Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [323]
361 By contrast Col.—soon to be a lieutenant general: Pogue, Marshall: Ordeal and Hope, pp. 133–34.
362 “if rather than when continued to dominate”: Ibid., p. 139.
363 “I was deeply worried the president”: Harriman and Abel, p. 18.
364 “I must attempt to convince”: Ibid., p. 18.
365 “The PM is much smaller than I expected”: Ibid., p. 61.
366 “the PM bluntly stated”: Ibid., p. 28.
367 “believing that we shall get the Americans”: Amery, p. 689, May 19, 1941.
368 “The great difficulty is re-educating”: Harriman and Abel, p. 57.
369 “The idea of being our armoury”: Headlam, p. 234, December 31, 1940.
370 “The great thing is not to antagonise the United States”: Nicolson, p. 153, March 21, 1941.
371 “Well, yes”: Lee, p. 357, July 26, 1941.
372 “frightened of nothing but Japan”: Cadogan, p. 393, July 21, 1941.
373 “A wonderful story is unfolding”: Quoted in Gilbert, War Papers, 3:810.
374 “a disorderly day’s rabbit-shooting”: BNA, PREM4/27/9, March 13, 1941.
375 “I must say I do not think our friend”: BNA, PREM3/485/6, folio 16.
376 “with a retinue which Cardinal Wolsey might have envied”: Colville, p. 424, August 3, 1941.
377 “Working in H[arry] H[opkins]’s cabin this morning”: CAC, Geoffrey Green, GREE1.
378 “really incapable of a personal friendship with anyone”: Quoted in Davis, p. 212.
379 “Not a single American officer”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/10, August 11, 1941.
380 “It would be an exaggeration to say that Roosevelt and Churchill”: Sherwood, White House Papers, 1:364.
381 “My God, this is history!”: CAC, Geoffrey Green, GREE1, August 10, 1941.
382 the occasion must fulfil the fantasies of a “pressman”: CAC, Jacob diary, August 10, 1941.
383 That afternoon, Churchill took a launch: CAC, Martin diary, p. 60.
384 “Am I going to like it?”: Ibid., p. 62.
385 “It was hard to tell whether Churchill”: Wheeler-Bennett, Action, p. 206.
386 “a very interesting and by no means unfruitful meeting”: CAC, Churchill Papers, CHAR1/362/28-32, August 29, 1941.
387 “Roosevelt is all for coming into the war”: Pownall, 1:374.
388 “nothing dressed up very nicely”: Kennedy diary, LHA, August 24, 1941.
389 “There was a statement of War Aims”: Hodgson, p. 201, August 15, 1941.
390 “I ought to tell you that there has been a wave of depression”: Gilbert, War Papers, 3:1125, August 28, 1941. 170
391 “The PM said that after the joint declaration”: Colville, p. 434, August 30, 1941.
392 He even questioned—as did some: Harvey, p. 210, August 31, 1941.
393 “The attitude of the people he had been with”: Quoted in Lee, p. 376, August 24, 1941.
394 “It will not be possible for the whole British Army”: Gilbert, War Papers, 3:1202.
395 “plans were worked out to establish”: Trukhanovsky, p. 273.
396 “the Food Account was very high”: CAC, Churchill Papers, CHAR1/379/12-20.
397 “Oh, Miss, you’ll never guess what he did next …”: Nel, pp. 43–45.
398 “Now run inside and type like HELL”: Ibid., p. 67.
399 “Winston was depressed at outset”: Eden, p. 294, September 22, 1941.
400 “in the event of a collision between Japan”: BNA, HWI/25.
401 “Make sure they have all they want on extreme priority”: Hinsley et al., 3:655, appendix 3.
402 “Another Prayer from the prime minister”: CAC, Edwards diary, REDW2/3, August 24–25, 1941.
403 “There is nothing like having something that can catch and kill anything”: Kimball, 1:165, November 2, 1941.
404 “People are wondering why you don’t do something offensively”: Harriman and Abel, p. 109, October 20, 1941.
405 “Whatever may happen on the Russian front”: Pownall, 2:41.
406 Camrose was sufficiently impressed: Quoted in Hartwell, p. 316.
407 On the nineteenth, Churchill told guests during a lunch: CAC, Eade Papers, November 11, 1941.
408 “A. E. is much perplexed”: Harvey, p. 179, October 10, 1941.
409 “Winston’s methods were frequently repulsive to him”: Brooke, p. 192, October 20, 1941.
410 “too much impressed by the enemy’s will”: John Kennedy, Business of War, p. 78.
411 “his ability to shake himself like a dog”: Kennedy diary, March 19, 1942.
412 “If they declare war on