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Vyshinsky, Andrei
412

Wahabi sect (Saudi Arabia)
66
,
68

Wales
see
South Wales

Walker, Sir Andrew
105

War and Air: WSC serves as Secretary of State for
xxiv
,
55

War Cabinet: formed (1940)
165

Warbey, William Noble
375

Wardlaw-Milne, Sir John
283

Warsaw: bombed by Germans
235
,
245
,
269
,
277
;
see also
Poland

Washington, DC: WSC visits (1941)
262
–
8
; (1943),
291
,
318
,
320
; (1952),
395
;
see
also
Churchill Center

Wavell, Field Marshal Archibald, 1st Earl
215
,
222
,
224
,
232
,
319

West Indies: US offered bases in
205

Westminster College, Fulton see Fulton, Missouri

Westminster, Statute of (1931)
96

Weygand, General Maxime
173
,
180
,
188

Williams (of Elvel), Jane, Lady
see
Portal, Jane

Willkie, Wendell
214
,
216
,
218
,
319

Wilson, Woodrow
152

Winant, John G.
217
–
18
,
260

Windsor, Edward, Duke of see Edward VIII, King

Winterton, Edward Turnour,
6
th Earl
121
,
229

Woolton, Frederick James Marquis, 1st Earl of
384

Workmen’s Compensation Bill (1897)
2
,
11

World War I (1914–18): preparations for and outbreak
47
–
9
,
85
; WSC on manpower deployment in,
57
–
60
; conduct and progress of,
60
–
1
; ends,
61
–
2
; British casualties,
196

World War II (1939–45): outbreak
158
; and unconditional surrender demand,
308
–
9

Yalta Conference (1945)
309
–
14
,
318
,
320
,
351

Yugoslavia: in Little Entente
132
; Germany invades (1941),
219
–
20
; resists Germany,
223

Zeeland, Paul van
366

Zhukov, Marshal Georgii
322

Zionism
65
,
104
,
155
,
157
,
354
–
5
,
362

Zog, King of Albania
159

Zurich
xxv
iii,
337
,
356
,
395

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First published in Great Britain in Hardback under the title Never Give In!

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Churchill, Winston, 1874–1965. Never give in! Winston Churchill’s speeches/selected and edited by his grandson Winston S. Churchill. – Bloomsbury revelations edition. pages cm. – (Bloomsbury revelations) Originally published: London : Pimlico, 2003. Summary: “A collection of Winston Churchill’s most powerful speeches, from his early speeches, through the great war-time broadcasts and beyond”– Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4725-2085-2 (pbk.) – ISBN 978-1-4725-2086-9 (epub) 1. Churchill, Winston, 1874–1965. 2. Great Britain–Politics and government–20th century. 3. Speeches, addresses, etc., English. 4. Political oratory–Great Britain. I. Churchill, Winston S. (Winston Spencer), 1940–2010. II. Title. DA566.9.C5A5 2013 082–dc232013025907

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Table of Contents

Half-Title

Series

Dedication

Title

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Editor’s Preface

1  Young Statesman 1897–1915

First political speech: ‘The dried up drain-pipe of Radicalism’, 26 July 1897, Bath

‘Escape!’, 23 December 1899, Durban, South Africa

‘The anniversary of my escape’, 13 December 1900, New York

Maiden speech: ‘A certain splendid memory’, 18 February 1901, House of Commons

Lifting again the ‘tattered flag’, 13 May 1901, House of Commons

‘An age of great events and little men’, 21 November 1901, Liverpool

‘A navy . . . to preserve the peace of the world’, 17 January 1903, Oldham

‘The mere washpot of plutocracy’, 4 June 1904, Alexandra Palace, London

‘For free trade’, 16 June 1904, Cheetham Hill, Manchester

‘Dear food for the millions’, 13 May 1905, Manchester

‘British hospitality’, 9 October 1905, Cheetham Hill, Manchester

‘No more garters for dukes’, 14 December 1905, Manchester

‘The gift of England’, 31 July 1906, House of Commons

‘The cause of the left-out millions’, 11 October 1906, Glasgow

George Bernard Shaw: ‘A volcano’, 22 October 1906, Free Trade Hall, Manchester

‘My African journey’, 18 January 1908, National Liberal Club, London

Socialism: ‘All yours is mine!’, 22 January 1908, Cheetham, Manchester

The pen: ‘Liberator of man and of nations’, 17 February 1908, London

‘What is society?’, 4 May 1908, Kinnaird Hall, Dundee

‘I am the Board of Trade’, 4 February 1909, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

The Budget: ‘Cannot afford to live or die’, 22 May 1909, Manchester

‘A violent rupture of constitutional custom’, 4 September 1909, Leicester

‘The most ancient and the most glorious monarchy’, 4 December 1909, Southport

‘The upkeep of the aristocracy’, 17 December 1909, Burnley, Lancs

‘For soldiers to fire on the people...’, 7 February 1911, House of Commons

Unemployment insurance, 22 May 1911, House of Commons

National rail strike, 22 August 1911, House of Commons

‘The maintenance of naval supremacy’, 9 November 1911, Guildhall, London

‘Why should not Ireland have her chance?’, 8 February 1912, Belfast

‘An age of incipient violence’, 18 March 1912, House of Commons

‘Air power’, 10 November 1913, Guildhall, London

‘Unconquerable and incomparable’, 4 March 1914, London

‘The world is armed as it was never armed before’, 17 March 1914, House of Commons

‘The war will be long and sombre’, 11 September 1914, London

The Dardanelles, 5 June 1915, Dundee

‘Take Constantinople!’, 15 November 1915, House of Commons

2  Oblivion and Redemption 1916–29

‘The hardest of tests’, 23 May 1916, House of Commons

‘Grappling with the most terrible foe’, 31 May 1916, House of Commons

‘Perils, sorrows and sufferings’, 10 December 1917, Bedford

‘The war is won!’, 16 December 1918, Connaught Rooms, London

‘Bolshevist atrocities’, 11 April 1919, Connaught Rooms, London

Farewell to ‘the beer of Old England’, 18 July 1919, London

‘The Jews should have a National Home’, 31 March 1921, Jerusalem

Lenin, 8 June 1921, Manchester

‘The culture and glories of the Arab race’, 14 June 1921, House of Commons

‘The dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone’, 16 February 1922, House of Commons

Conservative once more, 16 September 1925, Birmingham

‘The follies of Socialism’, 11 December 1925, Battersea

‘Artful Dodger!’, 22 April 1926, House of Commons

The blushing Liberal bride’, 22 October 1928, Chingford

‘A disarmament fable’, 24 October 1928, Aldersbrook

3  The Wilderness Years 1930–39

‘A seditious Middle Temple lawyer’, 23 February 1931, Epping

‘Abandoning India’, 18 March 1931, Royal Albert Hall, London

Prohibition, November/December 1931, Lecture Tour of the United States

‘Bands of sturdy Teutonic youths’, 23 November 1932, House of Commons

‘Pontifical, anonymous mugwumpery’, 22 February 1933, House of Commons

‘England’, 24 April 1933, Royal Society of St George, London

‘Wars come very suddenly’, 7 February 1934, House of Commons

‘Germany is arming’, 8 March 1934, House of Commons

‘We lie within . . . striking distance’, 16 November 1934, Broadcast, London