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Viscount (‘the Prof’): Jefferis works with, 83; controversy with Tizard over Luftwaffe navigational beams, 84–5; relations with WSC, 145; character and qualities, 146–7; at Placentia Bay meeting, 197; attacked in Commons, 209; and bombing of Germany, 246–7; denies reinforcements for Coastal Command, 249; Beaverbrook complains of, 275; proposes dropping random arms supplies over Europe, 458; supports Morgenthau’s proposals on Germany, 512
    Chiang Kai-shek, 376, 429, 519
    Chicago Daily News , 446
    Chicago Sun , 528
    Chicago Tribune , 229
    chiefs of staff: composition and meetings, 140–3
    Childs, Marquis, 531
    China, 376, 429, 434, 481
    Chindits, 387, 429
    Churchill, Clementine (Lady): marches out of pacifist sermon, 66; deplores Beaverbrook, 82; relations with WSC, 90; advises WSC against accepting Tory party leadership, 106; asks about landing forces on continent, 113; and WSC’s view of generals, 114; reads Henderson’s biography of Stonewall Jackson, 115; disparagesWavell, 139; Harriman gives tangerines to, 187; uses motor car, 203; letters from WSC on US visit, 218, 220; on the ‘Valley of Humiliation’, 242; WSC writes to from Cairo, 318; WSC buys gifts for in Cairo, 332; WSC writes to from Casablanca conference, 355; accompanies WSC to America (August-September 1943), 387; letter from WSC on Dodecanese failure, 420; visits sick WSC in Tunisia, 437; and WSC’s fears of hostile France, 505; letter from WSC on watching Dragoon landings, 506; and WSC’s visit to Stalin (October 1944), 516; warns WSC over intervention in Greek civil war, 526; distress at WSC’s decision to travel to Athens, 534; letters from WSC in Athens, 537–8; believes Attlee’s criticism of WSC to be just, 545; letter from WSC in Yalta on plight of German refugees, 551; visit to Russia, 569; on WSC’s 1945 election campaigning, 579; qualities, 597–8
    Churchill, Mary ( later Lady Soames; WSC’s daughter), 244, 387, 437, 449, 579, 596
    Churchill, Pamela (Randolph’s wife; later Harriman), 510
    Churchill, Randolph (WSC’s son): on visit to WSC in Admiralty House, 17–18; letter from WSC at popular restiveness, 168; letter from WSC on revival of optimism, 257; relations with father, 270; Beaverbrook helps pay debts, 396; accompanies WSC to Cairo, 427, 436; WSC takes to North Africa, 433; WSC writes to in Yugoslavia, 449; with partisans in Yugoslavia, 467, 467–8; WSC denounces de Gaulle to, 505; marriage breakdown, 510; as financial drain on WSC, 590
    Churchill, Sarah (WSC’s daughter), 426, 437, 551
    CHURCHILL, (SIR) WINSTON SPENCER : appointed prime minister, 2–5, 8; dual role as prime iminister and Minister of Defence, 4, 310, 335; Conservative Party wariness of, 8–9, 13; militancy, 10, 34, 148–9; appoints first war cabinet, 11; addresses Commons, 12, 60, 63, 381, 521, 544; devotion to France, 12, 347–8, 447, 564; underestimates German military strength, 12; requests US aid, 15, 21; flies to France, 16; self-discipline and confidence, 17, 54, 88; determination to enlist USA as ally, 18, 171, 188, 190, 207; broadcasts to nation, 20, 35, 63, 75–6, 93, 238–9, 569–70; view of Cripps, 22; mistrusted and resented by British ruling class, 27, 34, 105–6, 182; opposes suing for peace, 28, 33–5; declares resolve to fight on to ministers, 37; and Dunkirk evacuation, 41–2, 44; travels to France before surrender, 41, 45–6, 48–50; sends more troops to France, 45; belief in destiny, 47, 88–9; pessimism with French defeat, 47–8; escapes German fighters in flight from France, 48; agrees to withdraw British troops from N.W. France in ‘Second Dunkirk’, 51–2; commits troops to N.W. France, 54; proposes union with France, 54–5; resolve in summer 1940, 61–3; on Britain’s lack of military equipment, 66; wit and encouraging remarks, 66–7; sanctions bombardment of French