" Nor did he save Winston Churchill himself during World War II.

" Churchill – who was himself only thirty-eight years old in 1912 – took to him immediately and he was appointed Private Naval Secretary to the First Lord against the advice of First Sea Lord Sir Arthur Wilson.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill later distanced himself from the attack, even though he was heavily involved with the planning of the raid.

Churchill himself can be blamed for the spread of the theory ; in his autobiography, he expresses sorrow that a mistake about his activities might have cost Howard his life.

At first the dominant figures in the management of the war were Winston Churchill ( First Lord of the Admiralty ) and Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener, who had taken over the War Office from Asquith himself.

Unable to associate himself decisively with either party, Chamberlain sought concerted action with a kindred spirit from the Conservative Party, Lord Randolph Churchill.

Smith was born in the village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, the son of blacksmith John Smith, himself scion of a respectable farming family.

Winston Churchill himself departed from Stranraer in a Boeing Flying Boat on the night of the 25 June 1942, when making his second visit of the war to the USA.

However, little is known of John Churchill's childhood for he himself tells us nothing of it, but growing up in these impoverished conditions at Ashe, with family tensions soured by conflicting allegiances, may have had a lasting impression on the young Churchill.

One account has it that upon the King's appearance Churchill leapt out of his lover's bed and hid in the cupboard, but the King, himself wily in such matters, soon discovered young Churchill who promptly fell to his knees – " You are a rascal ," said Charles, " but I forgive you because you do it to get your bread.

The following year Churchill gained a further commendation at the Siege of Maastricht when the young captain distinguished himself as part of the 30-man forlorn hope, successfully capturing and defending part of the fortress.

Churchill himself had openly encouraged defection to the Orangist cause, but James continued to hesitate.

When offered the post of Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ( one he had long coveted ), he could not bring himself to accept it, noting in his diary: " Invitation from that bloody shit Churchill to be Lord High Commissioner.

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.

Similarly, after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain in 1940 there were two likely successors, Churchill and Halifax, but the latter ruled himself out for the premiership on the grounds that his membership of the House of Lords disqualified him.

The official explanation of the defeat as presented to the House of Commons by Winston Churchill stated: " feeling he could not bring the enemy immediately to action as long as he kept with Canopus, he decided to attack them with his fast ships alone, in the belief that even if he himself were destroyed ... he would inflict damage on them which ... would lead to their certain subsequent destruction.

Only R V Jones could save the flight by pointing out that Churchill himself had ordered it and he would make sure that Churchill would get to know who cancelled it.

While Operation Compass continued successfully in 1941 and resulted in the complete defeat of the Italian Army in North Africa, Wilson, who was already highly regarded by his World War I regimental colleague and now Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden, had also won the confidence of Churchill himself.

Additionally, James preferred to associate himself with Anglican and Protestant people, such as John Churchill, whose wife would later become a very close friend of Anne's youngest surviving daughter, Lady Anne.

After the annulment with the Duke of Marlborough, she still maintained ties with favorite Churchill relatives, particularly Winston Churchill ( who was himself the son of an American mother ).

His less practical ideas were sidelined by an experienced planning staff led by Lt-Col. James Allason, though some, such as a proposal to launch an amphibious assault near Rangoon, got as far as Churchill before being quashed.

After the German retreat from the Caucasus, the Turkish government got closer with Western Allies and Winston Churchill secretly met with İsmet İnönü at the Yenice Train Station near Adana on 30 January 1943, with the intent of pulling Turkey into the war, on the side of the Allies.

Ironically, Burton got along well with Churchill when he met him at a play in London, and kept a bust of him on his mantelpiece.

Many playwrights, screenwriters and novelists got their start in radio drama, including Caryl Churchill, Rod Serling, Irwin Shaw and Tom Stoppard.

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.

The two men got along so well that Churchill, whose hobby was painting, wrote to his wife that " He is really giving me a new lease of life as a painter.

Dorman-Smith got into an argument with Churchill and gave him a patronising lecture on military tactics.

In one encounter a Churchill tank got the better of a German heavy tank, Tiger I, when a shot lodged between the Tiger's turret and turret ring.

The Tower of London was called for backup, and word got to the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, who arrived on the spot to observe the incident at first hand, and to offer advice.

It is said that as the House of Commons thundered in an uproar at his stirring rhetoric, Churchill muttered in a whispered aside to a colleague, " And we ’ ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that ’ s bloody well all we ’ ve got!

Maclean got permission from Churchill to go to Serbia, previously a stronghold of the Chetniks, to supervise Ratweek from there.

Keyes sought an interview with Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty and finally got one on 16 April.

In a telegram written on 9 October 1944, Churchill said that, " As regards Arnhem I think you have got the position a little out of focus.

The British government got wind of the Duke's alleged indiscreet remarks with Beigbeder, and as a result Churchill sent the Duke a telegram, ordering him back to Britain.

While the prince got permission from Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eisenhower had Air Commodore Andrew Geddes begin planning immediately.

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.

* November 10 – In a speech at the Mansion House in London, Winston Churchill promises, " should the United States become involved in war with Japan, the British declaration will follow within the hour.

Roosevelt and Winston Churchill agree ( 1 ) no territorial gains sought by America or Great Britain, ( 2 ) territorial adjustments must conform to people involved, ( 3 ) people have right to choose their own govt.

The Asquith government became involved in an expensive naval arms race with the German Empire and began an extensive social welfare programme ( See Liberal reforms ), spearheaded by David Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and-at this stage-Winston Churchill who at the Board of Trade had passed measures against sweatshop conditions.

At the same time Winston Churchill, who had assumed the position of Prime Minister in May, became involved in the matter after being alerted to the problems, obtaining a summary of the current LDV position from the War Office on 22 June.

As Pamela Churchill Harriman she became a United States citizen in 1971 and became involved with the Democratic Party, creating a fund-raising system — a political action committee — named " Democrats for the 80s ", later " Democrats for the 90s ", and nicknamed " PamPAC ".

It may have been named after Winston Churchill, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Minister of Defence at the time, and had been involved with the development of the tank as a weapon during the First World War.

A number of PII certificates were signed in relation to the prosecutions of individuals involved in the Matrix Churchill " Arms to Iraq " case, a subject that was subsequently investigated in the Scott Report.

Karl was involved in an affair with Jennie Jerome, wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and American born mother of Sir Winston Churchill.

Metrobus has been involved in an NHS advert, a Churchill car insurance advert in Croydon's Valley Park and several BT adverts, where several of their buses were used.

There follows a long chase across Northern England and Scotland with both Hitler and Churchill getting personally involved.

These stories usually also involved historical figures, with Sophia claiming to have had trysts with Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, and Winston Churchill, amongst others.

* Detective Sandra Philo-a detective investigating the deaths of Larsen and Churchill, she knows that the Hobsons are somehow involved.

The company was involved in the construction of the Churchill Falls Generating Station.

He gained his second A cap against Italy A in 2003 and was involved in the Churchill Cup success in Canada.

The following Austro-Russian talks were sabotaged by Austria ’ s refusal to abandon any of the demands on Serbia As a preparatory move in case a war did break out, and Britain were to become involved, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the British Admiralty, ordered the British fleet not to disperse as planned, arguing that news of the British move might serve as a deterrent to war, and thus help persuade Germany to put pressure on Austria to abandon some of the more outrageous demands in their ultimatum.

Apart from his clinical practice, he was a member on a large number of government committees pertaining to physical and mental health, and was involved in the care of Winston Churchill on the latter's deathbed in 1965.

He was involved in camp and school theater from the age of six, and attended Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland.