LONDON, Oct. 26, 1951 (UP) -- British voters placed Winston Churchill's Conservative Party at the helm of government today after six years of socialism.

LONDON, Oct. 27, 1951 (UP) -- Prime Minister Winston Churchill named Anthony Eden, his trusted deputy and heir apparent, to the post of foreign secretary today.Churchill pulled a surprise by naming himself minister of defense -- the same dual responsibility he held during the war.

LONDON, Oct. 27, 1951 (UP) - Prime Minister Winston Churchill is pledged to denationalize Britain's iron and steel industry but his new Conservative government is expected to leave the welfare state relatively undisturbed.The private trucking industry will be freed from Socialist restrictions which prevent inter-city hauls. Other state-owned industries will be merely decentralized, informed sources said.

LONDON, Oct. 30, 1951 (UP) - Prime Minister Winston Churchill, pledged to defend what remains of the British Empire, sent another infantry division today to the Middle East where Egypt is trying to oust the British from the Suez Canal.In his first action as defense minister, Churchill moved quickly to strengthen the British position in the canal zone where Egyptian volunteers armed secretly to fight for the "liberation" of Egypt from Britain.

News of the death of king George VI spread swiftly around the world today.

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb. 6, 1952 (UP) -- Britain's sovereign queen began her reign today in tears and sorrow. The former Princess Elizabeth broke down and wept when a radiotelephone call from London informed her that her father, King George VI, was dead.Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was in Mombasa, Kenya, when she learned she was to be Britain's new sovereign ruler, Queen Elizabeth II. She wept at the news.

LONDON, Feb. 6, 1952 (UP) - King George VI was born during the reign of a queen and his death today gave Britain again the reign of a queen.Queen Victoria was upset by the news. She almost considered it an ill omen because the baby who was to become Britain's king 41 years later was born on the anniversary of the death of her beloved consort, Prince Albert.

LONDON, Feb. 6, 1952 (UP)-King George VI died peacefully in his sleep early today and 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth became reigning sovereign of the British Commonwealth and empire.No announcement was made as to the cause of death, but medical circles speculated that it was coronary thrombosis. The king had been in failing health for several years.

SANDRIGHAM, England, Feb. 7, 1952 (UP) -- The body of King George VI will be taken after dusk today from the country home he loved and laid reverently before the altar in the little parish church where he worshiped.Grieving Queen Mother Elizabeth and her younger daughter, Princess Margaret, left the royal house late this morning for the first time since the king died to attend a half-hour service in the church on the estate grounds.

NEW YORK (UP) --When Queen Elizabeth II rode in her Irish state coach to open parliament, United Press photographer Charles James Dawson took a picture of her that has set Britain and the commonwealth talking.

LONDON, April 5, 1955 (UP) -- Winston Churchill is famous for what he has done-and for what he has said while doing it. Seldom since Shakespeare has a person struck such fire from the English language.

LONDON, April 5, 1955 (UP) - Sir Winston Churchill, the grand old man of empire, today resigned as prime minister of Great Britain.