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In 1946 Sir Winston Churchill, who had spoken often of European union during the war, advocated the formation of `` a kind of United States of Europe ''.
The U. S. and Soviet heads of Government have met three times since Sir Winston Churchill in 1953 introduced a new word into international diplomacy with his call for a fresh approach to the problem of peace `` at the summit of the nations ''.
* 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
* 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
* Churchill, Winston.
" Nor did he save Winston Churchill himself during World War II.
This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.
During the Second Boer War on 15 November 1899, Winston Churchill, then a war-correspondent, was travelling on board an armoured train when it was ambushed by Boer commandos.
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.
* 1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
* 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Winston Churchill was one of its occupants.
A photograph from October 1918, reproduced in many biographies, shows the then unknown Lt .- Col. Montgomery standing in front of Winston Churchill ( Minister of Munitions ) at the parade following the liberation of Lille.
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.
Winston Churchill.
* Churchill, Winston.
Lloyd George succeeded Asquith at the Exchequer, and was in turn succeeded at the Board of Trade by Winston Churchill, a recent defector from the Conservatives.
* Winston Churchill secretly accepted £ 5, 000 — the equivalent of perhaps millions in today's money — from Burmah Oil ( now known as BP ) to lobby the British government to allow them to monopolise Persian oil resources.
In February 1922, Winston Churchill telegraphed Herbert Samuel asking for cuts in expenditure and noting: In both Houses of Parliament there is growing movement of hostility, against Zionist policy in Palestine, which will be stimulated by recent Northcliffe articles.
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 ).
An informal statement issued by Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek, which outlined the terms for a Japanese surrender.
* The Sinews of Peace Winston Churchill speech in 5, March, 1946, warning about the advance of communism in central Europe.
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.
The Gallipoli Campaign had been masterminded by Winston Churchill.
Consequently, Chamberlain tendered his resignation, and Labour and the Conservatives entered a coalition government led by Winston Churchill.

Winston and once
When he was going to town, nothing was good enough -- he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace.
* What is now the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina was once two separate towns called Winston and Salem that were combined into one.
Marlborough Court was once the residence of the Duchess of Marlborough, aunt of Winston Churchill.
Frederick II of Prussia referred to Almansa as " the most scientific battle of our century ," while Winston Churchill once compared the crushing English defeat to the disasters awaiting the British Army at the hands of Nazi Germany in the early years of World War II.
This criticism was reinforced by a 1991 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showing that more children 5 and 6 years old could recognize Joe Camel than could recognize Mickey Mouse or Fred Flintstone ( coincidentally, Fred Flintstone was also once used to sell R. J. Reynolds ' Winston cigarettes ) and alleged that the Joe Camel ad campaign was targeting children, despite R. J. Reynolds ' contention that the campaign had been researched only among adults and was directed only at the smokers of other brands.
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!
However, it is never made explicitly clear how many screens are monitored at once, or what the precise criteria ( if any ) for monitoring a given screen are ( although we do see that during an exercise program that Winston takes part in every morning, the instructor can see him, meaning telescreens are possibly a variant of videophones ); Telescreens do not have night vision technology, thus, they cannot surveil in the dark ; this is compensated by the fact that telescreens are incredibly sensitive, and can pick up a heartbeat.
Trenchard's paths crossed once more with Winston Churchill, who was by then First Lord of the Admiralty, and learning to fly at Eastchurch and Upavon.
" Piston Cup " is a parody of a NASCAR trophy, once named " Winston Cup " to circumvent regulations on direct advertising of tobacco.
A cottage close to the school was once visited regularly by Lawrence of Arabia ; and Winston Churchill visited, and was photographed in, another house nearby.
In Billy Connolly's World Tour Of England, Ireland And Scotland, Billy takes a tour of the Down Street station, explaining the heritage and showcasing the various rooms Winston Churchill and his war cabinet are believed to have once occupied.
With the party now clearly marginalised as the third party on the fringe, with few distinct domestic policies, with a parliamentary party that was primarily a collection of individuals elected as much for themselves as for their party, and with the separate Liberal Nationals offering competition amongst Liberal inclined voters, Sinclair fought to make the Liberals once more a relevant force in British politics, taking up the issues of opposition to the continental dictatorships and working closely with Winston Churchill who was a backbencher at that time and generally shunned by his Conservative Party.
If Childers's support for Britain in the fight against Germany may have been in some doubt, when in mid-August 1914 he did once again volunteer, the grant of a reserve commission in the intelligence arm of the Royal Navy was entirely to be expected: Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, although hostile to spending money on armaments at the time The Riddle of the Sands was published, later gave the book the credit for persuading public opinion to fund vital measures against the German naval threat, and he was instrumental in securing Childers's recall.
In April 1942, during another visit to Sweden, Goerdeler contracted the Wallenberg family, asking them to contract Winston Churchill about the peace terms that the British would conclude with Germany once the Nazi regime was overthrown.
His wife's house in Kent, just outside Sevenoaks, was once presented to Winston Churchill, while his family's estate in Tuscany, Villa Saletta, produces wine and olive oil.
For the Winston Cup race, it was used just once at the 2000 Dura-Lube / Kmart 300.
Until the Ferko lawsuit settlement took effect, the race was considered the third leg of the grand slam, and was once part of the Winston Million.
Many of the cast members had starred in Ang Lee's previous film, The Wedding Banquet, with Sihung Lung and Ah Lei Gua once more playing central elderly figures, and Winston Chao.
The public hall was once a venue of Winston Churchill during his early political career.
James Cameron drafted Winston and his team once again in 1990, this time for the groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
The Ritz's most famous facility is the Palm Court, an opulently decorated cream-colored Louis XVI setting for the world-famous institution that is " Tea at the Ritz ", ( though, strictly speaking, Tea at the Savoy is the original version ) once frequented by King Edward VII, Charlie Chaplin, Sir Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Noël Coward, Judy Garland, Evelyn Waugh and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
Paleontologists, zoologists, and archeologists once employed at the Red Mountain Museum, either as paid staff or as volunteers, include Gorden L. Bell, Jr., James P. Lamb, Winston C. Lancaster, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Susan Henson, and Amy Sheldon.
Originally this was simply the name of a large housing development in the area, but a large section of what was once Old Toongabbie was officially renamed Winston Hills in the 1970s, a trend that has been echoed in many other areas of the western suburbs.

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