Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

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Dátum: 22.06.2008
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If we go several miles westwards from Oxford, we can arrive to a small village called Bladon. The village is full of very old buildings and there is also cemetery there. There are very old graves but one of them looks very newly. On one of the gravestones we can read the name Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.

This famous politic was born 30.11.1874. This time was for England quite mild period. His life story was very long. When he started his politician life they were going to a meetings with a shay and when he was dying there were satellites around the world. Winston Churchill was one of the biggest personalities in English history. He was a man of many faces. He is known for us mainly as politician and statesman, but he was also officer during the world war and at the end of his life he was awarded a Nobel price for literature.

His career started in 1896 when he was an officer in India(it was a British colony that time). He finished his work in 1898 there, and then he took part in English march to Sudan. In 1899 to 1902 he became war correspondent. He started his politician life in 1900, when he became a Member of Parliament in House of Commons. At this time he was very admired in England and all the people were talking about him. In the following years he became a lot of functions : 1908 - 10 minister of commerce, 1910 -11 minister of a Home Office and in 1911 - 15 first lord of an admiralty. After failure of a Dardanel operation, he resigned in 1915 from a political life and in 1915 - 17 he was fighting as a British officer in France and Belgium. In 1917 he returned back to political life. He recognized, that he likes problems related to a war and therefor he accepted a position as a minister for armament in 1917 and next year as a minister of a war. He contributed significantly to modernization of an British army and he supported strongly implementation of the tanks. He was one of the main organizer of an intervention against Russia. In the 30.ties he suggested brisk policy against Nazi Germany and he criticized Munich treaty. When the 2nd world war started he was appointed the first lord of an admiralty. He was one of three main representatives of an antinazi coalition ( It was called „Big three„ ). During the war he represented the Great Britain on all important conferences ( Casablanca, Teheran, Postupim). He consistently protected a power of a British empire and he tried to keep down influence of the USSR as much as possible.

After the war he became a president of a rightist. In March 1946 he uttered at Fulton university a speech in which he addressed USA to unity with Britain against common enemy - USSR. This speech is considered as an announcement of an cold war. In April 1955 he capitulated from his minister function, but he remained in position of an adviser of a British queen.

At this time he also wrote historical roman about his ancestors and a lot of war memories. In London library there is over 50 books. He was also very good painter. In his seniority he was collecting a lot of doctorates and many other honors.

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