Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [327]
572 “the High Contracting Parties … to afford one another”: Pravda, June 14, 1942.
573 found Churchill “smarter”: Chuev, p. 26.
574 “I knew them all, these capitalists”: Ibid., pp. 65–67.
575 “This vicious rag should have no special facilities here”: BNA, PREM4/26/8, June 7, 1942.
576 “Advocacy of a second front has increased”: Nicholas, p. 58, July 25, 1942.
577 A U.S. officer at dinner in London: Kennedy diary, LHA, April 5, 1942.
578 “No Englishman here has the close relationship”: BNA, CAB109/47, Birley to Jacob.
579 “We simply hold no cards at all”: Dykes diary, October 12, 1942, quoted in Danchev, p. 20.
580 Private secretary John Martin was sternly rebuked: Hassett, p. 68.
581 “No responsible British military authority”: CAC, JACB1/14.
582 “it was Britain’s beleaguered helplessness”: Porch, p. 208.
583 “Anti-British feeling is still strong”: Nicholas, p. 38, May 14, 1942.
584 “there was little point in supplying the British”: Ibid., p. 49, June 27, 1942.
585 “These English are too aggressive”: Hassett, June 20 and 24, 1942.
586 “a delightful companion”: Ibid., June 20, 1942.
587 “I knew when I saw your fat-headed PM”: BNA, FO371/30656.
588 “All the old animosities against the British”: USNA, RG84, Box 5.
589 “Phrases such as ‘the British always want someone’”: USNA, RG208, Box 11, Survey of Int. Material, OWI Survey No. 113, June 10, 1942.
590 The OWI’s July survey invited Americans: Ibid., OWI Survey No. 114, July 1, 1942.
591 Some 65 percent said America: Ibid., OWI Survey No. 117, August 29, 1942.
592 “The dominant underlying feeling is not bad”: BNA, FO371/30656.
593 “the Asiatic war has revived”: Lippmann Papers, Yale, April 18, 1942.
594 “old-fashioned imperialism”: BNA, FO371/30656, Clark Kerr dispatch, September 28, 1942.
595 “The Embassy … has a quite fantastically low reputation”: BNA, FO371/30656, July 6, 1942.
596 “were about as friendly to the British”: Ibid., October 5, 1942.
597 “We must have a victory!”: Harvey, p. 249, June 22, 1942.
598 “I told him what Winston had said”: Kennedy diary, LHA, July 18, 1942.
599 “The people do not like him being away”: IWM, Cons Shelf P, Yates letters, June 22, 1942.
600 “I myself felt pretty disgusted with him”: Quoted in Mosley, p. 254.
601 “The enemy did not seem to understand”: Hodgson, p. 293, June 23, 1942.
602 “Mr Churchill’s speech did not contain much comfort”: Ibid., p. 298, July 5, 1942.
603 “We heard yesterday that we have lost Tobruk”: IWM, G. W. King 85/49/1, June 22, 1942.
604 “Where can soldiers go”: Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939–1941, p. 209, June 25, 1942.
605 “Russian successes continue to provide”: BNA, INF1/292, January 26 through February 1, 1942.
606 “We received nothing in return”: Brooke, p. 223, January 27, 1942.
607 “There is an extraordinary and misguided”: Kennedy diary, LHA, March 23, 1942.
608 “Little as I formerly liked him”: IWM, Cons Shelf P, January 2, 1942.
609 “That danger will never come through admiration”: McLaine, p. 210.
610 “Reactionary attitudes are spreading”: IWM, Belsey 92/12/1, August 8, 1942.
611 “Why is not Mr. Churchill”: Garfield, Private Battle, p. 274.
612 “When the Anglo-Soviet Alliance was signed”: IWM, Papers of Mrs. E. Elkus.
613 ENGLISH PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO HELP THEIR RUSSIAN COMRADES: Pravda, August 5, 1942.
614 “Every week of successful defence”: BNA, INF1/284.
615 “the trouble … is that no one really has any idea”: Macmillan, p. 46, March 20, 1943.
616 “I suppose that, with the exception of some thirty or forty”: Lascelles, p. 41, July 24, 1942.
617 “The fact that, during one of the most critical periods”: Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1942.
618 “Winston is I think far too inclined”: Amery, p. 818, July 6, 1942.
619 “His speech sounds very good to us”: Millburn, p. 144, July 1, 1942.
620 “He is a giant among pygmies”: Headlam, p. 322.
621 “It is to be hoped that the PM takes some notice”: Millburn, p. 145, July 2, 1942.
622 “The simple question—though the answer may be complex”: Times (London), July 1, 1942.
623 “a most objectionable