The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (56 page)

proposal of tank from WSC,
171
–72,
174
–75

removal of Sir John French as C.-in-C.,
170

request from WSC to take a military command,
199

Asquith, Margot,
103
,
161

Asquith, Violet,
116
–17

on Clementine,
118
–19

Astor, Nancy,
131
,
324
–25

Atlantic Charter,
236
–37,
317

atomic bomb,
270
–71

Attlee, Clement (
later
, 1st Earl)

criticised by WSC for failure of leadership,
286

meeting of the War Cabinet,
8
,
14

victory parade in Berlin,
261

on WSC’s Iron Curtain speech,
272
–73

Augusta
,
234

Australia,
37
,
200
–201,
204

Aylesford, Lady Edith,
50
–51

Baldwin, Stanley,
50
,
52
,
204
–10

Balfour, Arthur,
36
,
43
–44,
83

Balfour Declaration,
304
–10,
316
–17

Balls, Ed,
242

Barbarossa, Operation,
24

Barroso, Manuel,
283

Barrymore, Ethel,
116

Baruch, Bernard,
309

Battle of Britain,
94
–95

desperate rearguard action against German planes,
229
–30

German planes bomb southern England,
227
–28

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation),
142

Beaverbrook, Max,
33
,
148
–49,
221

Belfast,
HMS,
246
–48,
249
,
252

Bell, Gertrude,
306

Berlin,
261
–62

aerial bombing of,
265
–66

Berlin Wall,
280
–81

Bertie, Prince
see
Edward VII (
earlier
Prince of Wales; ’Bertie’)

Bevan, Aneurin,
255
–56

Beveridge, William,
144

Big Three
see
Potsdam Conference

Bladon, Oxford, WSC buried in,
333

Blenheim Palace,
39
–40

grounds,
181
–82

study room of WSC,
182

WSC proposes to Clementine,
112
–14,
118

Blood, Sir Bindon,
60
,
75

Boer War,
62
–63,
71
–72

Bolsheviks,
142
,
202
–3

Boothby, Bob,
33
,
195
,
286

Bracken, Brendan,
33
,
107
–8

Braddock, Bessie,
1
,
134

Brain, Sir Russell,
277

Bretagne
,
217

Bridges, Sir Edward,
12

meeting of the War Cabinet,
8

Britain

anger at WSC’s Iron Curtain speech,
275
–77

characteristics of the people,
129
,
331
–32

decline in relative importance worldwide,
299

disarmament of the fleet,
19
,
28

Empire,
303

facing defeat by German forces,
9
–10,
127
–28

impact of Second World War,
159

isolation,
10
–11

manufacturers’ priced out of the market,
205
–6

manufacturing output,
228
–29

mass immigration,
330
–32

opposition to WSC’s plan to attack French fleet,
224
–25

perception of Russian war heroes,
268
–70

perception of ‘Uncle’ Joe Stalin,
269
–70

political instability,
150
–51

proposal for coexistence with Nazi Reich,
22
–23

ruling class sentiment for Hitlerism,
16
–17,
23

support for appeasement,
16
–17

see also
British military

British Expeditionary Force,
9
,
21
–22,
127
,
156

British Gazette
,
142

British military

account of Mers-el-Kébir by WSC to House of Commons,
218

aerial bombing of Berlin,
265

blind orders,
259
–60

Dresden fireball,
265
–66

failure of British officers,
254

fall of Tobruk,
254
–55

fighting qualities of soldiers questioned,
254
–55

humiliations,
234
,
253
–56

mocked by Stalin,
255
–56

Operation Unthinkable,
268
–70

performance,
259
–60

Siegfried Line incident,
258
–59

United States perception of underperformance,
254
–55

victory parade in Berlin,
261
–62

WSC contemplates resigning premiership,
254
–55

WSC’s presence during campaigns,
258
–59

British Operational Division,
170

Brockie, Sergeant Major A.,
103
,
106

Brook, Norman,
278

Brooke, Alan,
104
,
251
,
257
–59

Browne, Sir Anthony Montague,
133
,
136
,
173

Bruce, Allan,
36

Bryan, William Jennings,
206

BUC Aerodrome,
59

Buchanan, Pat,
160

Butler, Rab,
33
,
136
,
221
,
276

Byrne, James,
272

Cairo Conference,
306
–7

Callaghan, James,
147
,
276

capitalism: WSC’s support for,
152
–53

Cassel, Ernest,
309

Catapult, Operation,
225

caterpillar tracks
see
tanks

Cazalet-Keir, Thelma,
325

Cecil, Hugh,
47

Cecil, Lady Nelly,
16

Cecilienhof Palace

decor of meeting room,
264
–65

Potsdam table,
266

Chamberlain, Neville,
80
,
221

blame for underestimating Hitler,
8

ill-health,
22

meeting of the War Cabinet,
8

preference for Lord Halifax as Prime Minister,
15

relationship with WSC,
13
–14

Chanak crisis,
203
–205

Channon, Chips,
93

Chartwell: WSC’s home

apparition of Lord Randolph,
43
–44