Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [321]
257 “that fine commander whom we cheered”: BBC broadcast, April 27, 1941.
258 “I understand he has a great deal”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 480, May 13, 1943.
259 Wavell’s best biographer, Ronald Lewin: Lewin, The Chief.
260 “My trouble is that I am not really interested in war”: Pownall, 2:95.
261 “Now I’m going to waste a morning”: Kennedy diary, LHA, September 14, 1939.
262 “They are a pretty fair lot of gangsters”: Pownall, 2:19, June 3, 1941.
263 “It is a bad feature of the present situation”: Kennedy diary, LHA, July 9, 1942.
264 “When he is in the right mood”: Kennedy diary, LHA, February 9, 1941.
265 “It is a strange thing”: Brooke, p. 647, January 20, 1945.
266 “At times you could kiss his feet”: CAC, A. V. Alexander Papers, AVAR6/1, diary, June 10, 1942.
267 Capt. Stephen Roskill, the official historian: See Roskill, Churchill, p. 279.
268 “I … have to confess to an inherent difficulty”: Cunningham, pp. 578, 580.
269 “I never saw him ruffled”: Richards, pp. 202–3.
270 “I am thankful I have so little to do with him”: Kennedy diary, LHA, December 5, 1941.
271 “Ismay is such a devotee of PM’s”: Ibid., April 10, 1941.
272 “Is there any evil except in intent?”: IWM, Alec Bishop unpublished MS, 98/18/1.
273 “The chief difficulty is understanding what he says”: CAC, Martin diary, p. 10.
274 “In truth it is only a sham of a parliament”: Davie and Chisholm, p. 664, May 14, 1941.
275 “If you see that you are about to be captured”: Wilson, p. 16 and passim.
276 “Moran was seldom, if ever”: Wheeler-Bennett, Action, p. 110.
277 “He always retained unswerving independence of thought”: Colville, p. 125.
278 “The people strike me”: Lee, p. 243, April 16, 1941.
279 “Young man”: John Kennedy, Business of War, p. 236.
280 “War,” he wrote, “consists of fighting”: quoted in Reynolds, In Command, p. 244.
281 “I suppose you realise that we shall lose the Middle East”: Kennedy diary, LHA, June 21, 1941.
CHAPTER SIX: COMRADES
282 “There is nothing straightforward about this war”: Garfield, p. 129.
283 “None of this conflicts with our main interest”: Gilbert, War Papers, 1:147–49, September 25, 1939. On this issue, see, for instance, Carlton, passim.
284 “That the Russian armies should stand”: BBC broadcast, October 10, 1939.
285 “a sentiment widely felt”: Colville, p. 436, September 3, 1941.
286 “They think they are dealing with normal people”: Pownall, 2:36, July 17, 1941.
287 “I don’t suppose that the ‘conquest’”: Headlam, p. 157, June 22, 1941.
288 “One feels that God is on our side”: Ibid., p. 258.
289 “I glory in all this”: IWM, 85/49/1, G. W. King MS, July 30, 1941.
290 “The Russians have not been too nice”: Hodgson, p. 185, June 22, 1941.
291 “Somehow I think Stalin”: Ibid., p. 190, July 2, 1941.
292 “I was agreeably surprised … that Churchill received Russia”: IWM, 92/12/1, Belsey letters, June 25, 1941.
293 “It’s impossible to say how long Russian resistance”: Pownall, 2:30, June 29, 1941.
294 “I don’t believe Winston is at heart”: Ibid., p. 31, June 30, 1941.
295 “Why the authorities at home”: Cunningham, p. 350.
296 “It was quite evident that all of the Britishers”: Lee, p. 416.
297 “Britain’s radio spies are at work”: Daily Mirror, February 14, 1941.
298 “The danger of enemy”: Hinsley, 2:671.
299 “almost a pariah in London”: Lee, p. 317, June 23, 1941.
300 “an obstinate, high-minded man”: Quoted in Reynolds, In Command, p. 256.
301 “The British government, by its passive”: Bellamy, p. 415.
302 “We would like to inform you on the contents”: Ocherki Istorii Rossiikoi Vneshney Radvedki, pp. 143–44.
303 “In order to enable Russia to remain”: Hansard, September 30, 1941.
304 “Hitler is throwing all he has got into the Eastern battles”: IWM, 85/49/1, G. W. King MS.
305 “I can still remember with what close attention”: Kumanyov, p. 300.
306 “Now I have to bring to light the fact”: Roskill, Hankey, 3:533.
307 Chris Bellamy, among the best-informed Western historians: Bellamy, p. 446.
308 “The effect upon us psychologically”: Observer,