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Winston and Churchill
In 1946 Sir Winston Churchill, who had spoken often of European union during the war, advocated the formation of `` a kind of United States of Europe ''.
The U. S. and Soviet heads of Government have met three times since Sir Winston Churchill in 1953 introduced a new word into international diplomacy with his call for a fresh approach to the problem of peace `` at the summit of the nations ''.
* 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
* 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
* Churchill, Winston.
" Nor did he save Winston Churchill himself during World War II.
This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.
During the Second Boer War on 15 November 1899, Winston Churchill, then a war-correspondent, was travelling on board an armoured train when it was ambushed by Boer commandos.
Tank or " landship " development, originally conducted by the British Navy under the auspices of the Landships Committee was sponsored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and proceeded through a number of prototypes culminating in the Mark I tank prototype, named Mother.
* 1955Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
* 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Winston Churchill was one of its occupants.
A photograph from October 1918, reproduced in many biographies, shows the then unknown Lt .- Col. Montgomery standing in front of Winston Churchill ( Minister of Munitions ) at the parade following the liberation of Lille.
He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.
Winston Churchill.
* Churchill, Winston.
Lloyd George succeeded Asquith at the Exchequer, and was in turn succeeded at the Board of Trade by Winston Churchill, a recent defector from the Conservatives.
* Winston Churchill secretly accepted £ 5, 000 — the equivalent of perhaps millions in today's money — from Burmah Oil ( now known as BP ) to lobby the British government to allow them to monopolise Persian oil resources.
In February 1922, Winston Churchill telegraphed Herbert Samuel asking for cuts in expenditure and noting: In both Houses of Parliament there is growing movement of hostility, against Zionist policy in Palestine, which will be stimulated by recent Northcliffe articles.
Stalin had respected his agreement with Winston Churchill to not intervene, but Yugoslavia and Albania defied the USSR's advice and sent supplies during the Greek Civil War to the partisan forces of the Communist Party of Greece, the ELAS ( National Popular Liberation Army ).
An informal statement issued by Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek, which outlined the terms for a Japanese surrender.
* The Sinews of Peace Winston Churchill speech in 5, March, 1946, warning about the advance of communism in central Europe.
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.
The Gallipoli Campaign had been masterminded by Winston Churchill.
Consequently, Chamberlain tendered his resignation, and Labour and the Conservatives entered a coalition government led by Winston Churchill.

Winston and Trial
* Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Trial, ISBN 0-03-086700-2 ( first published 1971 ; Holt, Rinehart and Winston )

Winston and Triumph
* Fisher, David E, A Summer Bright and Terrible: Winston Churchill, Lord Dowding, Radar, and the Impossible Triumph of the Battle of Britain ( 2005 ) excerpt online
* Churchill, Winston S. Triumph and Tragedy.
* Booknotes interview with Winston Groom on A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918 — Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front, September 1, 2002.

Winston and 1955
Macmillan served as Foreign Secretary in April – December 1955 in the government of newly appointed prime minister Anthony Eden, who had taken over from the retiring Winston Churchill.
In 1955, on holiday in Sicily soon after his resignation as Prime Minister, Winston Churchill discussed with Sir John Colville and Lord Cherwell the possibility of founding a new institution.
* Run Silent, Run Deep ( New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1955 )
* Bill Elliott ( born 1955 ), 1988 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Champion with two Daytona 500 victories ( 1985 and 1987 )
Purchased by Harry Hoyles, a local farmer and land owner, in the early 20th century, the business of milling and baking continued until 1955, run by his sons Walter, Arthur and Winston ( The Miller ).
Assuming Winston did not have the irradiation treatment done, it could have taken place any time between 1955 ( when Winston sold it ) and 1971, the year it was offered at auction.
Upon becoming a U. S. citizen, Li was able to bring his wife Sylvia and family of 2 sons, Winston and Tony, and a daughter Jeannie, to the U. S. from Hong Kong in 1955.
** Sir Winston Churchill ( 2nd Term ) ( 1951 – 1955 )
In 1951, Winston Churchill appointed him a junior minister in the Conservative Government 1951 – 1955.
His sister Clarissa married Anthony Eden in 1952-becoming Lady Eden in 1954 when he was made a Knight of the Garter, wife of the Prime Minister when Winston Churchill retired in 1955, and later the Countess of Avon in 1961 on his elevation to the peerage.
His numerous film credits include The Dam Busters ( 1955 ) ( playing Dinghy Young ), Night of the Demon ( 1957 ), Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst ( 1957 ), Ice Cold in Alex ( 1958 ), Tunes of Glory ( 1960 ), Young Winston ( 1972 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ) and the acclaimed The Shooting Party ( 1985 ).
Cabinet of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, 1955
He became a government member under Winston Churchill as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service in 1952, a post he held until December 1955, when he was made Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation by Sir Anthony Eden, entering the cabinet in January 1957, and remaining there when promoted to Minister of Defence under Harold Macmillan in 1959.

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