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Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made

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by Richard Toye


  Jameson Raid (1895)

  Japan: attacks on Australia; British strategy; Cairo Declaration; Canadian troops; conciliation of; Far East invasions; fears of; Pearl Harbor (1941); surrender (1945); territories liberated from; threat to India; US policy

  Jews: Montagu’s background; ‘national home’; Smuts’s view; terrorism; WSC’s view; see also Israel, Palestine, Zionism

  Jingoism

  Jinnah, M. A.: criticisms of WSC’s speech; death; Gandhi relations; Nehru government; partition proposal; Simla conference; view of Cripps; WWII

  Johnson, Louis

  Joubert, Piet

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy, Joseph

  Kenya: Asians; Crown Colony; Empire acquisition; forced labour system; highlands; independence; land tenure; Mau Mau revolt; white settlers; WSC in

  Kenyatta, Jomo

  Keynes, John Maynard

  Kikuyu people

  Killearn, Miles Lampson, first Baron

  King, Admiral Ernest

  King, W. L. Mackenzie, see Mackenzie King

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Kisii revolt

  Kitchener, Herbert Kitchener, first Earl: desecration of Mahdi’s tomb; Omdurman battle; relationship with WSC; Sudan campaign; treatment of defeated Dervishes; WSC’s account

  Konar, David

  Korean War

  La Follette, Bob Jr

  Labour Party: decolonization agenda; election (1929); election victory (1945); emergence; manifesto (1945); opposition to National Government; policies; wartime coalition

  Ladysmith, siege

  Law, Andrew Bonar

  Lawrence, T. E.

  League of Nations: Amery’s view; mandates; WSC’s views

  Leakey, Louis

  Lebanon

  Lecky, W. E. H.

  Leeds Mercury

  Legislative Council

  Leicester constituency

  Lemass, Seán

  Lend-Lease

  Lenin, V. I.

  Lennox-Boyd, Alan

  Liberal Party: Boer War policy; colonial policy; cotton duty; Home Rule policy; manifesto (1945); South Africa policy; views on Sudan campaign; WSC’s career; WWI

  Liberator

  Linlithgow, Victor Hope, second Marquess of: successor; Viceroy of India; WWII

  Lippmann, Walter

  Little Englandism: government stance; term; WSC’s position; WSC’s use of term

  Liverpool Daily Courier

  Lloyd, George Lloyd, first Baron

  Lloyd George, David: background; budget (1909); Chanak crisis (1922); Chancellor of Exchequer; collapse of coalition government (1922); election (1918); foreign policy; imperial preference policy; Irish policy; Mackenzie King on; Menzies visit; old age; Prime Minister; relationship with WSC; sale of honours; South Africa policy; view of Zionism; War Cabinet; on WSC; WSC’s letters

  Lockhart, Sir William

  London: African deputation; Commonwealth conference (1948); conference of Dominion Prime Ministers (1944); Gandhi in; Menzies in; Smuts in

  Lugard, Dame Flora Shaw, Lady

  Lugard, Sir Frederick

  Lyttelton, Oliver

  Macaulay, Thomas Babington

  MacDonald, Malcolm

  MacDonald, Ramsay

  Mackenzie King, W. L.: Atlantic Charter; centralized imperialism concerns; Chanak crisis (1922); election victory (1940); first meeting with WSC; on India proposals; London conference; naval policy; Quebec conference (1943); Quebec conference (1944); relationship with WSC; successor; on Tory victory; on WSC; on WSC and Baldwin; on WSC and Roosevelt; WWII

  Macleod, Iain

  Macmillan, Harold: on Atlantic Charter; Burmese independence policy; Empire policy; Prime Minister; on Suez; tribute to WSC; ‘wind of change’ speech; on WSC’s immigration policy; on WSC’s old age

  Mafeking, siege

  Maffey, Sir John

  Mahdi

  Maine (hospital ship)

  Majuba Hill, Battle (1881)

  Malakand Field Force

  Malan, D. F.

  Malawi (earlier Nyasaland)

  Malaya: communist insurgency; Japanese invasion; WWII

  Malta: Roosevelt-WSC meeting; WSC’s visit; WWII

  Mamund Valley, fighting

  Manchester Chamber of Commerce (MCC)

  Manchester Dispatch

  Manchester Guardian

  Mandela, Nelson

  Markievicz, Constance

  Marlborough, Charles Spencer-Churchill (‘Sunny’), ninth Duke of (WSC’s cousin)

  Marlborough, John Churchill, first Duke of

  Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of (WSC’s grandfather)

  Marsh, Edward

  Mass-Observation

  Mau Mau

  Mawdsley, James

  Maxse, F. I.

  Maxton, James

  Mayo, Katherine

  Mbeki, Thabo

  Mencken, H. L.

  Menon, Krishna

  Menzies, Robert: London visit; premiership; relationship with WSC; resignation; tribute to WSC; on WSC’s election defeat (1945); WWII

  Mesopotamia: British mandate; British occupation; rebellion (1920); WSC’s policy; see also Iraq

  Middle East: British position; WSC’s policies; WWII

  Midland Conservative Club

  Milner, Sir Alfred (Viscount Milner): Colonial Secretary; Egypt report; flogging of Chinese workers; franchise issue; relationship with WSC; Round Table; successor; WSC’s letters

  Money, Leo Chiozza

  Montagu, Edwin

  Montgomery, Bernard Law

  Moore, Richard B.

  Moran, Charles Wilson, first Baron

  Morley, John

  Morning Post

  Morrison, Herbert

  Moscow conference (1944)

  Mossadegh, Mohammed

  Mountbatten, Lord Louis

  Moyne, Walter Guinness, first Baron

  Mudaliar, Sir Ramaswami

  Muslim League

  Muslims: in Cyprus; Empire population; Hindu-Muslim riots; Pakistan origins; refugees; Round Table Conference; troops in Indian army; United India plan; Viceroy’s Council plan; WSC’s view of; see also Islam

  Mussolini, Benito

  Mustafa Kemal

  Mutual Aid Agreement (1942)

  Nasser, Gamal Abdul

  Natal

  Natal Witness

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

  ‘National Efficiency’

  National Government

  National Health Service

  National Insurance

  National Liberal Club

  National Party, Britain

  National Party, New Zealand

  National Party, South Africa

  National Review

  Nationalist Party, South Africa

  NATO

  Navin Bharat

  Nazis

  Neguib, Mohammed

  Nehru, Jawaharlal: Cripps negotiations; death; education; on Gandhi agreement; imprisonment; on Mau Mau; Prime Minister; relationship with WSC; on summit proposal; on WSC; WWII

  Nemon, Oscar

  Nevinson, H. W.

  New Mandalay Sun

  New Zealand: Dominion status; foreign policy; Gallipoli troops; Labour government; National Party; naval policy; press; response to Chanak crisis (1922); WWII

  Newfoundland: fishing dispute; US base

  News Chronicle

  Nichols, Beverley

  Nicholson, Otho

  Nicholson, William

  Nicolson, Harold

  Nigeria

  1922 Committee

  Nkrumah, Kwame

  North-West Frontier: British policy; Pathan rising; WSC in action; WSC’s views on

  North-West Manchester constituency

  Northern Ireland, see also Ulster

  Northey, Sir Edward

  Norway, British defeat (1940)

  Nyasaland

  Observer

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  Oldham Conservative Association

  Oldham constituency

  Oldham Daily Standard

  Oldham Evening Chronicle

  Omdurman, Battle of (1898)

  Orange Free State

  Orange River Colony (ORC)

  Orwell, George

  Ottawa Agreements (1932)

  Ottawa Free Press

  Overlord, Operation (invasion of France)

  Pakistan: birth of; democracy; origins; territory

  Palestine: anti-Jewish violence; British mandate; British rule; British withdrawal; Jewish ‘national home’; partition proposal; Stern Gang; territory; war (1948); White Paper (1922); WSC in; WSC’s policy; see also Israel

  Palestine Post

  Pall Mall Gazette

  Pan-African Congress

  Parkin, G. R.

  Pathan: rising; troops

  Pearl Harbor (1941)

  Pearson, Lester

  Phelan, Jim

  Phillips, William

  Pioneer

  Placentia Bay conference (1941)

  Plato

  Plowden, Pamela

  Pretoria

  Primrose League

  Prince of Wales, HMS

  Punch

  Quebec conferences: (1943, Quadrant); (1944, Octagon)

  Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli

  Rajagopalachari, Chakravarti

  Rand Mail

  Reade, Winwood

  Redmond, John

  Reich, Das

  Repulse, HMS

  Review of Reviews

  Reynolds’s Newspaper

  Rhodes, Cecil

  Rhodesia

  Ridley, F. A.

  Roberts, Frederick Roberts, first Earl

  Rommel, Erwin

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.: Atlantic Charter; Cairo Declaration (1943); election victory (1940); India policy; Ireland policy; Lend-Lease; Malta meeting (1945); Placentia Bay conference (1941); Quebec conference (1943, Quadrant); Quebec conference (1944, Octagon); relationship with WSC; Tehran conference (1943); Washington talks (1943); on WSC’s Zionism; WWII; Yalta conference (1945)

  Roosevelt, Kermit

  Rosebery, Archibald Primrose, fifth Earl

  Rothermere, Harold Harmsworth, first Viscount

  Rothschild, Jimmy de

  Round Table

  Round Table Conferences (1930–2)

  Rowntree, Seebohm

  Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)

  Royal Navy: Indians serving in; oil supplies; Simon’s Town base

  Royal Titles Act (1876)

  Ruark, Robert

  Runciman, Walter

  Russia: Bolshevik revolution; ‘White’ forces; WSC’s stance; see also Soviet Union

  Rutenberg, Pinhas

  Sadullah (‘the Mad Mullah’)

  St Laurent, Louis

  Saint Simon, Duc de

  Salisbury, Robert Cecil, third Marquess of: meeting with WSC (1898); Prime Minister (1885–6); Prime Minister (1886–92); Prime Minister (1895–1902); River War dedication

  Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, fifth Marquess of (earlier Viscount Cranborne)

  Samuel, Sir Herbert

  Sandhurst

  Sapru, Sir Tej

  Sastri, Srinivasi

  Savage, Michael

  Savarkar, V. D.

  Scott, C. P.

  Seeley, J. R.

  Selborne, Roundell Palmer, third Earl of (earlier Viscount Wolmer)

  Selborne, William Palmer, second Earl of

  Sèvres, Treaty of (1920)

  Shakti

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Sheridan, Clare

  Sicily, invasion (1943)

  Sikh: refugees; troops

  Simla conference (1945)

  Simon, Sir John

  Simon Commission

  Simon’s Town naval base

  Singapore: Canadian view; defence; fall; recovery plans; US view; vulnerability; WSC on British control; WSC on strength of

  Singh, Sir Maharaj

  Sinn Féin

  Smith, Adam

  Smith, Ian

  Smuts, J. C.: career; centralized imperialism concerns; Chanak crisis (1922); death; Gandhi negotiations; Imperial War Cabinet; India policy; in London (1942); London mission (1906); Palestine policy; racial attitudes; relationship with WSC; WWII

  Socialist Leader

  Somaliland: British acquisition; British commitments; WSC in

  Something of Value (film)

  South Africa: apartheid; Asian population; Boers, see Boers; Chinese workers; concentration camps; Gandhi in; general election (1948); High Commission Territories issue; Lord Randolph’s visit; map; naval policy; racial issues; response to Chanak crisis (1922); Simon’s Town naval base; Uitlanders; WSC’s policies; Zulu rebellion

  South African Light Horse

  South–East Asia Command (SEAC)

  Soviet Union: German invasion; influence; Labour attitude to; summit proposal; WSC on; WWII; see also Russia

  Spaarwater, H. G.

  Spears, Edward

  Spectator

  Spender, J. A.

  Spion Kop, Battle of (1900)

  Stalin, Joseph: death; Moscow conference (1944); Roosevelt’s relationship with; Tehran conference (1943); WSC’s relationship with; Yalta conference (1945)

  Stanley, George

  Stanley, H. M.

  Stanley, Oliver

  Stanley, Venetia

  Star

  Star of East Africa

  Statesman, Calcutta

  Steevens, G. W.

  sterling: balances; convertibility; floating; see also gold standard

  Stern Gang

  Stettinius, Edward

  Stevenson, Adlai

  Stogdon, Mr (master at Harrow)

  Strand magazine

  Sudan: Anglo-Egyptian rule; British reconquest; Darfur violence; Dervishes; Farouk proclaimed King; independence (1956); Khartoum fall (1885); Mahdist state; WSC in; WSC’s policy

  Sumatra

  Sun, Sydney

  Sunday Statesman

  Sunday Times

  Swaziland

  Swinton, Philip Cunliffe–Lister, first Earl of

  Sydney Morning Herald

  Syria

  Tanganyika

  tariff reform, see imperial preference

  Tehran conference (1943)

  Templer, Sir Gerald

  Tenzing Norgay

  Thawra al-Arabiyya, Al-

  Thuku, Harry

  Times, The

  Times of India

  Times of Natal

  Tirah campaign

  Tobruk

  Toole, J. J.

  ‘Tory Democracy’

  Transjordan

  Transvaal: Boer republic; Chamberlain warnings; Chinese workers; constitution; election (1907); franchise issue; self-government question; treatment of non-whites; Uitlanders; war; WSC on

  Transvaal Leader

  Tribune, Lahore

  Truman, Harry S.

  trusteeship

  Tullibardine, Marquess of

  Turkey

  Twain, Mark

  Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, first Baron

  U Saw

  Uganda, WSC in

  Ulster, see also Northern Ireland

  United Nations (UN): Charter; establishment; Indian independence issue; Palestine plan; Trusteeship Council; WSC’s view of

  United Service Gazette

  United States: Atlantic Charter; Britain’s relationship with; economic issues; Egypt policy; Eisenhower presidency; fishing dispute; India policy; Iran policy; loan to Britain (1946); pro-Boer feeling; racial segregation; responses to election result (1945); ‘special relationship’; views on Empire; WSC in; WSC’s honorary citizenship; WWI; WWII

  Vandenberg, Arthur

  Varma, S. S.

  Vereeniging, Treaty of (1902)

  Verney, Harry

  Victoria, Queen: Diamond Jubilee; Empress of India; funeral; Golden Jubilee; reign; view o
f Mahdi’s tomb destruction

  Wahuriu Itote (‘General China’)

  Wallace, Henry

  War Cabinet: Imperial; WWI; WWII

  War Office: journalism rules; White’s career; WSC at; WSC’s army career; WSC’s attacks on; WWII segregation

  Warbuton, Colonel

  Waruhiu wa Kungu, Paramount Chief

  Washington Post

  Washington talks (1943)

  Wavell, Archibald Wavell, first Earl: dismissal; relationship with WSC; Viceroy of India; on WSC

  Wedgwood, Josiah

  Weizmann, Chaim

  Welldon, J. E. C.

  Wells, H. G.

  West Africa: Atlantic Charter; British policy; British punitive raids

  West African Pilot

  West African Students’ Union

  Westminster, Statute of (1931)

  Westminster Gazette

  White, Sir George

  White, Harry Dexter

  Williams, Francis

  Willkie, Wendell

  Wilson, Harold

  Wilson, Sir Henry

  Wilson, Lady Sarah (WSC’s aunt)

  Wimborne, Lady Cornelia

  Winant, J. G.

  Wingate, Orde

  Winterton, Edward Turnour, sixth Earl

  Wolmer, Viscount, see Selborne, third Earl of

  Wolseley, Garnet Wolseley, first Viscount

  Wood, Edward, see Halifax

  World

  World War I: armistice; British acquisitions at end of; Gallipoli; outbreak; Peace Conference; US entry; War Cabinet

  World War II: British conquests; German invasions; Irish neutrality; Smuts’s advice to WSC; War Cabinet; WSC’s premiership

  Yalta conference (1945)

  Yane, Boishwerelo

  Yorkshire Post

  Young Winston (film)

  Sambia

  Zanzibar

  Zetland, Marquess of

  Zionism: Moyne assassination; response to 1945 election; WSC’s views

  Zulu War

  Zululand

  Zulus

  Picture Acknowledgements

  Getty: 1, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19–22, 29, 34–36

  Mary Evans Picture Library: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 17,

  National Portrait Gallery, London: 5

  Private Collection: 9

  Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library: 15

  Gertrude Bell Archive: 16

  Solo Syndication/Associated Newspapers Ltd: 18, 33

  Australian War Memorial: 23 (negative number: 006414), 24 (Unknown ‘Let us go forward together’, c.1940, photolithograph, 76.4 × 51.8 cm, negative number: ARTV02119), 25 (negative number: 013354), 26 (negative number: PO2366_002), 28 (negative number: 128501), 30 (negative number: MED2037)

  Kind permission of the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library and the Curtin Family: 27, 31

 

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