The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (62 page)

see also
Cecilienhof Palace

Pound, Sir Dudley,
224

Primrose League,
49

Prince of Wales
, HMS,
233
,
236
,
243

prison reform,
146
–47

prostitution,
86

Pulex europaeus
,
105

Pyke, Geoffrey,
177

pykrete,
177
–78

Pyramids,
306

Ramsay, Admiral Sir Bertram Home,
248

redistribution of wealth,
144
–46

Reid, Walter,
303

Regent’s Park Mosque (London Central Mosque),
311

Regina Palast

WSC stays at,
193
–94

WSC waits for Hitler,
195

Reid, Ogden,
323
–24

Repulse
, HMS,
243

Resolution,
HMS,
217

Reynaud, Paul,
12
,
220

Ribbentrop, Joachim von,
23

Richelieu
,
224
–25

Roberts, Andrew,
100
–101,
331
,
336

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
186

Roosevelt, Elliott,
267

Roosevelt, President Franklin D.
186

estrangement of friendship with WSC,
268

illness and death,
267
,
268

meetings with WSC,
233
–36,
243
–45

see also
Placentia Bay

Roosevelt, Theodore,
42
,
222
–23

correspondence from WSC,
223

Rowntree, Seebohm

definition of poor,
149
–50

Royal Air Force,
56

Royal Navy: massacre of French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir,
216
–18,
225
–27,
229
–31

Royal Scots Fusiliers, 6th Battalion: WSC commands,
174

ruling classes, British: sentiment for Hitlerism,
16
–17,
23

Russia

anti-Semitism,
202
,
304
–6

British troops in,
202
–3

counter-attack by Trotsky,
202
–3

counter-revolutionaries,
202

defeat of anti-Bolsheviks,
202
–3

Russian Bungle,
202
–3

Sackville-West, Vita,
93

San Antonio Churchill cigars,
3

Sandhurst

debating skills of WSC,
85
–86

graduation of WSC,
59

nefarious deeds of WSC,
35
–36

WSC loses watch,
41

Savrola
,
87
–88

The Scaffolding of Rhetoric
,
86
,
93

Schivial, Andrew,
237

Schuman Plan

Conservative Party support for,
286

Hansard record of,
285

House of Commons debate on,
284
–85

Labour Party objections to,
285
–86

Scott, Captain Jack,
54
–55,
65

Sea Lion, Operation,
29
,
228

Seal, Eric,
221

Second World War

Allied effort and resources,
255
–57

blame for,
165

deaths,
159

legacy,
4
–5

propaganda of WSC holding tommy gun,
127
–28

USA enters,
242
–45

victory parade in Berlin,
260
–62

war of the British succession,
300

see also
British military

Semiramis Hotel, Cairo: summit convened by WSC,
306
–7

Shaw, George Bernard,
132

Sidney Street siege,
36

Siegfried Line,
258
–59

Simpson, General William,
259

Simpson, Wallis,
210

Sinclair, Archibald: meeting of the War Cabinet,
8
,
14

Smith, Frederick Edwin, 1st Earl of Birkenhead,
57
,
108
,
131
,
134

Sneyd-Kynnersley, Herbert,
64
–65

Soames, Sir Nicholas,
2
–3,
334
,
336
–37

social reform, WSC

accused of being soft on young criminals,
146
–47

championed by WSC,
150
–52

co-founder of the welfare state,
5
,
142
,
144
,
212
,
262
,
331

influence of Lloyd George on WSC,
142
–43

Labour Exchanges,
144

living wage for workers,
143

minimum wage,
143

Munitions Bill,
147
–48

pension age reduction,
148

People’s Budget,
144
–46

pressure on mine owners exerted by WSC,
147
–48

prison reform,
146
–47

Trades Board Bill,
143

unemployment insurance,
144

sodomy,
146

Somerville, Admiral James,
218
,
225

Soviet Union

Balfour declaration,
305
–6

creation of the Eastern bloc,
276

denunciation of WSC’s Iron Curtain speech,
276

domination of Eastern Europe,
267
–68

Iron Curtain,
268

loss of men and territory to Nazis,
24
–25

Nazi puppet regime,
25

WSC feared domination of Europe,
270

see also
communism; Russia; Stalin, Josef V.

Spears, General Sir Edward Louis,
132

speeches
see
oratory skills, WSC

Spens, William,
32

St Stephen’s Club,
31

Stalin, Josef V.,
25

agenda for Soviet domination of Eastern Europe,
267
–68

division of Europe at Potsdam,
267
–68

goes into hiding,
256

mocks British military,
255
–56

perception as Uncle Joe in Britain,
269

rise to power,
266
–67

skill and charm,
271

Stark, Freya,
124

sterling

Gold Standard and,
205
–6

strong pound,
206

Storr, Anthony,
335

Strakosch, Sir Henry,
309

Strand
,
131

strikes

armed troops sent by WSC,
142

Clyde armament workers,
147
–48

General Strike of 1926,
142

Labour Party criticism of WSC’s handling of,
147

Liverpool dockers,
142
,
147

London dockers,
147

miners,
83