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(June 1940), 5.9; (December 1941), 8.1; urges support for Russia, 6.1; hopes for U.S. involvement in war, 8.2, 8.3; on Japanese threat, 8.4; concentrates empire’s forces in Middle East, 9.1; on Japanese jungle warfare skills, 9.2; urges last-ditch resistance in Singapore, 9.3; and fall of Singapore, 9.4; dismay at soldiers’ irresolution, 9.5; and effect of loss of empire in Southeast Asia, 9.6; on effect of convoy system, 11.2; on U-boat threat, 11.3, 11.4; supports Allied supplies for Russia, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7; Anders complains to of Russian behaviour, 12.1; encourages special forces and actions, 13.1; enjoys war, 13.2; ideals, 13.3; and limiting food imports to Greece, 13.4; Mediterranean strategy, 14.1, 18.1; and North African defeats, 14.2; impatience for Eighth Army offensive, 14.3; decrees Torch landings in North Africa, 14.4; celebrates victory in North Africa, 14.5; claims popular international support, 16.1; imperialism, 16.2; and India’s economic buoyancy, 16.3; denies relief for Bengal famine, 16.4; criticises British campaign in Far East, 17.1; praises Chindits, 17.2; granted choice of when to invade, 18.2; and invasion of Italy, 18.3, 21.1; supports campaign in Italy, 18.4; supports Yugoslav actions against Germans, 18.5; favours Tito’s forces in Yugoslavia, 18.6; on bomber offensive against Germany, 19.1, 19.2; fails to dismiss Harris, 19.3; refuses to consider postwar social reform before victory, 20.1; reservations over bombing of French rail links, 21.2; delays invasion of Europe, 21.3; and recapture of Burma, 22.1, 25.1, 25.2; disbelieves speedy victory in autumn 1944, 23.1; and European postwar settlement, 24.1; and development of atomic bomb, 25.3; and wartime Grand Alliance, 26.2; achievements, 26.3, 26.4; embraces Russian alliance, 26.5

Ciano, Count Galeazzo: and Polish resistance to Germany, 1.1; on French campaign against German advance, 3.1; and Italian attack on Greece, 5.1

Claflin, William

Clague, John

Clark, Gen. Mark, 18.1, 21.1, 23.1

Clarke, Senator D. Worth

Classon, Jack

Clements, Capt. Martin

Cobra, Operation, 21.1

Cochrane, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Ralph

Cole, David

Colossus (electronic computer)

commanders: assessed

commandos

communism

Compass, Operation, 5.1

Compton, Capt. John

concentration camps: German, 20.1; inmates killed at war’s end, 24.1; see also death camps

Condor Legion (German): in Spain

Conrath, Gen. Paul, 18.1, 18.2

convoys: system introduced, 11.1; ship losses, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4; frequency, 11.5; U-boat attacks on, 11.6, 11.7; Arctic to Soviet Russia, 11.8; to Malta, 11.9; see also PQ16; PQ17; PQ18

Cook, Sgt. Charles

Cookman, Mary Carson

Cooper, Lady Diana, 9.1, 9.2, 16.1

Cooper, Duff

Coral Sea, Battle of (1942), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 26.1

Cork and Orrery, Adm. William Henry Dudley Boyle, 1.1th Earl of, 3.1

Corregidor Island

Corti, Lt. Eugenio, 12.1, 18.1, 26.1

corvettes

Coughlin, Father Charles

Courland (Latvia), 21.1, 24.1

Coventry: bombed

Cox, Flight Sgt. Charles

Crace, Rear Adm. John

Crafter, Ron

Craig, Corp. Jack

Craig, Lt. Norman, 13.1, 14.1, 21.1

Crawford, William

Cree, Brig. G. H.

Crete, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

Crimea: German success in, 12.1, 12.2; Schörner defends, 21.1

Cripps, Sir Stafford

Croatia: hostility to Serbs, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2

Crook, David

Crook, Phyllis

Cropper, Corp. John, 21.1, 24.1

Croudson, Henry

Crowell, Lt. Dick

Crusader, Operation, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

Csescy, Imre

Cullen, Lance Bombardier Morry

Cunningham, Gen. Alan, 5.1, 5.2

Cunningham, Adm. Sir Andrew: shortage of air cover in Mediterranean, 5.1; ship losses at Crete, 5.2; Taranto victory, 11.1; qualities, 26.1

Curtin, John, 9.1, 9.2

Cutter, Private

Cyprus

Czechoslovakia: Germany annexes, 1.1; arms supply, 6.1; Russians occupy, 24.1

D-Day see Normandy

Dahl, Roald

Dakar: Gaullist attempt on

Daladier, Édouard: promises aid to Finland, 2.1; favours cutting off German iron ore supplies from Sweden, 2.2; resigns, 2.3; criticises British, 3.1

Darby, Col. Bill

Darwin, Australia: bombed by Japanese

Das, Arangamohan

Dauntless dive-bombers (U.S.), 10.1, 10.2