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with Stalin and Roosevelt, 352; and Roosevelt’s insistence on unconditional surrender, 360; favours Mediterranean strategy, 360, 376, 389, 426, 443, 597; relationship with Roosevelt declines, 361; painting, 362; visit to Turkey, 363–4; drinking, 363, 498; French speaking, 364, 521; musings about death, 365; waning importance, 367; difficult relations with Stalin and Russians, 372; on Katyn massacre, 373; working day, 374; visit to Washington (May 1943), 375, 377–80; addresses troops at Carthage, 380; misgivings over D-Day, 383, 386, 389, 396, 426, 428, 443, 447–8, 478–9, 483–5; resists Stimson’s proposal to advance D-Day date, 385; attends Quebec conference (August 1943), 386–9; standing in USA declines, 386, 393; warns of Russia as future threat, 386, 388; applauds success of Sicily campaign, 389; and Dodecanese (Aegean) operation, 400–4, 406, 408–11, 416, 419–21, 449; favours minor operations, 404; and Dardanelles campaign (1916), 420, 441; prestige as leader, 422–3; reluctance to consider post-war reconstruction, 422; frustrated by US ascendancy, 423–4; sickness at Malta, 427; meets Roosevelt in Cairo, 428–30; at Tehran conference, 431–5; on British insignificance beside USA and Russia, 435; and results of Tehran conference, 435–6; contracts pneumonia in Tunisia, 437; and Anzio stalemate, 441; attacks critics, 444; strategic vision, 448–9; life at Chequers, 449–50; physical decline, 449; encourages Resistance movements and SOE, 453–4, 458–9, 463, 471–2; maintains aid to Greek communists, 463; and effect of SOE activities, 475; dispute with chiefs of staff over Far East strategy, 477; exhaustion, 479; proposes additional landings in France with Overlord , 480, 493, 504; favours Italian campaign, 481, 488, 494–5; and relations with Americans, 483; dissuaded from witnessing D-Day landings, 485; on success of D-Day, 488; visits Normandy beachhead, 489; maintains leadership qualities, 491; diminishing authority among Allies, 495–6; turbulent relations with colleagues, 497–8; forecasts continuing German resistance, 499; recites poetry, 499; on Nazi extermination of Jews, 501–2; proposes Invergordon summit meeting, 502; support for Poles, 503–4, 517–18, 552–4, 557; visits battlefields in Europe, 504–8, 564; witnesses Dragoon landings in southern France, 506; patch on lung, 508; attends second Quebec conference (September 1944), 510–13; flies to Moscow for bilateral talks with Stalin, 514–18; ‘percentage agreement’ proposals in Russia, 515; decline in relations with Roosevelt, 519, 567; hardening popular attitude to, 521–2; and post-war policies in liberated countries, 523–9, 547; and Greek civil war, 524–31; sends unclassified message on Greece to Scobie, 530; travels to Athens (December 1944), 534–40; wins devotion of personal staff, 543; travels to Yalta conference, 547, 549–54; preserves Allied unity, 549; compassion for German refugees, 551–2; returns from Yalta, 554; protests to Stalin about Soviet oppression in Poland, 557; and bombing of Dresden and Potsdam, 558–9, 561; and Stalin’s behaviour towards war’s end, 565–6; non-attendance at Roosevelt’s funeral, 567; celebrates victory in Europe, 569–70; gloom over fate of Poland, 571; suggests Anglo-US drive against Russia, 571–2, 584; forms new ministry after dissolution of coalition, 577; campaign and defeat in 1945 general election, 578–9, 589; meeting with and demands on Gusev, 580–3; enthusiasm for atom bomb, 585–6; personal finances, 590–1; holds final cabinet, 591; achievements, 592–8; oratory, 594; Great Contemporaries , 261; History of the English-Speaking Peoples , 590; Into Battle (speeches), 590
    Ciano, Count Galeazzo, 490
    Clark, Bennett Champ, 161
    Clark, Kenneth ( later Baron), 176
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