Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [318]
79 “No one in the room”: Ian Jacob, “His Finest Hour,” Atlantic, March 1965.
80 “the Luftwaffe, badly weakened”: Potsdam Institute for the Study of Military History, 2:291.
81 “A dejected-looking old man”: Ismay, p. 133.
82 “he could count on no artillery”: Karslake, p. 124.
83 “The political object of the re-constituted BEF”: C. P. Stacey, p. 278.
84 “the Breton redoubt”: L. F. Ellis, p. 298.
85 “People who go to Italy”: Colville, p. 152, April 10, 1940.
86 “Reynaud was inscrutable”: Eden, p. 116.
87 “Mr. Churchill appeared imperturbable”: De Gaulle, L’Appel (Plon: 1999), p. 54.
88 “That woman … will undo”: Ismay reported conversation in Kennedy diary, LHA, March 3, 1941.
89 “M. Reynaud felt that while Mr. C”: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1940–41. pp. 4–115.
90 “Normally I wake up buoyant to face”: Eden, p. 182, December 19, 1940.
91 “Churchill, who objected”: Colville, p. 232.
92 “If the French will go on fighting”: Ibid., pp. 155–56, June 14, 1940.
93 “it was impossible to make a corpse feel”: Brooke, p. 81, June 14, 1940.
94 “It is a desperate job being faced”: Ibid., p. 83, June 15, 1940.
95 “Much equipment had been”: Stacey, p. 284.
96 “The lack of previous training”: Quoted in Karslake, p. 262.
97 “Their behaviour was terrible!”: Ibid.
98 “repeating poetry, dilating on the drama”: Colville, pp. 157–58, June 15, 1940.
99 “told one or two dirty stories”: Ibid.
100 “less violent, less wild”: Ibid., p. 170, June 25, 1940.
101 “We are France!”: Lacouture, p. 240.
102 “Mr. Churchill finds that there are not enough French”: Le Matin, June 24, 1940.
103 “When a flood comes the water flows over”: Brooke, p. 69, May 25, 1940.
104 “My reason tells me that it now be”: Nicolson, p. 96, June 15, 1940.
105 “This period was one of carefree”: Fleming, pp. 88, 92.
106 “Here lies the material of a whole army”: Potsdam Institute, Bock diary, June 2, 1940.
107 An American correspondent reported home: New Yorker, June 17, 1940.
CHAPTER THREE: INVASION FEVER
108 “Thank heavens they have”: Horsfall, p. 153.
109 “Winston Churchill has told us”: IWM, G. W. King, 85/49/1, June 16, 1940.
110 “Now we know that we have got to”: Hichens, p. 90.
111 “Now I suppose it’s our turn”: Patrick Mayhew, ed., p. 77.
112 “[Captain] Bill Tennant came in”: CAC, Edwards diary, REDW1/2.
113 “one thing that strikes me”: Lee, p. 5, June 17, 1940.
114 “It is no secret that Great Britain”: Quoted in Lash, p. 197.
115 “The great majority of Americans”: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 23, 1940.
116 Richard E. Taylor of Apponaugh: IWM, Misc 200/3160.
117 “I have a feeling … that in the England”: Somerset Maugham, Time, October 21, 1940.
118 “Propaganda is all very well”: Colville, p. 175, June 28, 1940.
119 “One queer thing”: Lee, p. 23, May 25, 1940.
120 “I don’t know what we’ll fight”: Kennedy diary, LHA, November 12, 1942, story recounted by Walter Elliott.
121 “when so many interesting things”: CAC, Martin diary, MART1, p. 12.
122 “You ought to have cried ‘Shame’”: Colville, p. 135, May 19, 1940.
123 “We should have had an enormous army”: Kennedy diary, LHA, May 27, 1941.
124 “I went on my knees”: Halifax diary, Borthwick Institute, York, February 8, 1941.
125 “It was a terrible decision”: Moran, p. 316, July 9, 1945.
126 Oran, a painful necessity: See, for instance, Payne, passim.
127 “But all contingent upon”: BNA, PREM3/131/1, June 27, 1940.
128 “You will observe that the document”: BNA, PREM 3/131/2.
129 “Am profoundly shocked and disgusted”: Ibid.
130 “Please remember the serious nature”: Ibid.
131 “This declaration would take the form”: Ibid.
132 “There are difficulties which appear”: CAC, Bevin Papers, Ernest Bevin to Professor W. K. Hancock, BEVNII/4/1, November 13, 1940.
133 “if the Government of Eire”: Kimball, 1:106, December 7, 1940.
134 “Winston was in great form”: Ironside, July 6, 1940.
135 “strikes me as tired”: Gilbert, War Papers, 2:132, June 10, 1940.
136 “They paid lip-service”: Fleming, p. 80.
137 “The menace of invasion”: Ibid., p. 307.