Dinner With Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table

by Cita Stelzer

  INDEX

  Note: bold page numbers indicate entries in the glossary of “Diners”; italic page numbers refer to illustrations.

  Acheson, Dean 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Adana 1, 2

  Admiralty House 1, 2

  aircraft 1, 2, 3, 4

  Ajax, HMS 1

  Alanbrooke, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount see Brooke, Sir Alan

  alcoholic excess, Churchill’s alleged 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Alexander, Albert Victor (later 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough) 1, 2

  allotments 1

  American Civil War 1

  Anzio landings (1944) 1

  Arnn, Larry 1

  Arnold, Henry H. “Hap” 1, 2

  Aron, Leon 1n17

  Asquith, Herbert Henry (later 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith) 1, 2, 3

  Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal 1

  Athens 1, 2

  Atlantic Charter 1, 2

  atomic bomb 1, 2, 3, 4

  Attlee, Clement, 1st Earl 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Augusta, USS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Babelsberg 1;

  Villa Urbig 1, 2

  Bakewell, Joan, Baroness 1

  Balaclava 1

  Balmoral 1

  Baruch, Bernard 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  battlefield recreations, table-top 1

  BBC 1

  Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, 1st Baron 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  beef 1, 2, 3

  “bellybandoes” (cigar tips) 1, 2

  Berezhkov, Valentin 1, 2, 3, 4

  Berlin 1, 2

  Bermuda 1, 2; Mid Ocean Club 1, 2, 3, 4

  Bermuda Conference (1953) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Berry Brothers (wine merchants) 1

  bills (restaurant and hotel) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Birla, Ghanshyam Das 1

  Birse, Arthur H. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  birthday, Churchill’s 1; (1942) 1;

  (1943) 1, 2, 3;

  (1953) 1, 2;

  (1960) 1, 2;

  (1963) 1;

  (1964) 1

  Blamey, Sir Thomas 1

  Bloody Mary (cocktail) 1

  BOAC, breakfast menu 1, 2

  Boer War 1

  Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt 1

  Boettiger, John 1

  Bohlen, Charles “Chip” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n6, 7n8

  Bonham Carter, Sir Maurice 1

  Bonham Carter, Violet (later Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury) 1, 2, 3

  Bovril 1

  Bracken, Brendan, 1st Viscount 1, 2, 3n4

  Braddock, Bessie 1, 2

  Braithwaite, Sir Rodric 1n2

  brandy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  breakfasts 1, 2, 3

  Bright, Joan (later Astley) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  “British Restaurants” (wartime non-profit establishments) 1

  Broadbent, Michael 1

  Brook, Norman (later 1st Baron Normanbrook) 1, 2

  Brooke, Sir Alan (later 1st Viscount Alanbrooke) 1, 2, 3, 4; Adana meeting (1943) 1, 2;

  Teheran Conference (1943) 1, 2;

  Yalta Conference (1945) 1

  Browne, Sir Anthony Montague 1, 2, 3

  Bullard, Sir Reader 1, 2

  Butcher, Harry C. 1

  Butler, Richard Austen “Rab” (later Baron Butler of Saffron Walden) 1, 2

  Byrnes, James F. 1, 2, 3

  Cadogan, Sir Alexander1; Adana meeting (1943) 1;

  Moscow meetings with Stalin (1942) 1;

  Potsdam Conference (1945) 1, 2;

  “Riviera” summit (Placentia Bay, 1941) 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Teheran Conference (1943) 1;

  Yalta Conference (1945) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Cairo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Carlton Hotel, London 1

  cartoons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Casablanca Conference (1943) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  caviar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Cecilie, German Crown Princess 1

  Cecilienhof Palace, Potsdam 1, 2, 3, 4

  chairs, dining room 1, 2

  Chamberlain, Neville 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  champagne 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Krug 1;

  Pol Roger 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  Pommery 1, 2

  Charles XII, King of Sweden 1

  Charmley, John 1

  Chartwell 1, 2;

  dining room 1, 2

  cheese 1

  Chequers 1, 2, 3, 4;

  dining room 1

  Cherbourg 1

  Cherwell, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount 1, 2, 3, 4

  Chicago 1

  china (dinner service) 1

  Chopin, Frédéric 1

  Christmas dinner 1

  Chubb, Percy 1

  Churchill, Clementine (later Baroness Spencer-Churchill) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13n27

  Churchill, Mary (later Baroness Soames) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Churchill, Pamela (later Harriman) 1, 2

  Churchill, Lady Randolph (née Jennie Jerome) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Churchill, Lord Randolph 1, 2

  Churchill, Randolph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Churchill, Sarah 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Churchill, Sir Winston: acceptance of hospitality 1; affection for animals 1, 2, 3;

  after-lunch naps 1;

  appetite and tastes in food 1, 2, 3, 4;

  battlefield recreations 1;

  birthdays 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  charm 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  clothes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  conversational skills 1, 2, 3, 4;

  conviviality 1, 2, 3;

  curiosity and information gathering xiv, 1, 2;

  depressions 1, 2;

  diplomatic skills 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  drinking 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  favourite films 1;

  financial interests 1;

  generosity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  hosting skills 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  humanity 1;

  humour 1, 2, 3, 4;

  ill-health and physical decline 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11;

  indigestion 1, 2, 3;

  intelligence 1, 2, 3;

  lack of culinary skills 1;

  memory 1;

  musical tastes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  novel reading 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  resilience 1;

  self-confidence 1, 2, 3;

  smoking 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;

  taste in desserts 1, 2, 3;

  toughness 1;

  “tummy-time” 1, 2;

  unpunctuality 1, 2;

  work ethic and routine 1, 2, 3, 4

  Churchill, Winston (grandson) 1

  Churchill College, Cambridge 1, 2

  cigarettes 1, 2, 3, 4

  cigars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  as security risk 1;

  symbolism of 1, 2, 3, 4

  claret 1, 2, 3

  Claridge’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  cocktails 1;

  Bloody Marys 1;

  martinis 1, 2

  Cohen, Eliot A. 1

  Cold War 1, 2, 3, 4

  Colville, Sir John “Jock” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Combined Chiefs of Staff Committee 1, 2

  commemorative meals 1, 2, 3

  Como, Lake 1

  consommé 1, 2, 3

  Cooper, Alfred Duff (later 1st Viscount Norwich) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Cooper, Lady Diana 1, 2

  Coward, Sir Noël 1

  Crankshaw, Eric 1

  cream 1

  Crimean War 1

  Cripps, Sir Stafford 1, 2

  Croft, Henry Page (later 1st Baron Croft) 1

  Cuba 1

  Cunningham, Sir Andrew (later 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope) 1, 2, 3

  Cunningham, Sir John 1, 2

  D-Day 1, 2, 3

  Daily Graphic 1

  Dallas, Texas 1

  Damaskinos, Archbishop 1, 2

  Dardanelles Campaign 1

  Davies, David, 1st Baron 1

  Davies, Joseph E. 1, 2

  Davies, Marion 1, 2

  Dempsey,
Jack 1

  Denmark 1

  desserts: Churchill’s taste in 1, 2, 3;

  “Persian lantern” dessert 1, 2

  D’Este, Carlo 1

  détente 1

  Dickens, Charles, Oliver Twist 1

  Dill, Sir John 1

  Dixon, Sir Pierson 1

  Downing Street 1;

  dining room 1, 2;

  wartime basement dining room 1, 2

  Dreyfus, Louis G. 1, 2

  Dufferin and Ava, Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of 1n2

  Dugdale, Blanche 1

  Duke of York, HMS 1

  Dulles, John Foster 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Dunottar Castle, SS 1

  Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon) 1, 2, 3, 4;

  meeting with Stalin in Moscow (1941) 1, 2;

  Potsdam Conference (1945) 1, 2, 3;

  relations with Churchill 1, 2, 3;

  Teheran Conference (1943) 1;

  Yalta Conference (1945) 1

  eggs 1; plovers’ 1, 2, 3;

  powdered 1

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1, 2;

  Bermuda Conference (1953) 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and Churchill’s hosting skills 1, 2;

  refusal to meet Soviet leaders 1, 2, 3;

  relations with Churchill 1, 2;

  Tuesday lunches with Churchill 1, 2, 3

  Eisenhower, John S.D. 1

  elections:

  Britain: (1945) 1, 2, 3, 4;

  (1951) 1

  United States: (1940) 1;

  (1944) 1n7

  Elizabeth II, Queen 1

  Elizabeth, Queen (consort of George VI; later Queen Mother) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Enchantress, HMS 1

  Enigma (intelligence information) 1

  Fields, Alonzo 1, 2, 3

  films 1, 2

  Firpo, Luis Angel 1

  food production, wartime 1, 2, 3

  Forester, C.S. 1, 2, 3

  Fortnum and Mason 1

  Fox of St James’s (tobacconists) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Franconia, SS 1

  Frederick IV, King of Denmark 1

  Freeman, Sir Wilfrid 1

  French Riviera 1, 2, 3;

  Villa La Pausa 1, 2

  Fuchs, Klaus 1

  Fulton, Missouri 1, 2, 3

  Gandhi, Mahatma 1

  garden parties 1, 2

  George VI, King 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  meals with Churchill 1, 2, 3

  German-Americans 1

  Gibraltar 1

  Gilbert, Sir Martin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Gilbert and Sullivan 1, 2

  Gilmour, Joe 1

  Goebbels, Joseph 1

  Golovanov, Alexander 1, 2

  Greece 1, 2, 3

  Grieg, Edvard 1

  Grigg, Sir Percy James 1

  grouse 1, 2

  Gusev, Fedor 1, 2

  Halifax, Dorothy, Countess of 1, 2, 3

  Halifax, E.F.L. Wood, 1st Earl of 1, 2, 3

  Hall, Douglas 1

  Hall, Gilbert 1, 2

  Hall, Radclyffe 1

  ham 1, 2, 3, 4; Callaway ham 1

  Hamlin, Bertie 1, 2

  Hampton Roads, Virginia 1

  Harcourt, Sir Cecil 1

  Harriman, Averell 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11n12

  Harriman, Kathleen 1, 2

  Harriman, Pamela (earlier Churchill) 1, 2

  Harvey, Oliver (later 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Hastings, Sir Max 1

  Hatch Mansfield (wine merchants) 1

  Hearst, William Randolph 1, 2, 3

  Hetherington, Derek 1

  Hight, Betty 1

  Hill, Kathleen 1

  Himmelfarb, Gertrude 1

  Hitler, Adolf, on Churchill’s drinking 1, 2

  Hollis, Sir Leslie 1, 2, 3n4

  Holmes, Marian 1, 2, 3, 4

  Hopkins, Harry L. 1, 2, 3, 4;

  meeting with Stalin (July 1941) 1;

  relations with Churchill 1, 2;

  “Riviera” summit (Placentia Bay, 1941) 1, 2, 3;

  Teheran Conference (1943) 1;

  visit to Britain (January 1941) 1;

  at White House 1, 2, 3;

  Yalta Conference (1945) 1, 2

  Hopkins, Robert 1

  Howard, Leslie 1

  Howells, Roy 1, 2, 3n4

  Hull, Cordell 1, 2, 3, 4

  Hunt, Thomas Cecil 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Hyde Park, London, piggery 1

  Hyde Park, New York 1, 2, 3

  ice-cream 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  India Bill (1935) 1

  indigestion 1, 2, 3

  Inönü, Ismet 1, 2, 3, 4

  International Churchill Societies 1

  Ionides, Basil 1

  Irish stew 1, 2, 3

  Irish-Americans 1

  “Iron Curtain” speech (1946) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Irving, David 1

  Ismay, Sir Hastings “Pug” (later Baron Ismay) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Ive, Ruth 1, 2

  Jacob, Sir Ian 1, 2, 3n4

  James, Sir Robert Rhodes 1

  Japan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Jerome, Clarita “Clara” 1

  J.J. Fox Cigar Shop 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Johnnie Walker (whisky) 1

  Jutland, Battle of (1916) 1

  Kass, Leon 1

  Kennedy, John F. 1, 2

  Kennedy, Joseph 1, 2

  Kensington Gardens 1

  Kerr, Sir Archibald Clark (later 1st Baron Inverchapel) 1, 2, 3

  Keynes, John Maynard, 1st Baron 1, 2

  KGB 1

  Kimball, Warren F. 1

  King, Ernest J. 1, 2, 3, 4

  King, William Lyon Mackenzie 1, 2, 3, 4

  Knatchbull-Hugessen, Sir Hughe 1, 2

  lamb cutlets 1

  Land Army 1

  Landemare, Georgina 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Landemare, Paul 1

  Langworth, Richard 1, 2

  Laniel, Joseph 1, 2

  Laski, Harold 1, 2

  Laxford River 1

  Layton, Elizabeth (later Nel) 1, 2, 3

  League of Nations 1

  Leahy, William D. 1, 2

  Lees-Milne, James 1

  Lend-Lease 1, 2, 3, 4

  Lindemann, Frederick (later 1st Viscount Cherwell) 1, 2, 3, 4

  List, Eugene 1

  Livadia Palace, Crimea 1, 2

  Llewellin, John Jestyn, 1st Baron 1, 2, 3

  Lloyd George, David, (later 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor) 1, 2

  Loch More 1

  Los Angeles, Montmartre Restaurant 1

  Lunghi, Hugh 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Lyttelton, Oliver (later 1st Viscount Chandos) 1, 2

  MacArthur, Douglas 1

  McCormick, Robert 1

  MacDonald, Ramsay 1

  McGowan, Norman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n7, 8n9

  Mackenzie King, William Lyon 1, 2, 3, 4

  Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton) 1, 2, 3

  Maisky, Ivan 1, 2, 3

  Malaya 1

  Malta 1, 2, 3, 4

  Manhattan Project 1

  Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of 1

  Marrakesh 1

  Marshall, George C. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Martin, Sir John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n31

  martinis 1, 2

  matches 1, 2n3

  Meiklejohn, Robert P. 1

  menus: breakfasts 1; dinners 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;

  garden parties 1, 2;

  lunches 1, 2, 3, 4

  MI5 1, 2

  Molotov, Vyacheslav 1;

  at Chequers 1;

  in Moscow 1, 2; Potsdam Conference (1945) 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Teheran Conference (1943) 1;

  Yalta Conference (1945) 1

  Molyneux, Edward 1

  Monckton, Sir Walter (later 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) 1, 2

  Montagu, Venetia 1, 2

  Monte Carlo, Hôtel de Paris 1

  Montgomery, Bernard, (later 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Moran, Charles Wilson, 1st Baron see Wilson, Sir Charles

  Morgenthau, Henry 1, 2, 3

  Morgenthau, Robert 1

  Morton, Henry Vollam 1, 2, 3, 4n5

  Moscow 1;

  Metropole Hotel 1

  Murray, Edmund 1, 2

  mustard 1

  Napoleon I 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Napoleonic Wars 1, 2

  Nel, Elizabeth see Layton, Elizabeth

  Nesbitt, Henrietta 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  New York, Lenox Hospital 1

  Newfoundland see “Riviera” summit

  Nicholas II, Tsar 1

  Nicholson, Sir William 1

  Nicolson, Sir Harold 1, 2

  Novello, Ivor 1

  Oliver Twist: (book) 1; (film) 1

  Omdurman, Battle of (1898) 1

  Onassis, Aristotle 1

  oranges 1, 2

  Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness, The Scarlet Pimpernel 1

  Other Club 1, 2, 3

  Overlord, Operation 1, 2

  Paley, William S. 1

  Paris: British embassy 1;

  Ritz Hotel 1, 2, 3

  Patton, George S. 1

  Pavlov, Vladimir 1, 2, 3, 4

  Pearl Harbor 1, 2

  peas 1, 2

  Peck, Sir John 1, 2, 3

  “Persian lantern” dessert 1, 2

  Phillips, Sir Thomas “Tom” 1

  photography 1

  Pickhardt, Otto C. 1

  picnics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  pigs 1, 2, 3, 4

  Pim, Sir Richard 1, 2

  Pimpernel Smith (film) 1

  Pinfield, Stewart 1, 2

  placement see seating arrangements

  Placentia Bay see “Riviera” summit

  Pleydell-Bouverie, Audrey 1

  plovers’ eggs 1, 2, 3

  Pol Roger, Odette 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Pol Roger (racehorse) 1

  Poland 1, 2, 3, 4

  Pompano Beach, Florida 1

  Ponting, Clive 1

  pork 1, 2, 3

  port 1, 2, 3, 4

  Portal, Sir Charles (later 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford) 1, 2

  Portal, Jane see Williams, Jane, Baroness Williams of Elvel