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Winston and Churchill
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 personally
In 1940, Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister, though personally George would have preferred to appoint Lord Halifax.
That of the Americans favored longer compound words, although the name Overlord was personally chosen by Winston Churchill himself.
Winston Churchill personally warned General Denikin, whose forces effected pogroms against the Jews, that
After the war, he was a King's Messenger, personally delivering mail to Winston Churchill, and later a journalist.
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.

Winston and issued
Local stamps were issued for Soay between 1965 and 1967, all on the Europa theme, some being overprinted to commemorate Sir Winston Churchill.
On July 26, 1945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek issued the document, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire of Japan as agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference.
On 26 July 1945, Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, and Chiang Kai-shek issued the Potsdam Declaration, which demanded Japan's unconditional surrender.
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 ".
Following a private agreement at the Tehran Conference, confirmed at the 1945 Yalta Conference, the Allied leaders Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Stalin issued a statement affirming the use of the Curzon Line, with some five-to-eight kilometre variations, as the eastern border between Poland and the Soviet Union.
These were issued to mark coronations of monarchs ; one was also issued on the occasion of the death of Winston Churchill.
" The governments of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt also issued formal protest, but they took no further action.
As the Second World War was nearing its end, on 26 July 1945, Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman, and Chiang Kai-Shek issued the Potsdam Declaration, which demanded Japan's unconditional surrender.

Winston and order
After the end of his viceregal tenure, Alexander was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and thereafter, in order to serve as the British Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Winston Churchill, into the Imperial Privy Council.
A frequent theme was the claim that Winston Churchill had advance knowledge of the Japanese plans to attack Pearl Harbor, and refused to warn the Americans in order to bring the United States into World War II.
This tradition started in the early 2000s with the students customarily toasting in the reverse order: " Sir Winston ", followed by " The Queen ".
A few of the notable visitors to the region: Elisabeth of Bavaria, empress of Austria-Hungary, 1837-1898 ( who travelled to the island for leisure and health ), Charles I of Austria, Emperor Austria and King of Hungary, 1867 – 1918, Polish Field Marshal Józef Piłsudski in order to recuperate his health, Winston Churchill ( who travelled here on holidays and was known to have painted a few paintings during his visits ) and Fulgencio Batista ( who stopped-over en-route to his exile in Spain ).
When the Japanese invaded Thailand on December 8, 1941, ( because of the international date line this occurred an hour and a half before Pearl Harbor ),< ref > Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War, Vol 3, The Grand Alliance, p. 548 Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1950 </ em ></ ref > hesitant Phibunsongkhram was reluctantly forced to order a general ceasefire after just one day of resistance and allow the Japanese armies to use the country as a base for their invasions of Burma and Malaya.
Daniel Yergin, in his book, The Prize had argued that it was this incident that led Winston Churchill, then Britain's Home Secretary, to the conclusion that the Royal Navy must convert its power source from coal to oil in order to preserve its supremacy.
In order to avoid controversy, it was suggested by Winston Churchill that, in the future, the higher of the two numerals from the English and Scottish sequences would always be used.
Their main inspiration was the League of Nations ; however, their goals were to rectify the League ’ s imperfections in order to create an organization that would be “ the primary vehicle for maintaining peace and stability .” Roosevelt ’ s main role was to convince the different allies, especially Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, to join the new organization.
At the time the request was made, the War Office considered using the equipment in Britain's fledgling airborne forces, which had been formed in June 1940 by order of the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
The commandos were formed in 1940, by the order of Winston Churchill the British Prime Minister.
In order to neutralise the threat, Winston Churchill ordered that the French ships should rejoin the Allies, agree to be put out of use in a British, French or neutral port or, as a last resort, be destroyed by British attack ( Operation Catapult ).
The British airborne establishment was formed in June 1940 by the order of the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, in response to the successful airborne operations conducted by the German military during the Battle of France.
During the 20th century, many statesmen, such as Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill, used the term " new world order " to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power after World War I and World War II.
In March 2006, in a column written in the aftermath of the apparently sectarian bombing of the Askariya Shrine in Samarra, Baghdad, Will challenged the Bush administration — and U. S. government representatives in Iraq — to be more honest about the difficulties the United States faced in rebuilding and maintaining order within Iraq, comparing the White House's rhetoric unfavorably to that of Winston Churchill during the early years of World War II.
At the Miniluv, he tortures Winston in order to cure him of his political insanity: that there exists an objective reality external to that of the Party.
Nineteen Eighty-Fours protagonist Winston Smith, who works in the Ministry of Truth, is routinely assigned the task of revising old newspaper articles in order to serve the propaganda interests of the government.
The British, by order of Winston Churchill, allowed the survivors to remain in Palestine.
Cork received verbal instructions from Winston Churchill while driving with him to Parliament ( where Cork sat in the House of Lords ) to "... act with all promptitude ..." in order to "... turn the enemy out of Narvik ...".
Party leader Winston Peters says the campaign issues are immigration, law and order, senior citizens, trade, and Māori affairs.
However they made very little headway ( with some affiliates forgoing the movie package altogether ) and by 1996, CBS picked up more NASCAR Winston Cup, Busch Series and Craftsman Truck races in order to compete in some form.
Indy also encounters ( in no particular order ) Edgar Degas, Giacomo Puccini, George Patton, Pablo Picasso ( same episode as Degas ), Eliot Ness, Charles Nungesser, Al Capone, Manfred von Richthofen, Annie Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Norman Rockwell ( same episode as Degas and Picasso ), Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Sean O ' Casey, Siegfried Sassoon, Patrick Pearse, Winston Churchill, Carl Jung, and Sigmund Freud ; at one point, he competes against a young Ernest Hemingway for the affections of a girl, is nursed back to health by Albert Schweitzer, has a passionate tryst with Mata Hari, and goes on a safari with Theodore Roosevelt.
When Winston Churchill introduced the Charter to Parliament, he purposely mistranslated the colonies to be recently captured countries by Germany in order to get it passed.
" Winston Churchill High School is dedicated to providing a quality education that challenges students of all abilities in a caring environment in order that they might become life-long learners and responsible, contributing members of an ever-changing society.
Examples of topical gay stories included Cliff's casual intimate encounters with men and the points he still wanted to learn ; Lou and Donald's efforts to infiltrate crooked local police officers who refused to help Cliff, when he was attacked by two homophobes ; Donald's coaching Joe into accurately convincing a former teammate that he was gay, in order to form a closer bond with the recently outed teammate ; and in the second season, when Cliff landed a regular boyfriend in well-to-do Winston Marsh III ( guest star John Furey ), who helped him become even more comfortable in his identity.

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