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676 “Is it really to be supposed that the Russians”: Harvey, p. 268, November 10, 1942.
677 “I never meant the Anglo-American Army”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 260.
678 “The Russian army having played the allotted role”: Harvey, p. 270, November 14, 1942.
679 “La France ne marchera pas”: Colville, p. 311, December 13, 1940.
680 “Although the French hate the Germans”: Kennedy diary, LHA, November 18, 1942.
681 “In war,” he said, “it is not always possible”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 277.
682 “I have always deemed it tragic that the British”: Harriman and Abel, p. 173.
683 “It shows how wrong you get if once you compromise with evil”: Harvey, p. 279, December 26, 1942.
684 The historian David Reynolds believes that the British: Reynolds, In Command, p. 330.
685 “One comes away, as always after conversations with De Gaulle”: Macmillan, p. 101, June 1, 1943.
686 “I do not want any of your own long-term projects”: Brooke, p. 376, January 31, 1943.
687 “not much good”: Ibid., p. 364, January 20, 1943.
688 “Conversations with the British grow wearisome”: Eisenhower, 1:98.
689 “getting on with Americans is frightfully easy”: Dalton, p. 722.
670 “still something of an enigma”: Pogue, Marshall: Organizer of Victory, p. 5.
691 “a general atmosphere of extraordinary goodwill”: Macmillan, p. 8, January 26, 1943.
692 “At present they are working on what is called ‘off the record’”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 473, January 15, 1943.
693 “I think CIGS’s extremely definite views”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/19.
694 “Then you will have to educate them”: Pogue, Marshall: Organizer of Victory, p. 7.
695 “with consummate skill”: Macmillan, p. 9, January 26, 1943.
696 “The PM stood in the hall watching the Frenchman”: Moran, pp. 97–98, January 22, 1943.
697 “Being naturally extremely gullible”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/19.
698 “We feel that the Americans have great drive”: Kennedy diary, LHA, January 14, 1943.
699 “Many American officers found their British opposite numbers”: Ambrose, p. 146.
700 “a pointer pup … If someone with a red mustache”: Orlando Ward Papers, USAMHI Carlisle, diary, January 1943.
701 “they viewed the Mediterranean as a kind of dark hole”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/19.
702 “You know what a mess they would make of it!”: Brooke, p. 362.
703 “My object is to serve my country”: Roosevelt Papers, Hyde Park, PPF 8832.
704 “The better I get to know that man”: LHA, Alanbrooke Papers, 14/39/B, February 9, 1944.
705 “Mr. Churchill … takes his place at the President’s side”: Times (London), January 27, 1943.
706 “He was offended that Roosevelt”: Harriman and Abel, p. 188.
707 “we had made a public statement”: BNA, CAB65/24, November 27, 1941.
708 “He always enjoyed other people’s discomfort”: Harriman and Abel, p. 191.
709 “Whatever we decided to undertake in 1943”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/19.
710 “Hundreds of thousands of Soviet people”: Zhukov, 2:314.
711 “A tumbler was brought”: Brooke, p. 370, January 26, 1943.
712 “I told him that the security arrangements were very poor”: Ibid., p. 374, January 30, 1943.
713 “if they marched with us, we would not concern ourselves with past differences”: Churchill, The Second World War, 4:647–48.
714 “It would be a pity to have to go out in the middle”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/19.
715 “they are now warrior nations, walking in the fear”: Hansard, February 11, 1943.
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716 “In absolute terms the British reduced their casualties”: French, p. 284.
717 “Americans require experience”: Quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 360.
718 “Good news today, sir!”: Bonham Carter, p. 260, March 10, 1943.
719 How Green Is My Ally: Dalton, p. 557.
720 “The enemy make a great mistake”: Reynolds, In Command.
721 Some 50 percent answered: Gallup poll, June 1, 1943.
722 “They all look exactly alike to me”: Macmillan, p. 256, October 14, 1943.
723 “I am told that our efforts”: Headlam, p. 410, June 26, 1944.
724 “It is rather strange”: Brooke, p. 464, October 28, 1943.
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