Never Give In! (85 page)

US Honorary Citizenship: Randolph, supported by the editor, delivers his father’s reply to President John F. Kennedy, The White House, Washington, DC, 9 April 1963.

Mr President, your action illuminates the theme of unity of the English-speaking peoples, to which I have devoted a large part of my life. I would ask you to accept yourself, and to convey to both Houses of Congress, and through them to the American people, my solemn and heartfelt thanks for this unique distinction, which will always be proudly remembered by my descendants.

Appendix: The Churchill Center and Societies

(
www.winstonchurchill.org
)

The editor is pleased to be a Trustee of The Churchill Center and strongly recommends membership to anyone interested in Sir Winston.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, and active internationally, The Churchill Center was founded in 1968 to inspire leadership, statesmanship, vision, and boldness among democratic and freedom-loving peoples through the thoughts, words, works and deeds of Winston Spencer Churchill. Membership numbers over 3000 with an average age of 48, including the affiliated Churchill Societies of the UK and Canada.

The Churchill Center publishes a quarterly magazine,
Finest Hour
, a newsletter, the
Chartwell Bulletin
; and periodic collections of papers and speeches, the
Churchill Proceedings.
It sponsors international and national conferences, and Churchill tours, which have visited Britain, Australia, France, South Africa, and Morocco. Its expansive website
www.winstonchurchill.org
now includes a ‘classroom’ component to help educate young people on Sir Winston’s life and leadership.

The Churchill Center has helped bring about republication of over twenty of Winston Churchill’s long out-of-print books. In 1992, it launched a campaign for completion of the remaining document volumes to the offical biography, three of which have been published to date. More recently, it sponsored academic symposia in America and Britain; seminars where students and scholars discuss Churchill’s books; scholarships for Churchill Studies at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dallas; and important reference works. In 1998 it launched the Churchill Lecture Series, in which prominent world figures apply Sir Winston’s experience to the world today.

In 2003 the Churchill Center opened its first official headquarters in Washington, which houses its administrative staff, library, and computer facilities linked to the major Churchill archives. Future programmes include video aids for schoolchildren; college and graduate level courses on aspects of Churchill’s career; fellowships to assist students; and visiting professorships. The overall aim is to impress Churchill’s qualities of leadership firmly on the leaders of the twenty-first century.

Membership in the Churchill Center and Societies is available for a modest subscription, with special rates for students. For further information please contact:

The Churchill Center

1750 17th Street, NW (Suite 312),

Washington DC 20002 USA

Telephone: (888) WSC-1874

website:
www.winstonchurchill.org

International Churchill Society,

PO Box 1257, Melksham,

Wilts, SN12 6GQ ENGLAND

Telephone: 01-380-828-609

International Churchill Society,

3256 Rymal Road, Mississauga,

Ontario, L4Y 3C1 CANADA

Telephone: (905) 279-5169

Index

Abdication crisis (1936)
128
–
9

Abdullah, King of Jordan (Transjordan)
xxv
,
64
,
67
–
8
,
104
,
157

Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
92
,
97
–
8
,
151
,
158
,
275
,
292

Achilles,
HMNZS,
167

Admiralty: WSC appointed First Lord (1911)
xxiv
,
27
,
41
,
45
,
48
; and pre-1915 naval expansion,
41
,
45
; WSC removed as First Lord (1915),
51
,
55
; and Irish ‘Treaty Ports’,
138
; WSC reappointed First Lord (1939),
162
,
164
,
167
; planning in World War II,
183

Agadir crisis (1911)
37
,
51

air power: WSC’s advocacy of
45
,
84
,
87
,
89
–
91
,
96
–
7
,
112
,
115
,
119
,
126
–
7
,
148
; Baldwin on,
87
; German,
90
–
1
,
123
,
135
,
148
,
185
,
187
,
199
; Hoare on,
121
,
123

Aircraft Production, Ministry of
202

Ajax,
HMS
165
,
167

Alamein, El, Battle of (1942)
283
,
286
–
7
,
289
;

reunion dinner (1945)
341

Albania
158
,
219
,
223

Alexander, Field Marshal Harold, 1st Earl
284
,
286
,
290
–
1
,
301
,
304
–
5
,
327
–
8

Aliens Bill (1905)
16

Allenby, Field Marshal Edmund, 1st Viscount
67

Altmark
(German auxiliary ship)
165

Amery, Leo S.
100
,
135
,
143

Anders, General Wladyslaw
304

Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902): WSC’s capture and escape in
1
,
3
,
5
; WSC’s views on,
1
,
3
,
5
–
9

Anzacs (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps)
61
,
223

Appeasement: WSC opposes
xx
,
77
,
95
,
82
,
102
–
3
,
105
–
10
,
124
–
5
,
163
;
see also
disarmament

Arabs: and Palestine
65
,
104
,
156
–
7
,
355
; nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism
66
–
8
,
113
; T. E. Lawrence and,
114
–
15

Arctic convoys
279
,
328

Argentia, Newfoundland (Placentia Bay)
246
,
318
,
320

Ark Royal,
HMS
191
,
234

Army (British): Estimates (1901)
7
–
8
; WSC on pre-1914 condition and strength,
10
–
12
; use in industrial unrest,
32
–
4
,
36
–
7
; organisation and manpower in First World War,
56
–
60
; First World War casualties,
57
; inter-war shortage of supplies and equipment,
122
–
3
; in Dunkirk evacuation,
172
–
9
,
201
; strengthened after Dunkirk,
203
;
see also
Territorial Army

Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl
1
,
25

Astor, Nancy, Viscountess
141
,
147

Athens
307
,
309

Atlantic, Battle of the (World War II)
206
,
217
–
19
,
225
,
228
,
266
,
272
;
see also
U-boat campaign

Atlantic Charter (1941)
246
–
53
,
268
,
296
,
320
,
358

Atlantic Pact
see
NATO

‘Atlantic Wall’
301

atomic bomb: used in war
337
–
9
,
347
; USSR develops,
373
–
4
,
387
; WSC speaks against,
393
; and mutual deterrence,
411
;
see also
hydrogen bomb

Attlee, Clement (
later
1st Earl): forms government (1945)
335
; statement on atomic bomb,
338
; advocates united Europe,
369
; on freedom of Opposition,
371
; WSC mocks,
390
; tribute to WSC on
80
th birthday,
408
–
9