Dinner With Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table (32 page)

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Downing Street dining room
Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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Digesting the India bill
Reproduced with kind permission of Claridges, London and of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston Churchill, and the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill.

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A reinforced dining room fit for the king
Courtesy of Downing Street

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Strategy al fresco
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.

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The Pinafore Room: home of the Other Club
© English Heritage NMR

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Randolph’s 21st birthday, 1932
Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston Churchill, and the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill.

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Churchill’s favourite stage: the dining room at Chartwell
© NTPL/Andreas von Einsiedel

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Dining at Chartwell, 1928
© NTPL

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Chartwell garden party and Mrs. Churchill’s prudence
Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston Churchill, and the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill.

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Best to look over the bills
Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston Churchill, and the Master, Fellows and
Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill.

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Churchill and British generals, Alan Brooke, Montgomery and Ismay, plus Randolph, picnic in the desert, Tripoli, 1943
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.

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Churchill and American generals Eisenhower and Patton, picnic lunch in northwestern Europe
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.

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Tea with RAF pilots, September 1941
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.

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Picnic on the hustings, Churchill’s daughter, Sarah, pouring

tea, 1945
NI Syndication

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Picnic at Marrakesh 1944
Estate of John Colville

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The Prime Minister’s railway dining car
© NMSI/Science Museum

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President’s dinner for the Prime Minister aboard the
Augusta,
August 1941; and guests
Courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park.

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Churchill reciprocates, 10 August 1941
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/.Crown copyright.

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Churchill and the Presidential gift boxes for every British seaman
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.

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Celebrating the Alliance
Courtesy of Library of Congress

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Churchill and Soviet Ambassador Maisky’s tête-à-tête: lunch at the Soviet embassy, London, August 1941
Getty Images

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Chequers dining room
Mark Fiennes photograph

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BOAC menu, on flight to Washington, June 1954
Courtesy of Mullock’s Auctioneers, Shropshire

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The Churchills and Tango at Chartwell, 1933
© NT PL/Derrick E. Witty

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New Allies. With Stalin, Moscow, 14 August 1942
© Mirrorpix

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Menu for the Prime Minsiter, Turkey, January 194
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Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of the Broadwater Collection.

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Dining with Turkish President Inonu in his private railway carriage, January 1943
© British Pathé

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Ready for the dinner guests at the British legation
Churchill Archive Centre: from an original held by the British embassy in Teheran. Crown copyright.

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Make a wish, 69th birthday
Churchill Archive Centre: from an original held by the British embassy in Teheran. Crown copyright.

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The Big Three, dining together for the first time, 1943
© Mirrorpix

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After dinner tête-à-tête
© Bettmann/CO RBI

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Vorontsov Palace: Churchill’s villa
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.

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Livadia Palace: Roosevelt’s villa and meeting room
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.

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Dinner menu at Yalta, the Prime Minister as host
Courtesy of the estate of Charles E. Bohlen.

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The Big Three at dinner
© Bettmann/CO RBIS

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Stalin carves up the Nazi bird, Allies looking on

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Welcome to my villa: Churchill greets Truman and Stalin
© ullstein bild

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The Big Three and supporting staffs, at the Cecilienhof
© Bettmann/CO RBIS

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Churchill dinner, Potsdam. Menu, music, wines, seating chart
Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston Churchill, and the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill.

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En route to Fulton with President Truman
Getty Images

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Churchill’s 79th birthday cake
Popperfoto/Getty Images

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Mid-Ocean Club, Bermuda
Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images

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The Big Two and the French Premier, Laniel
Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

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Menu for the Bermudians’ dinner honouring the British Delegation
©Bermuda Archives

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Churchill alone, Bermuda
Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

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Churchill at dinner, cartoon by Vicky
Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston Churchill, and the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill.

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Bill of fare, Paris Ritz 1914
Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston Churchill, and the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill.

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Churchill scoops caviar, lunch at Yalta
Courtesy of the estate of Charles E. Bohlen.

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Pop!
©Daily Mail/Solo Syndication. John Musgrave-Wood, Daily Mail, 30 November 1957, courtesy of the British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent, www.cartoons.ac.uk

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A victory toast with the Soviet Ambassador Gusev, May 1945
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.

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Odette Pol Roger with Churchill & Commemorative bottle
© Champagne Pol Roger

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Cornucopia at 86
Getty Images

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A weak whisky and soda at Mansion House
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.

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Victory symbol
©Topham Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk

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Don’t want to spoil the boy
Courtesy of Fox Tobacconists, St James’s, London. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London on behalf of the Estate of Sir Winston Churchill, and the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill.

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Firing up
© ullstein bild

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Merci for the light, at Cherbourg, 1944 
© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

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Some of my favourite things from Fox Cigar Shop
Courtesy of Fox Tobacconists, St James’s, London.

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Some more please
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Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London, on behalf of the Estate of Winston Churchill, and the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill

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Labels for game from the King
Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London, on behalf of the Estate of Winston Churchill, and the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill.

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Are you getting enough to eat?
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Courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum.

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Between premierships, South of France, 1948
Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown, London, on behalf of the Estate of Winston Churchill, and the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill.