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.

Winston Churchill told King George VI: " It was thanks to Ultra that we won the war.

On the Parkinson show in November 1974 Burton told a funny story about meeting Churchill ; however, according to Robert Hardy, it was not true.

In an attempt to pressure Lord Aylesford to drop his divorce suit, Lady Aylesford and Lord Randolph Churchill called on Alexandra and told her that if the divorce was to proceed they would subpoena her husband as a witness and implicate him in the scandal.

Examples include an instance in which Churchill is supposed to have told Lady Astor that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which she retorted, " You ’ re not handsome enough to have such fears.

Churchill determined to relieve Wavell and after the failure in mid June of Operation Battleaxe, intended to relieve Tobruk, he told Wavell on 20 June that he was to be replaced by Auchinleck, whose attitude during the Iraq crisis had impressed him.

Churchill told Abdullah that French forces were superior to his and that the British did not want any trouble with the French.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher invoked the example of Churchill during the Falklands War of 1982: " When the American Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, urged her to reach a compromise with the Argentines she rapped sharply on the table and told him, pointedly, ' that this was the table at which Neville Chamberlain sat in 1938 and spoke of the Czechs as a faraway people about whom we know so little '.

Turned down by South Africa for the post of Governor General ( the country was holding out for a cabinet minister or member of the royal family ) and snubbed by Winston Churchill on his assumption of the post of Under-Secretary for the Colonies — on one occasion he stormed into Churchill's office and told him that he " expected to be treated like a gentleman "— a thwarted Wood voted for the downfall of Lloyd George's government and became President of the Board of Education under Andrew Bonar Law in 1922.

In August 1920 Winston Churchill told the British Parliament that the BAOR consisted of approximately 13, 360, consisting of, Staff, Cavalry, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Infantry, Machine Gun Corps, Tanks, and the usual ancillary services.

Wilson told Churchill that he was “ tired of constantly nursing children ( the White forces ) who resolutely refuse to grow up ”.

Churchill told the joint Chiefs of Staff to propose measures for an offensive against German-occupied Europe, and stated, " they must be prepared with specially trained troops of the hunter class who can develop a reign of terror down the enemy coast.

However, because Banks remained an Italian citizen and would have been interned in the United Kingdom, she was forced to leave Britain for North America during the war, at the instruction of Winston Churchill, who told her to " Make American Dollars, not British Pounds ," which she did in aid of the Navy League and the Spitfire Fund.

Freud asked why Churchill was given the best room in the hotel and was told it was because Churchill was a grandson of Britain's most illustrious Prime Minister.

The war correspondent Winston Churchill told of his campaign from Bloemfontein to Pretoria in Ian Hamilton's March ( London, 1900, reprinted as the second half of The Boer War ), having first met Hamilton in 1897 when they sailed on the same ship.

Churchill told the joint Chiefs of Staff to propose measures for an offensive against German-occupied Europe, and stated: " they must be prepared with specially trained troops of the hunter class who can develop a reign of terror down the enemy coast.

Mountbatten in turn told Churchill about Pyke's proposal, who was enthusiastic about it.

This opened the possibility that Ramsay might have used the privilege of Parliament to reveal the telegrams, about which Churchill had not told the Cabinet, thereby possibly endangering his government.

Churchill told Stalin he could settle the issue with the Poles once a decision was made in Tehran, however he never consulted the Polish leadership.

Winston Churchill when told of Thorneycroft's interest said, " Every minister must have his vice.

Military records show that during the Second World War an Italian prisoner of war was captured by British troops in the Western Desert, and told his captors " fuck your Winston Churchill and fuck your Dixie Dean ", exemplifying Dean's international status.

Churchill again told the Prime Minister in February 1920 that he wanted Robertson, then protested that he had been overruled.

The EMI Engineer responsible has told the BECTU History Project that he used one of the then new BTR tape recorders and Churchill usually did this in bed and so they have a more relaxed air than the original broadcast.

" Gerbrandy thought Churchill told him: " Spring ' ns in de lucht ", which translates into English as: " jump into the air ".

Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

This gave him an admiration for Churchill as a military strategist, which improved their working relationship in later years.

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.

The first holder of the title was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), the noted English general, and indeed an unqualified reference to the Duke of Marlborough in a historical text will almost certainly refer to him.

Anne further honoured Churchill, after his leadership in the victories against the French of 13 August 1704 near the village of Blenheim ( German Blindheim ) on the river Danube ( Battle of Blenheim ), by granting him the royal manor of Woodstock, and building him a house at her own expense to be called Blenheim.

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.

" 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.

Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill, ( although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famously annoyed with Mountbatten's later role in the independence of India and Pakistan ), and on 27 October 1941 Mountbatten replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations and received promotion to commodore.

Roosevelt was an admirer of LaGuardia ; after meeting Winston Churchill for the first time he described him as " an English Mayor LaGuardia.

In response to Himmler's attempts to open peace overtures with the Allies in 1945 through Count Bernadotte, Churchill enquired if they should negotiate with Himmler ' and bump him off later.

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.

His chief political enemy in Britain was Winston Churchill, who ridiculed him as a " half-naked fakir.

Baldwin's reputation soared in the 1920s and 1930s, but crashed after 1945 as he was blamed for the appeasement policies toward Germany, and as admirers of Churchill made him the Conservative icon.

In 2002 his critically acclaimed portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm won him BAFTA and Emmy awards as Best Actor.

The publication of these articles coincided with what would have been Churchill's centenary, and came after Burton had played him in a favourable light in A Walk with Destiny, with considerable help from the Churchill family.

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.

Soon after their accession, William and Mary rewarded John Churchill by granting him the Earldom of Marlborough and Prince George was made Duke of Cumberland.

In an echo of Chamberlain's appearance, the King invited Churchill to appear with him on the balcony to public acclaim.

A pessimistic speech by Lloyd George on 7 May 1941 led Churchill to compare him with Philippe Pétain.

Although Lord Randolph Churchill later apologised, for years afterwards the Prince of Wales refused to speak to or see him.