Churchill's account of the First World War, The World Crisis, describes Beatty's next order as, " Steer two points nearer the enemy.

Hochhuth's next play, Soldiers, Necrology on Geneva ( 1967 ), alleged that Winston Churchill was responsible for the death of the Polish Prime Minister, General Władysław Sikorski, in an airplane crash in 1943, contradicting the official version of events as an accident, and claiming that General Sikorski had been murdered on Churchill's orders.

Marsh would be Churchill's Private Secretary for the next ten years, until Churchill left the Government in 1915.

For the next few years there was some speculation about a return to frontline politics, as often happens when a Cabinet minister resigns, but Churchill's own career as a Conservative chief was over.

Armstrong's proclivity toward secular pursuits outside evangelism was evidenced by his appearance as a guest on the US television show Hee Haw in the 1970s ( Armstrong had arranged for Hee Haw co-host Buck Owens to entertain attendees at the WCG's annual convention one year ), and his authorship of a novel, Churchill's Gold, penned under the pseudonym William Talboy Wright-a mixture of names from his grandparents: William Dillon ( maternal grandfather ), Isabelle Talboy ( maternal grandmother ), and Eva Wright ( paternal grandmother ).

The novel is also a poignant example of art imitating life, since one of the stories resembles the ill-fated marriage of heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough, as well as Lady Randolph Churchill's marriages, to some extent.

Turned down by South Africa for the post of Governor General ( the country was holding out for a cabinet minister or member of the royal family ) and snubbed by Winston Churchill on his assumption of the post of Under-Secretary for the Colonies — on one occasion he stormed into Churchill's office and told him that he " expected to be treated like a gentleman "— a thwarted Wood voted for the downfall of Lloyd George's government and became President of the Board of Education under Andrew Bonar Law in 1922.

Lord Moran, Winston Churchill's personal physician, wrote in his diaries that " seemed to me hardly sane — in medical jargon a borderline case.

Zetland's term as Secretary of State — and the experiment with democracy represented by the 1935 Act — came to an end with Churchill's assumption of the Prime Ministership in 1940: Zetland then offered his resignation, feeling that his ideas and Churchill's regarding India were so different that " I could only end by becoming an embarrassment to him.

She also appeared as Winston Churchill's lover Pamela Plowden in Young Winston, produced by her father-in-law Richard Attenborough.

In 2002, director Richard Loncraine persuaded Barker to appear as Winston Churchill's butler David Inches in the BBC-HBO drama The Gathering Storm and then cast him in the larger role of the General in the TV film My House in Umbria in 2003, alongside Maggie Smith ( whom he had, early in their careers, advised to give up acting as he felt she would not be a success ).

* Churchill's Hall Dark Blue & Light Blue ( Richard Hudson )

In January 2006 he appeared in the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Well-Appointed Room for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, and followed this with a run at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, portraying the cloned brothers in Caryl Churchill's A Number.

Richard Mead in Churchill's Lions suggests that Leese was naive, Slim petulant and Mountbatten devious.

Richard ( called Captain Barnes in the transcripts ) was in the team of officers who interrogated Rudolf Hess, and Charles commanded Winston Churchill's bodyguard for part of the war, and in Norway arrested the Deputy Commandant of Auschwitz, Karl Fritzsch.

Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Ian Claud Jacob GBE, CB, ( 27 September 1899 – 24 April 1993 ), known as Ian Jacob, was the Military Assistant Secretary to Winston Churchill's war cabinet and later a distinguished broadcasting executive, serving as the Director-General of the BBC from 1952 to 1960.

" It is highly probable that the correct information about the sulphonamide did not reach the newspapers because, since the original sulphonamide antibacterial, Prontosil, had been a discovery by the German laboratory Bayer, and as Britain was at war with Germany at the time, it was thought better to raise British morale by associating Churchill's cure with the British discovery, penicillin.

Both the Zionist Organization and the British government devoted efforts over the following decades, including Winston Churchill's 1922 White Paper, to denying that a state was the intention.

He was also the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister, under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before leading the Labour Party to a landslide election victory over Churchill's Conservative Party in 1945.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

Seymour had aristocratic connections, which may have appealed to Beatty since he sought connections in society, but it was also the case that Seymour's sister was a longstanding close friend of Churchill's wife.

European federalism originated in post-war Europe ; one of the more important initiatives was Winston Churchill's speech in Zurich in 1946.

Lord De L ' Isle was Secretary of State for Air in Winston Churchill's Cabinet 1951 – 55.

In addition, it was at the Potsdam Conference that Truman became aware of possible complications elsewhere, when Stalin objected to Churchill's proposal for an early allied withdrawal from Iran, ahead of the agreed upon schedule set at the Tehran Conference.

With statements such as Winston Churchill's 1946 call for a " United States of Europe " becoming louder, in 1949 the Council of Europe was established as the first pan-European organisation.

The King was displeased at Liberal attacks on the peers, including Lloyd George's Limehouse speech and Churchill's public demand for a general election ( for which Asquith apologised to the King's adviser Lord Knollys and rebuked Churchill at a Cabinet meeting ).

In the 1945 British general election, Churchill's Conservative party was soundly defeated by the Labour party of Clement Attlee.

Goda charged that Erika Raeder and her friends had grossly quoted out of context certain passages from Churchill's 1948 book The Gathering Storm to support their claim that the invasion of Norway was a " preventive war " forced on the Third Reich while ignoring the evidence that had convicted Raeder at Nuremberg.

Churchill's reply, sent to him two weeks later, was simple: " Unconditional surrender ".

In 1940 and in the aftermath of Dunkirk, Churchill's interest was caught again by the idea of taking the fight back to Europe-the airborne was now a means ' to be able to storm a series of water obstacles ... everywhere from the Channel to the Mediterranean and in the East '.

In Carr's opinion, Churchill's support of the White Russian movement was folly as Russia was likely to be a great power once more under the leadership of the Bolsheviks.

Yet he was instead eventually persuaded to support Winston Churchill's disastrous Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 – 1916.

Macmillan returned to England after the European war and was Secretary of State for Air for two months in Churchill's caretaker government, ' much of which was taken up in electioneering ', there being ' nothing much to be done in the way of forward planning '.

Howard's manager Alfred Chenhalls physically resembled Churchill, while Howard was tall and thin, like Churchill's bodyguard, Detective Inspector Walter H. Thompson.

Coincidentally, the timing of Howard's takeoff and the flight path was similar to Churchill's, making it easy for the Germans to mistake the two flights.

In more recent times, Winston Churchill's government privatized the British steel industry in the 1950s, and West Germany's government embarked on large-scale privatization, including selling its majority stake in Volkswagen to small investors in a public share offering in 1961.

" I beg you will let me see you as often as you can ," pleaded Churchill in a letter to Sarah Jennings, " which I am sure you ought to do if you care for my love ..." Sarah Jennings ' social origins were in many ways similar to Churchill's – minor gentry blighted by debt-induced poverty.

Churchill's stance against suffragettes may have had an impact in a city where many women were breadwinners, while many men were " kettle boilers ".

From early December 1940 to February 1941, during Operation Compass, the exploits of the Western Desert Force earned a parody of Winston Churchill's famous quote, " Never has so much been owed by so many, to so few.

His directing credits are many, including James Stock's Star-Gazy Pie and Sauerkraut ( Royal Court Theatre, 1995 ) and Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest for which he won an Obie award.

Churchill's satire made him many enemies, and brought reprisals.

Similarly to many early 20th century refurbishments of old estates, the immediate grounds, which fall away behind the house, were shaped into overlapping rectilinear terraces and garden plats, in lawn and mixed herbaceous gardens in the Lutyens-Jekyll manner, linked by steps descending to lakes that Churchill created by a series of small dams, the water garden where he fed his fish, Lady Churchill's Rose garden and the Golden Rose Walk, a Golden Wedding anniversary gift from their children.

The garden areas provided inspiration for Churchill's paintings, many of which are on display in the house's garden studio.

The film's title alludes to Winston Churchill's speech describing Battle of Britain aircrew: " Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

The term comes from Winston Churchill's phrase " Never, in the field of human conflict, was so much owed by so many to so few.

Wigram was one of many people passing information to Churchill ; Churchill's biographer, Martin Gilbert, estimated that there were more than twenty ( although he credited Wigram as one of the three main players in this ).