| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency - 1967 - 644 lapas
...SAMUELS. Senator, I only can paraphrase Mr. Churchill, when he said, "I have not become the King's first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." I would not like to become the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to preside over its... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency - 1968 - 30 lapas
...SAMUELS. Senator, I only can paraphrase Mr. Churchill, when he said, "I have not become the King-s first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." I would not like to become the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to preside over its... | |
| J. C. Hurewitz - 1979 - 888 lapas
...endorsement by the War Cabinet, headed by a leader who freely publicized his own belief that he had not become His Majesty's first minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. Even the American embassy in London felt it necessary to rephrase the cable received from Washington.... | |
| Colin Bingham - 1982 - 376 lapas
...In a sense he thus anticipated by eighteen years Winston Churchill's famous declaration that he had not become His Majesty's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. On 16 June 1920 Thomas — the first Labour leader to be so honoured — received an honorary degree... | |
| Martin Luther King, Clayborne Carson, Peter Holloran, Penny A. Russell - 1992 - 704 lapas
...years ago a man lived there by the name of Winston Churchill. One day he stood up before the world and said, "I did not become his Majesty's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire."13 And I thought about the fact that a few weeks ago a man by the name of Anthony Eden lived... | |
| Eqbal Ahmad, David Barsamian - 2000 - 220 lapas
...defeat Germany and Japan. Churchill is the prime minister. He responds to the announcement with: "I have not become His Majesty's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire to a half-naked Indian fakir, " referring to Gandhi. WJiy this is so crucial is that the entire Congress... | |
| Terry Copp - 2004 - 398 lapas
...pointed to a future in which Britain might be marginalized in Asia. Churchill had, in his own words, 'not become His Majesty's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire,' and he was anxious to ensure that when war ended there would be sufficient British forces available... | |
| Mihir Bose - 2004 - 332 lapas
...promise of future constitutional action, was aghast. Churchill, of course, had often declared that he had "not become His Majesty's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire"; but events had forced his hand. Early in 1942 Roosevelt told close friends that he thought India was... | |
| Aswini K. Ray - 2004 - 256 lapas
...Preparation 1939 -45, Washington, 1950. 9. His well-known parliament speech, that he was 'not elected as His Majesty's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire', was a rebuff to President Roosevelt's exhortation for colonial liberation, which Churchill resented... | |
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