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67 The source was David Eccles, later Viscount Eccles; Dalton Diary, 25 August 1941, The Dalton Diaries, p. 272.

68 Ibid., Dalton Diary, 29 August 1941, p. 277.

69 Cited in Pearson, Through Diplomacy to Politics, p. 218.

70 Sir Ian Kershaw, 'Hitler Versus America', BBC History (Vol. 8, No. 6; June 2007), p. 20; see also Sir Nicholas Henderson, 'Hitler's Biggest Blunder', History Today (April 1993), pp. 35-43.

71 Wm. Roger Louis, 'Sir Keith Hancock and the British Empire: The Pax Britannica and the Pax Americana', English Historical Review (Vol. 120, No. 488; September 2005), pp. 932-62.

72 Writing about the Survey he cautioned the potential reader about its scope and size, 'I certainly shouldn't recommend it to anybody of feeble health and weak determination', W. K. Hancock, Argument of Empire (London, 1943), pp. 7, 9-10.

73 Hancock to Colin Badger, 9 March 1943, cited in Louis, 'Sir Keith Hancock and the British Empire', p. 956.

Notes to Chapter 8: Rupture?

1 Page to Curtin, 8 December 1941, DAFP V, pp. 289-93.

2 Brooke-Popham to Sir Arthur Street, 28 October 1941, Brooke-Popham Papers.

3 Cranborne to Churchill, 12 December 1941, PREM3/206/1-3; Curtin to Churchill, 13 December 1941, DO121/119; Page, Truant Surgeon, pp. 319-23; Cumpston, Lord Bruce of Melbourne, pp. 189-91.

4 WCM127(41), 12 December 1941, CAB65/20; Memorandum on 'Machinery of Consultation', Page Papers, Item No. 642 (1942); 'Note by Shedden', 17 March 1943 cited in Day, The Great Betrayal, p. 219.

5 'Australia is Right', 21 December 1941, Sunday Express; 'Blunt Words from Dominions', 23 December 1941, Daily Mail.

6 Attlee to Churchill, 23 December 1941, PREM3/63/3.

7 Dalton Diary, 19 December 1941, p. 337.

8 Attlee to Churchill, 23 December 1941, PREM3/63/3.

9 Edwards, Bruce of Melbourne, pp. 324-5; Coral Bell, Dependent Ally: A Study in Australian Foreign Policy (Melbourne, 1988), pp. 25-6; Eric Baume, 'Australia's Political Trend', The Fortnightly (No. 151; January-June 1942), pp. 97-106.

10 Menzies Radio Broadcast, 26 April 1939 in R. G. Neale (ed.), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, 1937-1949: Vol. 2, 1939 (Canberra, 1976).

11 P. G. Edwards, 'R.G. Menzies' Appeals to the United States', Australian Outlook (No. 28; 1974), pp. 64-70.

12 DO to Whiskard, 21 June 1940, DO35/1003/11/3/7.

13 Gwendolen M. Carter, 'New Trends in British Commonwealth Relations', Pacific Affairs (Vol. 17, No. 1; March 1944), p. 71.

14 'Empire War Cabinet—Oral Answers', 18 December 1941, House of Commons Official Report (Vol. 376), pp. 2072-3; WCM (41)137, 29 December 1941, CAB65/20. A flurry of letters on the subject published by The Times had produced a number of broadly sympathetic responses, largely drawn from those most actively involved in the debate about the role of the Empire. Sir John Marriott was amongst those who strongly endorsed the 'most opportune and just plea' for a revival of an Empire War Cabinet' 'Empire War Cabinet—The Dominions and Strategy', The Times, 8 January 1942; 'Planning of War Strategy—Dangers in the Pacific' (Lord Denman), The Times, 10 January 1942.

15 Cited in Raymond Callahan, Worst Disaster: Fall of Singapore (Delaware, 1977), p. 234; Jacob to Ismay, 24 January 1959, Ismay Papers, ISMAYI/14/69a.

16 'Mr Curtin Explains', 29 December 1941, The Times; 'Dominions and Strategy' (Keith Murdoch), 29 December 1941, The Times; 'A Word to Mr Curtin', 30 December 1941, Daily Mail.

17 Cross to Cranborne, 3 November 1941, DO35/587/89/137; ibid., minute by Machtig, 29 December 1941; minute by Cranborne, 31 December 1941; John Gooch, 'The Politics of Strategy: Great Britain, Australia and the War against Japan, 1939-1945', War in History (Vol. 10, No. 4; 2003), pp. 436-8.

18 Cranborne to Churchill, 1 January 1942, DO35/1002/48/7A.

19 Memorandum on 'Machinery of Consultation' (1942), Page Papers, No. 642; 'Note of a Meeting between Lord Cranborne and Sir Earle Page', 31 December 1941, FO954/4.

20 'Lord Cranborne's comments on Sir