 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency - Banking law - 1967 - 644 pages
...feelings on this question. Mr. 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1975 - 590 pages
...Revolution. Nor could Winston Churchill arrest the independence movement in India by his insistence, "I have not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." This is not to underestimate the practical consequences of political rhetoric. It is at its... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1975 - 120 pages
...executive branch ? ' Mr. ROBSON. Perhaps I could quote Winston Churchill, Mr. Chairman, and say that I did not become the King's first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. Senator STEVEJTSON. That is responsive, I think, to another question. There has been much discussion... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1975 - 266 pages
...executive branch? Mr. RoBsox. Perhaps I could quote Winston Churchill, Mr. Chair‘man, and say that I did not become the King's first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. Senator STEVENSON. That is responsive, I think, to another question. There has been much discussion... | |
 | John Morton Blum - United States - 1976 - 388 pages
...be only another armistice." Those deliberate slaps provoked Winston Churchill to remark that "I did not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." But it was Churchill, not Willkie, whose sense of the future was wrong. More obliquely, Willkie... | |
 | Inland water transportation - 1978 - 678 pages
...O'Neill felt he could not let S. 790 go unchallenged. Like Winston Churchill, who declared that he had "not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," O'Neill wanted everyone to know that he had not become Speaker to stand by while the Senate... | |
 | D. Cameron Watt - Political Science - 1984 - 328 pages
...opponent, Wendell Wilkie, in the 1940 election, that Churchill was driven to his famous public statement: 'I have not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.'40 36 Roosevelt to Hopkins for Churchill, 11 April 1942, FRUS 1942, vol. I, pp. 37 Roosevelt... | |
 | Keith Robbins - History - 1993 - 328 pages
...have to pay would undermine the British Empire. Churchill, a few years later, declared that he had not become the King's first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British empire — but by the year of his death, 1965, that empire had virtually passed away. It is not necessary,... | |
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I have not become the King's first Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. 
