The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (63 page)

Tonypandy riots,
36
,
142
,
147

violent,
36
,
151

suffragettes,
115
,
119

summits, WSC’s pursuit of,
256
–57,
276
–79,
305
–7

Sunday Times, The
,
175

sweated labour,
143

Sykes–Picot agreement,
304

Talbot, Group Captain A. G.,
93

Tank Board,
176

tanks

army committee investigation into,
171

caterpillar tracks,
172
–73

contractors engaged,
173

designs produced,
173

experiment begins,
174

introduced into the war,
176

Landships Committee appointed,
172
–73

order for prototypes placed by WSC,
173

production,
175
–76

project comes to life,
175

project stalls,
173
–74

removal of WSC from project,
174

success of,
176
–78

Tank Board set up by WSC,
176

Wormwood Scrubs laboratory,
174

WSC’s proposal for,
170
–72

Taylor, A. J. P.,
300

Temple of Artemis,
112
,
114

Tennyson-d’Eyncourt, Sir Eustace

Chair of Landships Committee,
173

letter to WSC,
174
–75

project progress,
173

project to build the tank,
173
–74

Thatcher, Margaret,
207

Thornycroft, Peter,
276

Times, The
,
17
,
92
,
275

Tirpitz, Admiral von,
164

Tobruk,
254
–55

Tonypandy riots,
36
,
142
,
147

Torch, Operation,
253

Tories
see
Conservative Party

totalitarianism,
27

Toye, Richard,
91
–92

Trades Board Bill,
143

Treaty of Versailles,
158

Trotsky, Leon,
202

Truman, President Harry S.,
268
,
270
–73

denies advance viewing of WSC’s Iron Curtain speech,
276
–77

invites WSC to speak at Fulton,
272

Turkey,
200

unemployment insurance,
144

unions,
83

WSC’s support for,
83
,
147
–48

United Europe Movement,
289

United States of America (USA)

atomic bomb capability,
270
–71

attitude to Britain,
237
–38

blockage of military supplies to the Allies,
222
–23

congressmen cheer WSC,
242

destroyers-for-bases deal,
241

disregard for Atlantic Charter,
236

enters Second World War,
242
–45

Lend-Lease Act,
242

Neutrality Act,
223
,
241

opposition to involvement in First World War,
222

Pearl Harbor,
242
–43

perceived underperformance of British soldiers,
255

policeman of the world,
317

reaction to WSC’s Iron Curtain speech,
275
–76

relations with the Earl of Halifax,
238

relationship with Soviet Union post-Second World War,
269

reluctance to enter Second World War,
10
–11,
222
,
236
–38

sides with Britain in Second World War,
242
–43

spirit of enterprise,
238
–40

visits by WSC,
238
–40,
243
–44

war loans to Britain,
241
–42,
268

wooing by WSC,
233
–36,
239
–45

WSC sends British flotilla to Pearl Harbor,
242
–44

WSC stresses bond with Britain,
235
–36,
239
–41,
243
–45,
274
–75,
299
–300

WSC’s intention to involve USA in Second World War,
232
–33

United States of Europe,
288
–89

Unthinkable, Operation,
269
–270

USSR
see
Soviet Union

Vansittart, Sir Robert,
11

Versailles, Treaty of,
158

Wall Street Crash,
239

Wall Street Journal
,
275

Walsh, David,
222

War Cabinet of Britain

deal or fight choice,
8
–9,
11
,
21
–22

mediation offer via Italy,
11
–12,
15
–16

meeting,
8
,
10
,
11
–12,
13
,
15
–16,
17

meeting resumes,
19

war, WSC’s philosophy

defence spending cuts,
164
–65

desire to reduce loss of life,
177
–79

encourages use of gas,
161
–62,
176
–79,
202
–3,
313
–14

excited by,
160
–61

Herbert Asquith on,
161

hitting the enemy hard,
161
–62

ideological feuds with the Lugards,
162
–63

Margot Asquith on,
161

naval holidays,
164

Pat Buchanan on,
160

Peregrine Worsthorne on,
160

reaction to Czech crisis,
165

warlord qualities,
159
,
230

warns against rise of Nazism,
197

see also
British military; First World War; Second World War

Waugh, Evelyn,
70
–71,
91

Webb, Beatrice,
148
,
238

Webb, Sydney,
148

Weizmann, Chaim,
315

welfare state,
5
,
142
,
144
,
212
,
262
,
331

Wells, H. G.,
171
–72

Whittier, John Greenleaf,
186

Wigram, Ralph,
103
,
106

Wildman-Lushington, Gilbert,
57
–58

Wilson, General Henry,
213

Wilson, Muriel,
116

Wilson, Woodrow,
158

With Winston Churchill at the Front
,
105

Winterton, Edward Turnour, 6th Earl,
146

witty insults, WSC

Bessie Braddock,
1
,
134

Captain A. G. Talbot,
93

Charles de Gaulle,
132

George Bernard Shaw,
132

hostess on United States lecture tour,
135

Lord Privy Seal,
1
,
135