Never Give In! (90 page)

Authors: Winston Churchill

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Japan: relations with Germany
92
; attacks China,
151
,
158
,
249
,
258
,
280
,
329
; in Second World War,
161
,
260
–
2
,
264
,
266
–
7
,
272
,
281
,
326
,
329
–
30
; as threat in Asia and Pacific,
249
,
258
; attacks Pearl Harbor,
260
; captures Singapore,
273
–
4
; and unconditional surrender demand,
308
; atomic bombs used against,
339
; surrenders,
339
–
40

Jay, Douglas
382

Jerome, Leonard (WSC’s grandfather)
238

Jewish Brigade: formed in World War H
305

Jews: Palestine national home for
64
–
5
,
104
–
5
,
155
–
6
,
158
,
355
; German persecution of,
106
; and repudiation of Balfour Declaration,
155
–
6
,
158
; massacred in Europe,
355

Jibuti
203
–
4

Jodl, General Alfred
322

Jordan: established as kingdom
64
;
see also
Abdullah, King; Hussein, King

Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm
322

Kennedy, John F.: confers Honorary US Citizenship on WSC
xxiii
,
xxviii
,
337
,
419

Kennedy, Joseph P.
189
,
217

Kerr, Sir Archibald Clark (
later
Baron Inverchapel)
313

Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert
305

King, William Lyon Mackenzie
187

Kipling, Rudyard
129
–
30
,
255
,
287
,
297

Knox, Colonel F.
257

Kolchak (Koltchak), Admiral Alexander V.
63

Korean War (1950–53)
385
–
8
,
405

Labour Party: pre-1917 association with Liberals
22
; forms 1923 government,
55
; attracts Liberal supporters,
96
; forms government (1929),
74
,
77
; and 1945 return to party politics,
315
; 1945 election victory and government,
334
; post-war administration,
361
,
370
–
1
; resists Communist Party,
361
; and ‘right to buy’ (council houses),
372
; 1950 election setback,
378
; 1951 election defeat,
393

Lansbury, George
127

Lattre de Tassigny, General Jean de
322

Laval, Pierre
250

Law, Richard (
later
1st Baron Coleraine)
141

Lawrence, T. E. (‘Lawrence of Arabia’)
105
,
113
–
16
,
157
;
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom,
115

League of Nations: condemns Italy over invasion of Abyssinia
97
; WSC’s support for,
98
–
10
1,
112
–
13
; and Palestine,
105
,
354
; and collective security,
107
,
109
,
112
,
118
,
133
,
159
; and German threat,
109
; and central European crisis (1938),
133
–
4
; and Czech crisis,
143
–
4
; UN succeeds,
346

Leese, General Sir Oliver
301
,
304

Lend-Lease Agreement (British–US)
xxv
ii,
206
,
237
,
256
,
259
,
320

Lenin, Vladimir I.
63
,
65
–
6
,
72

Leopold III, King of the Belgians
172
,
174
,
199

Liberal Party: WSC joins (1904)
1
,
8
,
12
; forms government (1905–6),
17
; social reforms,
19
; pre-1914 association with Labour Party,
22
; supports Home Rule for Ireland,
40
; WSC leaves (1917),
55
; members leave for Labour Party,
71
; supports Labour in 1929 government,
74
,
77

Libya: war in
215
–
16
,
222
,
224
,
230
–
1
,
265
–
6
; supplies to,
290

Little Entente (Rumania-Yugoslavia-Czechoslo vakia)
161

Llanelli, South Wales
35
,
37

Lloyd, George Ambrose, 1st Baron
118

Lloyd George, David (
later
1st Earl): celebrates Cobden centenary
12
; ‘People’s Budget’ (1909),
28
,
41
; introduces unemployment insurance,
34
; wartime premiership,
55
; loses office (1922),
69
; and 1929 Labour government,
74
; warns against military conventions,
107
; criticises WSC’s warnings of war threat,
117
; criticises WSC’s conduct of war,
228
,
231
; WSC’s obituary tribute to,
315
–
17
; at Versailles,
352