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Part of the reason that Churchill succeeded was that he recognized more than many other British politicans the importance of the relationship with America. Perhaps a vital factor here was that Churchill was half American, his mother Jennie being an American. He famously told the Congress on his first visit after America entered the War that had it been the other way around, his father being American "I might have gotten here on my own. Churchill even in World War Ireognizedthe importance of America. Back in Government by 1917, he assessed the military situation and is reported to have said, that there remained only two ways that the allies could win the War, "aereoplanes and the other is America". The Kaiser calculated just the oppisite, that the U-boats could win the War even if America came in. Britain was in even more desperate straits in 1940. This time Britain could probably not even survive without America. The result was the most remarkable political association of the 20th century that between the Churchhill and Fraklin Roosevelt. A few months before America entered the War, the relationship and Allied vission of a free democratic Europe was sealed with the Atlantic charter. Thankfully for Western democracy, Roosevelt was prepared to risk the ire of the Isolatiinists to assist. After the War, it was Churchill who warmed Amerucans about the Russians an developing Cold War. When Churchill, his health failing, finally retired in 1955, his final message to his countrymen was, "never be separated from the Americans".
Part of the reason that Churchill succeeded was that he recognized more than many other British politicans the importance of the relationship with America. Perhaps a vital factor here was that Churchill was half American, his mother Jennie being an American. He famously told the Congress on his first visit after America entered the War that had it been the other way around, his father being American "I might have gotten here on my own. I do not believe, however, that Jennie ever brought the boys to America or that Winston had any boyhood experiences in England.
Churchill even in World War Ireognizedthe importance of America. Back in Government by 1917, he assessed the military situation and is reported to have said, that there remained only two ways that the allies could win the War, "aereoplanes and the other is America". The Kaiser calculated just the oppisite, that the U-boats could win the War even if America came in.
Churchill travel extensively in America after World WarI
Britain was in even more desperate straits in 1940. This time Britain could probably not even survive without America. The result was the most remarkable political association of the 20th century that between the Churchhill and Fraklin Roosevelt. Thankfully for Western democracy, Roosevelt was prepared to risk the ire of the Isolatiinists to assist. Destroyers for bases and Lend Lease helped keep Britain in the War. Roosevelt dispatched Harry Hopkins to assess whether Britain could hold out. A few months before America entered the War, the relationship and Allied vission of a free democratic Europe was sealed with the Atlantic Charter. The two met aboard the Prince of Wales which had been battered by the Bismarck and was soon to be sunk by Japanese bombers.
After the War, it was Churchill who warmed Amerucans about the Russians an developing Cold War.
When Churchill, his health failing, finally retired in 1955, his final message to his countrymen was, "never be separated from the Americans".
Churchill is the only person ever recognized as an honorary cutizen by the United States citizen by the U.S. Congress. Churchill died in 1965 and at his memorial servuce in St. Paul's Cathedral. The Cathedral choir the American "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in honor of his American World War II allies. In America, a statue of Churchill in front of the British Embassy has one foot in America and another on Embassy grounds.
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