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for Edward to throw up the sponge after less than six months. Every ambassador takes at least a year to settle down to a new post. He cannot expect to be known and liked before that. And especially in this time for Edward, who is by nature shy and fastidious. I hope we shall hear no more of such nonsense'; Cranborne to Emrys-Evans, 31 July 1941, Emrys-Evans Papers (British Library), Add. MSS 58240.

26 'Information for the Dominions', 5 June 1940, WP192(40), CAB66/8.

27 Colonel Bishop to Holmes, 15 December 1940, DO35/1003/2/11/25.

28 Bishop to Machtig, 10 December 1940 within 'Information for the Dominions', WP466(40), December 1940, CAB66/14.

29 Machtig to Cranborne, 20 December 1940, DO35/1003/2/11/25; Pimlott, Diary of Hugh Dalton, pp. 120-2.

30 Churchill to Cranborne, 12 November 1940, Chartwell Papers, CHAR20/13/8; ibid., Churchill to Cranborne, 1 December 1940; Churchill to Cranborne, 21 December 1940.

31 Ibid., Cranbourne to Churchill, 23 December 1940.

32 Ibid., Churchill to Cranborne, 25 December 1940.

33 Note by Bruce of conversation with Churchill, 18 December 1940, Bruce Papers.

34 Churchill to Cranbourne, 7 January 1941, DO121/119.

35 Minute by Holmes, 30 December 1940, DO35/1003/2/11/25; ibid., minute by Stephenson, 1 January 1941; ibid., Machtig to Cranboune, 9 January 1941; Cranbourne to Churchill, 8 January

1941, DO121/10A; minute by Cranbourne, 12 January 1941, DO35/1003/2/11/25.

36 Diary, 11 January 1941, Menzies Papers (National Library of Australia), MS4936.

37 Mansergh, Problems of Wartime Cooperation, p. 90.

38 Day, Menzies and Churchill at War, pp. 33-40, 63-171; Daily Telegraph, 22 February 1941 and Sunday Times, 23 February 1941; an excellent account of the visit made to Britain by Menzies can be found in Galen Roger Perras, 'Hurry Up and Wait: Robert Menzies, Mackenzie King, and the Failed Attempt to Form an Imperial War Cabinet in 1941', Working Papers in Military and International History (No. 3, September 2004), Centre for Contemporary History and Politics, University of Salford, pp. 2-42.

39 Diary, 22 February 1941, Menzies Papers.

40 Menzies to Fadden, 25 February 1941, DAFP IV; ibid., Fadden to Menzies, 26 February 1941; Menzies to Fadden, 4 March 1941.

41 Ismay to Brooke-Popham, 15 June 1941, Brooke-Popham Papers (Liddell Hart Archives), V/1/13.

42 Major-General I.S.O. Playfair et al., Official History of the Second World War: The Mediterranean and Middle East Vol. 2: The Germans Come to the Help of Their Ally, 1941 (London, 1956), pp. 1-40, 153-72; Martin van Creveld, 'Prelude to Disaster: the British Decision to Aid Greece, 1940-41', Journal of Contemporary History (Vol. 9, No. 3; 1974), pp. 65-92; Field Marshal Earl Wavell, 'The British Expedition to Greece, 1941', The Army Quarterly (Vol. 59, No. 2; January 1950), pp. 178-85; David Day, The Great Betrayal, Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War 1939-42 (Melbourne, 1988), pp. 110-41; David Horner, Inside the War Cabinet (NSW: Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1996), pp. 48-59; Sheila Lawlor, Churchill and the Politics of War, 1940-41 (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 167-259; Mansergh, Problems of Wartime Cooperation, pp. 96-101; General Freyberg to Churchill, 25 March 1949, Sir G.S. Cox Papers (Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington) 2003-005-15/10; Callum MacDonald, The Lost Battle: Crete, 1941 (London, 1993) pp. 87-113, 186-307; Antony Beevor, Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (London, 1991), pp. 30-82, 82-226; Brigadier A. T. J. Bell, 'The Battle for Crete—The Tragic Truth', Australian Defence Force Journal (No. 88, May/June 1991), pp. 15-18.

43 Sir Percy Joske, Sir Robert Menzies: A New, Informal Memoir (Sydney, 1978), p. 115; Diary, 17 April 1941, Pearson Papers.

44 'The Empire and the War', 2 April 1941, House of Lords Official Report (Vol. 118), pp. 952-73.

45 Diary, 30 April 1941 and 1 May 1941, Hankey Papers; Irving, Churchill's War: Vol. 1, pp. 550-6.

46 'Curtin Falls on Menzies', Reynolds Illustrated News, 27 April 1941.

47 Gilbert, Finest Hour, pp. 1083-4.

48 Cranborne to Churchill, 12 May 1941, PREM4/43A/12;