The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (58 page)

painting,
45
–46,
176
–77,
271
–72,
305
–7,
327
–30

photographs holding tommy gun,
127
–29,
139

physical appearance,
99
–101

political positioning,
48

proposal of marriage to Clementine,
112
–15,
118

rejection of negotiations,
13
,
15
–16,
17
–19

relations with women,
115
–18

relationship with Conservative party,
13
–14

relationship with father,
41
–42,
44
–47

reporter/soldier
see
journalism, WSC

resignation as Prime Minister (1955),
279
–80

right-wing tendencies,
141
–42

risk-taking qualities,
52
–53,
54
–64,
197
–98

ruthlessness,
216
–18,
223
–26,
229
–31

schooldays,
63
–65,
77

self-promotion,
34
,
35
,
77
–78,
86
,
252

selfishness,
106
–7

smoking habits,
117
,
132
–34

social reformer
see
social reform, WSC

speech-making mastery,
1
–2,
17
–19

statesmanlike qualities,
1
–2

stories about,
1
–4,
130
–31,
133
–35,
326
–27,
336
–38

support for striking miners,
83
–84

taste for luxuries,
102

tax avoidance,
79

temptation to stray from Clementine,
122
–26

treatment of other people,
101
–6

witty insults,
1
–2,
92
–93,
131
–37

work rate
see
work rate, WSC

writings
see
writings, WSC,
71
–75

Clarke, Peter,
70
–71

Cockran, Bourke,
238
–39

Colville, Sir John R. (’Jock’),
2
–3,
278
,
338

Committee of Imperial Defence: letter from WSC,
212
–14

communism

Bolsheviks,
142
,
202
–3

hostility of WSC to,
141
–42,
201
–2

Operation Unthinkable,
268
–70

rescuing Greece from,
258

revolutions and uprisings,
153
–54

tyranny of,
276
–77,
279
–80

see also
Soviet Union

compassionate conservatism,
152
–53

condoms, story about,
130
–31

Conservative Party

hostility to Lloyd George’s People’s Budget,
145

hostility to WSC,
32
–34

plotting to remove WSC,
32
,
35

political ownership of WSC,
31
–32

sacking of Lloyd George and WSC,
204
–5

uncertainty about WSC,
14

WSC’s contempt for political fidelity towards,
34
–35

young Tories’ reverence for WSC,
31
–32

Constantinople,
208
,
200
–201

Cripps, Sir Stafford,
136
,
256

heckled by WSC,
285

Croydon Aerodrome,
54
–55,
59

Cuba,
59
–60

Czechoslovakia,
80

D-Day

nervousness of WSC,
251

opportunity for WSC to amend Gallipoli reverses,
251
–52

relations between ministers and the Crown,
251

saving WSC from himself,
251
–52

WSC’s plans to oversee first bombardment,
246
–50

WSC’s ship fires volley at Nazis,
257
–58

Daily Express
,
3

Daily Mail
,
17
,
199

Daily Telegraph
,
75

Dalton, Hugh,
18
–19

Dardanelles,
37
,
162
,
200
–201

see also
Gallipoli

Darlan, Admiral François,
23
,
223
–27

Dawson, Geoffrey,
17

defective cerebration,
84
–85

democracy: governments around the world,
27

Derby, Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of (Lord Derby),
42

Dervish army,
61
–62

Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
,
228

Dewar Gibb, Captain Andrew,
105
,
108

Disraeli, Benjamin,
49
–51

‘The Dream’,
44
–46,
49

Dresden,
265
–66

Dugdale, Nancy,
32
–33

Dunkerque
,
226

Dunkirk,
9
,
21

Eban, Abba,
307

Eden, Robert Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon,
136

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

blackmailed by Lord Randolph,
50
–51

challenges Lord Randolph to duel,
51

Edward VIII, King,
38

affair with Wallis Simpson,
209
–10

seeks support from WSC,
210

WSC leads the ‘King’s Party’,
210
–11

Einzig, Paul,
32

Eisenhower, President Dwight D.,
277
–78

El Alamein, Battle of,
253
,
256
,
260
–61

Elizabeth II, Queen,
331
–32

Elizabeth, Queen of George VI,
247

epigrams,
94
–96

equal rights, women,
325

Eton,
44
–45

eugenics,
141
,
322
,
324

Europäische Wirtschaftsgesellschaft,
26

European Coal and Steel Community,
292
,
294
–95

European Commission,
284

European Court,
284

European Exchange Rate Mechanism,
205

European integration, WSC’s beliefs

alliance with United States,
295
–96

conflicting views about,
282
–83

free trade,
295

House of Commons debate on Schuman Plan,
284
–86

intimately associated with Europe,
292
–93

limited role for Britain in Europe,
290
–92

supports Schuman Plan,
286
–88

union between France and Germany,
289
–90,
295
–96

United Europe Movement,
289