Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made (87 page)

CIA

Clerical Tithes Bill

Clow, James

Cockran, Bourke

Collins, Michael

Colonial Conference (1907)

Colonial Institute

Colonial Office: black official; Black Ordinance; Chinese labour problem; Natal executions; powers; premises; strategy towards US; WSC at (1905–8); WSC at (1921–2)

colonies, status

‘Coloured’ people in South Africa

Colville, John

Commonwealth: Burma proposals; Ceylon status; Europe relations; immigration rights; Indian status; Irish status; leaders; South African status; term; US relations; WSC’s stance; WSC’s use of term; WSC’s view of

Concord
magazine

Conservative Party: conference (1948); cotton duty; India policy; Irish policy; manifesto (1945); manifesto (1950); 1922 Committee; Suez Group; WSC’s departure; WSC’s leadership; WSC’s position; WSC’s return

Contemporary Review

Convention People’s Party (CPP)

Coote, Maxwell Henry

Cornwallis-West, George

Coupland, Reginald

Cox, Sir Percy

Cranborne, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount,
see
Salisbury, fifth Marquess Crewe, Robert Crewe-Milnes, Earl of

Cripps, Sir Stafford: Amery alliance; career; on Gandhi; India negotiations; Ministry of Aircraft Production

Crisp, C. B.

Croft, Henry Page

Cromwell, Oliver

Crookshank, Harry

Crown

Cuba, WSC in

Curtin, John

Curzon of Kedleston, George Curzon, first Marquess of

Cyprus, WSC in

Dáil Éireann

Daily Chronicle

Daily Express

Daily Gleaner
, Jamaica

Daily Graphic
, Gold Coast/Ghana

Daily Mail

Daily Mirror

Daily News

Daily Telegraph

Dakar raid (1940)

Dalton, Hugh

Dardanelles

Darwin, Charles

Davidson, J. C. C.

Davies, Clement

de Gaulle, Charles

De Valera, Eamon: Menzies visit; neutrality policy; President of Ireland; relationship with WSC; suppression of IRA; treaty policy; WSC’s view of; WWII

De Wet, Christiaan

Deakin, Alfred

Derby, Edward Stanley, seventeenth Earl of

Dieppe Raid (1942)

Disraeli, Benjamin

Dominions: Atlantic Charter; Balfour Definition; Chanak crisis (1922); gold standard; naval policy; representative in War Cabinet; status; tariff reform issue; US relations; ‘White’; WSC’s view of; WWII

Dreadnoughts

Dumbarton Oaks conference (1944)

Dunkirk evacuation (1940)

Dyer, Reginald

Eagle

East Africa: Asians; highlands; Kisii revolt; transport loan; white settlers; WSC in; WSC’s stance; WWI

East African Protectorate,
see also
Kenya

East
African Standard

Easter Rising (1916)

Eden, Anthony: Conservative conference speech (1948); economic policy; Egypt policy; Foreign Secretary; Greek campaign; health; India policies; Iran policy; Irish policy; Prime Minister; relationship with WSC; resignation; successor; Suez (1956); US agenda position; Viceroy question; on Yalta conference

Eden, Clarissa

Edward VII, King

Edward VIII, King

Egypt: British involvement; British presence in Canal Zone; British war debts; Lord Randolph’s policy; Milner report; nationalist coup (1952); nationalization of Suez Canal; negotiations over British forces; renunciation of British treaty; revolts; Suez crisis (1956); WSC’s meeting with Ibn Saud; WSC’s stance

Éire (Republic of Ireland, earlier Irish Free State): Commonwealth departure; creation; migration to Britain; neutrality; WSC’s stance

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

elections, general: (1880); (1885); (1886); (1899); (1900); (1906); (1910); (1918); (1922); (1923); (1924); (1929); (1931); (1935); (1945); (1950); (1951); (1955); (1959); (1964)

Elgin, Victor Bruce, ninth Earl of: career; Chinese Labour issue; Colonial Conference (1907); Colonial Secretary; Gandhi meeting; Kenya settlers policy; Natal executions issue; Nigeria policy; relationship with WSC; South African non-white deputation to

Elizabeth II, Queen

Emmott, Alfred

Empire: Atlantic Charter; Balfour Definition; Boer position; centralized control issue; Conservative manifesto (1945); decline; domestic threats to; as economic bloc; Egyptian position; Europe and; expansion; German views of; imperial education; Indian position; Irish position; Labour policy; ‘liquidation’ of; media images; Muslim population; nationalist pressures; population; preference,
see
imperial preference; public opinion of; race relations; role of army; role of Crown; role of navy; term; territory; threats to; trusteeship issue; US views; WSC’s imperial vision; WSC’s reputation; WSC’s speeches; WSC’s use of word; WWI; WWII

Empire Industries Association

Empire Marketing Board

Empire Palace of Varieties, Leicester Square

Empire Review

Epping constituency

Erskine, Sir George

European Economic Community (EEC)

Evatt, H. V.

Evening Post
, Wellington

Everest, Mrs (WSC’s nurse)

Farouk, King

Feisal, King of Iraq

Fianna Fáil

Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (Stern Gang)

Fincastle, Alexander Murray, Viscount

Fisher, Geoffrey

Fisher, John (‘Jackie’)

Fortnightly Review

‘Fourth Party’

France: defence (1940); Empire; fall (1940); Fashoda expedition; Free French forces; Gallipoli forces; invasion (1944); Levant mandates; Suez (1956); Vichy regime

Franco-Prussian War

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke

Fraser, Peter

Free Press Journal
, Bombay

free trade: Amery’s position; Conservative policy; imperial preference controversy; Liberal policy; US policy; WSC’s position

Freeman’s Journal

Frewen, Moreton (WSC’s uncle)

Gaitskell, Hugh

Gallipoli

Gandhi, Mohandas K.: ambulance corps in Boer War; assassination; British attitudes to; civil disobedience; Cripps on; Cripps negotiations; criticisms of WSC; Dominion status aim; Elgin meeting; fast; financial backers; imprisonment; in India; Indian self-government hopes; Irwin discussions; Jinnah relations; on Labour victory (1945); letter to WSC; in London; non-violent resistance; in South Africa; on WSC; WSC on; WSC meeting; WSC’s East African immigration policy; WWII

General Strike (1926)

George III, King

George V, King

George VI, King

Germany: colonies; naval forces; rise of Hitler; surrender (1945); WSC’s warnings; WWII

Ghana,
see
Gold Coast

Gibbon, Edward

Gladstone, William: Egypt policy; fall of government (1885); Gordon’s death; Home Rule policy; South African policy

Glasgow Herald

Godfrey, William

Goebbels, Josef

Gold Coast (later Ghana)

gold standard

Gordon, Charles

Gordon Walker, Patrick

Gough, Hugh, first Viscount

Government of India Act (1919)

Government of India Act (1935)

Greece, WWII

Grey, Sir Edward

Grigg, John

Grigg, P. J.

Guides Infantry

Gunning, J. W. B.

Gurney, Sir Henry

Haaretz

Haggard, H. Rider

Haldane, Aylmer

Halifax, Edward Wood, third Viscount (earlier Lord Irwin): ambassador to Washington; Foreign Secretary; Gandhi discussions; Hitler meeting; India Dominion status policy; Kenyan Indians agreement; Viceroy of India; view of WSC; wartime Prime Minister question

Hamilton, Lord George

Hamilton, Sir Ian

Hanna, H. B.

Harcourt, Lewis

Hardie, Keir

Harriman, Averell

Harrod, Roy

Harrow School

Harsh, Joseph C.

Harvey, Oliver

Henderson, Ian

Hertzog, J. B. M.

Het Volk party

Hicks Beach, Sir Michael

Hillary, Edmund

Hindoo Patriot

Hindu

Hindus, Hinduism: Gandhi’s interest in; Mayo’s account; Muslim relations; Nichols’s account; refugees after partition; troops in Indian army; WSC’s view of

Hindustan Times

Hitler, Adolf: Burmese view of; education policy; Halifax’s visit; invasion of Greece; offensive against; rise to power; speeches on British Empire; on WSC; WSC comparison; WSC’s warnings

Hoare, Sir Samuel

Hong Kong

Hooligans (Hughligans)

Hopkins, Harry

Hopwood, Sir Francis

Howard, Hubert

Howard, John

Hughes, Emrys

Hughes, W. M.

Hull, Cordell

Humanité, L’

Hunt, David

Hunter, William Hunter, Lord

Ibn Saud, King

Imperial Conference (1921)

Imperial Conference (1926)

imperial preference: Beaverbrook’s campaign; Chamberlain’s policy; Ottawa Agreements; supporters; US policy; WSC’s position

Imperial War Cabinet

Imperial War Conference

Imperial War Graves

India: Amritsar massacre (1919); army; Britain’s war debts; British rule; bubonic plague; Cabinet Mission (1946); civil disobedience (1942); Commonwealth membership; cotton duty; Dominion status question; famine (1873–4); famine (1943–4); Hindu–Muslim relations; Lord Randolph’s visit; partition; Pathan rising; Princely States; religion; self-government issue; Untouchables; violence (1946); White Paper (1931); WSC in; WSC’s stance; WWII

India League

India Office: Amery at; Burma policies; criticisms of WSC; Kenyan Indians issue; Lord Randolph at; Montagu at; Wavell’s position; WSC considered for

Indian Civil Service

Indian Empire Society

Indian Independence Bill

Indian National Congress: beginnings; civil disobedience; Cripps negotiations; election victories; Gandhi’s resolution (1928); leadership; partition; Round Table Conference; Simla conference; WSC’s view of; WWII

Indian News Chronicle

Indian Spectator

International Bank

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Iran: coup (1953); crisis (1951)

Iraq: creation; press; ruler; WSC’s policy;
see also
Mesopotamia

Ireland: Easter Rising (1916); Home Rule issue; Lord Lieutenancy; Treaty (1921); Ulster; unification issue; War of Independence; WSC’s achievements; WWII;
see also
Éire, Northern Ireland

Irish Free State,
see
Éire

Irish Parliamentary Party

Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Irish Republican Brotherhood (Fenians)

Ironside, Edmund

Irwin, Lord,
see
Halifax

Islam: Aga Khan; Mahdism; Reade’s account; Saudi Arabia; WSC’s view of;
see also
Muslims

Ismay, Hastings Ismay, first Baron

Israel,
see also
Palestine

Jacob, Sir Ian