob, Ian,
237

Jean Bart
,
224
–25

Jenkins, Roy,
4
,
78
,
180

Jerome, Jennie
see
Churchill, Jennie

Jerome, Leonard,
40

Jews

anti-Semitism,
194
–95,
305
–6

Balfour declaration,
305
–6

finding a homeland,
305
–9,
316

immigration into Palestine,
310
–12,
314
–15

Nazi persecution of,
26
,
213
–14,
236
–37

Palestinian objections to land sharing,
306
–8

programme offering friendship to Palestinians,
308
–9

WSC’s admiration for Jewish characteristics,
309
–11

Zionism,
308
–9,
310
–13

see also
Israel; Palestine

Jobseeker’s Allowance,
144

journalism, WSC

Boer War,
62
–63,
72
–73

Cuba,
59
–60

earnings from,
46
–47,
59
–63,
70
–73,
78
–79

honesty of reporting,
76

Malakand Field Force,
60
–61

Omdurman, Battle of,
61
–62

see also
writings, WSC

Kemal Atatürk, Mustafa,
201
,
204

Kennedy, Joe,
24
,
238

Kennedy, John F.

invites WSC to Washington,
300

previous meetings with WSC,
300

security guarantee for Israel,
301

WSC declines invitation to Washington,
300

Ker, William Paton,
124

Keynes, John Maynard,
206

Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl,
75
–76

Klopp, Onno,
138

Labouchere, Henry,
106

Labour Exchanges,
48
,
144

Lady Hamilton
,
107

Lamb, Richard,
224
–26

land battleships
see
tanks

land taxes,
144
–46

Landships Committee,
172
–73

Lansbury, George,
221

Lascelles, Sir Alan,
247
–49,
251
–52,
338

Law, Andrew Bonar,
204

Lawrence, T. E.,
306
–7

Lays of Ancient Rome
(Macaulay),
95

Leahy, Admiral William D.,
272

Lend-Lease Act,
242

Lenin, Vladimir Ilich,
151
,
202

Lennon, John Winston,
320

Liberal party

support from Clementine,
119

WSC joins,
14
,
82
–83

Life in Pictures
(Gilbert),
1

living wage,
143

Lloyd George, David

Chanak crisis,
203
–5

desires revenge against Germany,
157
–58

influence on WSC,
142
–43

People’s Budget,
144
–46

visits Hitler,
16
–17

on WSC’s oratory skills,
89

Lord Moyne
see
Guinness, Walter, 1st Baron Moyne

Love, Mabel,
116

Low, David,
203

Ludendorff, General Erich,
176

Lugard, Flora,
162
–63

Lugard, Sir Frederick,
162
–63

Macaulay, Thomas Babington (
Lays of Ancient Rome
),
95

MacCallum, Alexander,
296

MacDavid, Jock,
105

MacDonald, Ramsay,
136

Macmillan, Harold,
52
,
244

Malakand Field Force,
60
–61,
64
,
75
,
198
,
336

Manchester

poverty in,
149
–50

slums,
141
,
149
–50

WSC stands for Manchester North-West constituency,
140
–41

Marsh, Sir Edward,
79
,
141
,
150
,
239

Mass Observation,
92

Masterman, Charles,
148
,
152

McMahon-Hussein correspondence,
304
,
307

McMahon, Sir Henry,
304

Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria,
216
–18,
225
–27,
230
–31

Mesopotamia (
latterly
Iraq),
302
,
304
,
313
–17

Middle East

Arab delegation to discuss Balfour declaration,
306
–7

Balfour declaration,
304
–10,
316

fingerprints of WSC over map of,
301
–2

Jewish delegation to discuss Balfour declaration,
308
–9

McMahon-Hussein correspondence,
304
,
307