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9 'Ol' Man River', Time, 2 September 1940.
10 Claude Bissell, The Imperial Canadian: VincentMassey (Toronto, 1986), p. 126.
11 Diary, 12 and 19 October 1942, Massey Papers.
12 John Colville, The Fringes of Power: Vol. 1, p. 148.
13 Miller, 'Special Relationship', p. 380.
14 Robert Rhodes James, 'The Politician' in A. J. P. Taylor et al., Four Faces and the Man (London, 1969), p. 94.
15 Malcolm MacDonald Papers, pp. 122/123.
16 'The Empire', 21 July 1942, House of Lords Official Report (Vol. 123), pp. 933-77.
17 Cranborne to MacDonald, 6 June 1942, MacDonald Papers, 14/5/29.
18 Cranborne to Emrys-Evans, 18 March 1943, Emrys-Evans Papers.
19 Hector Bolitho, 'This Empire of Ours', Empire Review (No. 304, January 1943), pp. 10-11; born in New Zealand, the prolific writer served as a wartime intelligence officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was also said to be well connected with the royal family as a result of a popular account he wrote of the H.R.H. Duke of York's 1927 tour of New Zealand; I. G. Wilkinson, Journalese (Wellington, 1934), p. 47.
20 Kenneth O'Morgan, 'Imperialists at Bay: British Labour and Decolonization' in King and Kilson (eds), The Statecraft of British Imperialism, pp. 234-6.
21 'Empire or Commonwealth', Time, 25 January 1943.
22 'As England Feels ...', Time, 13 April 1942.
23 Of the 895 correspondents polled just 29 per cent of them understood the distinction between 'Dominion' and 'Colony'; 'The British Empire', BBC Listener Research Department, 22 February 1943, FO371/34088.
24 Frank Heinlein, British Government Policy and Decolonisation 1945-1963 (London, 2002), pp. 8, 64.
25 Unknown newspaper clipping, 15 May 1940, Pearson Papers, MG26, N8.
26 Pickersgill, The Mackenzie King Record, pp. 663-4.
27 Halifax, Fullness of Days, p. 273; also in Roger Louis, Imperialism at Bay, p. 16.
28 Hancock, Argument of Empire, pp. 9-13.
29 Clement Attlee, 'Wartime Cooperation in the British Commonwealth', United Empire (Vol. 34, No. 1; January-February 1943), pp. 7-12. The Royal Empire Society was founded in 1869 with 174 members; by the end of 1941 this had risen to 18,002. Its splendid buildings on Northumberland Avenue in central London suffered extensive damage in April and May 1941, virtually the entire library was destroyed by a huge bomb and water damage from the efforts of the fire brigade, a total of 232,353 volumes in all; 'The Royal Empire Society—Report of the Council', 17 June 1942; United Empire (Vol. 33, No. 4; July-August 1942).
30 A. Duff Cooper, 'The Future Development of the British Empire' (12 January 1943), United Empire (Vol. 34, No. 2), p. 33.
31 Richard Law, 'The British Commonwealth as a World Power' (19 January 1943), United Empire (Vol. 34, No. 2; March-April 1943), pp. 35-8.
32 Lord Elton, 'Post-War Role of the Empire', Empire Review (No. 505, June 1943), pp. 13-16; ibid., Lord Hailey, 'The New Attack on "British Imperialism"', pp. 44-8; Sir Charles Petrie, 'At the Peace Table—And Afterwards', pp. 30-2.
33 Sir Arthur Salter, the Independent MP for Oxford University, who was closely involved at this stage in shipping questions and had visited the United States as part of the Lend-Lease negotiations; Diary, 8 July 1942, Dalton Diary, p. 465.
34 Richard Akwei to Sir Alan Burns, 18 January 1943, Swinton Papers (Churchill Archives), Swin II 5/5.
35 Swinton to Cranborne, 17 October 1942, Swinton Papers, Swin II 5/5.
36 'Alleged Indiscretion of US Cabinet Minister', 21 February 1944, FO371/38522; Cross to Attlee, 22 December 1942, DO35/1628.
37 Greenway (DID) to DO Premiers, draft telegram 'Most Secret and Personal', 13 March 1943, FO371/36606.
38 'The Campbell is Coming', Time, 27 January 1941.
39 Campbell to Cadogan, 6 August 1942, FO371/39695; minute by Sir David Scott, 26 August 1942, FO371/39695.
40 Cited in Roger Louis, Imperialism at Bay, p. 198. The author's brother penned a much less critical piece which appeared as an editorial in the January 1944 edition of Fortune magazine and was warmly welcomed both by Lord Halifax in Washington and the