( Churchill sent a telegram to Alexander on 23 September 1942 which began, " We are in your hands and of course a victorious battle makes amends for much delay.

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 ).

Working closely with Winston Churchill of Britain, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, Roosevelt sent his forces into the Pacific against Japan, then into North Africa against Italy and Germany, and finally into Europe starting with France and Italy in 1944 against the Germans.

Menzies sent the bulk of the army to help the British in the Middle East and Singapore, and told Winston Churchill the Royal Navy should strengthen its Far Eastern forces.

When the war did break out, he was rounded up along with other persons of German or Austrian background, and sent to Canada ( on orders from Winston Churchill ).

Leopold's former secretary sent a letter to Churchill saying that Churchill was wrong.

Macmillan attained real power and Cabinet rank upon being sent to North Africa in 1942 as British government representative to the Allies in the Mediterranean, reporting directly to Prime Minister Winston Churchill over the head of the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden.

In 1678, Churchill married Sarah Jennings, and in April that year, he was sent by Charles II to The Hague to negotiate a convention on the deployment of the English army in Flanders.

Given its strategic value, Winston Churchill would later quote a telegram he sent to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff on 4 June 1940: " To lose Crete because we had not sufficient bulk of forces there would be a crime.

The Chief of the Admiralty War Staff — Vice-Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee — requested additional ships be sent to reinforce Cradock, but this was vetoed by First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, Prince Louis of Battenberg.

The Viceroy Lord Linlithgow sent a signal criticising the conduct of the field commanders to Churchill who forwarded it to Wavell together with an offer to send Harold Alexander, who had commanded the rearguard at Dunkirk.

O ' Connor sent him back to Cairo to ask Wavell's permission to advance on Tripoli but, in the meantime, Churchill had instructed Wavell to send troops to the aid of Greece, thus effectively ending Operation Compass.

The Nazi blacklist was the list in The Black Book that was drawn up of 2, 820 prominent British citizens such as Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell that would have been sent to concentration camps if the United Kingdom had not won the Battle of Britain and Nazi Germany's Operation Sea Lion had succeeded in conquering Great Britain.

The guns used by the assassins were sent to David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in

Two days later, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill sent a memo to his chief staff officer, General Hastings Ismay, asking him to begin planning an operation for a raid on the islands as soon as possible and stating that he felt that it would be the type of operations that the newly formed Commandos would be suited for.

Its plot ( concerned with a German commando unit sent into England to kidnap Winston Churchill ) was fresh and innovative ( although the plot is clearly reminiscent of Alberto Cavalcanti's wartime film Went the Day Well ?, which itself was directly based on the 1942 Graham Greene short story The Lieutenant Died Last ), and the characters had significantly more depth than in his earlier work.

He first sent an encoded dispatch to President Roosevelt and then called Prime Minister Churchill.

In late 1950, a Churchill Crocodile squadron was sent to Korea.

The Soviet Union was sent a total of 301 Churchill Mk III and Mk IV types as part of the Lend-Lease programme.

Churchill contracted a marriage within the rules of the Fleet in his eighteenth year, and never lived at Cambridge ; the young couple lived in his father's house, and Churchill was afterwards sent to the north of England to prepare for holy orders.

Young Richard was sent as a boarding student to Aysgarth in the north of England, then was enrolled at Fonthill in Sussex and finally at Harrow School where his time overlapped with Winston Churchill.

The note, which was sent straight to Sir Winston Churchill, in his second term as Prime Minister, went on: " In March of this year, ( i. e. about the time when the communists displayed a new interest in concluding an armistice ) various thoughts were put in to his mind, and he remains convinced that he was meant to retain these and pass them on to Her Majesty's Government.

As the MPs filed out at the end of the day Winston Churchill began taunting the opposition, and in his anger Ronald McNeil hurled a copy of Standing Orders of the House at Churchill, hitting him on the head.

Whitaker's was prized enough that Winston Churchill took a personal interest in the continued publication of the book after its headquarters were destroyed in The Blitz ; a copy is also sealed in Cleopatra's Needle on the north bank of the River Thames.

The footnote appeared in the book when it was published, and a copy was circulated to every British Member of Parliament ; when Churchill was alerted, he instructed his solicitors to issue a writ for libel.

Ralph Wigram, an official in the Foreign Office, gave Winston Churchill a copy of this despatch in mid-March 1936.

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

Found with him was a rambling letter addressed to the British Prime Minister " Vincent Churchill " criticizing British foreign policy for anti-German bias, blaming the British for the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany, and thus for the advance of " Bolshevism " into central Europe.

In the letter Churchill wrote,

The pike was issued as a British Home Guard weapon in 1942 after the War Office acted on a letter from Winston Churchill saying " every man must have a weapon of some kind, be it only a mace or pike ".

After receiving considerable criticism in London following Yalta regarding the atrocities committed in Poland by Soviet troops, Churchill wrote Roosevelt a desperate letter referencing the wholesale deportations and liquidations of opposition Poles by the Soviets.

" I beg you will let me see you as often as you can ," pleaded Churchill in a letter to Sarah Jennings, " which I am sure you ought to do if you care for my love ..." Sarah Jennings ' social origins were in many ways similar to Churchill's – minor gentry blighted by debt-induced poverty.

), Churchill, accompanied by some 400 officers and men, slipped from the royal camp and rode towards William in Axminster, leaving behind him a letter of apology and self-justification:

In a private letter to Geoffrey Dawson, the editor of The Times newspaper, Churchill suggested that a delay would be beneficial because, given time, the King might fall out of love with Simpson.

The conference provided the political blueprint for British administration in both Iraq and Transjordan, and in offering these two regions to the sons of Sharif Hussein ibn Ali of the Hedjaz, Churchill stated that the spirit, if not the letter, of Britain's wartime promises to the Arabs might be fulfilled.

Churchill then delivered to the President a letter from King George VI and made an official statement which, despite two attempts, a sound-film crew present failed to record.

Lloyd George, Birkenhead and Winston Churchill ( still distrusted by many Conservatives ) wished to use armed force against Turkey ( the Chanak Crisis ), but had to back down when offered support only by New Zealand, but not Canada, Australia or South Africa ; an anonymous letter appeared in " The Times " supporting the government but stating that Britain could not " act as the policeman for the world ", and it was an open secret that the author, " A Colonial ", was in fact Bonar Law.

By July 1941, the emblematic use of the letter V had spread through occupied Europe, and on July 19, Winston Churchill put the British government ’ s stamp of approval on the V for Victory campaign in a speech, from which point he started using the V hand sign.

Churchill argued that some form of home defence force should be raised from members of the population who were ineligible to serve in the regular forces but wished to serve their country ; in a letter he wrote to Samuel Hoare, the Lord Privy Seal on 8 October 1939, Churchill called for a Home Guard force of 500, 000 men over the age of forty to be formed.

The U. S. tended to regard this reluctance as an example of British caution but since at the time they lacked the resources to carry out such an operation themselves, the result was stalemate, along with increased pressure on the British, which began in March 1942 with a letter from President Roosevelt to Winston Churchill:

Within days Churchill received a letter from Admiral Darlan, in which he wrote ; " Prime Minister you said to me ' I hope you will never surrender the fleet '.

Australian Prime Minister John Curtin referred to this in a letter to Winston Churchill in October 1942, saying:

Jessica Mitford suggested in more than one letter to her family that Romilly might have been the illegitimate son of Winston Churchill, stating that she thought her late husband had resembled him.

Churchill assured him on the point of troops, and wrote a personal letter to Tito which he commissioned Maclean to deliver.

For one, some say he was found dead at home, but a letter from Churchill says he died in Ava's arms.

His death certificate recorded the cause of death as pulmonary haemorrhage, but a letter from Henry Pelling indicates he committed suicide while deeply depressed ; the fact that his own parents did not attend his funeral is cited as support for this theory ( although Churchill and his family did attend, along with a number of others such as Robert Vansittart and Brendan Bracken ).

They were also the four signatories to an influential letter, delivered personally to Winston Churchill in October 1941, asking for more resources for the code-breaking work at Bletchley Park.