Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [330]
726 “The less said about that the better”: Nicolson, p. 291, April 20, 1943.
727 “Sawyers brings the breakfast”: CAC, Jacob diary, JACB1/19.
728 “There is nothing in the world he hates”: Quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 356, letter of March 17, 1943.
729 “He is so funny in the car”: Layton letter, April 7, 1943, quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 375.
730 “We had good news”: Ibid., pp. 374–75.
731 “sharing his secret thoughts with no one”: Moran, p. 198, August 4, 1944.
732 “he is always so reassuring”: Ibid., p. 209, August 20, 1944.
733 “I had never seen him dictate before”: Kennedy diary, LHA, April 6, 1943.
734 “Oh, I shall like that one”: Quoted in Birkenhead, p. 537.
735 “Have you noticed that the President is a tired man?”: Moran, p. 116, May 25, 1943.
736 “unless almost the entire bulk of the German Army”: BNA, CAB120/83.
737 “It was quite evident that Marshall was quite incapable”: Brooke, p. 406, May 18, 1943.
738 “the most exhausting entertainments imaginable”: Ibid., pp. 409–11, May 24 and 25, 1943.
739 “I had always wondered why aircraft”: Churchill, Second World War, 4:727.
740 “very human & lovable side”: Kennedy diary, LHA, December 8, 1943.
741 “I was speaking,” he told guests at dinner that night, “from where the cries of Christian virgins rent the air”: Brooke, p. 416, June 1, 1943.
742 “Experience has taught me that it is not worthwhile arguing”: BNA, CAB120/ 683, July 25, 1943.
743 “I am the last to plead Stalin’s case”: CAC, CHUR4/301/187, fs272-4, p. 276.
744 “In my view there is an undercurrent of uncertainty”: Library of Congress MS Div., H. R. Luce Papers, Box 1, folder 7.
745 “When Mr. Churchill received the freedom of London”: IWM, 85/49/1, King Papers.
746 “To some of the Government it is incredible”: Harvey, p. 304, February 10, 1943.
747 “All these instructions”: Macmillan, p. 167, July 29, 1943.
748 “On this, I’m thankful to say”: Harvey, p. 342, July 24, 1943.
749 “Agreement after agreement may be secured on paper”: Brooke, p. 398, May 4, 1943.
750 “I firmly believe”: USAMHI, Carlisle, OCMH, Forrest Pogue notes of 1947 interview with Morgan for The Supreme Command
751 “The guests take hardly any notice of him”: Moran, p. 130, August 18, 1943.
752 “stir the imagination and win the support”: Pogue, Marshall: Organizer of Victory, p. 241.
753 “As usual, he was full of guile”: Ibid., p. 244.
754 Yet there is no period of the war at which American dismay: Harvey, p. 357, October 24, 1943.
755 “The full implications of this have not yet been assessed”: BNA, WO205/33.
756 “If we once set foot on the Italian mainland”: Kennedy diary, LHA, August 13, 1943.
757 “The Quebec conference has left me absolutely cooked”: Brooke, p. 450, August 30, 1943.
758 He subsequently acknowledged that: Ibid., p. 466, November 1, 1943.
759 “It was like fighting tanks”: Quoted in Atkinson, Day of Battle, p. 207.
760 “He did not believe Germany would try to control”: BNA, CAB120/83.
761 “Must be a relief to the Boss for Churchill is a trying guest”: Hassett, pp. 169, 315.
762 “loves W as a man for the war”: Harvey, p. 238 (March 11, 1943) and p. 239 (March 29, 1943).
763 The chief of staff of the army indulged a brief fantasy: See Pogue, Marshall: Organizer of Victory, p. 318.
764 “mercurial inconstancy”: Ibid., p. 320.
765 “But we cannot dictate and I doubt if we could have done more”: Kennedy diary, LHA, September 3, 1943.
766 “In the end I suppose that we shall probably go into France”: Ibid., September 26, 1943.
767 Beaverbrook had tabled a new motion: Hansard, September 23, 1943. 319
768 “I need him, I need him”: Taylor, p. 500.
769 “He says we must not make things too hard for the PM”: Dalton, p. 660, October 29, 1943.
770 “He says a Second Front is in existence”: IWM, G. W. King, 85/49/1, August 22, 1943.
771 “will save a piece of rope later on”: IWM, 92/12/1, Belsey letters, September 12 and 23, 1943.
772 “No loss … I never did like having that Sikorski person on our side, did you?”: