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Churchill, a Life Index Compiled by the author A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1924),465; Churchill's conflict with (Winston S. Churchill): work on, 509, (1925), 468; Churchill not to go to 593,605,607,616,619,916,918,944, (1931), 503; Churchill's possible 949,950 return to (1935), 547; no chance of Aachen: Churchill's speech in (1956), Churchill's return to (1936), 549; 947 Churchill's return to, advocated Abbeville: Churchill warns of danger to (1939),613; rumours of Churchill's (1918), 390; German forces reach return to Ouly 1939),616; Churchill's (1940),648 return to (September 1939), 623; Abbey Division (Westminster): Churchill caution of (1940), 674; Churchill stands at (1924), 460 recalls (1944),794 Abdication crisis (of 1936), 568, 569, 570 Adriatic: Churchill sails through (1913}, Abdullah, Emir: and Palestine, 432; and 249; proposed landingon(1915),294, Transjordan, 434, 435 295, 296; strategy for (1943-44),751; Aboukir Bay (Egypt): Churchill visits, and British strategy (1944-45), 780, 434 789,806 Abyssinia: Churchill seeks action in Aegean Sea: Churchill's search for action (1897), 81; threatened, 544 invaded, in (1943), 755; Stalin wants a naval 546; and the Hoare-Laval 'pact', 548; base on (1945), 853 and sanctions, 553 afforestation: the State to take a lead in, Acheson, Dean: Churchill's question to 184 (1951),901 Afghanistan, 421 Adams, Vyvyan: 'I wish you could talk to Africa: 'always claims its forfeits', 190; an us every night', 630 'entirely new chapter for (1938),587 Adana (Turkey): Churchill's journey to Afridis: to be invaded (1897), 75 (1943),739 Agadir (Morocco): crisis at (1911),233; Addison, Dr Christopher: wants to find result of Britain's firmness at, 241 a task for Churchill (1917), 372, 374; Agamemnon: and the Dardanelles, 296 and Churchill's arrival at Munitions, Agheila: battle at (1942),736 375 Agincourt, battleof(1415): 289 Adeane, Sir Michael: and Churchill's Agrah (North-West Frontier): Churchill resignation, 938, 939 in action at (1897), 78 Adenauer, Dr: Churchill's appeal to Aid to Russia Appeal: launched (1941), (1954),932 708 Aderno (Sicily): captured, 750 Aidin (Turkey): Churchill visits (1910), Admiralty: Churchill would like to go to 218 (1908), 193; Churchill angered by air: British supremacy in, lacking( 1916), attitude of (1911), 236; Churchill 343; Germans 'master of (1916), 350 seeks to defend his record at, 326; Air Board: established (1916), 362; Churchill hopes to return to, 339; 'fast Churchill's possible Chairmanship of, asleep', 367; Churchill's 'heart in' 369; opposition to Churchill's (1918),404; Churchill suggested for Chairmanship of, 373 984 CHURCHILL: A LIFE air defence of Britain: Churchill takes (1900),137 responsibility for (19 I 4),279 Albert Hall (London): Churchill speaks Air Defence Research: Churchill's at, 500, 547, 926, 947, 951; Churchill concern for (1934-39), 532, 536, 544 watches election results at (1935), 547 Air Department: Churchill seeks (1915), Albert I, King of the Belgians, 283 328 Albert Medal: Churchill makes a Air Force: See index entry for Royal Air recommendation for, 112 Force Aldershot: Churchill serves at (1895),51, Air Minister: Churchill spoken of, as 53 (1938),591 Aldwych Club (London): Churchill Air Ministry: not in prospect (I 916),344; speaks at (1923), 458 to go to someone else (1916), 349; Alexander, A.V.: on the Defence Churchill's hope for (1916), 361; Committee,673; and the break-up of Churchill's possible appointment to, the Coalition (1945), 845; and 369; Churchill's return to, advocated conscription (1947), 875 (1939),613; 'don't irritate' (1939), 629 Alexander, General Sir Harold: in air power: and Constantinople, 324; and Burma (1942), 719; becomes Sinn Fein (1920), 422; and Ireland, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, 446; at Chanak (1922), 452 and 'stern 726; directive t<;>, 726; and Enigma, justice', 769 731; and Anzlo, 763, 765, 767; Air Raid Precautions (1939), 608,61 I advances beyond Rome, 778; and the Air Staff: and Defence deficiencies prospects of continuing the battle in (1937-38), 583, 592 Italy 0 une 1944), 780; forces the aircraft production: to be accelerated Germans from Florence, 786; (1914), 281; Churchill's initiatives for Churchill watches battle with, in Italy, (1917-18), 380, 382; plans for (for 790; a setback to, 795; to go to Vienna, 1919),394 709; in Athens, 808; and Churchill's airship: Churchill flies in, and steers mission to Athens (Christmas 1944), (1913),251 809; reaches Trieste, 839; at Potsdam, Aitken, Max: and the coming of war in 850; his friendly gesture, 858; 1914,272; and the political crisis of becomes Minister of Defence (1952), May 1915,318; Churchill's friendship 905 with, 339; urges Churchill to speak in Alexandretta (Turkey): and the Army debate (1916), 354; and the Dardanelles, 302 political crisis of December 1916, 368; Alexandria (Egypt): French warships at for subsequent index entries see (1940), 666; Churchill reaches Beaverbrook, Lord (November 1943),759 Aix-en-Provence: Churchill works at Alfonso, King of Spain: and Churchill's (1948),881 plans for September 1914, 262 Ajax: Churchill on board, off Athens Algiers: landing at (1942),733; Churchill (1944),810,811,812 flies to (1943), 740; Churchill returns Alam HaIfa (Egypt): battle of (1942), 730 toOune 1943), 747; Churchill reaches Alamein (Egypt): Germans reach (1942), (November 1943), 758; Churchill 724; Churchill visits positions at, 726; returns to (August 1944),786 battle of, 732 Aliakmon Line (Greece): to be held, 691; Alamein Reunion: Churchill speaks at attacked, 696; given up, 697 (1949),887 Aliens Bill: Churchill opposes (1904), Alaska: Churchill prepared to brave 165.167; 'indefensible', 194 'mosquitos' of (1944), 784 Allahabad Pioneer: publishes Churchill's Albania: invaded by Italy (1939), 612; North-West Frontier telegrams, 75, partisans in (1943), 749; future of 86; Churchill's further writings for, (1944),797 87 Albanians: 'may leap out' (1939),618 Allen, Commodore G.R.G.: works on The Albany (New York): Churchill visits Second World War, 871, 906, 916 INDEX 985 Alliance Aeroplane Works (London): 1943), 745; and the drive to Berlin strike at (1918), 392 (1945),834; and Japan (1945), 851 Altmark: boarded (1940), 633 Anglo-American Shipping Adjustment Ameland (Holland): a possible assault on Board: established (1942), 715 (1914),277 Anglo-French Entente (1904), 233 American Civil War: Churchill's Anglo-French Union (Franco-British intended history of (1898), 87; Union): proposed (1940),662; and the Churchill visits battlefields of (1929), future, 663 494 Anglo-Italian Naval Convention (1915), Americanjournalism: 'vulgarity divested 312 of truth', 57 Anglo-Persian Oil Company: Churchill Amery, Julian: urges Churchill to visit secures control of (1914),260 troops (1942), 724; with Churchill in Anglo-Polish Alliance (August 1939): Cairo, 762 signed,619 Amery, Leo: his praise, 459; protests, AnglO-Russian Convention (1906): and 481; and Protection, 491; and the Persia, 261 'loyalty of a leech', 496; and the Anglo-Soviet Agreement: signed Uuly Defence Deputation (1936), 559; and 1941),703 the Abdication crisis, 570; and Munich Anglo-Soviet Treaty: to be resisted (1938), 597; recalls the last halting (1924),463 steps to war (September 1939), 620; Angouleme: Churchill attends French and the outbreak of war (September Army manoeuvres near (1907), 185 1939), 623; and the fIOlitical crisis Annecy: Churchill works at (1951),896 (April-May 1940), 638; and Annexe (No. 10 Annexe): Churchill Churchill's call for Franco-German moves to (1940), 677 reconciliation (1946),873 Anning, Miss: Churchill's first secretary, amnesty: Churchill proposes (1952),907 141 Amphion: sunk (1914),277 Annual Register ofWorld Events: Churchill Amritsar: Churchill upholds censure on reads and annotates (1897), 70 Army action at, 422 Anson, Sir William: his criticism, 179 Amsterdam: and Churchill's support for Anti-Nazi Council: Churchill agrees to a European Assembly (1948), 880 speak for (1936),554,555; Churchill's Anacostia Naval Air Base (Washington): second speech at, 563; Churchill gives Churchill lands at (1942), 722 luncheon for (1937),578 Ancient Britons: Churchill 'entangled' anti-Semitism: dangers of, 165; with (1938), 593 Churchill questions Hitler's friend on Anderson, Sir John: demands an (1932),508 ultimatum (September 1939), 620; Antibes: Churchill stays at (1945), 860 and Greece, 690; and the atom bomb, Antwerp: Churchill visits (1894), 45; 746; and the war against Japan, 850 defence of (1911), 235; Churchill's Anderson, Squadron-Leader C.T.: mission to(1914), 282; final resistance brings Churchill information of (1914), 286; Churchill's mission to, (1936-38),556,560,567,573,579 recalled, 321, 327, 367, 374, 419; Anglo-American alliance: needed' German military resistance at (1945),861 (September 1944),792 Anglo-American co-operation: no cause Anzio: proposed landing at (1944), 763; for shame, 504; inTunisia(1943), 741, landing at, 767; continuing battle at, 743; and the atom bomb, 746; 770; landing at, recalled, 773; belated Churchill's confidence in, 747; and success at, 775 Anzio, 765; 'indispensable' (1945), appeasement: Churchill seeks, after the 848; Churchill's plan for (1945), 851 political crisis of 1910-11, 223; the Anglo-American policy: setback to 'aim' in Europe (192 I). 439; of 'class (1942),736'dommatingaimof(I943), bitterness', 471; 'needed' in Europe, 740; and Sicily, 743; evolution of (May 515;and The Times, 576; and Palestine, 986 CHURCHILL: A LIFE 614; 'has had a good run', 769; of Arnhem: parachute landing at
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