Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [324]
413 “tired and depressed”: Harriman and Abel, p. 111.
414 “Saturated and satiated with emotion”: Quoted in Reynolds, In Command, p. 264.
CHAPTER EIGHT: A GLIMPSE OF ARCADIA
415 “Well then, this war is over”: Billotte, p. 187.
416 “We simply can’t be beaten”: Nicolson, p. 197, December 11, 1941.
417 “Though I do not wish anyone to be bombed”: Hodgson, p. 232, December 9, 1941.
418 “While the public are prepared to make”: BNA, INF1/292.
419 “I do not know when or how I shall come back”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 460, December 21, 1941.
420 “All is very good indeed”: Ibid., p. 461, December 24, 1941.
421 “No one but he”: Macmillan, p. 294, November 16, 1943.
422 “Senators’ … office telephones carried call”: Washington Post, December 27, 1941.
423 “the greatest orator in the world”: Ickes, December 26, 1941.
424 “It is a great weight off my chest”: Moran, p. 23.
425 “to put it on its throne”: Lash, p. 15.
426 “‘Tommy’ clapped her hands”: Ibid., p. 16.
427 “the aura of the office was always around him”: Bohlen, p. 210.
428 “a patrician democrat whose every simple gesture”: Amery, p. 882, April 15, 1943.
429 “The difference between the President”: Hassett, p. 171.
430 “one of the most untidy rooms”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/12.
431 “How do these people carry on?”: Cadogan, p. 586.
432 “By the side of the Prime Minister he is a child”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/14.
433 “They will have first to close the gap”: Ibid., p. 90.
434 “They tell me I have done a good job here”: Ickes, February 1, 1942.
435 “The time had now come when I must leave”: Churchill, Second World War, 3:625.
436 Amery noted wryly: Amery, p. 242, January 17, 1942.
437 “He wanted to show the President”: Moran, p. 21.
438 “There is bound to be difficulty in practice”: Eden, p. 319, January 28, 1942.
439 “There is one lesson the United States should learn”: Denver Post, February 6, 1942.
440 “It is unfortunate that Mr. Roosevelt”: Chicago Tribune, February 2, 1942.
441 “Who writes Churchill’s speeches for him?”: Time, book review section, p. 94, March 17, 1941.
442 “Even those closest to Roosevelt”: Lash, p. 195.
443 “proposed to reshape the world”: Michael Howard, Books & Bookmen, October 1977.
444 “The academic yet sweeping opinions”: Eden, p. 374.
445 “My whole system is founded on friendship”: Ibid., p. 323.
446 “The British,” wrote Henry Stimson, “are evidently taking advantage”: Stimson diary, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale, January 11, 1942.
447 “as if these had been swept into”: Pogue, Marshall: Ordeal and Hope, p. 265.
448 “It is odd that Winston should want me”: Quoted in Danchev, p. 10.
CHAPTER NINE: “THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION”
449 “There seems to be plenty of snarling”: Moran, p. 28.
450 “with the mentality of a greengrocer”: Brooke, p. 212, December 19, 1941.
451 “We should thank God for Hitler”: John Kennedy, Business of War, p. 318.
452 “The PM is not really interested in Mackenzie King”: Moran, p. 20.
453 “Mr. Churchill has been unwilling to give”: New Statesman, January 31, 1942.
454 When Amery wished: Bayley and Harper, p. 234.
455 “I think he is”: Harvey, February 9, 1942.
456 “Sometimes … the PM is just like a child”: Dalton, p. 368.
457 “The whole reputation of our country and our race is involved”: Harvey, February 9, 1942.
458 “Lots of people want to”: Bonham Carter, p. 236, February 11, 1942.
459 “striding up and down, all on edge”: Layton Papers, quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 56.
460 “Defeatism is in the air, and … I feel it too”: Garfield, p. 223.
461 “I think it is time he went”: MO report, quoted in Mosley, p. 241.
462 “I’m fed up … I feel very biteful”: Bonham Carter, p. 236, February 11, 1942.
463 “The nature of his words and the unaccustomed speed”: CAC, Colville MS diary, February 16, 1942.
464 “We have so many men in Singapore”: Nicolson, p. 211, February 12, 1942.
465 “But my God, sir, you cannot do that”: Pim Papers, quoted in Gilbert, Road 202 Victory, p. 62.
466 “If the army cannot fight better”: Brooke, p. 231, February 18, 1942.
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