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32 Cranborne to Mrs Evans, 8 November 1940, Cranborne Papers.
33 WHC, 11 February 1941, DO121/9.
34 Minute, 30 January 1940, FO371/24252; see Fred Pollock, 'Roosevelt, the Ogdensburg Agreement and the British Fleet: All Done with Mirrors', Diplomatic History, (Vol. 5; 1981), pp. 203-5.
35 Minute by Hadow, 17 September 1939, FO371/23963.
36 Harding to DO, 27 May 1940, DO35/1003/2/11/1/1B; Menzies to DO, 16 June 1940, DO35/1003/11/3/3; Batterbee to DO, 18 June 1940, DO35/1003/11/4/4; WHC, 6 February 1941, DO121/11.
37 Cited in Ponting, Churchill, p. 212.
38 Charmley, Churchill: The End of Glory, p. 18.
39 Cited in Gilbert, In Search of Churchill, p. 688.
40 Warren F. Kimball, 'Lend-Lease and the Open Door: The Temptation of British Opulence, 1937-1942', Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 86, No. 2; June 1971), p. 242.
41 Minute by Liesching, 2 August 1941, DO35/1075/3.
42 Stuart Ball (ed.), Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee: The Headlam Diaries, 1935-1941 (London, 1999), p. 234, 31 December 1940.
43 John Robertson, 'Australia and the "Beat Hitler First" Strategy 1941-1942', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Vol. XI, No. 3; 1983), pp. 301-8.
44 Minute by Pitblado, 25 March 1941, DO35/1075/279/67; minute by Pitblado, 30 May 1941, DO35/1075/279/91.
45 Comment by Pitblado at Treasury meeting, 11 December 1941, DO35/1076/1; WHC, 28 October 1941.
46 Machtig to Cranborne, 8 December 1941, DO35/1014/5; ibid., Cranborne to Machtig, 8 December 1941.
47 Minute, February 1941, DO35/1074/279/47; notes by Ashton-Gwatkin (FO) for R. A. Butler, April 1941, Conservative Research Department Papers (Bodleian Library, Oxford), CRD2/28/2; Casey to Department of External Affairs, 11 October 1941, DAFP V, pp. 131-2.
48 Cranborne to Kingsley Wood, 12 August 1941, DO35/1075/3.
49 Orde, The Eclipse of Great Britain, pp. 129-59; conversation between Churchill and Roosevelt, August 1941 cited in R. Palme Dutt, Britain's Crisis of Empire (London, 1949), p. 44.
50 Minute by Liesching, 19 August 1941, DO35/1075/3.
51 Minute by Liesching, 22 September 1941, DO35/1075/4.
52 'Discussion with Mr Winthrop Brown at the 10 o'clock meeting at the Treasury on December 11th (1941)', DO35/1076/1.
53 V. S. Swaminathan, 'America's Aid to Britain', Empire Review (No. 481; February 1941), p. 63.
54 Ritchie Diary, 21 April 1941, Siren Years, p. 100.
55 Reynolds, The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance, pp. 140-6.
56 Churchill told the British public in a radio broadcast following his return, that the declaration was in fact 'a simple, rough and ready statement of the goal towards which the British Commonwealth and the United States meant to make their way*; 'Mr. Churchill on a Symbolic Meeting', The Times, 25 August 1941.
57 Harvey (ed.), The Diplomatic Diaries of Oliver Harvey, 1941-1945, 12 August 1941.
58 Louis, Imperialism at Bay, p. 123.
59 WM(41)89, CAB65/19; 'House of Commons Statement by Mr. Churchill', The Times, 9 September 1941.
60 Viscount Samuel, 'Thoughts on the Atlantic Charter', Contemporary Review (No. 913, January 1942), pp. 1-2.
61 Rt Hon. George Peel, 'Atlantic Charter No. 2', Contemporary Review (No. 917, May 1942), p. 264; many of the Americans at the conference remained convinced that imperial trade preferences such as the Ottawa Agreement had contributed strongly to the economic and political malaise of the interwar years.
62 John Barnes and David Nicholson (eds), The Empire at Bay: The Leo Amery Diaries, 1929-1945 (London, 1987), p. 710.
63 Headlam, 14/15 August 1941, The Headlam Diaries, p. 270.
64 Machtig to Cranborne, 23 August 1941, DO35/1002/48/2; Garner to Martin, 29 August 1941, DO35/1002/48/3; Attlee to Churchill, 12 August 1941, CAB66/18/13.
65 Minute by Liesching, February 1941, DO35/1077/281/11.