Lord, Winston

A more detailed submission was made by Professor John Graham Kerr (later Sir John Graham Kerr), Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow. He informed the committee that he had first approached Winston Churchill, then the F irst Sea Lord, by letter as early as 24 September 1914 with his proposals on protective colouring for... 

Z7 - PRO, CAB 1Z0/78Z. Memo from Lord Hankey to Winston Churchill, 6 December 1941. 

Author interview with Winston Lord, 7 March 2001, New York. Moscow apparently did learn about the provision of intelligence information Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet ambassador in Washington, told Kissinger in March that Moscow had it from... 

Harry Hopkins—dubbed by Churchill as Lord Root of the Matter —was a key advisor to Franklin Roosevelt during the Second World War. For much of that time he was seriously ill and could work no more than a few hours a day hence he had to focus on what was important and to ignore the dross. His success in achieving this focus led to Winston Churchill calling Hopkins Lord Root of the Matter. This ability to identify the core issues— what are often referred to as... 

So it came about, writes Weizmann, that one day in March [1915], I returned firom a visit to Paris to find waiting for me a summons to the British Admiralty. The Admiralty, of which Winston Churchill, at forty-one exactly Weizmann s age, was First Lord, faced a severe shortage of acetone. That acrid solvent was a crucial ingredient in the manufacture of... 

Weizmann agreed to see what he could do. Shortly he was brought into the presence of the First Lord. As Weizmann remembered the experience of meeting the brisk, fascinating, charming and energetic Winston Churchill ... 

Military appreciation of chemical weapons varied considerably. In September 1914, Lieutenant-General the Earl of Dundonald apprised Lord Kitchener of the various plans left by his grandfather. Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, for the use of sulphur dioxide clouds to drive an enemy from a fortified position. Kitchener at once discounted them as did Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson. Only Winston Churchill s imaginative interest kept the scheme alive, and eventually a modified version of Cochrane s proposal was put into practice, not as lethal gas clouds but as naval smoke screens. Even when line officers returned from France and inquired about the possibility of using stink bombs to dear enemy dug-outs, the response was unfavourable. Some lachrymatory substances were examined at the Imperial College of Sdence, and, unoffidally, stink bombs were offered to Sir John French in case the enemy resorted to similar methods. The Commander-in-Chief brusquely rejected the offer. ... 

That smoke could be used as an effective weapon of war had been recognized as early as April 1915, days before Germany s first gas attack, when Winston Churchill as the First Lord of the Admiralty had commissioned a number of wonderful smoke-making experiments Chiuchill 1923, pp. 84f. ako Carter 2000, pp. 53f. 

In 1952, the Conservatives won the general election and Winston Churchill formed the new government. He was not interested in the minutiae of administration. One of his principal advisers was Lord CherweU, one-time professor at Oxford, who... 

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