Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [322]
309 “My main feeling is one of bitter”: Quoted in Garfield, p. 172, October 9, 1941.
310 “the rising temper of the British people”: Gilbert, War Papers, 3:1372, October 25, 1941.
311 “Things are pretty hard here”: CAC, CHAR1/362.
312 “The fundamental difficulty is that altho”: Kennedy diary, LHA, July 7, 1941.
313 “Would that the two loathsome monsters”: Pownall, p. 50, October 29, 1941.
314 “The Labour ministers”: Harvey, p. 179, October 27, 1941.
315 “In two years struggle with the greatest military Power”: Gilbert, War Papers, 3:1204, September 12, 1941.
316 “Winston’s attitude to war is much more realistic”: Menzies, p. 99, March 31, 1941.
317 “The Army must do something”: Kennedy diary, LHA, October 9, 1941.
318 “Winston is in a difficult position”: Ibid., October 13, 1941.
319 “Yes, I am afraid Moscow is a gone coon”: Ibid., October 11, 1941.
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE BATTLE OF AMERICA
320 “I wonder if the Americans realise how late”: Kennedy diary, LHA, May 25, 1941.
321 “rushing vast quantities of weapons”: Hull, 2:967.
322 “The United States Administration is pursuing”: Eden, p. 176.
323 “after the victory was won with our blood”: Kimball, 1:102.
324 “I have never realised so strongly as now”: Quoted in Kynaston, 3:472.
325 “Our desperate straits alone”: Eden, p. 135.
326 “I have never liked Americans, except odd ones”: Quoted in Roberts, Holy Fox, p. 280.
327 “The heavy labour of toadying”: Ibid., p. 278.
328 “I only said that I thought you might hate it”: Eden, p. 182.
329 During a trip to Detroit: Christian Science Monitor, May 12, 1941, p. 15 and November 11, 1941, p. 8.
330 “pretty hopeless—the old trouble of being unable”: Harvey, p. 20, July 15, 1941.
331 “because he couldn’t get on with these Americans”: Dalton, p. 272, August 25, 1941.
332 “They really are a strange and unpleasing people”: Headlam, p. 270, August 15, 1941.
333 “no great enthusiasm for the US”: BNA, FO371/34114.
334 “it wouldn’t really pay us for the US”: LHA, Slessor Papers, Box XIIC.
335 “when one is dealing with a people so arrogant”: RAF Museum, Hendon Harris Papers, folder H98, September 15, 1941.
336 “It is just a little humiliating”: Dalton, p. 247, July 10, 1941.
337 “the average man’s … unfavourable view”: Planning Committee minutes, BNA, INF1/249, June 4, 1941.
338 “Donovan … is extremely friendly to us”: Kennedy diary, LHA, March 7, 1941.
339 “a possible America”: Watt, p. 161.
340 “he quite understood the exasperation”: Colville, p. 283, November 1, 1940.
341 “I was … only a Second Lieutenant”: Pilipel, p. 16.
342 “Had he been pure English aristocracy”: Hodgson, pp. 189–90, July 2, 1941.
343 “Here’s a telegram for those bloody Yankees”: Colville, p. 136, May 19, 1940.
344 By late 1941, Churchill ran second: Richard L. Coe, Washington Post, January 11, 1942.
345 “I believe that we really can keep out”: Sherwood, White House Papers, 1:125.
346 “a walking corpse”: Time.
347 “He can work only seven hours a day”: Time, March 10, 1941.
348 “of the exact state of England’s need”: Sherwood, White House Papers, 1:239.
349 “I suppose you could say—but not out loud”: Ibid., 1:237.
350 “We seek no treasure”: Chandros, pp. 165–66.
351 “Hopkins was, I think, very impressed”: Quoted in Gilbert, Finest Hour, pp. 997, 999.
352 “I have never had such an enjoyable time”: Lee, p. 220.
353 “Apparently the first thing that Churchill asks for”: Ickes, p. 181.
354 “He finished with really glorious words of comfort”: Hodgson, pp. 195–96, July 27, 1941.
355 “Winston is completely certain of America’s full help”: Menzies, p. 64, February 22, 1941.
356 “It is never very easy for the British”: Books & Bookmen, October 1977, in a review of Joseph P. Lash’s Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939–41 (Andre Deutsch, 1977).
357 “Personally I am very sorry to see America turning”: IWM, M. P. Troy Papers, 95/25/1, January 1, 1941.
358 “As soon as the Lend-Spend, Lend-Lease”: Harriman and Abel, p. 5.
359 “We can’t take seriously requests”: Ibid., p. 15.
360 “He resented this so much”: Lee, p. 307, June 9,