Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [326]
518 “Petrol, food, NAAFI supplies”: Stanford, p. 110 and passim.
519 “the Augean stables are still uncleaned”: Macmillan, p. 322, December 8, 1943.
520 “All this,” noted a general who read Gordon’s rant, “has a devastating effect on army morale”: Kennedy diary, LHA, March 5, 1942.
521 “We are going to lose this war unless we control it”: Brooke, p. 243, March 31, 1942.
522 “too stupid to be employed in any operational capacity”: Macmillan, p. 313, December 2, 1943.
523 “These British administrative generals”: Ibid., p. 347, January 1, 1944.
524 Following Byng’s shooting: See Rodger, 2:272 and passim.
525 Churchill muttered to Dill about the virtues of the Byng precedent: Kennedy diary, LHA, December 5, 1941.
526 “I am devoted to Neil”: Brooke, p. 270, June 22, 1942.
527 Fundamental to many defeats in the desert: French, passim.
528 “Arm yourself therefore my dear”: Quoted in Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, 4:63.
529 “a mere handmaid of the Army”: BNA, PREM3/499/9, Churchill to Attlee, July 29, 1942.
530 “In all its branches, the German war machine”: Moorehead, p. 409.
531 “Father, the trouble is your soldiers won’t fight”: Eden, p. 378, October 6, 1942.
532 “I love Randolph, but I don’t like him”: Brown, p. 148.
533 “a very daring and skilful opponent”: Hansard, January 29, 1942.
534 “These beastly Huns”: McLaine, p. 139.
535 “I gather that production”: Headlam, p. 231, December 5, 1940.
536 “I was disgusted to hear that their production tempo”: Colville, p. 441, September 26, 1941.
537 Of eight serious strikes in the aircraft industry: BNA, AVIA10/269.
538 “a marked absence of discipline”: BNA, CAB102/406.
539 “had failed to improve its productivity”: BNA, CAB70/6.
540 “Strikes continue to cause much discussion”: BNA, INFI/282, October 1943.
541 Byrd complained to harbour security officers: BNA, FO371/34115.
542 “I do not see why the country sh[oul]d not be mobilized”: Kennedy diary, LHA, March 12, 1942.
543 Of all wartime industrial disputes: Inman, p. 365.
544 The Cost of Living Index rose from 88: Ibid., passim.
545 “one can hardly overstress the effect”: Court, p. 325.
546 “The center of the problem … is the bad feeling”: BNA, CAB123/21.
547 “Many of the people had lived for years past”: Ministry of Health report, Cmd.6468.
548 “children in rags”: Titmuss, p. 115.
549 “We [Chamberlain’s ministers in early 1940] were all conscious”: Quoted in McLaine, p. 104.
CHAPTER TEN: “SECOND FRONT NOW!”
550 “I was fortunate if I did not see Winston for 6 hours”: Brooke, p. 247, April 10, 1942.
551 “no very great contribution”: Ibid., p. 246, April 9, 1942.
552 “In many respects he is a very dangerous man”: Ibid., p. 249, April 11, 1942.
553 The CIGS told his staff: Kennedy diary, LHA, April 5, 1942.
554 “The extraordinary thing is that the Russians seem”: Ibid.
555 “I am in entire agreement in principle”: Kimball, 1:448, April 12, 1942.
556 “we are proceeding with plans and preparations on that basis”: Ibid., 1:459, April 17, 1942.
557 “Arrangements are being made for a landing”: Ibid., 1:515.
558 “This universal cry to start a second front”: Brooke, p. 243, March 30, 1942.
559 “I might be the best man to run the war”: Halifax, March 31, 1942.
560 “Concerning the second front, Churchill made a brief statement”: Rzheshevsky, pp. 113, 190.
561 “We do not consider this a meaningless statement”: Ibid., p. 157.
562 “It is the irony of the commitment to the Soviet Union”: Beaumont, p. 99.
563 “Considerable though these achievements and sacrifices were”: Ibid., p. 142.
564 “sending very few aircraft, and not the best they have either”: Ibid., p. 147.
565 “They offered no definite information”: Rzheshevsky, p. 231.
566 “preparations for the second front”: Ibid., p. 222.
567 “Finally, we think it absolutely necessary”: Ibid., p. 250.
568 First, and as the Russian leader acknowledged: Chuev, p. 258.
569 “I mentioned among other things”: Ibid., p. 319.
570 “Roosevelt had calmly told Molotov”: Harvey, p. 244, June 10, 1942.
571 “We had to squeeze everything we could get