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Later life of Winston Churchill

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thought that he might not survive the weekend. Had Eden been fit, Churchill's premiership would most likely have been over. News of his illness was kept from the public and from Parliament, who were told that Churchill was suffering from exhaustion. He went home to Chartwell to recuperate and it was not until November that he was fully recovered. Aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally, he retired as prime minister in April 1955 and was succeeded by Eden.
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Churchill had enjoyed a good political relationship with Truman but was uneasy about the election of Eisenhower in November 1952 and told Colville soon afterwards that he feared war had just become more probable. By July 1953, he was deeply regretting that the Democrats had not been returned and told
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and said: "You know I have had many invitations to visit Ulster but I have refused them all. I don't want to go there at all, I would much rather go to southern Ireland. Maybe I'll buy another horse with an entry in the Irish Derby". Churchill had happy childhood memories of Ireland from his father's
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The essence of Churchill's view was that the Soviet Union did not want war with the western Allies but that its entrenched position in Eastern Europe had made it impossible for the three great powers to provide the world with a "triangular leadership". Churchill's desire was much closer collaboration
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Churchill was just short of his 77th birthday when he became prime minister again and he was not in good health. The main worry was that he had had a number of minor strokes and he was not heeding their warnings. In December 1951, George VI had become concerned about Churchill's decline and resolved
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and added his personal thoughts, beliefs and experiences to the historical record as he interpreted it. Churchill traded the literary rights to his books in return for double the salary he made as Prime Minister. Major points in Churchill's books included his disgust in the handling of Hitler prior
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Because of Churchill's health and his evident inability to focus on paperwork, he was not expected to remain in office for more than a year or so, but he constantly delayed resignation until finally his health necessitated it. One of the main reasons for the delay was that his designated successor
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with a manifesto commitment to build 300,000 new houses per annum. Macmillan achieved his target and, in October 1954, was promoted to replace Alexander at Defence. Housing was Churchill's only real domestic concern as he was preoccupied with foreign affairs. His government introduced some reforms
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Churchill continued to oppose the release of India from British control. In a speech to the House of Commons in early March 1947, he warned against handing power to an India government too soon because he believed the political parties in India did not truly represent the people, and that in a few
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and
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Possibly because of the extra strain, Churchill suffered a serious stroke on the evening of 23 June 1953. Despite being partially paralysed down one side, he presided over a cabinet meeting the next morning without anybody noticing his incapacity. Thereafter his condition deteriorated, and it was
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with an overall majority of 17 seats and Churchill again became prime minister, remaining in office until his resignation on 5 April 1955. As in his wartime administration, he appointed himself as Minister of Defence, but only on a temporary basis. On 1 March 1952, he handed over to the reluctant
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The decline of the British Empire had been accelerated by the Second World War and the post-war Labour government pursued a policy of decolonisation. Churchill and his supporters believed that maintenance of Britain's position as a world power depended on the empire's continued existence. A key
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That this House desire to take this opportunity of marking the forthcoming retirement of the right honourable Gentleman the Member for Woodford by putting on record its unbounded admiration and gratitude for his services to Parliament, to the nation and to the world; remembers, above all, his
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and Clementine believed that many of his visits to the United States in the following years were attempts to help repair Anglo-American relations. Churchill reportedly said about Suez: "I would never have done it without squaring the Americans, and once I'd started I'd never have dared stop".
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After Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, Churchill proposed a summit meeting with the Soviets but Eisenhower refused out of fear that the Soviets would use it for propaganda. Churchill persisted with his view before and after his stroke, but Eisenhower and Dulles continued to discourage him. One
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and make it easy to handle the directionless Russia. The memorandum claims Churchill "stated that the only salvation for the civilization of the world would be if the President of the United States would declare Russia to be imperiling world peace and attack Russia". Russia would have been
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Churchill suffered his final stroke on 10 January 1965. He died nearly two weeks later on 24 January, which was the seventieth anniversary of his father's death. He was given a state funeral six days later on Saturday, 30 January, 1965, the first for a non-royal person since
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view of the Cold War, but this just added to Churchill's frustration. Churchill met Eisenhower to no avail at the Bermuda Conference in December 1953 and in June/July 1954 at the White House. At the latter, Churchill became annoyed about friction between Eden and Dulles over
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Churchill became Prime Minister for a second time. He continued to lead Britain but was to suffer increasingly from health problems. Aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally, he resigned in April 1955. He continued to sit as MP for
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and broke his hip. He was flown home to a London hospital where he remained for three weeks. Jenkins says that Churchill was never the same after this accident and his last two years were something of a twilight period. In 1963, US President
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Apart from his determination to remain in office for as long as possible, Churchill's main preoccupation throughout his second premiership was with foreign affairs and especially Anglo-American relations. The catalyst for his concern was the
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Following his stroke, Churchill carried on through 1954 until, aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally, he retired as prime minister in April 1955 and was succeeded by Eden. Elizabeth II offered to create Churchill
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in June 1953 but, in response to Eden's illness, Churchill decided to increase his own responsibilities by taking over at the Foreign Office. Eden was incapacitated until the end of the year and was never completely well again.
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inspiration of the British people when they stood alone, and his leadership until victory was won; and offers its grateful thanks to the right honourable Gentleman for these outstanding services to this House and to the nation.
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in Iran); this did not meet with American approval as US commitment to the Middle East was seen as supporting British imperialism, and were unpersuaded that this would help prevent pro-Soviet regimes from coming to power.
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on 18 May 1947. He declared: "Let Europe arise", but he was "absolutely clear" that "we shall allow no wedge to be driven between Britain and the United States". In 1948, he participated in the
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to broach the subject in the new year by asking Churchill to stand down in favour of Eden, but the King had his own serious health issues and died on 6 February without making the request.
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as he feared a global conflagration and he believed that the only way to preserve peace and freedom was to build on a solid foundation of friendship and co-operation (the "
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After leaving the premiership, Churchill never again spoke in the Commons, though he remained an MP and occasionally voted in parliamentary divisions. By the time of the
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between Britain and America, but he emphasised the need for co-operation within the framework of the United Nations Charter. Within the same speech, he called for "a
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On 27 July 1964, Churchill was present in the House of Commons for the last time, and one day later, on 28 July, a deputation headed by the Prime Minister, Sir
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until he retired from politics in 1964. Churchill died on 24 January 1965 and was granted the honour of a state funeral. He was buried in his family plot in
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It was during his opposition years that Churchill twice expounded his views on Ireland to successive Irish ambassadors in London. In November 1946, he met
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records him saying in 1955: "I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice".
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In 1947, according to a memorandum from the FBI's archives, Churchill allegedly urged the US to conduct a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the
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which gave Britain a pre-eminent position in the Middle East, despite the loss of India in 1947. Churchill was, however, obliged to recognise
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In June 1950, Churchill was strongly critical of the Attlee government's failure to send British representatives to Paris to discuss the
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Eden also suffered a serious long-term health issue, following a botched abdominal operation in April 1953. George VI was succeeded by
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In 1946, Churchill was in America for nearly three months from early January to late March. It was on this trip that he gave his "
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to the outbreak of war, primarily with the policy of appeasement which the British and French governments pursued until 1939.
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which had been carried unanimously by the House of Commons. The ceremony was held in Churchill's London home at 28
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to become Sir Winston. Although publicly supportive, Churchill was privately scathing about Eden's handling of the
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defenseless against a nuclear strike at the time of the Churchill's proposal, since the Soviets did not obtain the
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Churchill and Eden visited Washington in January 1952. The Truman Administration was supporting the plans for a
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by 1956, though this was in return for Nasser's abandonment of Egyptian claims over the region. Elsewhere, the
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Colville that Eisenhower as president was "both weak and stupid". The main problem, in Churchill's eyes, was
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In the late 1940s, Churchill wrote and published six volumes of World War II memoirs. The series is entitled
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and told him: "I said a few words in parliament the other day about your country because I still hope for a
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Churchill making a speech in Uxbridge, Middlesex, during the 1945 general election, which his party lost
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Winston S. Churchill, 1874–1965: A Comprehensive Historiography and Annotated Bibliography
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and Elizabeth II. He spent most of his retirement at Chartwell or at his London home in
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194,951 (equivalent to Β£4,767,791 in 2023) was left following payment of death duties.
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time there as private secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland from 1876 to 1880.
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Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill
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in October 1951, shortly before Churchill became Prime Minister for a second time
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while they had the chance. He reportedly spoke to right-wing Republican senator
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in 1898. Planning for his funeral had begun in 1953 under the code-name of "
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The Twentieth Century. The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume IV
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the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere.
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as, in the summer of 1930, he had written an article calling for a "
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between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States".
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Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill's Last Private Secretary
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fell by more than a thousand. Following that election, he became
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Churchill: A Major New Reassessment of His Life in Peace and War
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in 1946, he repeated this call and proposed creation of the
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explanation for their cool response was that this was the
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In June 1962, when he was 87, Churchill had a fall in
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since 1946. Eden was restored to Foreign Affairs and
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Second premiership of Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill
July 1945 general election
Leader of the Opposition
Iron Curtain
Soviet Union
Eastern Bloc
European Coal and Steel Community
General Election of 1951
Woodford
St Martin's Church, Bladon
Blenheim Palace

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bernard Montgomery
NATO
1945 general election
Leader of the Opposition
Iron Curtain
Eastern Bloc
President Truman
Westminster College
Fulton, Missouri
Special Relationship
Soviet Union
Cold War
Styles Bridges
Kremlin
atomic bomb until 1949

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