Death Of Churchill

Author says: what if Winston Churchill had been raised on the other side of the Atlantic by his American mother? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).

January 24, 1965: Winston S. Churchill, first prime minister of the United Dominions of America, dies in the UDA's capital of Georgetown, Virginia at the age of 90.

Churchill, son of Lord Randolph Churchill and the American-born Miranda Jacobson Churchill, had been born in England but had moved to America in 1909 following a bitter quarrel with his father. In the dominions, he had become involved with the sovereignty movement. Quarreling bitterly with the so-called "Separationist" faction, which sought complete independence for Britain's North American possessions, he rose to leadership of the rival "Dominionists".

By 1939, under his direction, the sovereignty movement had been poised for victory--but on Sept. 1 of that year, the Second World War broke out, pitting Britain, France, Italy and Japan against the Quadrilateral Alliance of imperial Germany, Ottoman Turkey, Spain and Austria-Hungary, leading Parliament to table the Dominion Act. Its passage after the war created the UDA, which, while remaining nominally subject to London, was in practical fact far larger, more prosperous and more militarily powerful than the mother country.

The story of America's rise to sovereignty and the parallel development in India was vividly chronicled in the 1975 BBC miniseries "The Jewels in the Crown".

Under the UDA's constitution, Churchill was eligible only for a single seven-year term as prime minister, subject to special elections prior to his term's end. No such elections occurred, and on April 30, 1953, Churchill stepped down. He would remain active in politics, becoming an outspoken advocate of "containment" of Tsar Nicholas III's expansionist Russia and of a "yellow peril" view of the Japanese Empire. Churchill's influence was crucial in securing American assistance for Delhi in the Indo-Japanese War, which was ongoing at the time of his death.

Author says, in the timeline I envision, the American Revolution collapsed early when the Continental Congress voted down the Declaration of Independence after Jefferson refused to excise a passage condemning the African slave trade, infuriating Southern delegates (this is the POD--in our history, Jefferson gave in). Tightened British control followed for some time. Jefferson and others of the Founding Fathers died in exile (Washington was captured and executed). A second attempted revolution occurred in the 1830s when Britain outlawed slavery throughout the Empire; this one lasted longer, due to ideological fervor on the part of the slaveholding states, but was also defeated.

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