Anthony Eden succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister not because he had been Deputy Prime Minister, but because he had long been seen as Churchill's heir apparent and natural successor.

He attempted to move the debate along but received little support from Churchill ( who was against Indian independence ), nor from Clement Attlee, Churchill's successor as Prime Minister.

However, once it was clear that Eden was to be Churchill's successor, he sought the office of Lord Chancellor.

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.

After the King's initial dismay over Churchill's appointment of Lord Beaverbrook to the Cabinet, he and Churchill developed " the closest personal relationship in modern British history between a monarch and a Prime Minister ".

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.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's Soviet policy regarding Central Europe differed vastly from that of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the former believing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to be a " devil "- like tyrant leading a vile system.

It was taken from the final phrase of Winston Churchill's first speech to the House of Commons as Prime Minister-his famous " Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat " speech-in which he said " Come, then, let us go forward together ".

Throughout Churchill's second term as Prime Minister ( 1951 – 55 ) Home remained at the Scottish Office, although both Eden at the Foreign Office and Lord Salisbury at the Commonwealth Relations Office invited him to join their ministerial teams.

In the United Kingdom, the term First Minister was once used interchangeably with Prime Minister, as in Winston Churchill's famous line: " I did not become His Majesty's First Minister so that I might oversee the liquidation of the British Empire!

U. S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair also cited Churchill's warnings about German rearmament to justify their action in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War.

Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's personal physician during the Second World War, Charles Wilson, the first Baron Moran, was born in Skipton in 1882.

Churchill's interpretation of the agreements was contrary to the interpretation given by Prime Minister Lloyd George during the Paris Peace Conference.

With questions concerning overseas deployment resolved, the division's respective commands were formed in May and June 1940, and at British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's request, the division was deployed to the United Kingdom between 1 August and 25 December 1940.

On Winston Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in 1940, Hoare lost his Cabinet position, and was, after some months of unemployment, sent as Ambassador to Spain, with his wife Lady Maud Hoare.

In 2009, she portrayed Clementine Churchill in the HBO feature, Into the Storm, about Sir Winston Churchill's years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II.

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.

It was Churchill's first speech to the House after taking over as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the first year of World War II, having replaced Neville Chamberlain on 10 May, and the first of three speeches which he gave during the period of the Battle of France.

During his time in London, he met with most of the senior political figures including Andrew Bonar Law ( the Colonial Secretary ), Winston Churchill ( by that time displaced as First Lord of the Admiralty ), Arthur Balfour ( Churchill's replacement at the Admiralty ) and the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith.

Following Winston Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister, Churchill visited the Cabinet Room in May 1940 and declared: ' This is the room from which I will direct the war '.

The title of the film is that of the first volume of Churchill's largely autobiographical six-volume history of the war, which covered the period from 1919 to 10 May 1940, the day he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

It features a chorus of ' England's to the tune of the German national anthem as well as lyrical references to World War II Prime Minister Winston Churchill's wartime speeches.

Admiral Pound was featured in the 2009 Home Box Office presentation of Into the Storm portraying Winston Churchill's service as Prime Minister.

Macmillan served as Minister of Defence from October 1954, but found his authority restricted by Churchill's personal involvement.

Though not initially appointed to ministerial office, a brilliant Commons performance in March 1952 against Aneurin Bevan in a debate on health caught Churchill's attention, and six weeks later, on 7 May, Macleod was appointed Minister of Health.

He entered Winston Churchill's war coalition as President of the Board of Trade in 1940, a post he held until 1941, and then served as Minister of State in the Middle East from 1941 to 1942 and as Minister of Production from 1942 to 1945.

He was appointed the Minister for Aircraft Production in Winston Churchill's World War II cabinet.

In Churchill's wartime coalition government, Wilkinson was appointed parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Pensions.

Charleson's notable starring television roles in the 1970s include: Anthony in A Private Matter ( 1974 ), his first starring screen role, opposite Rachel Kempson ; slick and cruel John Ross preying on Scottish immigrants to the New World in O Canada ( 1975 ) in the anthology series Churchill's People ;

He was joint-Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government and later served as Secretary of State for Scotland under Churchill and then Sir Anthony Eden from 1951 to 1957.

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.

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

Stalin's death, Churchill's farewell to public life, Hillary and Tensing on Everest, Quemoy and Matsu -- all subjects for a noble anger or an accolade.

The popular story of Winston Churchill's father paying for Fleming's education after Fleming's father saved young Winston from death is false.

" 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.

This reflected Churchill's concern with security, and his distrust of and hostility to communism, even during the alliance imposed on him by the Nazi threat.

– Churchill's chaplain.

Once again Zurlauben's Gens d ' Armes charged, looking to rout Lumley's English cavalry who linked Cutts ' column facing Blenheim with Churchill's infantry.

Seeing the opportunity, Marsin ordered his cavalry to change from facing Eugene, and turn towards their right and the open flank of Churchill's infantry drawn up in front of Unterglau.

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.

In 1940 they joined Churchill's wartime coalition government, with Sinclair serving as Secretary of State for Air, the last British Liberal to hold Cabinet rank office for seventy years.

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.

Labour lost the general election of 1951 to Churchill's renewed Conservatives, despite polling more votes than in the 1945 election and more votes nationwide than the Conservative party.

He attended Churchill's funeral in January 1965.

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.

Washington refused to support Churchill's plan to use Eisenhower's army for political maneuvers against Moscow.

A " probably apocryphal " story relates that as Beatty walked into Churchill's office at the Admiralty, Churchill looked him over and said, " You seem very young to be an Admiral.

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.

The fact that Ribbentrop did not recall Churchill's given name reflected either his general ignorance about the world beyond Germany, or his distracted mental state at war's end.

The American administration of Harry Truman began to believe this possibility in early March 1946, with the Soviets ' violation of the withdrawal deadline in Iran, and Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, given in Truman's presence a few days later.

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.

As Henry Kissinger has noted, " The man of ' blood and iron ' wrote prose of extraordinary directness and lucidity, comparable in distinctiveness to Churchill's use of the English language.