by Richard Toye
Boers: in concentration camps; franchise; Lord Randolph’s view of; post–war treatment; racial views; use of dum-dum bullets; victories; WSC’s view of
Bolshevism
Bombay Chronicle
Bombay Gazette
Bonham Carter, Violet
Boothby, Robert
Borden, Robert
Bose, Subhas Chandra
Botha, Louis
Boundary Commission
Brabazon, John
Bracken, Brendan
Bretton Woods conference (1944)
Bright, John
Britain, Battle of
British Empire, see Empire
British Nationality Act (1948)
Brodrick, St John
Brooke, Sir Alan
Brooks, Richard
Bruce, S. M.
Buller, Sir Redvers
Burma: Arakan offensive (1942); Atlantic Charter; Japanese occupation; recovery plans; rice exports; self-government; U Saw’s detention; White Paper
Burma Independence Bill
Bush, George W.
Butler, Sir Harcourt
Butler, R. A.
Byles, William
Cadogan, Alexander
Cairo conference (1921)
Cairo Declaration (1943)
Caldecote, Thomas Inskip, first Viscount
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry
Canada: Boer War; Dominion status; gold standard; naval policy; Quebec conference (1943); response to Chanak crisis (1922); WSC in; WWII
Canberra Times
Cape Argus
Cape Colony
Cape Times
Capper, Arthur
Caribbean, US bases
Casement, Sir Roger
Cazalet, Victor
Cecil, Lord Hugh
Central African Federation
Ceylon
Chamberlain, Sir Austen
Chamberlain, Joseph: on attacks on WSC; Boer War; on Chinese labour; Colonial Secretary; imperial preference policy; on imperialism; influence; resignation from Cabinet; South African franchise issue; on Transvaal; on WSC
Chamberlain, Neville
Chanak crisis (1922)
Chandavarkar, N. G.
Channon, Sir Henry ‘Chips’
Charmley, John
Chaudhuri, Nirad
Chelmsford, Frederic Thesiger, first Viscount
Cherwell, Frederick Lindemann, first Viscount
Chesney, Sir George
Chiang Kai-shek
Chifley, Ben
Childers, Erskine
Chitral, relief of
Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Prince
Christianity
Chronicle
Church of England
Churchill, Clementine (Hozier, WSC’s wife): at Chequers; letter to Wilson; letter to WSC; letters from WSC; in Llandudno; marriage; WSC’s death
Churchill, Diana (WSC’s daughter)
Churchill, Jack (WSC’s brother)
Churchill, Jennie, Lady Randolph (Jerome, WSC’s mother): birth of WSC; finances; marriage; remarriage; son Jack’s letter; wartime nursing; WSC’s journalism; WSC’s letters
Churchill, Marigold (WSC’s daughter)
Churchill, Mary (WSC’s daughter)
Churchill, Lord Randolph (WSC’s father): appearance; Aylesford scandal; Chancellor of the Exchequer; character; death; education; Egypt issue; finances; influence on WSC; in Ireland; journalism; marriage; political career; political views; relationship with son; resignation; Secretary of State for India; South Africa visit; Upper Burma annexation role
Churchill, Randolph (WSC’s son)
Churchill, Sarah (WSC’s daughter)
CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON: birth; childhood; education; father’s death; army career; journalism; Battle of Omdurman; Oldham by-election (1899); Boer War; captured by Boers; escape; Oldham election (1900); lecture tour; maiden speech; move to Liberal Party; Undersecretary for Colonies, 123; African trip (1907); President of Board of Trade; marriage; Home Secretary; First Lord of Admiralty; Gallipoli; Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster; resignation; trench warfare; Minister of Munitions; Secretary of State for War and Air; Amritsar debate (1920); Secretary of State for Colonies (1921); Cairo conference; Irish negotiations; Kenyan Indians issue; Palestine White Paper; Chanak crisis; election defeat (1922); election defeat (1923); by-election defeat (1924); election (1924); return to Conservative Party; Chancellor of Exchequer; gold standard; North America tour; India policy; resignation from Shadow Cabinet; India White Paper; foreign policy; First Lord of Admiralty; Prime Minister (1940); Roosevelt conference (1941); Atlantic Charter; Far East concerns; India policy; challenges as PM; Britain’s financial position; in Washington (1943); Quebec conference (1943); Cairo Declaration (1943); Tehran conference (1943); invasion of France; Quebec conference (1944); Yalta conference (1945); Ibn Saud meeting; caretaker administration; general election (1945); Leader of Opposition; US visit (1946); Indian independence; Conservative conference (1948); Burmese independence; election campaign (1950); election campaign (1951); Prime Minister (1951); foreign policy; African policy; Mau Mau rebellion; old age; resignation; death; tributes to; funeral
PERSON: drinking; finances; health; love of music hall; marriage; mental state; painting; polo playing; reading; religious beliefs; reputation on imperial issues; shooting; ‘Victorian mind’
SPEECHES: first public speech (1894); Bath Primrose League (1897); Cardiff (1899); Oldham (1899); Blenheim (1899); Durban (1899); Plymouth (1900); maiden speech (1901); Commons (1901); Birmingham (1903); Commons (1906); Colonial Conference (1907); National Liberal Club (1908); Dr Barnardo’s (1908); Commons (1910); Dundee (1915); Commons debate on Amritsar (1920); Kenya Colony and Uganda dinner (1922); Bristol University (1929); West Essex Conservative Association (1931); ‘The Causes of War’ (1934 broadcast); ‘fight them on the beaches’ (1940); ‘finest hour’ (1940); July broadcast (1940); Battle of Britain (1940); Canadian Parliament (1941); Mansion House (1942); Fulton, Missouri (1946); University Club, New York (1946); Commons (March 1947); Commons (Nov. 1947); Commons (1948); Conservative conference (1948); broadcast on King’s death (1952); Commons (1952)
VIEWS: Anglo-Saxon superiority; attacks on ‘scuttle’; British superiority; English-speaking peoples; eugenics; Europe; free trade; hanging; Hinduism and Hindus; Home Rule; imperial preference; imperial vision; Islam and Muslims; racial issues; self-government; white superiority; Zionism
WRITINGS: biography of father; biography of Marlborough; ‘The Ethics of Frontier Policy’; History of the English-Speaking Peoples; Ian Hamilton’s March; London to Ladysmith, via Pretoria; memoirs; My African Journey; My Early Life; ‘Our Account with the Boers’; poetry; The River War; Savrola;The Second World War, The Story of the Malakand Field Force; The World Crisis
CIA
Clerical Tithes Bill
Clow, James
Cockran, Bourke
Collins, Michael
Colonial Conference (1907)
Colonial Institute
Colonial Office: black official; Black Ordinance; Chinese labour problem; Natal executions; powers; premises; strategy towards US; WSC at (1905–8); WSC at (1921–2)
colonies, status
‘Coloured’ people in South Africa
Colville, John
Commonwealth: Burma proposals; Ceylon status; Europe relations; immigration rights; Indian status; Irish status; leaders; South African status; term; US relations; WSC’s stance; WSC’s use of term; WSC’s view of
Concord magazine
Conservative Party: conference (1948); cotton duty; India policy; Irish policy; manifesto (1945); manifesto (1950); 1922 Committee; Suez Group; WSC’s departure; WSC’s leadership; WSC’s position; WSC’s return
Contemporary Review
Convention People’s Party (CPP)
Coote, Maxwell Henry
Cornwallis-West, George
Coupland, Reginald
Cox, Sir Percy
Cran
borne, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount, see Salisbury, fifth Marquess Crewe, Robert Crewe-Milnes, Earl of
Cripps, Sir Stafford: Amery alliance; career; on Gandhi; India negotiations; Ministry of Aircraft Production
Crisp, C. B.
Croft, Henry Page
Cromwell, Oliver
Crookshank, Harry
Crown
Cuba, WSC in
Curtin, John
Curzon of Kedleston, George Curzon, first Marquess of
Cyprus, WSC in
Dáil Éireann
Daily Chronicle
Daily Express
Daily Gleaner, Jamaica
Daily Graphic, Gold Coast/Ghana
Daily Mail
Daily Mirror
Daily News
Daily Telegraph
Dakar raid (1940)
Dalton, Hugh
Dardanelles
Darwin, Charles
Davidson, J. C. C.
Davies, Clement
de Gaulle, Charles
De Valera, Eamon: Menzies visit; neutrality policy; President of Ireland; relationship with WSC; suppression of IRA; treaty policy; WSC’s view of; WWII
De Wet, Christiaan
Deakin, Alfred
Derby, Edward Stanley, seventeenth Earl of
Dieppe Raid (1942)
Disraeli, Benjamin
Dominions: Atlantic Charter; Balfour Definition; Chanak crisis (1922); gold standard; naval policy; representative in War Cabinet; status; tariff reform issue; US relations; ‘White’; WSC’s view of; WWII
Dreadnoughts
Dumbarton Oaks conference (1944)
Dunkirk evacuation (1940)
Dyer, Reginald
Eagle
East Africa: Asians; highlands; Kisii revolt; transport loan; white settlers; WSC in; WSC’s stance; WWI
East African Protectorate, see also Kenya
East African Standard
Easter Rising (1916)
Eden, Anthony: Conservative conference speech (1948); economic policy; Egypt policy; Foreign Secretary; Greek campaign; health; India policies; Iran policy; Irish policy; Prime Minister; relationship with WSC; resignation; successor; Suez (1956); US agenda position; Viceroy question; on Yalta conference
Eden, Clarissa
Edward VII, King
Edward VIII, King
Egypt: British involvement; British presence in Canal Zone; British war debts; Lord Randolph’s policy; Milner report; nationalist coup (1952); nationalization of Suez Canal; negotiations over British forces; renunciation of British treaty; revolts; Suez crisis (1956); WSC’s meeting with Ibn Saud; WSC’s stance
Éire (Republic of Ireland, earlier Irish Free State): Commonwealth departure; creation; migration to Britain; neutrality; WSC’s stance
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
elections, general: (1880); (1885); (1886); (1899); (1900); (1906); (1910); (1918); (1922); (1923); (1924); (1929); (1931); (1935); (1945); (1950); (1951); (1955); (1959); (1964)
Elgin, Victor Bruce, ninth Earl of: career; Chinese Labour issue; Colonial Conference (1907); Colonial Secretary; Gandhi meeting; Kenya settlers policy; Natal executions issue; Nigeria policy; relationship with WSC; South African non-white deputation to
Elizabeth II, Queen
Emmott, Alfred
Empire: Atlantic Charter; Balfour Definition; Boer position; centralized control issue; Conservative manifesto (1945); decline; domestic threats to; as economic bloc; Egyptian position; Europe and; expansion; German views of; imperial education; Indian position; Irish position; Labour policy; ‘liquidation’ of; media images; Muslim population; nationalist pressures; population; preference, see imperial preference; public opinion of; race relations; role of army; role of Crown; role of navy; term; territory; threats to; trusteeship issue; US views; WSC’s imperial vision; WSC’s reputation; WSC’s speeches; WSC’s use of word; WWI; WWII
Empire Industries Association
Empire Marketing Board
Empire Palace of Varieties, Leicester Square
Empire Review
Epping constituency
Erskine, Sir George
European Economic Community (EEC)
Evatt, H. V.
Evening Post, Wellington
Everest, Mrs (WSC’s nurse)
Farouk, King
Feisal, King of Iraq
Fianna Fáil
Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (Stern Gang)
Fincastle, Alexander Murray, Viscount
Fisher, Geoffrey
Fisher, John (‘Jackie’)
Fortnightly Review
‘Fourth Party’
France: defence (1940); Empire; fall (1940); Fashoda expedition; Free French forces; Gallipoli forces; invasion (1944); Levant mandates; Suez (1956); Vichy regime
Franco-Prussian War
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke
Fraser, Peter
Free Press Journal, Bombay
free trade: Amery’s position; Conservative policy; imperial preference controversy; Liberal policy; US policy; WSC’s position
Freeman’s Journal
Frewen, Moreton (WSC’s uncle)
Gaitskell, Hugh
Gallipoli
Gandhi, Mohandas K.: ambulance corps in Boer War; assassination; British attitudes to; civil disobedience; Cripps on; Cripps negotiations; criticisms of WSC; Dominion status aim; Elgin meeting; fast; financial backers; imprisonment; in India; Indian self-government hopes; Irwin discussions; Jinnah relations; on Labour victory (1945); letter to WSC; in London; non-violent resistance; in South Africa; on WSC; WSC on; WSC meeting; WSC’s East African immigration policy; WWII
General Strike (1926)
George III, King
George V, King
George VI, King
Germany: colonies; naval forces; rise of Hitler; surrender (1945); WSC’s warnings; WWII
Ghana, see Gold Coast
Gibbon, Edward
Gladstone, William: Egypt policy; fall of government (1885); Gordon’s death; Home Rule policy; South African policy
Glasgow Herald
Godfrey, William
Goebbels, Josef
Gold Coast (later Ghana)
gold standard
Gordon, Charles
Gordon Walker, Patrick
Gough, Hugh, first Viscount
Government of India Act (1919)
Government of India Act (1935)
Greece, WWII
Grey, Sir Edward
Grigg, John
Grigg, P. J.
Guides Infantry
Gunning, J. W. B.
Gurney, Sir Henry
Haaretz
Haggard, H. Rider
Haldane, Aylmer
Halifax, Edward Wood, third Viscount (earlier Lord Irwin): ambassador to Washington; Foreign Secretary; Gandhi discussions; Hitler meeting; India Dominion status policy; Kenyan Indians agreement; Viceroy of India; view of WSC; wartime Prime Minister question
Hamilton, Lord George
Hamilton, Sir Ian
Hanna, H. B.
Harcourt, Lewis
Hardie, Keir
Harriman, Averell
Harrod, Roy
Harrow School
Harsh, Joseph C.
Harvey, Oliver
Henderson, Ian
Hertzog, J. B. M.
Het Volk party
Hicks Beach, Sir Michael
Hillary, Edmund
Hindoo Patriot
Hindu
Hindus, Hinduism: Gandhi’s interest in; Mayo’s account; Muslim relations; Nichols’s account; refugees after partition; troops in Indian army; WSC’s view of
Hindustan Times
Hitler, Adolf: Burmese view of; education policy; Halifax’s visit; invasion of Greece; offensive against; rise to power; speeches on British Empire; on WSC; WSC comparison; WSC’s warnings
Hoare, Sir Samuel
Hong Kong
Hooligans (Hughligans)
Hop
kins, Harry
Hopwood, Sir Francis
Howard, Hubert
Howard, John
Hughes, Emrys
Hughes, W. M.
Hull, Cordell
Humanité, L’
Hunt, David
Hunter, William Hunter, Lord
Ibn Saud, King
Imperial Conference (1921)
Imperial Conference (1926)
imperial preference: Beaverbrook’s campaign; Chamberlain’s policy; Ottawa Agreements; supporters; US policy; WSC’s position
Imperial War Cabinet
Imperial War Conference
Imperial War Graves
India: Amritsar massacre (1919); army; Britain’s war debts; British rule; bubonic plague; Cabinet Mission (1946); civil disobedience (1942); Commonwealth membership; cotton duty; Dominion status question; famine (1873–4); famine (1943–4); Hindu–Muslim relations; Lord Randolph’s visit; partition; Pathan rising; Princely States; religion; self-government issue; Untouchables; violence (1946); White Paper (1931); WSC in; WSC’s stance; WWII
India League
India Office: Amery at; Burma policies; criticisms of WSC; Kenyan Indians issue; Lord Randolph at; Montagu at; Wavell’s position; WSC considered for
Indian Civil Service
Indian Empire Society
Indian Independence Bill
Indian National Congress: beginnings; civil disobedience; Cripps negotiations; election victories; Gandhi’s resolution (1928); leadership; partition; Round Table Conference; Simla conference; WSC’s view of; WWII
Indian News Chronicle
Indian Spectator
International Bank
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Iran: coup (1953); crisis (1951)
Iraq: creation; press; ruler; WSC’s policy; see also Mesopotamia
Ireland: Easter Rising (1916); Home Rule issue; Lord Lieutenancy; Treaty (1921); Ulster; unification issue; War of Independence; WSC’s achievements; WWII; see also Éire, Northern Ireland
Irish Free State, see Éire
Irish Parliamentary Party
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Irish Republican Brotherhood (Fenians)
Ironside, Edmund
Irwin, Lord, see Halifax
Islam: Aga Khan; Mahdism; Reade’s account; Saudi Arabia; WSC’s view of; see also Muslims
Ismay, Hastings Ismay, first Baron
Israel, see also Palestine
Jacob, Sir Ian
Jam Saheb, Maharajah of Nawanagar