...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...

...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...

...fashioning a request which will accomplish the kind of purposes, the noble purposes, which foreign aid was originally designed to serve. We have got...will get much further with us if you cooperate in that general spirit. Mr. BERGSTEN. We will cooperate fully with you in that spirit. We would insist...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...