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[citation needed] Many felt that Churchill should have retired and allowed Eden to become party leader, but Churchill refused to consider the idea. As early as the spring of 1946, Eden openly asked Churchill to retire in his favour. [112] He was in any case depressed by the end of his first marriage and the death of his eldest son.
The idea of expelling ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia was supported by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill [24] and Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. [25] In 1942, the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile received the formal support of the United Kingdom for the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia and, in March 1943 ...
The British historian Edwyn Morris in his 2008 essay "The Repatriation of the Cossacks from Austria in 1945" argued that for Churchill a major concern in 1945 was securing the return of all the British POWs in German POW camps who had fallen into Soviet hands as the Red Army advanced into Germany in 1944-45 and British policies on repatriation ...
The Moscow conference of 1944 and the Yalta agreement laid the groundwork for the participation of the British and American governments to support the repatriation program of the Soviet government. Tolstoy was especially critical of Anthony Eden's role in trying to appease the Soviets. In his book, Tolstoy describes the fate of various groups:
Churchill and Eden visited Washington in January 1952. [36] The Truman Administration was supporting the plans for a European Defence Community (EDC), hoping that this would allow controlled West German rearmament and enable American troop reductions.
Eden expressed concerns for the health of the Prime Minister. When told by Eden of the Prime Minister's plans Oliver Harvey wrote, 'But what gallantry of the old gentleman, setting off at 65 across Africa in the heat of mid-summer!' [3] Churchill set aside health concerns, feeling it was his duty to make the journey.
In 2005, the state Legislature passed the “Apology Act of the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program,” which led to the creation of a commemorative plaque in La Placita Park in Los Angeles in 2012.
Churchill with US ambassador Joseph Kennedy in 1939. On 3 September 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany following the outbreak of the Second World War, Chamberlain appointed Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, the same position he had held at the beginning of the First World War. As such he was a member of Chamberlain's war cabinet.