For instance, if you purport retrocognitive knowledge that " Winston Churchill killed a parrot ", the only way of verifying that knowledge would be to consult extant sources of Churchill's activities.

If it is found that he did, indeed, kill a parrot at one time, it could be said that you " simply " obtained contemporary knowledge of this fact ( by clairvoyance or telepathy, if needs be, of the relevant documents or someone's knowledge of them ), rather than directly perceived – in the manner of retrocognition – any event in Churchill's past.

Smith returned to the theatre stage after some 20 years in August 2006, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in Allegiance, Irish journalist and author Mary Kenny's play about Churchill's encounter with the Irish nationalist leader Michael Collins in 1921.

In 1909, the American impresario Charles Frohman became sole manager of the theatre and renamed the house Globe Theatre and reopened with His Borrowed Plumes written by Winston Churchill's mother, Lady Randolph Churchill.

Caryl Churchill's play Seven Jewish Children opened at the theatre in February 2009.

" 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.

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.

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.

With support from Colonel Blood's batteries, the Hessian, Hanoverian and Dutch infantry – now commanded by Count Berensdorf – succeeded in pushing the French and Irish infantry back into Oberglauheim so that they could not again threaten Churchill's flank as he moved against Tallard.

Its immediate popularity was no doubt largely due to its personal character, but its vigour and raciness make it worth reading even now when the objects of Churchill's wit are forgotten.

who now sat as an Independent Liberal-occupying important positions in Churchill's Shadow Cabinet team.

Westminster College was the site of Sir Winston Churchill's famous " Iron Curtain " speech in 1946 and is now the site of the Winston Churchill Memorial Museum, housed in the basement of a relocated London church designed and built by Christopher Wren.

Later, at Churchill's personal insistence, enough were made available to land two divisions.

Churchill's book The Gathering Storm, published in 1948, made a similar judgment to Guilty Men, though in moderate tones and with some claim to scholarship.

Speaking in the House of Lords on the 27th March, 1923, he made it clear that, for his part, he entertained serious doubts as to the validity of the British Government's ( Churchill's ) interpretation of the pledges which he, as Foreign Secretary, had caused to be given to the Sharif Hussein in 1915.

On the same night, Francis Cammaerts arrived to take Peter Churchill's place and subsequently made a much more realistic appraisal of Carte.

Churchill's location in the " western hemisphere " combined with its range-safety for firing northwards made it an ideal location, with the exception of the extremely cold weather which would limit launch seasons.

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

) Churchill's next novel — Richard Carvel ( 1899 )— was a phenomenon, selling as many as two million copies in a nation of only 76 million, and made Churchill rich.

Analysis of voice patterns in 20 of Churchill's recorded speeches show that three made in May and June 1940 do not match those provably by him, although Churchill might have recorded them after his voice had changed.

Shelley did record a performance of Churchill's " We shall fight on the beaches " speech, one of the three non-matching speeches, but that was several years after it was originally made, and there is no record of its having been broadcast as genuine Churchill ( or, indeed, at all ).

** Churchill's second-in-command was Sir Archibald Sinclair, later made Secretary of State for Air in 1940 as part of Churchill's coalition government.

Churchill's office-bedroom included BBC broadcasting equipment ; Churchill made four wartime broadcasts from the Cabinet War Rooms.

Shelley did however record a performance of Churchill's " We shall fight on the beaches " speech, but that was several years after the speech was originally made.