Oblivion or Glory

by David Stafford

  Hankey, Sir Maurice: condemns Sutherland, (i); and WSC’s appointment to Colonial Office, (i); relations with WSC, (i)

  Harding, Warren G., (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Hashemite family, (i)

  Hassan, Mohammed Abdullah (‘the Mad Mullah’), (i)

  Hawkins, HMS, (i)

  Hayashi, Baron Gonsuke, (i)

  Hearst, William Randolph, (i)

  Herbert, Michael, (i)

  Hirohito, Crown Prince of Japan, (i)

  Hitler, Adolf, (i), (ii)

  Hoe Farm, near Godalming, Surrey, (i), (ii)

  Hong Kong: child slavery, (i), (ii)

  Hope, Anthony (Sir Anthony Hope Hopkins), (i)

  Horne, Sir Robert, (i), (ii)

  Horner, Sir John and Frances, Lady, (i), (ii)

  Houston, Sir Robert, (i)

  Hozier, Katharine (‘Kitty’; Clementine’s sister), (i)

  Hozier, Lieut.-Cdr William Ogilvy (‘Bill’; Clementine’s younger brother), (i)

  Hughes, William (‘Billy’), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Hunter, Detective-Sergeant, (i)

  Hurlingham Park, Fulham: Anglo-American Polo Test Match, (i)

  Ibn Saud, king of Saudi Arabia, (i)

  Imperial Conference (1921), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Inchcape, James Lyle Mackay, 1st Earl of, (i)

  India: rise of nationalism, (i); status, (i)

  Innishannon House, Co. Cork, (i), (ii)

  Inverness: Cabinet meeting on Irish settlement, (i)

  Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia): founded and British mandate, (i), (ii); WSC’s interest in, (i), (ii); discussed at Cairo Conference, (i), (ii), (iii); Faisal appointed king, (i); WSC proposes financial contribution from, (i); British policy on, (i); economies, (i); Royal Air Force in, (i); British punitive actions in, (i); supposed use of poison gas in, (i); treaty of independence, (i)

  Ireland: political unrest and violence, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); WSC’s views on, (i), (ii); truce, (i); and Inverness Cabinet meeting, (i); in WSC’s Dundee speech, (i); delegation in London, (i); treaty and settlement with, (i); Agreement debated in Parliament, (i)

  Irish Free State: offered to Irish, (i), (ii)

  Irish Free State Bill (1921), (i)

  Irish Republican Army (IRA), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Ironside, General Sir Edmund, (i)

  Jackson, Admiral Thomas, (i)

  Jaffa: riots, (i), (ii)

  Jamal, Shibley al-, (i)

  Japan: alliance with Britain (1902), (i); potential war with, (i)

  Jellicoe, Admiral John Rushworth, 1st Earl, (i)

  Jemal Pasha, (i)

  Jerome, Leonard: estate, (i)

  Jerusalem: WSC visits, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Jewish National Council, (i)

  Jews: and anti-Semitism, (i); conflict with Arabs, (i), (ii); see also Palestine; Zionism

  John, Augustus, (i)

  Jones, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Kamenev, Lev, (i)

  Kennedy, John F., (i)

  Kennet, Kathleen, Lady, (i)

  Kenya, (i)

  Keppel, Alice, (i)

  Kerensky, Alexander, (i)

  Kolchak, Admiral Aleksandr Vasilevich, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Korda, Alexander, (i)

  Krassin, Leonid, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Kronstadt: mutiny, (i)

  Kurdistan, (i)

  Kurds: in Iraq, (i)

  Labour Party: increasing popularity, (i), (ii); election success (1922), (i)

  Lansbury, George, (i), (ii)

  Laski, Harold, (i)

  Lavery, Hazel, Lady: friendship with WSC, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); painting, (i); supports Collins in Irish negotiations, (i), (ii)

  Lavery, Sir John: friendship with WSC, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); and Irish situation, (i), (ii); and death of Marigold Churchill, (i); WSC paints with, (i); Michael Collins visits in London, (i), (ii); The Bay, Monte Carlo (painting), (i); The Blue Bay: Mr. Churchill on the Riviera (painting), (i)

  Law, Andrew Bonar: on WSC’s ‘unbalanced mind’, (i); resigns as Conservative Party leader, (i)

  Lawrence, T. E. (‘Lawrence of Arabia’): introduced to WSC, (i); image and reputation, (i); attends Cairo Conference, (i), (ii), (iii); criticizes luxury in Cairo, (i); WSC admires, (i); backs Faisal as king of Mesopotamia, (i); and Gertrude Bell, (i); poses on camel, (i); dislikes French, (i); and Palestine question, (i); on Meinertzhagen, (i); as advisor to WSC, (i)

  League of Nations: WSC’s scepticism over, (i), (ii); proposes ban on use of chemical weapons, (i)

  Lee, Sir Arthur Hamilton (Viscount Lee of Fareham) and Ruth, Lady, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Lenglen, Suzanne, (i)

  Lenin, Vladimir I., (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Leslie, Anita, (i)

  Leslie, John, (i)

  Leslie, Sir John, (i)

  Leslie, Leonie, Lady, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Leslie, Shane, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount, (i)

  Lewis, Percy Wyndham, (i), (ii)

  Liberal Party: WSC joins, (i); and Coalition government, (i)

  Liberty (yacht), (i)

  Lloyd George, David: WSC’s alliance with, (i); on WSC’s unpredictability, (i); as wartime prime minister, (i); tolerance of Bolsheviks, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); on WSC’s hostility to Bolshevism, (i); at Port Lympne, (i), (ii), (iii); view of WSC, (i); on Anglo-US naval relations, (i); negotiates with Irish delegation in London, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); policy on Ireland, (i); WSC fears break with, (i); appoints WSC Colonial Secretary, (i), (ii); and sale of honours scandal, (i), (ii); encourages trade and relations with Soviet Russia, (i), (ii); discusses German reparations with Briand, (i); Sinn Fein plots to kidnap, (i); at Laverys’ party, (i); at Chequers, (i); as prime minister of Coalition government, (i); courts press, (i); differences with WSC, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); supports Greece against Turkey, (i), (ii); and WSC at Cairo Conference, (i); and Bonar Law’s resignation and successor as Chancellor, (i), (ii); appoints Horne Chancellor, (i); and Irish violence, (i); praises Meinertzhagen, (i); Middle East proposals, (i); at Imperial Conference, (i), (ii), (iii); dines with WSC, (i); agrees to renewal of Anglo-Japanese Alliance, (i); on sea power and Empire, (i); appoints Committee of National Expenditure, (i); and potential war with Japan, (i); and Irish truce, (i); calls Cabinet meetings in Inverness and Gairloch on Irish settlement, (i); tooth problem, (i); electoral policy, (i); and social unrest and unemployment, (i), (ii); secure position, (i); and WSC’s opposition to austerity, (i); and preparations for Washington Conference, (i); calls Cabinet meeting on Ireland, (i); Davies on, (i); agreement with Griffith, (i); threatens resignation, (i); hymn-singing at Chequers, (i); meets Savinkov, (i); WSC’s increasing disbelief in, (i); and collapse of Coalition, (i); on WSC’s bellicosity, (i)

  Lloyd George, Margaret, (i)

  Lochmore Lodge, Sutherland, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Londonderry, Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of, (i)

  Long, Walter, (i)

  Lords, House of: reforms, (i)

  Lorimer, Sir Robert, (i)

  Lou Mas (villa), St Jean Cap Ferrat, (i)

  Loucheur, Louis, (i)

  Low, David, (i), (ii)

  Lucy, Sir Henry, (i), (ii)

  Lullenden (house), Surrey, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Lutyens, Sir Edwin, (i)

  Lympne, Kent see Port Lympne

  Macdonald, D.J., (i), (ii)

  McEvoy, Ambrose, (i), (ii)

  MacInnes, Rt. Revd Rennie, bishop of Jerusalem, (i), (ii)

  McKinley, William, (i)

  Maclean, Colonel John Bayne, (i)

  Maclean’s (magazine), (i)

  Macmillan, Hugh: The Riviera, (i)

  Macready, Sir Neville, (i)

  McSwiney, Terence, (i), (ii)

  Malone, Cecil, (i), (ii) />
  Manchester: WSC visits, (i)

  Manchester Guardian, (i)

  Mannix, Daniel, Archbishop of Melbourne, (i)

  Marlborough, Charles Churchill (‘Sunny’), 9th Duke of, (i), (ii)

  Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of, (i), (ii)

  Marlowe, Thomas, (i), (ii)

  Marsh, Sir Edward, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  Mary, consort of George V, (i), (ii)

  Massey, William, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Matisse, Henri, (i)

  Meighen, Arthur, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Meighen, Isabel, (i)

  Meinertzhagen, Colonel Richard, (i), (ii)

  Mells Manor, Somerset, (i), (ii)

  Mena, Sheik of, (i)

  Menabilly (house), Cornwall, (i), (ii)

  Menzies, Stewart, (i)

  Mesopotamia see Iraq

  MI5, (i), (ii)

  MI6, (i), (ii)

  Middle East: territories mandated, (i); discussed at Cairo Conference, (i), (ii); British presence and policy in, (i), (ii); French interests in, (i), (ii), (iii); British air power in, (i); WSC addresses Commons on, (i), (ii); see also Palestine

  Millerand, Alexandre, (i)

  Milner, Alfred, Viscount, (i), (ii)

  Minto, Gilbert Elliot, 4th Earl and Mary, Countess, (i)

  Montag, Charles, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Montagu, Edwin, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Montagu, Venetia (née Stanley), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Montreal Gazette, (i)

  Moran, Charles Wilson, Baron, (i)

  Morel, Edwin Dene, (i)

  Morgan, J. P. Jr, (i)

  Morning Post, (i)

  Morton, Major Desmond, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Mosley, Sir Oswald, (i)

  Mosul, Iraq, (i)

  Mountbatten, Edwina, Countess (née Ashley), (i), (ii)

  Mountbatten, Lord Louis, (i)

  Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French: WSC admires, (i)

  Nash, John and Paul, (i)

  National Liberal Club, (i)

  Nazism, (i), (ii)

  New English Art Club, (i)

  New York World, (i)

  1920 Club, (i)

  Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount, (i), (ii)

  Northern Ireland: and Irish settlement, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Norton, Jean, (i)

  Norton, Richard, (i)

  Novello, Ivor, (i), (ii)

  Obregón, Álvaro, (i)

  O’Connor, Thomas Power, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Ogilvy, Lady Blanche (Clementine’s mother), (i), (ii)

  Omdurman, battle of (1898), (i)

  Orpen, William: portrait of WSC, (i); and Lavery’s painting of Collins, (i)

  Ottoman Empire: defeated and dissolved, (i), (ii), (iii); see also Turkey

  Outlook (periodical), (i)

  Overseas Bankers’ Association, (i)

  Pacific: British naval power in, (i)

  Palestine: as proposed Jewish homeland, (i), (ii); as British mandate, (i); WSC visits, (i), (ii); Arab resistance in, (i); Jewish immigration suspended, (i), (ii); Jewish–Arab unrest, (i), (ii), (iii); WSC’s policy on, (i), (ii), (iii); WSC’s cost-cutting in, (i)

  Paris: WSC visits and exhibits in, (i); air travel to, (i)

  Paris Peace Conference and settlement, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Peelings (house), East Sussex, (i)

  Pershing, General John (‘Black Jack’), (i)

  Pickford, Mary, (i)

  poison gas: alleged use in Iraq, (i)

  Poland, (i), (ii), (iii)

  polo see Hurlingham Park

  Porch, Montagu (Jennie’s third husband), (i), (ii)

  Port Lympne, Kent, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  ‘Poy’ (cartoonist) see Fearon, Percy

  Pro-Jerusalem Society, (i)

  Protocols of the Elders of Zion, (i)

  Punch (magazine), (i)

  R38 (airship), (i)

  Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford, (i)

  Redmond, John, (i)

  Reilly, Sidney, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Riddell, George Allardice, Baron, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Rishon-le-Zion, Palestine, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Ritchie, Sir George, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Room 40 (Admiralty), (i)

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, (i)

  Roosevelt, Theodore, (i)

  Rothenstein, Sir John, (i)

  Rothschild, Baron Edmund de, (i)

  Royal Air Force: WSC supports as independent service, (i); in Middle East, (i); in Iraq, (i); role in British Empire, (i)

  Royal Colonial Institute, (i)

  Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), (i)

  Ruhr: Allies occupy, (i)

  Russell, Bertrand, (i)

  Rutenberg Plan (Palestine), (i)

  Samuel, Sir Herbert: in Palestine, (i), (ii), (iii); restricts Jewish immigration, (i), (ii); appoints Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, (i)

  Sassoon, Sir Philip, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  Saturday Review, (i)

  Savinkov, Boris, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Scotland: unemployment and social unrest, (i); see also Dundee

  Scott, Alexander MacCallum, (i), (ii)

  Scottish Prohibition Party, (i)

  Scribners’ Sons, Charles (US publishers), (i)

  Scrymgeour, Edwin, (i)

  Seaforth Highlanders (regiment), (i)

  Seaforth, James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie, Baron and Mary, Lady, (i)

  Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), (i), (ii)

  secret services (British), (i)

  Sert, Josip Maria, (i)

  Shackleton, Sir Edward, (i)

  Sheridan, Clara (Clare’s mother), (i)

  Sheridan, Clare (WSC’s cousin): life and career, (i); sculpting, (i), (ii), (iii); Lord Birkenhead pursues, (i); relations with Kamenev, (i); moves to Moscow, (i), (ii); moves to USA, (i), (ii); proposes self as ambassador to Moscow, (i), (ii); relations with WSC, (i); and Irish unrest, (i); returns from USA, (i); sculpts WSC’s head, (i); under suspicion by security service, (i)

  Sheridan, William (‘Wilfred’), (i)

  Sidebotham, Herbert, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Sime, John, (i), (ii)

  Simon, Sir John, (i)

  Sims, Admiral William Snowden, USN, (i)

  Sinclair, Archibald (2nd Viscount Thurso): and British intelligence services, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and WSC’s visit to French Riviera, (i); attends Cairo Conference with WSC, (i), (ii); illness, (i), (ii); and WSC’s changed plans for return from Middle East, (i); on WSC’s personal tragedies, (i); on WSC’s Dundee speech, (i); in The Other Club, (i); and Russian intrigues, (i); as WSC’s wartime ally, (i)

  Singapore: naval base developed, (i)

  Sinn Fein (Irish political party): demands full independence, (i), (ii); violence and protests, (i), (ii); plots to kidnap British politicians, (i); conflict with British, (i), (ii); election victory, (i); rejects Lloyd George’s Irish settlement, (i); at Inverness Cabinet meeting, (i); WSC negotiates with, (i); and proposed Dominion Rule, (i); delegation negotiates in London, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and Irish treaty, (i)

  Sitwell, Osbert, (i)

  Siwertz, Sigfrid, (i)

  Smartt, Sir Thomas, (i)

  Smuts, General Jan Christian, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Smyrna: Greece invades, (i)

  South Africa, Union of, (i)

  Southern Rhodesia, (i)

  Soviet Russia: as threat, (i), (ii), (iii); and British intervention, (i); civil war in, (i), (ii); trade delegation and deal with Britain, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); WSC’s hostility to, (i), (ii); war in Poland, (i), (ii); famine and unrest, (i), (ii); British policy on, (i)

  Spears, Brigadier Edward Louis: relations with WSC, (i), (ii), (iii); WSC visits, (i); and intrigues in Russia, (i)

  Spencer, Stanley, (i)

  Sphinx
, SS, (i)

  Srinivasa Sastri, V.S., (i)

  Stanley, Venetia see Montagu, Venetia

  Stenning, Frederick, (i)

  Stevenson, Frances: on WSC’s reaction to new world order, (i); relations with Lloyd George, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Storrs, Sir Ronald, (i)

  Strand magazine, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Strube, Sidney Conrad, (i)

  Sukhar, Yusuf al-, (i)

  Sunday Times, The, (i)

  Sussex Square, London, (i), (ii)

  Sutherland, George Granville Sutherland (‘Geordie’), 5th Duke of, (i)

  Sutherland, Millicent (‘Millie’), Dowager Duchess of, (i)

  Sutherland, Sir William (‘Bronco Bill’), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Lord Alastair (Duke of Sutherland’s brother), (i)

  Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire, (i), (ii)

  Thomas, Lowell, (i); With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia, (i)

  Thompson, Detective-Sergeant (later Inspector) Walter Henry, (i), (ii)

  Thomson, David Coupar, (i)

  Tilden, Philip, (i)

  Times, The: opposes reprisals in Ireland, (i); on WSC’s Dundee speech, (i); praises WSC, (i); on Michael Collins, (i); on Irish conference, (i)

  Tonypandy, Wales: striking miners (1910), (i)

  Transjordan, (i), (ii)

  Trenchard, Air Marshal Sir Hugh, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Trotsky, Leon, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Truman, Harry S., (i)

  Tudor, Major-General Henry, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Turkey: conflict with Greece, (i), (ii); and Mesopotamia settlement, (i); WSC’s views on, (i); see also Ottoman Empire

  Twain, Mark, (i)

  unemployment, (i), (ii)

  Union of Democratic Control, (i)

  United States of America: post-Great War position, (i); WSC’s lecture tour in, (i); as naval rival, (i); and Japanese naval power, (i); relationship with Britain, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); WSC’s feelings for, (i)

  ‘Unknown Soldier, the’, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Upper Silesia, (i), (ii)

  Vane-Tempest, Lord Herbert Lionel, (i), (ii)

  Venizelos, Eleftherios, (i)

  Versailles, Treaty of (1919), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Vincent, Helen, Lady d’Abernon, (i)

  Walden, Thomas, (i)

  War Office: WSC’s retrenchment campaign, (i)

  Washington Conference (1921–2), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Washington, George: statue, (i)

  Washington Post, (i), (ii)

  Webb, Beatrice, (i)

  Weizmann, Chaim, (i), (ii)

  Weizmann, Vera, (i)

  Westminster Abbey: US-British ceremony, (i)