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8 Garner, The Commonwealth Office, pp. 13, 55, 153.
9 Sir Ian Jacob cited in Lord Normanbrook (ed.), Action this Day: Working with Churchill (London, 1968), p. 204.
10 'Winston Churchill', The Round Table (March 1965), p. 104.
11 Diary, 3 November 1942, Waterson Papers.
12 I. Stewart, The Struggle for Crete (London, 1966), p. 51.
13 'Memoir written for the Mackenzie King colloquium at University of Waterloo 1975', MacDonald Papers, 109/7/48; Roland Quinault, 'Churchill and Australia 1899-1945', War and Society, (Vol. 6, No. 1; May 1988), pp. 41-9; Robert Menzies, 'Churchill and the Commonwealth' in Sir James Marchant (ed.), WSC: Servant of Crown and Commonwealth (London, 1954), p. 92.
14 Typical were his comments to a Foreign Press Association lunch in March 1940 at the Savoy, when he had told his audience that the scope and significance of the Dominions' support had 'no parallel in history' and would prove decisive when it was fully developed; 'Dominions' Own Cause', The Times, 14 March 1940. The FO had been enthusiastic supporters of what was viewed as an opportunity to be seen to be more visibly supportive of the Dominions' effort. The DO were uncertain as to whether this would be such a good idea in light of the Canadian's recent obstructions and did their best to stall; it was perhaps fortunate therefore that the German attack against Norway and the change in government this precipitated should have forced a cancellation; Charles Peake (head of FO News Dept.) to Eden, 1 February 1940, Avon Papers, AP20/8/286; ibid., 'Handwritten note by Eden', n.d. (1962?), 27/1/62B; Notes by Archer, 29 May 1962; Chamberlain to Mackenzie King, 2 April 1940, DO121/66; ibid., Machtig to Eden, 2 April 1940; Stephenson to Eden and Machtig, 30 March 1940, DO35/998/7/1; ibid., Machtig to Eden, 2 April 1940; Mansergh, Problems of Wartime Cooperation, p. 40.
15 Diary 17 April 1940, Waterson Papers; ibid., 17 April 1940; 'Conversation with Neville Henderson', 13 October 1939, Bruce Papers.
16 'Eden leaves us for the WO. I'm sorry: it has been most interesting and agreeable working with him for eight months, seeing him every day. He is a delightful fellow and I should say certain to be PM one day. In about 10 years time he will make an ideal Conservative peacetime PM. He is able, receptive, liberal and I think quite incapable of any kind of intrigue or dirty work—the type of man an Englishman likes—but he is not ruthless or tough enough for war'; Diary 11 May 1940, Waterson Papers; Diary, 12 May 1940, Avon Papers.
17 Oliver Stanley to Churchill, 13 May 1940, Chartwell Papers, CHAR20/11/62-64.
18 Ben Pimlott (ed.), The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton, 1940-45 (London, 1986), pp. 190-1.
19 Memoirs, May 1940-April 1943, p. 6, Sir John Martin Papers (Churchill College) MART.
20 Minute by Garner, 18 September 1940, DO35/1012/40/1; this was an apparently common difficulty, during a September 1940 High Commissioner meeting he had gone to sleep 'peacefully' whilst the DW telegrams were being read; Diary 30 September 1940, Waterson Papers.
21 HCWM, 17 May 1940, DO121/8; Diary 15 May 1940, Waterson Papers; ibid., Diary 17 May 1940; Diary 3 June 1940; Diary, 23 June 1940; HCWM, 25 June 1940, DO121/8; Diary, 15 May 1940, Massey Papers (University of Toronto); Dairy, 15 May 1940, Pearson Papers; Bruce to Menzies, 15 May 1940, in R. G. Neale (ed.), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, Vol. 3,1940 (Canberra, 1979) (hereafter 'DAFP III').
22 HCWM, 4 May 1940, DO121/8; Bentinck to Dixon, 1 May 1940, FO371/25218.
23 Ibid., Parkinson to Cadogan, 7 May 1940; Cadogan to Bentinck, 7 May 1940.
24 Parkinson to Batterbee, 16 May 1940, Batterbee Papers, Box 7/3.
25 Ibid., Cadogan to Bentinck, 9 May 1940; David Dilks (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938-1945 (London, 1971), pp. 276-86.
26 Minute by Bentinck, 13 May 1940, FO371/25222.
27 Menzies to DO, 23 May 1940, DO35/1003/2/11/1/1B; Churchill to Dominion Prime Ministers, 23 May 1940, PREM4/43B/1; WCM(40)140, 26 May 1940, CAB65/13.
28 Whiskard to DO, 27