| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency - 1967 - 644 страница
...on this question. Mr. 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 Commerce - 1975 - 120 страница
...Board and resist attempts to bring the Board within the realm of the executive branch ? ' Mr. ROBSON. Perhaps I could quote Winston Churchill, Mr. Chairman,...over the liquidation of the British Empire. Senator STEVEJTSON. That is responsive, I think, to another question. There has been much discussion of deregulation... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1975 - 590 страница
...Revolution. Nor could Winston Churchill arrest the independence movement in India by his insistence, "I have not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." This is not to underestimate the practical consequences of political rhetoric. It is at its best the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1975 - 560 страница
...Revolution. Nor could Winston Churchill arrest the independence movement in India by his insistence, "I have not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." This is not to underestimate the practical consequences of political rhetoric. It is at its best the... | |
| John Morton Blum - 1976 - 388 страница
...peace will be only another armistice." Those deliberate slaps provoked Winston Churchill to remark that "I did not become the King's First Minister to...preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." But it was Churchill, not Willkie, whose sense of the future was wrong. More obliquely, Willkie also... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works - 1978 - 686 страница
...O'Neill felt he could not let S. 790 go unchallenged. Like Winston Churchill, who declared that he had "not. become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," O'Neill wanted everyone to know that he had not become Speaker to stand by while the Senate violated... | |
| 1978 - 678 страница
...O'Neill felt he could not let S. 790 go unchallenged. Like Winston Churchill, who declared that he had "not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," O'Neill wanted everyone to know that he had not become Speaker to stand by while the Senate violated... | |
| D. Cameron Watt - 1984 - 328 страница
...Wendell Wilkie, in the 1940 election, that Churchill was driven to his famous public statement: 'I have not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.'40 36 Roosevelt to Hopkins for Churchill, 11 April 1942, FRUS 1942, vol. I, pp. 37 Roosevelt... | |
| Lewis H. Gann - 1991 - 244 страница
...apartheid.24 The change would give some comfort to policymakers in Pretoria. Future Options "I have not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," Churchill defiantly announced to the House of Commons in 1942. "Don't expect me to reform myself out... | |
| Keith Robbins - 1993 - 328 страница
...have to pay would undermine the British Empire. Churchill, a few years later, declared that he had not become the King's first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British empire — but by the year of his death, 1965, that empire had virtually passed away. It is not necessary,... | |
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