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.

He also insisted that the British give him exclusive command over all strategic air forces to facilitate Overlord, to the point of threatening to resign unless Churchill relented, as he did.

" At the event ceremony, director John Ford announced that Capra had also received the Order of British Empire ( OBE ) on the recommendation of Winston Churchill.

He was also an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College and of University College, London.

This campaign also put a dent in the armour of Winston Churchill, then the First Lord of the Admiralty, who had commissioned the plans to invade the Dardanelles.

Very early conferences, such as that with British diplomats in Moscow in 1941 and with Churchill and American diplomats in Moscow in 1942, focused mostly upon war planning and supply, though some preliminary postwar reorganization discussion also occurred.

Other debilitating scandals included " Arms to Iraq " – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark ( also involved in an unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge ) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill dispatched Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the war Cabinet who was known to be politically close to Nehru and also knew Jinnah, with proposals for a settlement of the constitutional problem.

Prime ministers may take other ministerial posts — for example during the Second World War, Winston Churchill was also Minister of Defence ( although there was then no Ministry of Defence ).

Churchill also used the radio to great effect, inspiring, reassuring and informing the people with his speeches during the Second World War.

Winston Churchill is also elected to Parliament for the first time.

Enfield also appeared as King George VI in Churchill: The Hollywood Years ( 2004 ), a satire on Hollywood's tendency to change elements of history.

He was also the narrator, as Winston Churchill, in the highly successful 1960 television documentary series The Valiant Years.

" However, in the 1930s other British politicians including Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George also made favourable comments about fascist leaders.

One of these daughters, Sophia Churchill, married Horatio Walpole, a great grandson of Robert Walpole and Mary Burwell who was also descended from the 1st Baron Burghley.

It also featured regular guest appearances from the younger members of the current Young Talent Team who were billed as " The Young Generation " ( Jamie Churchill, Johnnie Nuich, Joey Dee, Courtney Compagnino, Juanita Coco and Rikki Arnot ).

Churchill also granted the US base rights in Bermuda and Newfoundland gratis, allowing British military assets to be redeployed.

" Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, " Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?

Leopold's surrender was also decried by Winston Churchill: in the House of Commons on 4 June 1940 he said:

Churchill was an avid traveler and had met with Roosevelt on two previous occasions in the United States and had also held two prior meetings with Stalin in Moscow.

Stalin agreed, but at a price: Roosevelt and Churchill would have to support his reign and the partisans in Yugoslavia, and also allow for the manipulation of the border between Poland and the USSR.

In addition, the Soviet Union was required to pledge support to Turkey if that country entered the war ; Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed that it would also be most desirable if Turkey entered on the Allies ’ side before the year was out.

Churchill and Roosevelt also consented to the USSR setting up puppet communist governments in Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Baltic states, Romania, and other Eastern European countries which would result in a loss of freedom by these countries for the next fifty years and would be the genesis of the Cold War.

They also negotiated compensation for another project on the Upper Churchill, where large tracts of Actual traditional Innu hunting lands were flooded.

These accounts also indicate that the Germans were aware of Churchill's whereabouts at the time and were not so naive as to believe he would be travelling alone on board an unescorted and unarmed civilian aircraft, which Churchill also acknowledged as improbable.

Gareth Southgate cited Duncan Smith when he remarked after England's 2002 World Cup quarter-final defeat against Brazil that " we were expecting Winston Churchill and instead we got Iain Duncan Smith.

His boldness in publicly urging Churchill not to give in to Joseph Stalin was widely remarked upon ; many, including Churchill himself, observed that some of those once associated with appeasement were determined that it should not be repeated in the face of Russian aggression.

When Winston Churchill began warning of the dangers of Nazi Germany, Blatchford remarked: " Ha!

He remarked to Winston Churchill that, " What forces itself on one's attention is the degree to which everything favours the evildoer, if he is blatant enough.

The British team led by David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill were prepared to make concessions on Irish independence but would not concede a republic.

ceasing hostilities and making a few minor concessions from a menu-as if, say, Lord Halifax had become Prime Minister instead of Winston Churchill.

After some discussion, Winston Churchill convinced the British War Cabinet that no concessions should be made.

Moreover, President Roosevelt's February 1945 Yalta Conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin resulted in a secret agreement in which, among other things, the Soviet Union was granted concessions in China that Czarist Russia had lost in the Russo-Japanese War early in the century.

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.

By now Blenheim was under assault from every side by three English generals: Cutts, Churchill, and Orkney.

* 1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to " set the people free ".

* 1940: Great Britain under Winston Churchill become the last nation to hold out against the Nazis after winning the Battle of Britain

The western allies, and especially Churchill, were suspicious of the motives of Stalin, who had already installed communist governments in the central European countries under his influence.

* The 2005 John Birmingham novel Designated Targets features a cameo of Philby, under orders from Moscow to assist Otto Skorzeny's mission to assassinate Winston Churchill.

* 1706 – Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal Villeroi.

* July 11 – War of the Spanish Succession: allied victory under the command of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, against the French at the Battle of Oudenarde.

* August 13 – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat the Franco-Bavarian army.

Winston Churchill wrote under the pen name Winston S. Churchill ( from his full surname " Spencer-Churchill " which he did not otherwise use ) in an attempt to avoid confusion with the American novelist of the same name.

Humiliation of authority was something only previously delved into in The Goon Show and, arguably, Hancock's Half Hour, with such parliamentarians as Sir Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan coming under special scrutiny — although the BBC were predisposed to frowning upon it.

Prince George followed suit that night, and in the evening of the following day James issued orders to place Sarah Churchill under house arrest at St James's Palace.

At the 1924 general election, Baldwin won a clear victory, the leading coalitionists such as Austen Chamberlain and Lord Birkenhead ( and former Liberal Winston Churchill ) agreeing to serve under Baldwin and thus ruling out any restoration of the 1916 – 22 coalition.

" This activity allowed Sinclair to inform Churchill on 27 January of Air Staff agreement, " subject to the overriding claims " on other targets under the Pointblank Directive, strikes against communications in these cities to disrupt civilian evacuation from the east and troop movement from the west would be made.

Carr was convinced that the Bolsheviks were destined to win the Russian Civil War, and approved of the Prime Minister David Lloyd George's opposition to the anti-Bolshevik ideas of the War Secretary Winston Churchill under the grounds of realpolitik.

Kitchener was a sceptic about the tank, which is why it was developed under the auspices of Churchill ’ s Admiralty.

In 1945, the Soviet Union brought most of the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Europe under its influence as part of the post-World War II settlement, prompting Winston Churchill to declare in a speech in 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri that:

With the Conservative victory in 1951 Macmillan became Minister of Housing under Churchill, who entrusted Macmillan with fulfilling the latter's conference promise to build 300, 000 houses per year.

The British under Winston Churchill developed tank warfare with which they eventually won the war.

Two years later, when Churchill and Stalin formed an alliance against Hitler, the Kresy Poles were released from the Gulags in Siberia, formed the Anders Army and marched to Persia to create the II Corps ( Poland ) under British high command.

James still retained some influence, and he ordered that both Lady Churchill and Princess Anne be placed under house arrest at Anne's residence ( the Cockpit ) in the Palace of Whitehall ; both their husbands, though previously loyal to James, had switched their allegiances to William of Orange.

However, under provost Bernard Williams, King's joined Churchill and Clare in becoming the first three previously all-male colleges to admit women.

Successive British editions of Gray's Anatomy continued to be published under the Longman, and more recently Churchill Livingstone / Elsevier imprints, reflecting further changes in ownership of the publishing companies over the years.