Never Give In! (89 page)

Gettysburg
294

Gibraltar
280

Giraud, General Henri-Honoré
285

Gladstone, William Ewart
40
,
358

Gneisenau
(German battle-cruiser)
183
,
189

Goebbels, Josef
145

Goering, Hermann
92

Gold Standard
55
,
74

Gort, Field Marshal John Standish Vereker,
6
th Viscount
170
,
178
,
280

Gothic Line (Italy)
305

Government of India Bill (and Act, 1935)
93
–
6

Graf Spee
(German pocket-battleship)
165

Grayson, Victor
23
–
4

Great Crash (1929)
55
,
74
,
79

Great Depression
55

Greece: Italy and Germany invade (1941)
219
–
20
,
223
; campaign in,
224
,
228
,
230
–
1
,
275
; Communist activities in,
307
; WSC visits,
307
,
309
–
10

Grenfell, David
409

Griffiths, James
381
,
390

Grigg, Sir Edward (
later
1st Baron Altrincham)
119

Guest, Frederick Edward
119

Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia
292

Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of
167
–
8

Hamilton, General Sir Ian
52
–
3

Harriman, Averell
219
,
260
,
313

Harriman, Pamela (
formerly
Churchill)
xxv
i–xxvii

Harrow School
254

Harvard University: awards honorary degree to WSC
296

Harwood, Admiral Sir Hemy
165
,
167

Henlein, Konrad
144

Hess, Rudolf
272

Hiroshima
338

Hitler, Adolf: WSC’s pre-war warnings against
xxv
–xxvi,
88
,
92
,
161
; rise to power,
77
,
80
,
85
,
118
,
145
; occupies Rhineland,
106
,
108
; Chamberlain visits,
139
–
40
; and Munich Agreement,
140
–
1
; invades Czechoslovakia,
150
; Russian attitude to,
165
; plans invasion of Britain,
177
,
185
,
193
–
4
,
209
–
10
; and exploitation of conquered territories,
187
; proclaims blockade of Britain,
198
; and food supply,
199
; and air attacks on Britain,
201
–
2
,
209
,
212
–
16
,
218
,
243
,
276
,
319
; postpones invasion of Britain,
213
,
218
; policy on France,
214
; and collapse of France,
233
; depradations and tyranny in Europe,
235
,
248
; invades USSR,
240
–
1
,
243
,
248
,
251
,
376
,
280
,
294
,
327
; WSC refuses to negotiate with,
243
,
259
; and US entry into war,
251
–
2
,
327
; WSC mocks,
292
;
see also
Germany

Hoare, Sir Samuel (
later
Viscount Templewood): and Indian independence
93
; as First Lord of Admiralty,
121
,
123
; on air power,
123
,
125
; and anti-aircraft: defences,
149

Hoare-Laval Pact (1935)
123

Holland: Germans invade and occupy
xxv
i,
169
,
171
,
198
,
269
; and German occupation of Rhineland,
106
; German threat to,
109
; wartime government in exile,
204
; liberated (1944),
303

Holland, Captain (RN)
191

Home Guard (
earlier
Local Defence Volunteers)
183
,
194
,
208
,
211

‘Home Rule’
see
Ireland

Home Secretary: WSC’s serves as
xxiv
,
1
,
35

Hong Kong; falls to Japanese (1941)
270

Hood,
HMS
233
–
4

Hoover, Herbert
198

Hopkins, Henry L. (Harry)
218

Hore-Belisha, Leslie (
later
Baron)
230
,
282

Homer, Arthur
390

housing
382

Howard, John
5

Hungary
220
,
222

Hussein, King of Jordan
67
–
8

hydrogen bomb
406
,
411
,
413
–
15
;
see
also
atomic bomb

Ibn Saud (Bin Saud), King of Saudi Arabia
68

India: WSC opposes independence
78
–
9
,
93
–
5
,
101
; religious divisions in,
79
; Kipling’s writings on,
130

India Bill (1935)
see
Government of India Bill

industrial unrest: during WSC’s Home Secretaryship
32
–
7

Inskip, Sir Thomas
118

insurance: unemployment
19
,
34
–
5
; invalidity,
34

International Churchill Societies
422

invasion (of Britain): threat of (1940)
178
–
90
,
192
–
4
,
200
,
206
–
7
,
210
–
12
; postponed,
209
,
215
;
see also
Normandy invasion

Iraq: established as kingdom
64
,
67

Ireland: WSC supports Home Rule
39
–
41
; republic established (1922),
69
; repudiates Irish Treaty,
95
–
6
; Britain loses use of ‘Treaty Ports’,
137
–
9
,
235
; German invasion threat to,
192
,
208
; neutrality in World War II,
296

Irish Free State Bill (1922)
69

‘Iron Curtain’ speech
see
Fulton, Missouri

Italy: in North African campaign
22
,
215
–
16
; and Abyssinia,
92
,
97
–
8
,
158
; League of Nations sanctions against,
100
; attacks Albania,
158
,
219
; Navy in World War II,
183
,
191
; British blockade of,
198
; enters World War II,
203
–
4
,
274
; declares war on USA,
264
; suffers defeats in Africa,
275
; Allied advance in,
304
; surrenders (1944),
308
; postwar Communism in,
351
; in united Europe,
367
;
see also
Mussolini, Benito