 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1944 - 212 pages
...other railroads. This statement is presented with many sad recollections. Winston Churchill once said: I did not become the King's first Minister in order to preside at the dissolution of the British Empire. study and experience, I have obtained some knowledge of short-line... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1945 - 1552 pages
...withdraw, Churchill tells the world "We British mean to hold our own." Later he stated "I was not made the King's first minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Still later he said "We British will tolerate no interference from any source... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1945 - 1546 pages
...withdraw, Churchill tells the world "We British mean to hold our own." Later he stated "I was not made the King's first minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Still later he said "We British will tolerate no interference from any source... | |
 | P. F. Clarke, Clive Trebilcock - 1997 - 336 pages
...after the war. And in November 1942, he made this ringing declaration: 'We mean to hold our own. I have not become the King's first minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.' 38 But for all this defiant rhetoric, the reality of the matter was that the British... | |
 | Lyal S. Sunga - 1997 - 516 pages
...drive for lndian independence from Britain. 119 On 10 November 1942, Churchill stated publicly: "l have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." 120 This position stands in stark contrast to official Soviet foreign policy,... | |
 | Charles L. Robertson - 1997 - 408 pages
...worldwide responsibilities, but appearances were deceptive: Winston Churchill might rumble, "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," but Britain's industrial plant was worn and damaged, and her radical shift from... | |
 | S. N. Sen - 1997 - 422 pages
...on November 10, 1942 at the Mansion House, Churchill said bluntly. 'We mean to hold our own. I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.' Meanwhile by the summer of 1943, Linlithgow had been Viceroy for almost eight... | |
 | Penny Marie Von Eschen - 1997 - 278 pages
...Churchill, in response to criticism by Wendell Willkie, declared, "We mean to hold our own. I have not become the King's first minister in order to preside over the liquidation As Winston Churchill argued that the Atlantic Charter applied only to Europeans, African Americans... | |
 | Ernest R. May, Angeliki E. Laiou - 1998 - 184 pages
...him again. Roosevelt was rather discouraged by Churchill's famous remark in November 1942 that he had not "become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire."7 Thus, the US government was caught in a dilemma: On the one hand, it did not... | |
 | Anthony Read, David Fisher - 1999 - 612 pages
...the Mansion House celebrating the turning point of the war in North Africa, he would declare: 'I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.' Now, he regarded the proposals to be made to India as little more than window... | |
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We mean to hold our own. I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. 
