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After the Allied armies crossed the Rhine in March 1945, Monty renewed his request for a northern drive on Berlin. This time he was championed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who felt that political considerations should heavily influence military strategy as the war in Europe drew near an end. "If the Russians also take Berlin," he wrote to F.D.R. on April 1, "will not their impression that they have been the overwhelming contributor to our common victory be unduly imprinted on their minds, and may this not lead them into a mood which will raise grave and formidable difficulties...
...countermoves. As a World War I lieutenant colonel, he was stationed there at a temporary Army post called Camp Colt. In 1950, as a retired general, he bought a farm on the battlefield's edge. As President of the U.S., he entertained such guests as Viscount Montgomery. Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and even Nikita Khrushchev with fragmentary accounts of the battle. And last week, enjoying the uncluttered leisure of retirement, Ike, for the first time, hosted a full-length battlefield tour...
...Lawrence first won the public eye by adopting both his wife's name (Pethick) and her cause (female suffrage), went to jail and technically bankrupt as a result, scored his most memorable political victory in 1923 when he became M.P. for West Leicester by defeating the Liberal candidate, Winston Churchill...
...Winston-Salem...
...years ago, he fluttered the dovecots of empire. Sounding every inch a Marxist. Jagan vowed: "The same bullets which were fired on poor people will be fired on our oppressors." announced that he was forming a "people's police" and abolishing the civil service. In a day when Winston Churchill was still Prime Minister. Britain's reply was to send four warships and 1,600 troops, who ousted Jagan and suspended the brand-new constitution that granted the 147-year-old colony internal self-government. Last week, in elections that represented a second attempt at self-government. Jagan...