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He is the most honored and honorable man to walk the stage of human history in the time in which we live. President John F. Kennedy on Churchill in 1963
Before Japan finally were beaten, Churchill¡äs wartime government broke up, and the Labour party won large majority in the general election of July 1945, so he lost his post as Prime Minister. Several reasons for the Conservative decline were put forward. Many people thought that Churchill was too aggressive in his election campaign - a policy ideal for war but not suitable for peace.
He became the leader of the opposition Conservative party.
The following month he held very famous speeches. This speeches were the most celebrated speeches he ever held, yet the most provocative speeches, too. All the time Churchill was speaking of the continuing friendship between England and America. Churchill spoke also from the danger of the Russians and their spreading communism into other countries. He mentioned the gulf between East and West. He called it the ¡°Iron Curtain¡± which had ¡°descended across Europe¡±.
\" A shadow had fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allies victory... From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Western Europe...
Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia...\"
Churchill. In his speech at Fulton
In September 1946, Churchill mentioned that he wants to have United States of Europe. The result was the ¡° European Economic Community¡± and the ¡°Common Market¡±.
He continued writing a personal History, called The Second World War, (6 Vols. 1948 ¨C 53), and to painting. His pictured he showed regularly at the Royal Akademy.
At the age of 77, on 26 October, 1951, he became again Prime Minister and Minister of defence. In June 1953, he got crowned and his name was now Sir Leonard Winston Churchill.
Also in 1953 he gained the Nobel Prize of Literature.
On 5April, 1955, 80 years old, he resigned as Prime Minister, but continued the post as a Common in the Parliament until July 1964.
1963, he received the honour of being made an honorary American citizen by the US Government.
From 1955 until 1965 it was a very boring time for Winston Churchill. He was very old and had nothing to do. One of his last sentences was: ¡°Everything is so boring¡±
When he died in London on 24 January 1965, at the age of 90, he was celebrated as a citizen of the world, and on 30 January a big funeral took place for ¡°The hero¡±.
He was buried at Bladon, in the little churchyard near Blenheim Palace, his birthplace.
\"He is history¡äs child, and what he said and what he said and what he did will never die.\"
(Charles de Gaulle, on the death of Churchill)
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