June 18, 2008

From 1929 to 1939 Churchill was denied office by a succession of Prime Ministers, alienated by his campaigns against the India Bill, granting local self-government to parts of India) and criticizing their refusal to rearm the county in the face of Hitler’s aggressions. When war came as he had predicted in September 1939, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain asked him back, and he again served as First Lord of the Admiralty until he replaced Chamberlain as Prime Minister in May 1940.