Winston Churchill

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WINSTON CHURCHILL
(1874-1965). Winston Churchill was born on Nov. 30, 1874, at Blenheim Palace, in the 21,000-acre estate of the dukes of Marlborough. His father was Lord Randolph Churchill, the third son of the seventh duke. His mother, Jennie Jerome, had been a New York society beauty. When Winston was born, his father was chancellor of the exchequer for Queen Victoria. As Winston grew to boyhood, his grandfather became viceroy of Ireland and his father served as viceregal secretary. So Winston spent his early years in Dublin, then attended two private schools in England.

In his first term in Parliament, Churchill soon showed that he was to be a highly individual politician. Though elected as a Conservative, he showed little awe of any party leader. His friends said his politics varied with his convictions. His enemies countered that his politics varied with the trends in votes. He soon changed from Conservative to Liberal, leading the chief of the Conservatives to call him "once a young man of promise; now a young man of promises." In 1906 he was returned to Parliament as a Liberal member from Manchester

England feared war with Germany after the Agadir incident in July 1911. Churchill was made first lord of the admiralty and ordered to put the fleet into a state of instant readiness. From that moment, Churchill worked hard to reorganize the navy. He built a fine staff, obtained 15-inch guns and fast battleships, and developed the Royal Naval Air Service, which was the forerunner of the Royal Air Force.

On Sept. 3, 1939, war came. Chamberlain at once appointed Churchill to his former post as first lord of the admiralty. Eight months later, on May 10, 1940, Chamberlain was forced to resign as prime minister. Churchill succeeded him.

Before the United States entered the war, he obtained American destroyers and lend-lease aid and met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 to draw up the Atlantic Charter. Later he helped plan overall Allied strategy. Although Churchill held that international Communism was a threat to peace, he worked with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin for the defeat of the common enemy - Nazi Germany.

Churchill's flair for colorful speech endured. At Fulton, Mo., on March 5, 1946, he declared: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended over the Continent." "Iron curtain" soon became the term for the barrier between the West and areas under Soviet control.

Since 1908 Churchill had been married to the former Clementine Ogilvy Hozier. They had one son, Randolph, and three daughters: Diana, Sarah, and Mary. Churchill died in London on Jan. 24, 1965. He received a state funeral, the first for a commoner since 1898. He was buried next to his parents at Bladon, near Blenheim Palace.