Oblivion or Glory

by David Stafford

Amery, Leo, (i)

  Amin al-Hussayni, Al Hajj, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, (i)

  Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902), (i), (ii)

  Antwerp: WSC organises defence (1914), (i)

  Arabs: in Palestine conflict, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Archer, Sir Geoffrey, (i)

  Armistice Day: celebrated, (i)

  Ashley, Edwina see Mountbatten, Edwina

  Asquith, Herbert Henry: and WSC’s career in Great War, (i); on WSC’s self-centredness, (i), (ii); predicts WSC’s lack of political success, (i); and security services, (i); Samuel serves under, (i); calls for truce in Ireland, (i)

  Astor, Nancy, Viscountess, (i)

  Ataturk, Mustapha Kemal, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Attlee, Clement, (i)

  Augusta Viktoria, Empress of Germany, (i)

  Australia: and potential war in Pacific, (i)

  Bailey, Sir Abe, (i)

  Baldwin, Stanley, (i)

  Balfour, Arthur James, (i), (ii)

  Balfour Declaration (on Palestine, 1917), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Barrie, Sir James Matthew, (i)

  Barry, Sir Charles, (i)

  Barry, Kevin, (i)

  Barton, Robert, (i)

  Baruch, Bernard, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Beatty, Admiral David, (i)

  Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron: on WSC’s fondness for music hall songs, (i); on French Riviera, (i); entertains WSC, (i); and Jean Norton, (i); praises WSC, (i); friendship with WSC, (i)

  Begbie, Harold: The Mirrors of Downing Street, (i)

  Bell, Gertrude: at Cairo Conference, (i), (ii); poses on camel with WSC, (i); returns to Baghdad, (i); on limitations of bombing in Iraq, (i); and Faisal’s election as King of Iraq, (i); sends condolences on Marigold’s death, (i)

  Bennett, Arnold, (i)

  Birkenhead Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of: friendship with WSC, (i), (ii); pursues Clare Sheridan, (i); ostracizes Clare, (i); on Palestine problem, (i); and Sir Robert Houston, (i); in The Other Club, (i); Clementine dislikes, (i); negotiates with Irish delegation, (i), (ii), (iii); and Michael Collins, (i); Savinkov meets, (i)

  Birley, Oswald, (i), (ii)

  Black and Tans, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Black Watch (regiment), (i)

  Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, (i)

  Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, (i)

  Bodkin, Thomas, (i)

  Boer War (1899–1902), (i)

  Bolshevik Party: 10th Party Congress (1921), (i); British view of, (i)

  Bolshevik Revolution (1917): WSC denounces, (i)

  Bonham Carter, Violet (née Asquith): loyalty to WSC, (i), (ii); Winston Churchill as I Knew Him, (i)

  Borden, Mary (‘May’; Edward Spears’s wife), (i)

  Brahan Castle, Dingwall, (i)

  Briand, Aristide, (i), (ii)

  Britain: naval power, (i), (ii); Coalition government, (i); Middle East policy, (i), (ii); post-war slump and mass demonstrations, (i); relationship with USA, (i), (ii); austerity measures, (i)

  British Empire: extent, (i); and Imperial Conference, (i); and sea power, (i); WSC’s view on, (i), (ii); and air travel, (i)

  Brooke, General Sir Alan: on WSC’s impetuouness, (i)

  Brooke, Rupert, (i)

  Butterworth, Thornton (publisher), (i)

  Byng, Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George, Viscount (of Vimy), (i)

  Caird, James Key, (i)

  Cairo: Conference on Middle East (1921), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Caix, Robert de, (i)

  Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, (i)

  Canada: WSC visits, (i); and Irish settlement, (i)

  Cannes, (i)

  Carnegie, Mrs Andrew, (i)

  Carson, Sir Edward, (i), (ii)

  Casement, Sir Roger, (i), (ii)

  Cassel, Sir Ernest: relations with WSC, (i), (ii); in Monte Carlo, (i); helps Jack Churchill, (i); death, (i)

  Cazalet, Victor, (i)

  Cenotaph (Whitehall): unveiled, (i)

  Chamberlain, Austen: as Chancellor of Exchequer, (i); on WSC’s anger at missing Chancellorship, (i); and WSC’s speech on Middle East, (i); attends Cabinet meeting in Inverness, (i); negotiates with Irish delegation, (i), (ii); on WSC’s speech on Irish Treaty, (i)

  Chamberlain, Neville: praises WSC’s speech on Middle East, (i)

  Chaplin, Charlie, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Chartwell Manor, Kent, (i), (ii)

  Chequers (house), Buckinghamshire, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Childers, Erskine, (i), (ii)

  Chirgwin, George, (G. H.), (i)

  Churchill, Clementine (née Hozier): and WSC’s reflections of middle age, (i); on WSC’s near-breakdown, (i); marriage to WSC, (i); children, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); friendship with Philip Sassoon, (i); warns WSC of Lloyd George, (i), (ii); 59th birthday celebrations (1944), (i); financial worries, (i), (ii), (iii); tennis-playing, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Riviera holidays, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); supports WSC’s painting, (i); encourages WSC’s political career, (i), (ii); woos Colonel Maclean, (i); disapproves of Freddie Guest, (i); sympathy for Clare Sheridan, (i); accompanies WSC to Cairo, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); in Jerusalem, (i); and brother’s suicide, (i); on Irish unrest, (i); attends polo match, (i); difficult relations with Spears, (i); and acquisition of Chartwell, (i); household allowance increased, (i); stays with Westminsters at Eaton Hall, (i); and death of daughter Marigold, (i); and Cassel’s death, (i); social life, (i); disapproves of Beaverbrook and Birkenhead, (i); on Irish truce, (i); and Hazel Lavery’s support for Michael Collins, (i); campaigns for WSC in Dundee, (i)

  Churchill, Diana (WSC/Clementine’s daughter), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Churchill, Gwendeline (‘Goonie’; Jack’s wife): helps Jack Churchill, (i), (ii); supports WSC, (i); marriage and children, (i); marriage relations, (i); and Chartwell Manor, (i); WSC’s relations with, (i)

  Churchill, Jennie (née Jerome; WSC’s mother; Lady Randolph Churchill): character and background, (i); on WSC’s paintings, (i); social life, (i), (ii); concern for niece Clare Sheridan, (i), (ii), (iii); joins WSC at Cap d’Ail, (i); relations with WSC, (i); death and funeral, (i), (ii), (iii); finances, (i); marriage settlement, (i)

  Churchill, John Strange (‘Jack’; WSC’s brother): supports WSC, (i), (ii); Cassel supports, (i); career, (i); travels in Canada, (i); stays at de la Grange château in war, (i); faith in WSC’s career, (i); and Chartwell, (i); attends Walden’s funeral, (i); finances, (i); WSC’s relations with, (i)

  Churchill, Johnny (Jack/Goonie’s son), (i), (ii)

  Churchill, Marigold (WSC/Clementine’s daughter): childhood, (i), (ii); visits Chequers with WSC, (i), (ii); illness and death, (i); burial at Kensal Green, (i)

  Churchill, Mary (WSC/Clementine’s daughter; later Soames): on WSC’s painting, (i); and death of Marigold, (i); birth, (i)

  Churchill, Peregrine (Jack/Goonie’s son), (i)

  Churchill, Randolph (WSC/Clementine’s son): character, (i), (ii); schooling, (i), (ii)

  Churchill, Lord Randolph (WSC’s father), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Churchill, Sarah (WSC/Clementine’s daughter): birth, (i); schooling, (i); illnesses, (i), (ii); WSC praises, (i)

  Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer: inherits Vane-Tempest’s fortune (Garron Towers estate, Ireland), (i), (ii), (iii); reputation as buccaneeer, (i); and Dardanelles campaign, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); early political success, (i); ambition, (i); loses office in Great War, (i); family background, (i); joins Liberals, (i); loyalty of extended family and friends, (i); organises defence of Antwerp (1914), (i); painting, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii); as Minister of Munitions under Lloyd George, (i); serves on Western Front in Great War, (i), (ii); hostility to Bolshevism, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); on post-Great War world, (i); caricatured, (i); reactionary views, (i); love of singing and the good life, (i); visits Port Lympne, (i), (ii); appearance, (i); visit
s to and knowledge of USA, (i); love of music hall songs, (i); writings and literary earnings, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); views on Ireland, (i), (ii), (iii); as Colonial Secretary, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); children and family life, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); London homes, (i), (ii); attitude to money and finances, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); supports security services, (i), (ii); holiday on French Riviera with Clementine, (i), (ii), (iii); exhibits paintings in Paris (as ‘Charles Morin’), (i); given police protection, (i); at War Office, (i); concern over post-war European settlement, (i); meets Savinkov, (i); on Prince of Wales, (i); social life, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); supports wider family, (i); lecture tour of North America, (i); travels in Canada, (i); dependence on Lloyd George, (i); differences with Lloyd George, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); shocked at unemployment, (i); and Greek–Turkish war, (i); sits for Clare Sheridan, (i); and Clare Sheridan’s behaviour, (i); and Clare Sheridan’s flight to Moscow and USA, (i); attends Cairo Conference, (i), (ii), (iii); on importance of theatre in politics, (i); admires Lawrence, (i); proposes shooting army horses, (i); and need for budget cuts, (i); ambitions to be Chancellor of Exchequer, (i); unpunctuality, (i); in Jerusalem, (i); sympathetic to Zionism, (i), (ii), (iii); meets Abdullah, (i), (ii), (iii); changes plans for return from Middle East, (i); passed over as Chancellor of Exchequer, (i); Lavery paints on Riviera, (i); and mother’s death and funeral, (i), (ii), (iii); inheritance from mother, (i), (ii); urges truce in Ireland, (i), (ii); addresses Commons on Middle East settlement, (i), (ii), (iii); speech-making, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); supports restriction of Jewish immmigrants into Palestine, (i); and grand mufti of Jerusalem, (i); Middle East policy, (i), (ii); love of riding and polo, (i); at Imperial Conference, (i), (ii), (iii); buys Chartwell Manor, Kent, (i), (ii); opposes Mui-tsai system in Hong Kong, (i); concern about Britain’s role in Europe, (i); entertains imperial prime ministers and guests, (i); opposes renewal of Anglo-Japanese Alliance, (i); imperialism, (i); on Franco-German relations, (i); overseas visits to empire, (i); and relationship with USA, (i); opposes airships, (i); and Arab-Jewish differences over Palestine, (i); and administration of Iraq, (i); alleged use of poison gas in Iraq, (i); justifies wartime record at Admiralty, (i); buys and sells Rolls Royce motor car, (i), (ii); and death of daughter Marigold, (i), (ii); stays at Dunrobin Casle, (i); effect of personal tragedies on, (i); attends Cabinet meeting in Inverness, (i); opposes full independence to Ireland, (i); represents Dundee, (i); loses support in Dundee, (i); and unemployment and unrest in Dundee, (i); Dundee speech, (i); press praise for, (i); protests against austerity measures, (i); club memberships, (i); writes on art, (i); on importance of ceremony, (i); military expertise, (i); pro-Americanism, (i); negotiates with Irish delegation in London, (i), (ii), (iii); relations with Michael Collins, (i); and terms of Irish treaty, (i); intriguing and intelligence interests, (i); miscellaneous public interests, (i); in parliamentary debate on Irish Agreement, (i); in Cannes, (i); chairs Cabinet committee on transfer of power to Ireland, (i); marriage relations, (i); Clare Sheridan sculpts head, (i); injured playing polo, (i); appointed Chancellor of Exchequer, (i); loses parliamentary seat, (i); rejoins Conservative Party and elected MP for Epping (1924), (i); qualities and reputation, (i); attitude to women, (i); History of the English-Speaking Peoples, (i); My Early Life, (i); ‘Painting as a Pastime’ (article), (i), (ii); Savrola (novel), (i); The World Crisis, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi)

  Coates, William, (i)

  Cochran, Bourke, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Collins, Hanna, (i)

  Collins, Michael: negotiates in London, (i), (ii); on Irish treaty, (i); de Valera attacks, (i)

  Colonial Office: WSC appointed to, (i), (ii); receives copies of diplomatic intercepts, (i)

  Colville, Sir John (‘Jock’), (i)

  Connaught, Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of, (i), (ii)

  Cooper, Alfred Duff: on WSC’s reactionary views, (i); anti-Semitism, (i); differences with WSC, (i); and Hazel Lavery, (i); and WSC’s proposals on Irish settlement, (i); WSC’s relations with, (i); on Munich crisis, (i)

  Cooper, Lady Diana, (i), (ii)

  Coote, Captain Maxwell Henry, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Coronel, battle of (1914), (i)

  Cox, Sir Percy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Cox, Sir Reginald, (i), (ii)

  Craig, Sir James, (i), (ii)

  Croke Park stadium, Dublin: massacre (1920), (i)

  Cromwell, Oliver, (i)

  Crowe, Sir Eyre, (i), (ii)

  Cumming, Sir Mansfield, (i)

  Curtis Brown, Albert, (i)

  Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess: as Foreign Secretary, (i); complains of WSC’s interference in foreign affairs, (i), (ii), (iii); agrees to Colonial Office receiving diplomatic intercepts, (i); and WSC’s view of de Caix, (i); and WSC’s mother’s death, (i); and Middle East policy, (i), (ii); on Anglo-Japanese Alliance, (i); relations with WSC, (i); praises WSC, (i); and WSC’s policy on Egypt, (i); WSC informs of Savinkov’s visit to Chequers, (i); Carson attacks, (i)

  d’Abernon, Lord Edgar, (i)

  Daily Chronicle, (i), (ii)

  Daily Express, (i), (ii)

  Daily Herald, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Dardanelles Expedition (1915), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Davidson, Randall, Archbishop of Canterbury, (i)

  Davies, Crompton Llewellyn, (i)

  Davies, Moya (née O’Connor), (i)

  Derby, Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of, (i)

  Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of, (i)

  Desborough, William Grenfell, Baron and Ethel (‘Ettie’), Lady, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  de Valera, Eamon, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Disraeli, Benjamin, (i)

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, (i)

  Druet, Eugène, (i)

  Dudley Ward, Freda, (i), (ii)

  Dudley, William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of, (i)

  du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca, (i)

  Dundee: social deprivation and unrest, (i), (ii), (iii); WSC elected MP for, (i); WSC’s speech in, (i), (ii); political representation, (i); turns against WSC, (i); WSC loses parliamentary seat, (i)

  Dunrobin Castle, near Inverness, (i)

  Eaton Hall, Cheshire, (i)

  Edward, Prince of Wales: and Freda Dudley Ward, (i); qualities and lifestyle, (i); and WSC’s commitment to developing Canadian trade, (i); on air travel, (i); at Dunrobin Castle, (i); and WSC’s views on Irish settlement, (i)

  Egypt: British policy on, (i); WSC in, (i); WSC opposes abolishing British protectorate, (i)

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., (i)

  Elliot, Maxine, (i)

  Enchantress (Admiralty yacht), (i)

  English-Speaking Union, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Epstein, Jacob, (i)

  Essex, Adele, Countess of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Europe: post-war settlement, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Evening Standard, (i)

  Everest, Elizabeth, (i)

  Ewart, Sir Spencer, (i)

  Ewer, William, (i)

  Fairbanks, Douglas, (i)

  Faisal I, King of Iraq, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Falkland Islands, battle of the (1914), (i)

  Fearon, Percy (‘Poy’; cartoonist), (i)

  Fielding, Henry: Amelia, (i)

  Fisher, H. A. L., (i), (ii)

  France: interests in Middle East, (i), (ii), (iii); deteriorating relations with Britain, (i); supports Poland over Upper Silesia, (i); WSC defends, (i), (ii)

  French Riviera: Clementine in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); WSC visits, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); French painters visit, (i)

  Frewen, Hugh, (i)

  Frewen, Moreton, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gairloch, Ross-shire: Flowerdale House, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gallipoli campaign (1915): and WSC’s r
eputation, (i), (ii), (iii); Jack Churchill at, (i); Hamilton commands at, (i)

  Gardiner, Alfred George (A. G.), (i), (ii); The Pillars of Society, (i)

  Garron Towers estate, Co. Antrim, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Garvin, J. L. (‘Jim’), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gaulle, General Charles de, (i), (ii)

  Geddes, Sir Eric, (i), (ii)

  Geiger, Major Gerald, (i), (ii)

  General Elections: 1918 (‘Victory’), (i); 1922, (i)

  George V, King: denounces WSC, (i); WSC’s low opinion of, (i); appeals for peace in Ireland, (i); attends polo match, (i); at Balmoral, (i); and Inverness Cabinet meeting, (i)

  Germany: post-war collaboration with Soviet Russia, (i); uses Zeppelins in war, (i); post-war settlement and situation, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gertler, Mark, (i)

  Gill, Eric, (i)

  Gladstone, Dorothy, Viscountess, (i)

  Gold Coast Service Club, (i)

  Gouraud, General Henri, (i)

  Government Code and Cypher School, (i), (ii)

  Grange, Baroness de la, (i)

  Greece: war with Turkey, (i), (ii)

  Greenwood, Sir Hamar, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Greenwood, Margo, Lady: relations with Lloyd George, (i), (ii); at Port Lympne, (i), (ii); and WSC’s knowledge of Chirgwin songs, (i)

  Greville, Ronald and Mrs, (i)

  Grey (of Fallodon), Edward, Viscount, (i), (ii)

  Grey, Lady Sybil, (i)

  Griffith, Arthur, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Guest, Amy Grant (née Phipps), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Guest, Frederick (WSC’s cousin): close relations with WSC, (i), (ii), (iii); as Chief Liberal Whip, (i); collects sculptured heads of friends, (i); meets Meinertzhagen, (i); attends polo match, (i); as Secretary of State for Air, (i), (ii); opposes airships, (i); at funeral service for R38 victims, (i); electoral policy, (i); runs The Other Club, (i); speech at English-Speaking Union, (i); praises WSC’s speech on Irish Agreement, (i); separates from wife, (i)

  Guest, Ivor, (i)

  Guest, Raymond, (i)

  Hackwood House, Hampshire, (i)

  Haig, General Sir Douglas, (i)

  Haldane, General Sir Aylmer, (i)

  Hamilton, Sir Ian, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Hamilton, Jean, Lady, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Hampden, John, (i)

  ‘Hands Off Russia’ campaign, (i)