Churchill occupied his time admiring the beautiful landscapes of Madeira. He was impressed with Camâra de Lobos, where he painted various pictorial images of the village. Churchill adored the country-side, he spent as much of his time as possible close to nature.

Grand Hotel Carezza, Nova Levante, Italy In 1949, Winston Churchill and his wife Clemmie spent part of their holiday in the Italian Lakes.

Winston Churchill, the well-known British Prime Minister during World War II, spent 12 days vacationing in Madeira, in January of 1950, and left its imprint in the region’s tourism.

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As prime minister (1940–45) during most of World War II, Winston Churchill rallied the British people and led the country from the brink of defeat to victory. He shaped Allied strategy in the war, and in the war’s later stages he alerted the West to the expansionist threat of the Soviet Union.

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Winston Churchill was an inspirational statesman, writer, orator and leader who led Britain to victory in the Second World War. He served as Conservative Prime Minister twice – from 1940 to 1945 (before being defeated in the 1945 general election by the Labour leader Clement Attlee) and from 1951 to 1955.

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Diana Churchill was the eldest daughter of Sir Winston Churchill. She married twice and divorced twice. She had three children with her second husband.

-Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of Great Britain. American trust what he says because Great Britain has been our strongest Allie. -Churchill claims that the Soviet Union wanted the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines; so that communism can spread.

Churchill was alarmed by the actions of the Soviet Union and wanted the USA to take action against Stalin. Churchill was a warmonger – he relished international conflict. Churchill hated the Soviet Union and wanted to cause problems for it. Churchill was no longer Prime Minister and so was less powerful.

Famously, Winston Churchill defined Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” and his words in 1939 spoke eloquently to the Western sense of Moscow as the “other” – an inscrutable and menacing land that plays by its own rules, usually to the detriment of those who choose more open regulations.

Iron Curtain speech, speech delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, in which he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “iron curtain” …

In one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Churchill’s speech is considered one of the …

Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech