Churchill

  and timing of invasion of mainland Europe 287, 288, 292, 293, 294, 296, 304–5, 343, page 6 of insert

  wants to prevent Russians from reaching Berlin first 309

  war machine 246–48, 249–50

  wartime journeys 302–3, 304, 306–7, 307–8

  as wartime leader 239–44, 244–46, 249

  wins vote of confidence 282

  working with 265–69

  worries about postwar power of Russia 304

  Yalta Conference 312, 314

  speeches

  aggressive parliamentary 87

  at Harvard 309

  on Battle of Britain 255

  on becoming Prime Minister 238

  on Bolshevism 164, 232

  on British decline 331

  Budget Day 178, 185–86, 239

  changes method of delivery 200–201

  on Cold War 328–29

  on defense and rearmament 215, 218, page 3 of insert

  dries up during 84–85

  during period in trenches 151, 152

  early 39, 63, 70

  on Egyptian constitutional reform 204

  election day (1945) 240

  on fall of Singapore 283

  on first month of war 231

  on French fleet 256

  on India 200, 201, 202–3

  on Ireland 173–74

  last major 347–48

  lecture tours 83, 186–88, 200, 201

  maiden in the House 84, 85

  maiden political 70–71

  on meeting with Roosevelt 264

  meticulous preparations for 84, 178, 239, 266, 338

  national manifesto 253

  on naval estimates 130, 151

  on Nazi threat 211–12, 218–19, 227, 232

  on Norwegian Campaign 236

  on nuclear weapons 330

  on parliamentary reform 107

  on principles of democracy and freedom 311

  publication of 223

  on radio 179, 230–31, 231–32, 255

  recordings of 367

  on social reform 109

  on socialism 332

  on strategic value of Egypt 336

  to Congress 281, 293

  on united Europe 329

  VE Day 316

  wartime 239–40, 255

  on wartime decision-making 275

  and USA

  attitude toward 260–61

  criticism of 182

  first impressions of 45–46

  lecture tours 186–88, 198, 201

  and Soviet threat 327, 328–29

  unpreparedness in face of Nazi threat 223

  views on relations with 4–5, 89, 158, 182, 188, 201, 328, 329, 334, 337, 340, 347–48

  visits to 188, 201, 279–81, 287, 303, 309, 328–29, 335, 351–52

  views on

  Boer cause 84, 94

  Bolshevism 163–66

  Britain’s declining place in world 334–35

  British Empire 4, 5, 11, 26, 35, 52–53, 58, 70, 86, 89–90, 98, 167, 199, 205, 275

  Cold War 330, 333–34, 334, 335, 339, 340–41

  colonial policing 167

  colonial subjects 93

  English-speaking civilization 4, 52, 182, 201, 260, 275, 29, 336

  European integration 4, 89

  India 197, 198, 199, 200, 201–8, 331

  Ireland 85, 127–30

  Jewish homeland 171

  monarchy 112

  MPs pay 72

  nuclear weapons 330, 336, 337, 339, 347–48

  party loyalty 86–87

  party politics 335

  relations with USA 4–5, 89–90, 158, 182, 188, 201, 328, 329, 334, 337, 340, 347–48

  rule of law 167

  size of Army 51, 72, 85–86

  social reform 7, 98–99, 100, 105–11, 114, 119, 185

  socialism 175, 333

  tariff reform and protectionism 87, 89, 90, 175–76, 199

  treatment of Germany after First World War 160, 162, 165–66, 182

  treatment of indigenous peoples 96, 99

  war 57–58, 81, 120

  “wilderness years” 19, 147, 195, 197, 242–43

  writings about 2–3, 358–65, 368–70

  writings of

  autobiographies 175, 223

  biographies 11, 19, 88, 92, 186, 200, 216–17, 222, 223

  on colonial campaigns 58, 59–60, 63, 69, 71–72, 73, 80, 83

  on First World War 131, 175, 189, 200, 223

  for newspapers and magazines 47, 55–56, 57, 63–68, 69, 74, 79, 80, 83, 97, 152, 184, 187, 187–88, 193, 196, 207, 217, 222

  novel 60

  other historical works 222–23, 260, 349–50

  profusion of 222–23

  on Second World War 324, 327, 341–44, 346

  on travels 97

  civil aviation 167

  Clemenceau, Georges 158, 254

  Clerical Tithes Bill 73

  coal industry 183, 184

  Coal and Steel Community 337

  Coalition government 161–75

  Churchill drawn closer to heart of 172

  end of 174–75

  Cochran, Bourke 45–46, 49

  Cohen, Ronald 367

  Cold War 277, 317, 328, 334, 341, 343, 347–48

  collective security 210

  collectivism 333

  Collins, Michael 173

  Colonial Office 92, 93, 100, 128, 166, 168, 169, 173, 368

  Churchill as Colonial Secretary 166, 168–73

  Colville, Jock 230, 243, 300, 356

  Combined Operations Command 248

  Committee of Imperial Defense 116, 125–26, 137, 215

  Commonwealth 162, 204, 304, 306, 329, 338

  Communists 120, 163–66, 304, 310, 314

  Congress, Churchill addresses 281

  Connaught, Duke of 190

  conscription, First World War 153

  Conservative Party

  Chamberlain remains leader of 244

  Churchill assumes leadership of 259

  Churchill estranged from leadership of in 1930s 200

  Churchill leaves 87–88, 90–91

  Churchill looks to rejoin 175

  Churchill loses Oldham by-election 72

  Churchill retains leadership after 1945 330–31

  Churchill returns to 176

  Churchill stands down as leader of 347

  Churchill’s differences with 79, 85–56, 87, 89, 197

  and coalition government 144, 154

  do not undo work of Labor governments 333–34

  electoral defeat (1929) 186, 197, 199–201

  Liberals discuss coalition with 113

  lose 1950 election 332

  recovery in January 1910 election 111

  resist Churchill’s return to government 154, 155

  support for coalition wanes 174

  win 1931 election 200

  win 1951 election 332

  Constantinople 140, 140

  Coolidge, Calvin 182

  Cooper, Diana 213

  Cooper, Duff 206, 213, 216

  Corn Laws 89

  cotton industry 207

  coupon election (December 1918) 160, 161

  Courageous 232

  Courtney, Group Captain Ivor 124

  Coventry, bombing of 21

  Cranborne 217

  Crete 272

  Crimean War 44

  Cripps, Sir Stafford 283–84, 285

  Cromer, Lord 72

  cryptography 124

  Cuba 44–47

  Cunningham, Admiral Andrew 247, 295, 299, 309, 314, 320

  Curzon, Lady Georgina 14

  Curzon, Lord 71, 107, 148, 360

  Cyprus 97, 293

  Czechoslovakia 216, 217, 219, 221, 250

  communist takeover 329

  D-Day landings 233, 292, 293, 296, 302, 304, 305–6

  Daily Express 84, 179

  Daily Graphic 36, 47

  Daily Mail 71, 207

  Daily Mirror 237
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  Daily Telegraph 56, 219, 222, 341

  Dardanelles campaign 19, 139–45, 152, 155, 226

  Darwinism 52

  Davidson, H. O. D. 34

  Davidson, J. C. C. 184–85

  de Gaulle, General Charles 254–55, 302, 368

  de Robeck, Admiral John 142

  Deakin, Captain William 341, 350

  decolonization 173, 336

  Deepdene 48, 55

  defense cuts (1920s) 180–81

  Defense Regulations 258

  Delagoa Bay 77

  Delhi 272

  Denikin, General Anton 166

  Denmark 250

  Dervishes 65, 66, 67, 68, 73

  D’Este, Carlo 369

  Devonshire, Duchess of 55

  Diamond Hill, Battle of 81

  Dill, Sir John 247, 268

  Dillon family 14

  Dimbleby, Richard 354

  disarmament

  Cold War era 347

  inter-war 180, 181, 208, 209

  Disraeli, Benjamin 27, 43, 70, 88

  Ditchley Park 14, 20–23, 261, 268

  Dogger Bank, Battle of 133

  Dorman O’Gowan, Eric 343

  Dowding, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh 257

  Downing Street 259, 268, 327, 332, page 7 of insert

  dreadnoughts 120, 121, 138

  Druids 15

  Drummond-Wolff, Sir Henry 45

  Dublin 27

  Dublin Fusiliers 75

  Duchy of Lancaster 144

  Dulles, John Foster 340

  Dundee

  Churchill loses seat (1922) 175

  Churchill wins by-election (1917) 155

  Churchill’s election successes in 101, 111

  Dunkirk 234, 252–53

  Durban 78

  Durban Light Infantry 75

  Durham Light Infantry 61

  Duveen, Sir Joseph 193

  Eade, Charles 367, 368

  East Africa 174

  East Kent Regiment (the Buffs) 57

  Eastern Morning News 70

  Eden, Anthony 21, 206, 216, 243, 265, 268, 272, 296, 298, 309, 315, 316, 330, 334, 336, 338, 339, 351, 360, page 7 of insert

  Edward VII, King 18, 26–27, 49, 54, 59, 69, 73, 91–92, 95, 108, 112, 113

  Edward VIII, King, abdication of 197, 213

  Egypt

  British stronghold in 169

  constitutional reform in 204

  end of British base rights in 336

  proposed campaign in 51

  Second World War 287, 290

  Sudan campaign 62–68

  Eighth Army 307

  Eisenhower, General Dwight D. 291, 301, 306, 335, 337, 339, 340, page 5 of insert

  Elgin, Lord 59, 93, 96, 168

  Elizabeth II, Queen 351, 354, 355–56, 357

  coronation 23, 338

  Elliot, Maxine 224, 345

  Enchantress (Admiralty yacht) 120

  Enigma 283

  HMS Enterprise 306

  Entertainments Protection League 39

  Epping 177

  Esher, Lord 155

  Europe

  Churchill accused of neglecting in favor of US 340

  integration 337

  postwar 329, 332

  European Defense Community 336

  European Economic Community 337

  Evening Standard 196, 222

  Everest, Elizabeth (nanny) 13, 25, 28, 31, 32, 40

  Falklands, Battle of the 133

  Far East, Second World War 251, 253–54, 274, 277–80, 282–83, 284–85, 296–98, 308

  Faud, King 170

  Feisal, King 170

  Finest Hour: The Journal of Winston Churchill 370

  First World War 130–60

  build-up to 115–17

  changes wrought by 26, 48

  Churchill in the trenches 147–54

  Dardanelles and Gallipoli 19, 139–45, 152

  size of British Army during 42

  Western Front 17, 139, 147–54

  Fisher, Admiral Jackie 7, 123, 124, 138–39, 140, 142, 143, 144, 151, 247

  Flanders 157

  Fletcher, Ernest 89

  Focus Group 210, 213, 219

  Foreign Office 168, 169, 221, 232, 298, 300, 309, 336

  Fortnightly Review 61

  France

  British destroy warships in Oran 242, 255

  Churchill visits after D-Day 303, 305, 311

  fall of 250–58, 270

  German invasion (1914) 116

  German invasion (1940) 251

  importance of army in face of Nazi threat 209, 212

  level of British support for 251–52

  liberation of 311

  post 1945 329

  Free Food League 90

  Free French 254, 294

  free trade 89, 176, 199

  French, General Sir John 80, 135, 146, 147, 148, 360

  Frewin, Morton 60

  Fulton (Missouri) 328

  Gallipoli, Battle of 6, 139, 140, 141–42, 144, 146, 148, 151, 161

  Gandhi, Mahatma 202, 286, 363, 368

  Gardener, A. G. 189

  Garrod, Air Chief Marshal Guy 341

  Garron Tower 191

  General Strike 79, 183–85, 350

  George III, King 9

  George V, King 112, 193

  HMS George V 303

  George VI, King 212, 214, 243, 305, 319, 361

  Georges, General 212

  Germany

  and Allied invasion of mainland Europe 305

  army 86

  British ultimatum to (1914) 131

  build-up to First World War 116, 119, 123, 125–26

  build-up to Second World War 214–21

  Churchill discourages scaremongering about 110

  Churchill refuses to consider settlement with (1940) 256–57

  Churchill relishes prospect of war with (1914) 130, 132

  Churchill visits (1909) 105, 120

  Churchill’s view on treatment of defeated 160, 162

  Churchill’s warnings about threat of Nazis 196, 198, 208–12, 218–19, 227, 232

  declares war on Russia (1914) 131

  declares war on USA 264

  fall of France 250–58

  invasion of Austria and Czechoslovakia 217, 250

  invasion of Poland 250

  invasion of Soviet Union 270, 276–77, 278

  invasion of Western Europe 236, 250–51

  investment in submarines 227

  need to rearm to meet Bolshevik threat 163

  North African campaign 271

  offensive 1918 158

  plans for postwar 308

  postwar zones of occupation 312

  Second World War 181, 226–321

  strategic bombing of 270, 303

  strength of air power 214

  surrender (1945) 315

  threatened invasion of Britain 257

  war in the Mediterranean 271, 273

  war in the Middle East 273

  Ghana 336

  Gibraltar 294, 303

  Gilbert, Sir Martin 368

  Gladstone, William 354

  gold standard 179, 183

  Gordon, General 62

  Göring, Hermann 258

  Gorst, Sir John 90

  Gott, Lieutenant General William “Strafer” 288

  Grace, W. G. 31

  Graf Spee 232

  Graham, William 199

  great depression 161, 185

  Greece 272, 303, 304, 309, 311, 314

  Greek–Turkish war 55

  Grenadier Guards 147, 354, 355

  Gray, Edward 116, 117, 119, 124, 136

  Griffith, Arthur 173

  Guatemala 331

  Guedalla, Philip 30

  Haggard, Rider 14, 31

  Haig, Douglas 42, 157, 158, 247

  Haldane, Captain Aylmer 61, 75, 126, 177

  Halifax, Lord 221, 232, 237, 243, 244, 257, 262

  Hamblin, Grace 356

  Hamilton, Duke of 22
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  Hamilton, Colonel Ian 61, 75, 81, 142

  Hammarskjöld, Dag 363

  Hankey, Sir Maurice 155

  Harcourt, Lewis, Viscount 14

  Harmsworth, Alfred 70

  Harmsworth, Esmond 207

  Harriman, Averell 21, 278, 289

  Harris, Air Chief Marshall Sir Arthur 270, 314

  Harrow school 14, 32, 33–37, page 1 of insert

  Harvard University 309

  Harvey, Oliver 370

  Hastings, Max 358–59, 369

  Havana (Cuba) 45

  Hawksmoor, Nicholas 9

  Heligoland, Battle of 133

  Henley Squadron 17

  Henty, G. A. 14

  Hess, Rudolf 22

  Hever Castle 193

  Hindu–Muslim violence 205

  A History of the English-Speaking Peoples 223, 260, 349–50

  Hitler, Adolf 196, 258–59, 262, 277, 319, 368

  and appeasement 216, 221

  European ambitions 221

  invades Austria and Czechoslovakia 217

  invades Western Europe 236, 251

  and invasion of Britain 257

  rise of 208–12

  suicide 315, 316

  to be no peace with 257

  view of Churchill 249

  Hoare, Sir Samuel 231, 236

  Hobart, Percy 248

  Holmes, Marian 267

  Holmes, Richard 368

  Home Guard 258

  Home Office, Churchill at 16, 111–16, 119

  Home Rule Bill 129

  Hong Kong, fall of 280

  HMS Hood 242, 273

  Hooligans (“Hughligans”) 88–89

  Hoover, Herbert 182, 187

  Hopkins, Harry 21, 261–62, 278, 286

  House of Lords

  and People’s Budget 106, 112

  reform of 107–108, 112

  housing 334

  Howard, John 77

  Howard, Sir Michael 294

  Hozier, Clementine see Churchill, Clementine

  Hull, Cordell 265

  Hungary 310

  Hurlingham Club 91

  Hyde Park Agreement 319

  Hyderabad 54

  Iceland 264

  India

  Churchill opposes political reform in 197, 198, 199, 200, 201–8

  Churchill’s military service in 47, 48, 48–61, 71

  Churchill’s stand against civil disobedience in 285, 286

  Cripps’s mission to 284–86

  independence 331, 336

  independence movement 284–86, 313

  and Middle East policy 168, 169

  misguided “forward policy” 58

  Northwest Frontier 55–58

  promise of Dominion Status 200, 202, 203

  Second World War 284–85, 286, 297–98, 299

  India Act (1935) 207, 218

  India Office 168, 169

  Indian Empire Society 206

  Indian National Congress 202, 205, 284

  Indian Ocean 298

  industrial relations 156

  Inskip 217

  intelligence 249, 276

  Inter-Regimental Polo Tournament 50

  International Disarmament Conference 209

  IRA 170, 172

  Iran 231, 273, 290, 331

  Iraq 6, 167, 168, 169, 170–71, 171, 204, 273