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75 John Colville, Winston Churchill and His Inner Circle (New York, 1981), p. 223; if there was the potential for family animosity, from an early age, Churchill had nonetheless established what would prove to be a lasting friendship with Lord Hugh Cecil, 'the most intimate friend he ever had' and his best man at his wedding; Rene Kraus, The Men around Churchill (New York, 1941), pp. 72-4; Colville, The Fringes of Power: Vol. 1, p. 382.
76 Churchill, The Gathering Storm, p. 222.
77 Colville, Inner Circle, p. 227.
78 Churchill to Randolph, 18 April 1944, Chartwell Papers, CHAR1/381/21-31.
79 Churchill to Halifax, 28 July 1940, Chartwell Papers, CHAR20/13/8.
80 Punch, 17 July 1940.
Notes to Chapter 5: Coalition United
1 Garner, The Commonwealth Office, pp. 193-4; Mansergh, Problems of Wartime Cooperation, pp. 45-6.
2 Ronald Tree, When the Moon was High (London, 1975) pp. 54-5.
3 Garner, The Commonwealth Office, pp. 163, 176-9.
4 Stirling to Department of External Affairs, Canberra, 5 October 1940 in W. J. Hudson and H. J. W. Stokes (eds), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, 1937-1949: Vol. 4, July 1940-June 1941 (Canberra, 1980), p. 206 (hereafter 'DAFP IV').
5 Cranborne to Waterson, 17 October 1940, Waterson Papers.
6 Ibid., Diary, 3 October 1940; Diary, 4 November 1940; Diary, 3 October 1940, Massey Papers; Bruce to Menzies, 3 October 1940, Bruce Papers.
7 Cranborne to Halifax, 24 October 1940, FO371/25224.
8 Skelton to Wrong, 2 March 1939, Pearson Papers.
9 Note by Costley-White, May 1940, DO35/998/7/11.
10 Menzies to Bruce, 17 June 1940, DO35/1003/11/3/4; ibid., Churchill to Menzies, 23 June 1940.
11 Day, Menzies and Churchill at War, pp. 30-4.
12 Whiskard to DO, 20 September 1939, DO121/46.
13 Whiskard to DO, 23 October 1940, DO35/998/7/11.
14 Sir Frederic Eggleston to Mackay, 8 October 1940, Eggleston Papers (National Library of Australia), MS423/1/143.
15 DO to Dominion Governments, 22 April 1940, DO35/998/7/1; Garner to Parkinson, 16 May 1940, DO35/998/7/9; DO to PM, 20 May 1940, PREM4/43A/11; Peck (PM's Office) to Costley-White, 27 May 1940, DO35/998/7/9; ibid., Machtig to Secretary of State, 31 May 1940; ibid., DO to Peck, 6 June 1940; Machtig to Cranborne, 24 October 1940, DO35/998/7/11.
16 Note prepared by Costley-White, May 1940, DO35/998/7/11.
17 Ibid., memorandum by Stephenson, 26 October 1940; ibid., memorandum by Cranborne (for War Cabinet), 28 October 1940.
18 Josiah Wedgewood MP to Churchill, 25 October 1940, Chartwell Papers, CHAR20/8/122. This he had been advised to strongly reject on the grounds that '[the Dominions] would get swelled head; we are the Power House and pander to them enough already'.
19 'The War Situation', 8 October 1940, House of Lords Official Report (Vol. 67), pp. 402-8, 453-6; ibid., Lord David Davies, Question 'Dominions and the War', 8 August 1940, p. 161; Elibank to Churchill, 10 October 1940, PREM4/43/A/13; Mansergh, Problems of Wartime Cooperation, p. 93.
20 Churchill, Finest Hour, pp. 422-38; Gilbert, Finest Hour, pp. 876-90.
21 Stephenson to Machtig, 30 October 1940, DO35/998/7/13.
22 Mackenzie King to Churchill, 31 October 1940, DO35/998/7/13; ibid., Prime Minister's Personal Minute (No. M282), copied to Cranborne, 4 November 1940; ibid., Cranborne to PM, 8 November
1940.
23 Ibid., PM to Cranborne, 10 November 1940.
24 Cranborne to PM, 11 November 1940, DO35/998/7/13; ibid., Bridges to Cranborne, 11 November 1940; PM to Cranborne, 13 November 1940.
25 Cranborne to Churchill, 21 December 1940, CHAR20/11/114-116. Suggestions that he would be moved to Washington persisted into the following year and were clearly a source of annoyance to Cranborne: 'What an absurd idea about my going to Washington! I am glad to hear that there is nothing in it. Apart from everything else, it would be the greatest possible mistake