Authors: Winston Churchill
society: WSC defines
20
,
25
–
6
Somaliland
203
–
4
Somerville, Admiral Sir James
191
Somme, Battle of the (1916)
57
,
196
South Africa
3
; constitutional settlement (1906),
18
–
19
;
see also
Anglo–Boer War
South Wales: industrial disorder (1911)
32
–
4
Soviet Union
see
Russia
Spanish Civil War
127
,
151
Stalin, Josef: warned of German attack on Russia
241
; Western aid to,
253
; and campaign in Russia,
276
,
327
; at Yalta Conference,
310
,
314
; on Polish settlement,
313
; at Potsdam Conference,
334
; WSC’s attitude to,
350
; death,
404
Stalingrad, Battle of (1942–3)
287
,
292
Stanley, Olivet
362
State, the: functions and responsibilities
20
,
26
,
359
–
60
; under Socialism,
330
; and tyranny,
346
Stettinius, Edward R., Jr
311
Stimson, Henry Lewis
338
Strachey, John
383
–
4
Strasbourg Assembly
376
–
7
Strasbourg
(French battle-cruiser)
189
,
191
Sudetenland
139
,
143
–
4
Suez Canal: threatened in World War II
216
,
232
,
270
Summerskill, Dr Edith
381
–
4
Supply, Ministry of: WSC urges establishment of
120
–
3
,
135
,148
Susloparov, General
322
Sutherland, Graham: portrait of WSC
408
tanks (batde)
122
–
3
,
230
–
1
Tariff Reform League
13
Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Arthur William (
later
1st Baron)
322
Teheran Conference (November 1943)
311
,
318
Tel Aviv
355
Teleki, Pal, Count
220
Territorial Army
121
Thatcher, Margaret (
later
Baroness)
372
Thiers, Louis Adolphe
214
Times, The
: denies war threat
136
; literary award to WSC (1949),
378
Tito, Josip Broz
351
Tobruk
224
,
281
,
289
‘Torch’, Operation (1942)
283
Transjordan
see
Jordan
Transvaal
18
–
19
Tripoli
222
,
287
Trotsky, Leon
63
Truman, Harry S.: at Potsdam Conference
334
; announces use of atomic bomb,
337
; and WSC’s Fulton ‘Iron Curtain’ speech,
344
,
387
; and united Europe,
357
; WSC meets in Washington (1952),
395
Tunisia
289
,
292
,
294
Turkey: and Dardanelles campaign
xxiv
,
51
,
53
; and Arab nationalism,
67
,
113
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
7
U-boat campaign (1939–45)
125
,
164
–
5
,
175
,
217
–
18
,
225
–
6
;
see also
Atlantic, Battle of the
Uganda
22
Ulster: and Irish Home Rule
40
–
1
; and Irish Free State,
69
unconditional surrender: policy of
308
–
9
United Nations: in wartime
270
; San Francisco Conference (1945),
312
,
329
,
366
; established,
346
; WSC recommends international armed force for,
346
; Charter,
352
–
3
,
360
; and world peace,
360
; world supremacy,
366
; and Korean War,
404
–
5
United States of America: confers Honorary Citizenship on WSC
xxiii
,
xxviii
,
307
,
419
–
20
; entry into Second World War,
xxv
iii,
161
,
260
,
263
–
4
; and British Free Trade,
15
; enters First World War,
60
–
1
; Prohibition in,
79
–
80
; WSC’s lecture tours in: (1900–1),
5
; (1931),
80
; and League of Nations,
99
–
10
0; and wartime supply to Britain,
139
,
187
,
200
,
220
,
224
–
5
,
242
; and Czech crisis (1938),
140
; WSC pleads to for support from (1938–9),
150
–
3
,
158
–
60
; leases transatlantic bases from Britain,
205
; transfers
50
destroyers to Britain,
205
–
6
,
218
; wartime support for Britain,
222
; patrols Atlantic,
225
–
6
; WSC urges to enter war,
237
–
9
; Hitler’s attitude to,
251
–
2
; preparations for war,
252
; and Japanese threat,
258
; British wartime spending in,
259
–
60
; WSC visits (1941),
262
–
8
,
272
; (1943),
291
,
296
–
7
; world responsibility,
297
; shares language with Britain,
298
,
386
; military qualities,
305
–
6
; casualties,
306
; post-war supremacy,
345
,
394
; rights and freedom in,
347
; post-war relations with Britain and Commonwealth,
348
–
9
; and post-war Palestine problem,
363
; favours united Europe,
368
; WSC defends against Silverman’s moneylending jibe,
371
–
2
; and nuclear deterrence,
373
–
4
,
393
–
4
,
411
,
413
–
14
; postwar loans to Britain,
381
,
384
,
400
; In Korean War,
386
–
7
; and Communist threat,
394
; and defence of Western Europe,
396
–
7
; Constitution,
404
VE Day (Victory in Europe,
8
May 1945)
322
–
6
Venizelos, Eleutherios
284
Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
85
,
106
,
352
Vichy government (France): established
199
,
203
; and occupation of Madagascar,
279
–
80
Victoria, Queen: death
6
Victorious
, HMS
234
Viviani, René Raphael
85