"a child from Josh Weinstein's school days who everyday would get onto the bus with a piece of toast, which had Vaseline on it. A majority of the story is a reference to the film ""Rebel Without a Cause"". Lisa remarks that Nelson is ""like a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a vest"", a reference to ""a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma""; this was Winston Churchill's opinion of Russia at the outbreak of the World War II. In its original broadcast, ""Lisa's Date with Density"" finished 63rd in ratings for the week of December 9–15,"
"omitted reports of failure or trouble"". Out of fear of admitting any defeat, reports of cosmonauts' missions leaned towards an exaggerated positive spin rather than factual substance. ""The USSR was famously described by Winston Churchill as 'a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma' and nothing signified this more than the search for the truth behind its space program during the Cold War. Although the Space Race was literally played out above our heads, it was often obscured by a figurative 'space curtain' that took much effort to see through"" says Dominic Phelan in the book ""Cold War Space"
"self-preservation. In the summer of 1941, Sergeant Ward was summoned to 10 Downing Street by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The shy New Zealander was struck dumb with awe by the experience and was unable to answer the Prime Minister's questions. Churchill regarded the reluctant hero with some compassion. ""You must feel very humble and awkward in my presence,"" he said. ""Yes, sir,"" managed Ward. ""Then you can imagine how humble and awkward I feel in yours,"" said Churchill. However, there is some doubt about the accuracy of this anecdote as Churchill was aboard HMS ""Prince of Wales"" meeting the US"
"appointment to this particular office was highly controversial. Winston Churchill had long campaigned for such an office and when its creation was announced, most expected Churchill to be appointed. When Inskip was named, one famous reaction was that ""This is the most cynical appointment since Caligula made his horse a consul"". John Gunther, who described Inskip in 1940 as ""the sixty-three-year-old man of mystery"", reported the ""cruel story"" that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin wanted to appoint someone ""'even less brilliant than himself'"". His appointment is now regarded as a sign of caution by Baldwin who did not wish to appoint"
"be ""strangled in its cradle"". He secured, from a divided and loosely organised Cabinet, intensification and prolongation of the British involvement beyond the wishes of any major group in Parliament or the nation—and in the face of the bitter hostility of the Labour Party. On 14 January 1919 Churchill circulated a ""Most urgent and secret memorandum"" to all commanders of British forces asking whether their forces would serve overseas and particularly in Russia, whether they would serve as strikebreakers and the soldiers' attitude to trade unions. A copy was leaked to and published in the ""Daily Herald"". In February he"
"Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, statesman, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and British imperialist, he began and ended his parliamentary career as a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but for twenty years from 1904 he was a"
"in a so-called ""special relationship"" between the people of Britain and its Commonwealth (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.) united under the Crown, and the people of the United States who had broken with the Crown and gone their own way. His book thus dealt with the resulting two divisions of the ""English speaking peoples"". At the suggestion of publisher Newman Flower, Churchill began the history during the 1930s, during the period that his official biographer Martin Gilbert termed the ""wilderness years"" when he was not in government. Work was interrupted in 1939 when the Second World War broke"
"long-time private secretary of Winston Churchill, who in his younger days had been part of the same social ""set"" as Churchill's niece, recorded in his diary that Clarissa, who was staying at Churchill's home at Chartwell, Kent, was ""very beautiful, but ... still strange and bewildering"". He added that Churchill ""feels avuncular to his orphaned niece, gave her a cheque for £500 and told me that he thought she had a most unusual personality"". According to Lady Avon herself, Churchill's wife Clementine thought her ""too independent and totally unsuitable"", while the marriage is said to have exacerbated the antagonism towards"
"worst flaw in the book is the myth of Winston Churchill and the Coventry Blitz. During The Blitz of 1940–1941, Coventry was severely bombed by the Luftwaffe on the night of 14–15 November. There was heavy damage and numerous civilian casualties. Winterbotham asserted that Enigma decrypts had provided clear advance warning of the raid but that Churchill personally decided not to take any special countermeasures that might alert the Germans that the British were reading Enigma. This story has been widely repeated, even though it has been thoroughly refuted by other historians and memoirists. Peter Calvocoressi was head of the"
"war. The only people who knew of the hiding place were the king and his librarian, Sir Owen Morshead, who apparently revealed the secret to the general and his wife on their visit to England in 1949. The Koh-i-Noor has long been a subject of diplomatic controversy, with India, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan all demanding its return from the UK at various points. The Government of India, believing the gem was rightfully theirs, first demanded the return of the Koh-i-Noor as soon as independence was granted in 1947. A second request followed in 1953, the year of the coronation of"
"to a blackout. The third explanation is given by Winterbotham, who recounts that two weeks after V-E Day, on 25 May 1945, Churchill requested former recipients of Ultra intelligence not to divulge the source or the information that they had received from it, in order that there be neither damage to the future operations of the Secret Service nor any cause for the Axis to blame Ultra for their defeat. Since it was British and, later, American message-breaking which had been the most extensive, the importance of Enigma decrypts to the prosecution of the war remained unknown despite revelations by"
"""the last secret"" of the Second World War. The operation decided the fate of up to two million post-war refugees fleeing eastern Europe. There has been debate over Churchill's culpability in the deaths of millions of Indians during the Bengal famine of 1943. Some commentators point to the disruption of the traditional marketing system and maladministration at the provincial level as a cause, with Churchill saying that the famine was the Indians' own fault for ""breeding like rabbits"". Adam Jones, editor of the ""Journal of Genocide Research"", calls Churchill ""a genuine genocidaire"", noting that the British leader called Indians a"
"Cantasano, who felt he was to blame, repeatedly called the hospital to see how Churchill was doing. Concerned that Cantasano would be blamed and then have trouble finding work, Churchill finally arranged to meet him at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Churchill served Cantasano tea and gave him an autographed copy of his book, ""The Unknown War."" Edward F. Cantasano's name was misreported by journalists at the time as Mario Contasino, and the incident itself eventually faded into the background of Churchill's life. Cantasano himself was nearly forgotten entirely, until interest in the event was revived almost 70 years later. In January"
"that Guatemala was a ""bloody place"" he'd ""never heard of"". Churchill was still keen for a trip to Moscow, and threatened to resign, provoking a crisis in the Cabinet when Lord Salisbury threatened to resign if Churchill had his way. In the end the Soviets proposed a five power conference, which did not meet until after Churchill had retired. By the autumn Churchill was again postponing his resignation. Eden, now partly recovered from his operations, became a major figure on the world stage in 1954, helping to negotiate peace in Indo-China, an agreement with Egypt and to broker an agreement"
"Chartwell Chartwell is a country house near the town of Westerham, Kent in South East England. For over forty years it was the home of Winston Churchill. He bought the property in September 1922 and lived there until shortly before his death in January 1965. In the 1930s, when Churchill was excluded from political office, Chartwell became the centre of his world. At his dining table, he gathered those who could assist his campaign against German re-armament and the British government's response of appeasement; in his study, he composed speeches and wrote books; in his garden, he built walls, constructed"
"exceeded £70,000. In the 1950s, he reflected on his racing career; ""Perhaps Providence had given him Colonist as a comfort in his old age and to console him for disappointments"". Chartwell Chartwell is a country house near the town of Westerham, Kent in South East England. For over forty years it was the home of Winston Churchill. He bought the property in September 1922 and lived there until shortly before his death in January 1965. In the 1930s, when Churchill was excluded from political office, Chartwell became the centre of his world. At his dining table, he gathered those who"
"in Guatemala to Soviet policy in Korea and Greece, causing Churchill to retort that Guatemala was a ""bloody place"" he'd ""never heard of"". Churchill was still keen for a trip to Moscow, and threatened to resign, provoking a crisis in the Cabinet when Lord Salisbury threatened to resign if Churchill had his way. In the end the Soviets proposed a five-power conference, which did not meet until after Churchill had retired. By the autumn Churchill was again postponing his resignation. Eden, now partially recovered from his operations, became a major figure on the world stage in 1954, helping to negotiate"
"to the enemy, that we have broken their code/have spies in place and will likely cost lives in the future and extend the war' dilemma. Churchill himself only faced this dilemma generally (he could not know how bad the Coventry raid of 14 November 1940 would be before the event). Unfortunately for Sheridan, this widely believed tale is an urban myth—the truth is that Churchill was made aware that a German bombing raid was planned but it was assumed that the target would be London. It was only minutes before the attack took place that Coventry was identified as the"
"taken prisoner was the young journalist Winston Churchill, whose life Ricchiardi spared by pretending not to see him dumping his pistol and dum-dum ammunition which had been declared unlawful on pain of death. One of the countries where enthusiasm for the Boar cause was the greatest was Russia, where the war was extensively covered by the Russian media and numerous books, articles, plays, pamphlets and poems were published about the war, usually with a pronounced pro-Boar slant. One Russian writer complained: ""Wherever you go these days you hear the same story – the Boers, the Boers and only the Boers""."
"News of this was kept from the public and from Parliament, who were told that Churchill was suffering from exhaustion. He went to his country home, Chartwell, to recuperate, and by the end of June he astonished his doctors by being able, dripping with perspiration, to lift himself upright from his chair. He joked that news of his illness had chased the trial of the serial killer John Christie off the front pages. Churchill was still keen to pursue a meeting with the Soviets and was open to the idea of a reunified Germany. He refused to condemn the Soviet"
"Africa and the Middle East. ""He took calculated risks,"" said his son, William III. ""There was a lot more risk in flying back then. It was a frontier, and I think all the old pilots will say it, secretly to themselves, that they enjoyed being on their own. It was the wild blue yonder."" As Churchill's pilot, Vanderkloot conveyed the Prime Minister to Egypt to sack Claude Auchinleck, commander of the British army in North Africa and took Churchill to high-level talks in Moscow with Joseph Stalin, to Turkey to determine that country's wartime intentions, and to the Casablanca Conference"
"Winston's Hiccup ""Winston's Hiccup"", also referred to as ""Churchill's Sneeze"", (Arabic: حازوقة وينستون) is an apocryphal name for the abruptly concave section of Jordan's eastern border with Saudi Arabia, causing the border to resemble a zigzag shape. The legend arose based on an account of Winston Churchill (then serving as the Secretary of State for the Colonies) boasting in his later years that he had created the British protectorate of Transjordan in 1921 ""with the stroke of a pen, one Sunday afternoon in Cairo""; some stories purport that this drawing of the boundary took place following a ""particularly liquid lunch""."
"that it was ""a very great country"" and telling his mother ""what an extraordinary people the Americans are!"" With the Hussars, Churchill arrived in Bombay, British India, in October 1896. They were soon transferred to Bangalore, where he shared a bungalow with Barnes. Describing India as a ""godless land of snobs and bores"", Churchill remained posted there for 19 months, during the course of which he made three visits to Calcutta, expeditions to Hyderabad and the North West Frontier, and two visits back to Britain. Believing himself poorly educated, he began a project of self-education, reading the work of Plato,"
"weekend. Had Eden been fit, Churchill's premiership would most likely have been over. News of this was kept from the public and from Parliament, who were told that Churchill was suffering from exhaustion. He went to his country home, Chartwell, to recuperate, and by the end of June he astonished his doctors by being able, dripping with perspiration, to lift himself upright from his chair. He joked that news of his illness had chased the trial of the serial killer John Christie off the front pages. Churchill was still keen to pursue a meeting with the Soviets and was open"
"as well as histories, Churchill was careful to broaden their scope to include events in which he played no part—the war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, for example. Inevitably, however, Churchill placed Britain, and therefore himself, at the centre of his narrative. Arthur Balfour described ""The World Crisis"" as ""Winston's brilliant autobiography, disguised as a history of the universe."" In any case he had far fewer documentary sources for matters not involving Britain. As a Cabinet minister for part of the First World War and as Prime Minister for nearly all of the Second, Churchill had unique access"
"they boarded their aircraft, for Churchill and his bodyguard. ""Churchill's Bodyguard"" noted that Thompson wrote that Winston Churchill at times seemed clairvoyant about suspected threats to his safety, and acting on a premonition, he changed his departure to the following day. The crux of the theory posited that Churchill asked one of his men to tamper with an engine on his aircraft, giving him an excuse not to travel at that time. Speculation by historians has also centred on whether the British code breakers had decrypted several top secret Enigma messages that detailed the assassination plan. Churchill wanted to protect"
"scheduled commercial airline flight. Rumours had circulated since early May that Churchill might fly home from Lisbon. Some have speculated that Britain's Secret Intelligence Service planted these rumours to mask Churchill's travel itinerary. According to the Churchill assassination theory, as passengers were boarding BOAC Flight 777, German agents spotted what Churchill described in his memoirs as ""a thick-set man smoking a cigar,"" whom they mistook for the Prime Minister. This man was later identified as Alfred T. Chenhalls, Howard's accountant and portly travel companion. In addition, some have speculated that the tall and thin Howard may have been mistaken for"
"Churchill's Secret War Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II is a book by Madhusree Mukerjee about the Bengal famine of 1943 during British rule in India. It was published in August 2010 by Basic Books of New York, and later that month by Tranquebar Press of Chennai. The book examines the role in the famine, and subsequent partition of India in 1947, played by the policies and racial worldview of Winston Churchill, British prime minister from 1940–1945, during World War II. Mukerjee writes that the famine killed 1.5 million people according"
"admiral in the Royal Navy, and Charles Churchill (1656-1714), a general who served on campaign in Europe with his eldest brother John. Little is known of John Churchill's childhood about which he left no written description, but growing up in these impoverished conditions at Ashe, with family tensions soured by conflicting allegiances, may have made a lasting impression on the young Churchill. His descendant and biographer the Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, asserted that the conditions at Ashe ""might well have aroused in his mind two prevailing impressions: first a hatred of poverty ... and secondly the need of hiding"
"by Winston Churchill to attend a 1921 Conference in Cairo to determine the boundaries of the British mandate (e.g., ""the British Partitions"") and nascent states such as Iraq. Gertrude is supposed to have described Lawrence as being able ""to ignite fires in cold rooms"". Throughout the conference, she, Cox and Lawrence worked tirelessly to promote the establishment of the countries of Transjordan and Iraq to be presided over by the Kings Abdullah and Faisal, sons of the instigator of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire (ca. 1915–1916), Hussein bin Ali, Sharif and Emir of Mecca. Until her death in"
"to thank him for his support. Churchill was still unpopular with many Conservatives and the Establishment, who opposed his replacing Chamberlain; the former prime minister remained party leader until dying in November. Churchill probably could not have won a majority in any of the political parties in the House of Commons, and the House of Lords was completely silent when it learned of his appointment. Ralph Ingersoll reported in late 1940 that, ""Everywhere I went in London people admired [Churchill's] energy, his courage, his singleness of purpose. People said they didn't know what Britain would do without him. He was"
"South. In 1941, Prime Minister Winston Churchill strenuously objected when she and her husband planned to tour the Caribbean aboard a yacht belonging to a Swedish magnate, Axel Wenner-Gren, who Churchill said was ""pro-German"". Churchill felt compelled to complain again when the Duke gave a ""defeatist"" interview. Another of their acquaintances, Charles Bedaux, who had hosted their marriage, was arrested on charges of treason in 1943, and committed suicide in jail in Miami before the case was brought to trial. The British establishment distrusted the Duchess; Sir Alexander Hardinge wrote that her suspected anti-British activities were motivated by a desire"
"other body in any territory under German authority. Such investigation would be a fraud and its conclusions reached by terrorism"". Unofficial or classified UK documents concluded Soviet guilt was a ""near certainty"", but the alliance with the Soviets was deemed to be more important than moral issues; thus the official version supported the Soviets, up to censoring any contradictory accounts. Churchill asked Owen O'Malley to investigate the issue, but in a note to the Foreign Secretary he noted: ""All this is merely to ascertain the facts, because we should none of us ever speak a word about it."" O'Malley pointed"