Never Give In! (91 page)

Mill, John Stuart
79

Mines Eight Hours Bill (1911)
390

minimum wage
19

Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence
118
–
21
,
125

Möhne dam
291

Molotov, Vyacheslav M.
313

monarchy; WSC defends
29
,
417

Montagu-Chelmsford reforms (India)
79

Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard Law, 1st Viscount: Alamein victory
283
–
4
,
286
,
342
; WSC’s tribute to,
290
; command in Europe,
302
; and German surrender,
328

Morning Post
3

Morrison, Herbert (
later
Baron)
331
,
381
–
2
,
390

Munich Agreement (1938)
xxv
,
77
,
140
–
3
,
153
–
4

Munitions, Minister of: WSC appointed
xxiv
,
55

Murrow, Edward R.
xx

Mussolini, Benito: invades Abyssinia
97
,
158
; accepts League of Nations sanctions,
100
; in World War II,
183
; attacks Greece,
222
,
240
; actions in Balkans,
226
; WSC satirises,
226
,
236
,
240
; defeat in Africa,
265
,
286
; resigns (July 1943),
292
; declares war on USA,
327
;
see also
Italy

Nagasaki
339

Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French
177
–
8
,
208
,
250
,
327

nationalisation
359
,
389

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation): formed
344
,
374
–
6
; and defence of Western Europe,
395
,
415
; and Soviet hostility,
412

Navy, British
see
Royal Navy

Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939)
163
,
240

Nazism, Nazis: rise to power
80
,
85
,
99
–
10
1,
111
,
144
; in Czechoslovakia,
91
; antidemocratic nature,
112
,
152
; domination in Europe,
132
,
136
,
144
–
8
,
226
,
236
,
239
,
281
; in Brazil,
151
; and unified European economy,
198
; affinity with Communism,
241
; atrocities,
321
;
see also
Germany

Nemon, Oscar; statue of WSC
417

Newfoundland
205
;
see also
Argentina

New Zealand: forces in Greek campaign
223
; forces in Pacific,
306
; menaced by Japan,
329
;
see also
Anzacs

Nijmegen
303
–
4

Noel-Baker, Philip (
later
Baron)
228

Normandy invasion (1944)
300
,
302
–
3

North Africa: British retreat in (1941–2)
233
,
269
,
281
; Allied landings, 1942 (Operation ‘Torch’),
283
,
285
–
6
; Allied advance in,
286
,
291
; Allied victory in,
292
;
see also
Libya; Middle East

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
see
NATO

Norway: invaded (1940)
185
,
269
; food supplies,
203
–
4
; wartime government in exile,
207
; German naval bases in,
225

nuclear energy: power
410
; and deterrence,
411
–
16
;
see also
atomic bomb; hydrogen bomb

Oldham, Lancashire: WSC elected MP for
1
,
5

Oran
190
–
2

Pacific Ocean: in Second World War
266
,
294
,
306
,
326

Palestine: as Jewish national home
64
–
5
,
104
–
6
,
155
–
7
,
354
; and repudiation of Balfour Declaration,
155
–
7
; post-war immigration,
354
–
5
; post-war terrorism in,
362
–
3

Pan-European Union
357

Panther
(German warship)
37

Paris: liberated (1944)
302
–
3

Parliament: relations with Crown
403
–
4
;
80
th birthday tribute to WSC,
408
–
9
;
see also
Commons, House of

Passchendaele
60
,
196

Patch, General Alexander M.
304
,
306

Paul, Prince of Serbia
219

Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich von
287
,
292

peace negotiations (World War II):-WSC refuses
193

Pearl Harbor (1941)
xxv
iii,
161
,
260
,
262
,
267
,
280
,
291

Percival, General Arthur Ernest
273

Pershing, General John Joseph
63
–
4

Pétain, Marshal Philippe
179
,
228

Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh
416
–
17

Philippine Islands: Japanese occupy
249

Phillips, Admiral Sir Tom Spencer Vaughan
163
,
261

Placentia Bay, Newfoundland
see
Argentia

Poland: Germany invades (1939)
xxv
i,
143
,
147
,
256
,
269
; food supplies,
198
; wartime government in exile,
203
; post-war settlement,
310
,
312
–
14
; post-war incursions into Germany,
324

Portal, Jane (
later
Lady Williams of Elvel)
xxiii

Portugal
349

Potsdam Conference (1945)
334

Pound, Admiral Sir Dudley
166

Prime Minister: WSC succeeds Chamberlain as (1940)
167
–
8
; WSC returns as (1951)
393

Primrose League
2

Prince of Wales,
HMS
233
,
246
–
7
,
252
; sunk,
261
–
2

Prinz Eugen
(German cruiser)
233

property-owning democracy
359
–
60

Protectionism
12
,
14
–
16

Quebec
318

Queenstown, Ireland
137
–
8

rail strike (1911)
35

Reith, Sir John (
later
Baron)
83

Renan, Ernest
31

Repulse
, HMS: sunk
261
–
2