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43 Garner, The Commonwealth Office, p. 201.
44 Minute by Liesching, 17 June 1940, DO35/1003/11/1/4.
45 David Day, Menzies and Churchill at War (New York, 1988), pp. 25-7; Churchill, Finest Hour, p. 214.
46 Batterbee to Whiskard, 6 July 1940, Batterbee Papers, Box 7/5; ibid., Whiskard to Batterbee, 22 July 1940.
47 Ibid., Batterbee to Whiskard, 6 July 1940; HCWM, 6-18 July 1940, DO121/9.
48 Harding to DO, 19 June 1940, DO35/1004/11/5/3.
49 Halifax to Massey, 23 June 1940, DO121/8.
50 Diary, 23 June 1940, Waterson Papers; HCWM, 25 June 1940, DO121/8.
51 Diary, 28 June 1940, Waterson Papers.
52 Ibid., Waterson to Smuts, 26 July 1940.
53 Ibid., Diary, 26 July 1940.
54 WCM(40)214, 29 July 1940, CAB65/14.
55 HCWM, 31 July 1940, DO121/9.
56 'Note of a Meeting', 31 July 1940, DO35/1000/1/124; Robertson and McCarthy, Australian War Strategy, pp. 146-9.
57 'Progress of the War', 20 August 1940, House of Lord Official Report (Vol. 67), pp. 272-3.
58 HCWM, 8 August 1940, DO121/9; The Memoirs of Lord Ismay (London, 1960), p. 192.
59 HCWM, 23 August 1940, DO121/9; ibid. 26 August 1940; ibid., 29 August 1940.
60 Eden to Churchill, 18 September 1940, PREM3/63/13; ibid. Eden to Churchill, 20 September 1940.
61 Gilbert, Finest Hour, pp. 747-52, 787-90, 804-10; Irving, Churchill's War, pp. 385-6, 420-4; Churchill, Finest Hour, pp. 390-4, 569-72; HCWM, 24 September 1940, DO121/9; WCM(40)259, 26 September 1940, CAB65/16.
62 Churchill, Finest Hour, pp. 389-90; minute by Holmes, 1 October 1940, DO35/1003/11/1/74.
63 Bruce to Menzies, 26 September 1940, DAFP III; ibid., Menzies to Churchill, 29 September 1940; 'Minute', September 1940, Lord Bruce's War Files, AA1969/275/1; HCWM, 26 September 1940, DO121/9; Churchill to Menzies, 2 October 1940, DO35/1003/11/1/74; ibid., 'Note by Bruce of talk with Churchill', 2 October 1940; ibid., Bruce to Menzies, 2 October 1940; ibid., minute by Holmes, 1 October 1940; Diary, 3 October 1940, Waterson Papers.
64 Ibid., Diary, 25 September 1940.
65 HCWM, 1 October 1940, DO121/9; Menzies to Churchill, 4 October 1940, DAFP III; Whiskard to DO, 1 October 1940, DO35/1003/11/1/74.
66 Churchill to Menzies, 6 October 1940, PREM3/63/13.
67 Garner, The Commonwealth Office, p. 199; Machtig to Batterbee, 28 August 1940, DO35/1000/1/24; ibid., Liesching to Batterbee, 3 September 1940; Machtig to Batterbee, 28 August 1940; Diary, 2 September 1940, Avon Papers; Machtig to Batterbee, 28 August 1940, Batterbee Papers, Box 7/2.
68 Caldecote to Batterbee, 26 July 1940, Batterbee Papers, Box 6/1; Churchill to Caldecote, 15 August 1940, Chartwell Papers, CHAR20/13/8.
69 Ibid., Churchill to Caldecote, 2 October 1940; he would now be the Lord Chancellor's effective deputy, serving as the second most senior judge in the country after Lord Simon.
70 Diary, 31 October 1940, Lord Woolton Papers (Bodleian Library, Oxford), M. S. Woolton.
71 Duncan to Lady Selbourne, 8 October 1940, Duncan Papers.
72 A. R. Peters, Anthony Eden at the Foreign Office, 1931-1938 (New York, 1986), pp. 258-60; Lord Todd, 'Robert Arthur James Gascoyne Cecil, Fifth Marquess of Salisbury, 1893-1972', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (Vol. 19; Dec. 1973), pp. 621-7.
73 Amery to Smuts, 16 October 1940, cited in Jean Van der Poel (ed.), Smuts Papers, Vol. 6 (Cambridge, 1973), p. 256; Pimlott, Diary of Hugh Dalton, p. 53; 'Neville [Chamberlain] was in a rage yesterday and in the morning whilst he was going over questions he delivered himself of an angry tirade against the "Glamour Boys". More particularly, Bobbety Cranborne who is the most dangerous of the lot. "Beware" he said "of rampant idealists. All Cecils are that"'; 5 May 1939, cited in Robert Rhodes James, Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon (London, 1967), p. 244.
74 In being appointed as leader of the House of Lords he took an office which both his father and grandfather had held before him. An article in Commonwealth and Empire Review some years