Winston Churchill

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• Winston Churchill was Britain's Home Secretary before the First World War.
• Winston Churchill was born two months premature.
• Winston Churchill served in Egypt, the Sudan, India and other lands while in the British Army.
• Winston Churchill went to Cuba as a war correspondent.
• Winston Churchill warned the League of Nations not to take action against Japan's occupation of Manchuria in 1931. He had sympathy for Japan on the grounds that they were an ancient nation, now found between the powers of Russia and China.
• Winston Churchill served in the British Army on the Western Front during the Great War.
• Winston Churchill was closest to his nanny, being distant from both his mother and father.
• Winston Churchill had a speech impediment which was said to be more helpful than hindering to his success.