Even Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible, was shocked by the action of some trigger-happy pilots and vengeful ground troops. |
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Lloyd George after 1922 and Winston Churchill before 1939 spent long periods in the political wilderness. |
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At their head was Winston Churchill, a lifelong Francophile with a deep admiration for French military prowess. |
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When Winston Churchill opposed the conventional wisdom that Hitler was tolerable, he was isolated from public life, his sanity questioned. |
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The crowds included familiar faces from the era, including a character actor playing Winston Churchill. |
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Winston Churchill was always impatient for action and unable to understand the time the Generals took to prepare for action. |
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It was hardly a socialist Utopia, but enough to earn the undying hatred of reactionaries like Winston Churchill. |
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When it became known that both ships had berthed in Brest, Bomber Command made them a primary target following an order from Winston Churchill. |
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From Dr. Johnson to Winston Churchill, it is the idiosyncratic individual who stirs their imagination, not some unpalatably abstract truth. |
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As Dr White points out, even Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill took power naps. |
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That, more or less, is how Winston Churchill summed up the special transatlantic relationship. |
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None other than those infamous troublemakers and malcontents, Winston Churchill and Thomas Jefferson, respectively. |
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After suing anyone who dared to cross him, Douglas was finally imprisoned himself for libeling Winston Churchill. |
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He watched as the man looked up at the painting of Winston Churchill in the old war room beneath Whitehall, the only politician that Hammer had any respect for. |
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The protesters, who are taking it in turns to sit under an umbrella beside the statue of Winston Churchill, had been attracting no more than a passing glance. |
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Simpson found that OMG easily dates back to the 1980s, and even has an outlying instance in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill. |
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Earlier this year, she joined Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela in being made an Honorary Freeman of the City of Leeds in recognition of her outstanding service to music. |
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In this sense, the experience of debut author, Winston Churchill, is instructive. |
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Winston Churchill was given a guided tour of the D-Day beaches in a duck. |
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Over the years, field marshals, generals, prime ministers and archbishops have been made honorary freemen of the city, although Winston Churchill did not take up the offer. |
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They highlighted the fact that many famous people with a stammer, including Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe, managed to overcome their speech defect. |
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It approved the writing-off of the debts of seventeen officers including one of thirteen rupees owed by Winston Churchill, then a young cavalry subaltern. |
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Soldiers have been practising drills all week, including a reverse arms salute not performed in Britain since the 1965 state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. |
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Then I called up Winston Churchill, who, at the age of 114, had been assigned to an insignificant position at the British consulate in Los Angeles. |
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Nagrani started out selling socks with designs ranging from a shirt on magnum, P.I. to Winston Churchill. |
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Winston Churchill, who personally vetted many of the British military code words, ordered that they should be neither overly boastful, nor frivolous. |
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When Winston Churchill visited Bletchley during the war to make a speech to the codebreakers, he thought they were ill-dressed, ill-mannered and eccentric. |
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Winston Churchill came to power, promising to fight the Germans to the very end. |
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Oldman will star in Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill, which will be directed by Joe Wright. |
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In a 2002 public television poll conducted by the BBC to select the 100 Greatest Britons, Brunel was placed second, behind Winston Churchill. |
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Two contrasting assessments of Burke also were offered long after his death by Karl Marx and Winston Churchill. |
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He telephoned Duff Cooper, the Minister of Information under Winston Churchill, hoping to get a position in Cooper's department. |
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Following this, Sellers provided the growling voice of Winston Churchill to the BAFTA award winning film The Man Who Never Was. |
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The play depicted an October 1938 meeting between Soviet spy Guy Burgess, then a young man working for the BBC, and Winston Churchill. |
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Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and he referred to the flag of the United Kingdom as the Union Jack. |
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Winston Churchill wrote about the use of the Union Jack as a symbol connected to British nationalism and imperialism. |
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At the 1945 general election, to the surprise of many observers, Winston Churchill was defeated by the Labour Party headed by Clement Attlee. |
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Some British naval officials, particularly the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, sought a more 'offensive' strategy. |
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Party leader Clement Attlee became Prime Minister replacing Winston Churchill in late July. |
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As First Lord of the Admiralty before the First World War, Winston Churchill twice suggested naming a British battleship HMS Oliver Cromwell. |
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In Parliament in 1944 Tory MP Simon Wing fiel-Digby snootily tackled Winston Churchill about the secret missions. |
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But things went way too far when Winston Churchill school in Woking, Surrey, announced a change in its catchment area to chase the chasers. |
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Griff Gleed Owen, who shares his birthday with the late Sir Winston Churchill, November 30, 1915, was brought up in Pwllheli. |
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They include Michael Skinner, a young Reading tailor who dressed the Peers of the Realm, including Winston Churchill, for the service. |
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However, in the October 1951 general elections the Conservatives returned to power under Winston Churchill. |
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Examples are William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and Tony Blair. |
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The first example was the close relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt who were in fact distantly related. |
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On his appointment as Prime Minister in May 1940, Winston Churchill created for himself the new post of Minister of Defence. |
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At the end of the Phoney War, Winston Churchill became the wartime Prime Minister. |
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Sir John French suggested landing at Antwerp, which was vetoed by Winston Churchill as the Royal Navy could not guarantee safe passage. |
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Haig accepted the advice of Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War, that exercising his right to shoot the ringleaders was not sensible. |
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Winston Churchill suggested that British sovereigns would use either the English or the Scottish number, whichever was higher. |
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To raise morale following the blitz, the King and Queen as well as the prime minister, Winston Churchill, visited Swansea. |
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Outside the British ambassador's residence stands a statue of Sir Winston Churchill. |
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The eisteddfod itself took place on the old Vicarage Field at Fronhyfryd and was visited by David Lloyd George, accompanied by Winston Churchill. |
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Winston Churchill allowed him to paint his portrait at Eisenhower's request. |
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She is also a Council member for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and an International Inspiration Ambassador. |
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To prevent further attacks, Winston Churchill ordered the construction of permanent barriers. |
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Keyes impressed First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill by the daring of his plan, which was adopted but not without changes. |
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The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, resigned during the battle and was replaced by Winston Churchill. |
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Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, ordered any ship or boat available, large or small, to collect the stranded soldiers. |
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Since World War II, the bulldog has been umbilically linked to Winston Churchill who did, actually, look like one. |
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Winston Churchill was probably one of the most prominent people of Huguenot descent, deriving from his American grandfather Leonard Jerome. |
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After a vote in the Commons, in which the government's majority fell from more than 200 to 81, Chamberlain made way for Winston Churchill. |
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It says Hess was on a mission to broker a top secret peace deal with the consent of Hitler and Winston Churchill. |
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In 1951, the Conservative Party returned to power in Britain, under the leadership of Winston Churchill. |
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Winston Churchill also found Nelson to be a source of inspiration during the Second World War. |
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Winston Churchill was a Freemason and a member of the Loyal Waterloo Lodge of the National Independent Order of Odd Fellows. |
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It was given in 1916 to Bonar Law, and when he declined, to David Lloyd George and in 1940 to Winston Churchill. |
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Several 20th century Prime Ministers, such as David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, were famous for their oratorical skills. |
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Clement Attlee formed the Attlee ministry in the United Kingdom in 1945, succeeding Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
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He harrumphs around Westminster as if he owns the place, which is not surprising since he is not just a Tory MP but a grandson of Winston Churchill to boot. |
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Finally, breaking all the rules, on 28 October they wrote directly to Winston Churchill spelling out their difficulties, with Turing as the first named. |
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Winston Churchill and Benedict Cumberbatch are old Harrovians and in the this series we meet some of Shells, as the new boys are called, arriving as boarders. |
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He further served for a year as a senior official of the colonial office working with Winston Churchill and others to help establish the new states of Iraq and Transjordan. |
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They attacked German ships in Bordeaux harbour using limpet mines in Operation Frankton, which Winston Churchill claimed shortened the war by six months. |
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On 10 May, the same day Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister, the Germans initiated the Battle of France with an aggressive invasion of French territory. |
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Top officials in Britain, most notably Prime Minister Winston Churchill, did not support the Cripps Mission and negotiations with the Congress soon broke down. |
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Lloyd George succeeded Asquith at the Exchequer, and was in turn succeeded at the Board of Trade by Winston Churchill, a recent defector from the Conservatives. |
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In 1955, the Council of Europe was formed in Strasbourg following a speech by Sir Winston Churchill, with the idea of unifying Europe to achieve common goals. |
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Asquith, David Lloyd George, Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill. |
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill put Britain back on the gold standard in 1925, which many economists blame for the mediocre performance of the economy. |
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Devolution for England was proposed in 1912 by the Member of Parliament for Dundee, Winston Churchill, as part of the debate on Home Rule for Ireland. |
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On 12 September the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, gave a speech in which he proposed 10 or 12 regional parliaments for the United Kingdom. |
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By 13 February, the ships had reached German ports and Winston Churchill ordered an inquiry into the debacle and The Times denounced the British fiasco. |
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Winston Churchill issued the Battle of the Atlantic directive on 9 March, directing the British war effort temporarily to counter the German campaign against Atlantic convoys. |
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Hitler decreed that Blenheim Palace, the ancestral home of Winston Churchill, was to serve as the overall headquarters of the German occupation military government. |
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The First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, was credited by Prime Minister David Lloyd George as being the driving force behind their production. |
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The first summit was held in December 1953, at the insistence of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to discuss relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. |
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In response to public outrage, the First Lord of the Admiralty Arthur Balfour asked Winston Churchill to write a second report that was more positive and detailed. |
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He resigned on 15 May 1915 amidst bitter arguments with the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, over Gallipoli, causing Churchill's resignation too. |
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