Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [325]
468 “We have masses of reinforcements”: Kennedy diary, LHA, February 3, 1942.
469 “These simple rules might help us”: Dill to Brooke, March 5, 1942.
470 “This process does not make Cabinet Ministers”: Bryant, 1:375.
471 “We are indeed walking through the Valley of Humiliation”: Hopkins Papers, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Box 4, folder 1, Accession 1, Series 1, correspondence.
472 “always been as distant as a lion and an okapi”: Eden, p. 539.
473 “fighting to keep their country free”: Cripps, BBC broadcast, February 6, 1942.
474 “The talk was very much about Winston”: Kennedy diary, March 5, 1942.
475 “Although the British are keeping a stiff upper lip”: Harriman and Abel, p. 126.
476 “he is always careful to consume”: Moran, p. 32.
477 “saddened—appalled by events”: Quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 69.
478 “Poor old P.M. in a sour mood and a bad way”: Cadogan, p. 440, March 4, 1942.
479 “a pregnant fact”: Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals, p. 232.
480 “I believe,” he said, “that if one side in an equal war”: Hansard, November 16, 1937.
481 “built more like a fire-lighter”: Conversation with the author, June 21, 1977.
482 “I hope you were impressed”: Kimball, 1:504, June 1, 1942.
483 “As I lay in bed the other night”: Hodgson, p. 407. August 15, 1943.
484 “a considerable commander—but there was a certain coarseness about him”: Brown, p. 201.
485 perverse to heap praise: New Statesman, Februry 28, 1942.
486 “The disaster of this policy”: Hansard, February 24, 1942.
487 “can be implemented only”: Kennedy diary, LHA, May 31, 1942.
488 “a stubborn and obstinate man”: Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals, p. 130.
489 “I find it very difficult to get over Singapore”: Kimball, 1:438.
490 “CIGS says WSC is often in a very nasty mood these days”: Kennedy diary, LHA, April 7, 1942.
491 “hypothetical post-war problems”: Amery, p. 785, March 8, 1942.
492 “He does not seem to see that the steps”: New Statesman, April 11, 1941.
493 “This nation has become very soft”: Kennedy diary, LHA, February 23, 1942.
494 “lack enthusiasm and interest in the war”: BNA, WO163/52, Quarterly Morale Report.
495 “that America will emerge, after total victory”: BNA, FO371/30656.
496 “When has the Prime Minister made one”: Economist, December 19, 1942.
497 “The feeling is almost universally held”: Kimball, Churchill and Roosevelt, 1:446.
498 “a strange combination of great and small qualities”: Amery, p. 746 (November 19, 1941) and p. 750 (November 25, 1941).
499 “the humiliation of being ordered about”: Ibid., p. 822, July 27, 1942.
500 “lay down arms and accept whatever fate”: Tendulkar, 5:291.
501 “Anything like a serious difference between you”: Kimball, 1:449.
502 “We must remember that this is a bad thing”: Cadogan, p. 450, May 7, 1942.
503 “The depression following Singapore”: CAC, Churchill Papers, CHAR1/369/5-8, May 2, 1942.
504 “Everyone feels safer now”: Ibid.
505 “there are many people in the USA”: Nicolson, p. 222, April 15, 1941.
506 “One trouble is that we want everything”: BNA, CAB122/96, April 7, 1942.
507 “It must be accepted that policy will increasingly”: Salter, pp. 185–86.
508 “I don’t know what we can do for that Army”: Kennedy diary, LHA, June 11, 1942.
509 “Our soldiers are the most pathetic amateurs”: Cadogan, p. 374 (April 29, 1941) and p. 389 (June 18, 1941).
510 “What will happen if the Germans get a footing here?”: Ibid., p. 433, February 9, 1942.
511 “He presents to me in those red years”: Churchill, Great Contemporaries, p. 144.
512 “We manage by terrific efforts to pile up resources”: Kennedy diary, LHA, July 31, 1942.
513 “Rommel was an abler general than any on the British side”: Moorehead, p. 418.
514 “There is a general feeling that there is something wrong”: Garfield, p. 260.
515 “The feeling is growing that we are having”: Ibid., p. 212, February 10, 1942.
516 Ivan Maisky, the Russian ambassador in London: Dalton, November 18, 1941.
517 “Our [career officers] regard [war]