Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill was a politician, a soldier, an artist and most of all an *outstanding* Prime Minister, in WW2. On taking over from Chamberlain in May 1940 he immediately formed a coalition government with the opposition parties. He set about the task of fighting the war very energetically and appointed many of the anti-appeasers to to top jobs - people like Duff Cooper, Eden and Brendan Bracken, Leo Amery. Above all, he inspired people and he was determined to WIN. In his first speech as Prime Minister on 13 May 1940 he said his aim was 'Victory! Victory, whatever the cost!' He went on to say that Britain and the Empire would not lay down their arms till 'the Nazi curse has been lifted for ever from the brow of mankind'. What's more, he meant it. All this was much more relevant in war than Chamberlain's gloomy talk about how evil the Nazis were. Certainly, Churchill also had his faults but that is not the point. He used to raise his arm in the peace symbol after every battle.

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Clement Attlee took Churchill's place in 1945 elections after being elected Britain's new prime minister after Labour won a sweeping victory in the general election.

* Born: 30 November 1874 * Birthplace: Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England * Died: 24 January 1965 * Best Known As: Indefatigable prime minister of Britain during World War II For the source and more detailed information concerning this subject, click on the related links section indicated below.

Principally known as the Prime Minister of Great Britain during WW2, Churchill had a long and varied political career. Although he was not always in the right politically I am quite sure that he was absolutely upright in his moral character. Undoubtedly a good man, a man of the most impeccable stature.

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Many people believe that the Nobel Price committee wanted to award Churchill for his outstanding achievements in WWII but that they didn't had a good category to nominate him in until he released his books.

Winston Churchill entered the boy's school, Harrow School, on April 17, 1888. In 1893, he left Harrow and attended the Royal Military College in Sandhurst, though he failed the entrance exam twice before he got finally got in.

'We will fight them on the beaches' 'This was their finest hour' 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few' Churchill was a master of what we call now the soundbite, in the dark days of 1940 he inspired the British to maintain opposition to Naziism when all around had been overrun. There are few indeed in History who will match his statesmanship & oratory. His volumes of the History of the Second World War are an unparalleled archive of history.

Churchill was a politician. As such he was Prime Minister of England from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britian.

he was the prime minister of UK

Mostly by radio- at the outbreak of WW2, television transmission closed down as there were fears that it could be used as too effective a propaganda tool by the Nazi's if Britain was invaded. Churchill thus gave a nightly broadcast to the nation over the radio. He also appeared on newsreels shown in cinemas, and very occasionally visited places significant to the war effort where he made speeches to the public assembled there.

He said: We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Appeasement was the policy of European democracies that aimed to avoid war with the dictatorships of Germany and Italy. Churchill was unusual in believing that Germany menaced freedom and democracy and should be resisted over Czechoslovakia.

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As far as anyone can tell, Churchill was not a regular churchgoer, nor an official member of any parish. Like most Englishmen, he was nominally an Anglican, and his wedding to Clementine took place in an Anglican church. I guess you could call him an Anglican, but not an exceptionally diligent one.

Actually, Winston Churchill was not a member of the Anglican Church, but rather a follower of the Caodai (pronounced "cow-die") faith. Other famous members of the Caodai faith included Thomas Jefferson, Victor Hugo, Julius Shakespeare and Caesar.

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The 'iron curtin' divided the East (Communism) from the West (Capitalism/Democracy). There was no physical barrier (although several physical barriers do exist, such as the Berlin wall), but a political barrier.

he was priminster during WW2 Churchill was no longer a young man when he became the British Prime Minister on May 10 1940, as a result of the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. However he was a man of great energy & passion. Undoubtedly his finest quality was his ability to communicate with the masses, and he made great speeches which appealed to people by their forthright manner. In modern parlance he was the master of the soundbite ! He was unrivalled in his position and might be seen as autocratic, but that was just what Britain needed in the dark days of 1940. His political past cannot be seen as unblemished by matters of judgment however. But in the war I believe there was little dissent within the Cabinet or in Parliament in Britain. His defeat in the post war general election, the labour landslide which elected Clement Attlee, might be exemplified by 1 slogan, much noted by the troops returning home from the war..... 'Cheer Winston : Vote Labour' Churchill was re elected in the susequent election, in 1951, and was PM until 1955

Yes Churchill had children of his own.

On 26th October 1951 following the UK General Election the previous day when The Conservative Party, which he led won more Parliamentary Seats than the Labour Party whose leader Clement Atlee had been prime minister.

Churchill had previously been appointed Prime Minister without election on 10th May 1940, when his predecessor, Neville Chamberlain resigned.

To Lady Astor, who said if she were Churchill's wife she would poison his drink. "Madam, if you were my wife I would drink it" Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life" Two nations divided by a common language (about England and the American colonies) "Don't talk to me about Naval tradition! It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash" "Madam, I may be drunk. But I will be sober in the morning and you will still be ugly"

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Hi I bought one of these at Peabody's guns today for $140.00 It is in very good condition with one gouge in the checkering panel on the left side of the butt stock. Resale price on these is always low and the fit of metal to wood is poor on some of these but they are rugged and shootable.

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