Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [332]
824 “We are inclined to forget the President’s difficulties”: John Kennedy, Business of War, p. 317, at lunch on November 19, 1943.
825 “W. had to play the role of courtier”: Eden, pp. 424, 426.
826 “PM and President ought”: Cadogan, p. 579, November 28, 1943.
827 “bloody Italian war”: Moran, p. 159.
828 “We are preparing for a battle at Tehran”: Ibid., p. 160.
829 “They are far more sceptical of him than they are of Stalin”: Ibid.
830 “Poor Harry, the public is done with him”: Hassett, p. 161, March 9, 1943.
831 “the reported recalcitrance of Churchill”: Selden Menefee, Washington Post, January 13, 1944.
832 “quite enthralling”: Brooke, p. 483, November 28, 1943.
833 “Of course the man was ruthless”: Eden, p. 514.
834 “Do you think they know that we are listening?”: Beria, p. 124.
835 “He was turning his hose on Churchill”: Marshall interview, November 15, 1956, cited in Pogue, Organizer of Victory, p. 313.
836 Cadogan recorded the distress: Cadogan, p. 580, November 29, 1943.
837 Soviet eavesdroppers reported to Stalin: Beria, p. 126.
838 “That the President should deal with Churchill”: Wheeler-Bennett, Action, p. 210.
839 “Roosevelt has given a firm commitment”: Zhukov, 3:94.
840 Cunningham and Portal declared the conference: Moran, p. 168.
841 “Every morning when I wake”: Coote Papers, January 27, 1944, quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 646.
842 “the Americans have been taking their islands”: December 9, 1943.
843 “sitting on his suitcase in a very cold morning wind”: Bryant, Triumph of the West, p. 114.
844 “If I die,” he told his daughter Sarah: Quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 606.
845 “We all hope and pray”: IWM, diary of W. A. Charlotte, 93/19/1.
846 “Papa much better today”: quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 613.
847 Macmillan strongly urged: Macmillan, p. 322, December 8, 1943.
848 “Our object is the liberation of Europe”: Churchill to Chiefs of Staff, January 2, 1944.
849 “while Winston, very pink”: Nicolson, pp. 344–45, January 18, 1944.
850 “That all right?”: Ibid., p. 321, September 9, 1943.
851 “We did become like animals in the end”: Quoted in d’Este, Fatal Decision, p. 316.
852 as American corps commander Maj. Gen. John Lucas: See Atkinson, Day of Battle, p. 354.
853 “The more one sees of this peninsula”: Macmillan, p. 429, April 23, 1944.
854 “Sitting in a chair in his study”: Colville, p. 474, February 18, 1944.
855 “Their chirpings will presently be stilled”: Hansard, February 27, 1944.
856 “In the H of C smoking room”: Headlam, p. 403, April 25, 1944.
857 “On no account”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 715, March 21, 1944.
858 “Soviet attitude on this business”: Eden, p. 439, March 4, 1944.
859 “I confess to growing apprehension that Russia”: Ibid.
860 “I would much rather get what we want”: Macmillan, p. 124 (June 15, 1943) and p. 126 (June 18, 1943).
861 “Much as I love Winston”: Ibid., p. 335 (December 23, 1943) and p. 338 (December 25, 1943).
862 “We both got quite heated at one time”: Eden, August 20, 1943.
863 “He feels about De Gaulle”: Macmillan, p. 335, December 23, 1943.
864 “I am much distressed to see”: Ibid., p. 389, March 4, 1944.
865 “He may be mentally the man he was”: Eden, p. 442, May 1, 1944.
866 “rather like a small boy”: Kennedy diary, LHA, September 24, 1942.
867 “The raids are very fine”: CAC, Churchill Papers, CHAR1/381/11-18.
868 “Late at night”: Colville, p. 476, March 4, 1944.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: SETTING EUROPE ABLAZE
869 “Subjugated peoples must be caused”: Pownall, 2:21.
870 “simultaneous attacks by armoured forces”: Gilbert, War Papers, 3:1313.
871 “I hope they will, even at the worst, maintain a gigantic guerrilla”: Gilbert, Finest Hour, p. 473.
872 On May 27, 1941, Churchill sent: BNA, CAB120/827.
873 “Far from welcoming”: Gildea, p. 165.
874 “Nothing must be done”: Cabinet Defence Committee, August 2, 1943.
875 “Here, we want every citizen to fight”: Colville, pp. 192–93, July 12, 1940.
876 Berlin wanted only economic plunder: See, for instance, Mazower,