Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [334]
926 “In my view, it is the Germans”: Kimball, 3:87, April 12, 1944.
927 So skilful were German disengagements: See, for instance, Atkinson, The Day of Battle, passim.
928 “How magnificently your troops have fought”: Kimball, 3:163, June 4, 1944.
929 “Lots of Americans and British”: Gunther, p. 59.
930 “a place that has long been vacant”: Mr. T. Bowman, Times (London), May 30, 1942.
931 “A man who has to play”: Churchill, Second World War, 5:551.
932 “Winston … has taken his train”: Brooke, p. 553, June 4, 1944.
933 “Mr. Churchill seemed to be always in the bath”: Eden, p. 452, June 4, 1944.
934 “Cheap at the price”: Ibid., p. 454.
935 “Yes, there’ll be a landing”: Djilas, Wartime, p. 39.
936 “Don’t look so glum”: Pogue, Marshall: Organizer of Victory, p. 394.
937 “We are surrounded by fat cattle”: Brooke, p. 557, June 12, 1944.
938 “The PM asked if I were frightened”: Holmes diary, quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 813.
939 “[Churchill] was at his best, and said the matter”: Cunningham diary, quoted in ibid.
940 “I do hope it will soon”: IWM, Papers of Mrs. E. Elkus, letter of September 2, 1944.
941 “He kept on repeating”: Brooke, p. 563, June 27, 1944.
942 “Sitting in the drawing-room”: Macmillan, p. 474, June 25, 1944.
943 “We have now reached the stage”: Brooke, p. 581, August 15, 1944.
944 “Whatever the PM’s shortcomings”: Colville, p. 489, May 13, 1944.
945 “By July, the American soldier”: USAMHI, Carlisle, OCMH Forrest Pogue notes of January 21, 1947, interview with Alan Moorehead for The Supreme Command.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: BARGAINING WITH AN EMPTY WALLET
946 Roosevelt sent him a headmasterly rebuke: Kimball, 3:201, June 22, 1944.
947 “I cannot think of any moment”: Ibid., 3:202, June 23, 1944.
948 “Whether we should ruin all hopes”: Ibid., p. 219, June 28, 1944.
949 “My interests and hopes”: Ibid., pp. 222–23, June 24, 1944.
950 “What can I do, Mr. President”: Ibid., p. 229, July 1, 1944.
951 “The Arnold-King-Marshall combination is one of the stupidest”: PM’s personal minute to CoS, D.218/4, quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 843, July 6, 1944.
952 “Up till Overlord”: Colville, p. 574, March 20, 1945.
953 “Up to July 1944 England”: Moran, July 5, 1954.
954 “After dinner a really ghastly defence committee”: Eden, p. 461, July 6, 1944.
955 “A frightful meeting with Winston”: Brooke, p. 566, July 6, 1944.
956 “I called this ‘a deplorable evening’”: Eden, p. 462, July 6, 1944.
957 “He is very tight”: Dalton, p. 473, April 29, 1944.
958 “Lunched alone with W”: Eden, p. 463, July 17, 1944.
959 On 4 August, when Eden called: Ibid., p. 467, August 4, 1944.
960 “he was far more law-abiding”: Brooke, p. 673, March 23, 1945.
961 “Of course it was true that the Germans”: BNA, CAB79/77.
962 “We know that such ‘right-minded people’”: Howard, Liberation or Catastrophe, p. 75.
963 “There is no doubt”: BNA, FO371/42809.
964 An intelligence officer: See Richard Breitman, Official Secrets (Penguin, 1999), p. 216.
965 “This seems to be the best ever”: Kimball, 3:261, July 29, 1944.
966 “After all, he is a frustrated man”: CAC, Randolph Churchill to Winston Churchill, Churchill Papers, CHAR1/381/42-44, August 11, 1944.
967 “I feel that de Gaulle’s France will be a France more hostile”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 501, August 17, 1943.
968 “They did not know that if I had had my way”: Churchill, Second World War, 5:84.
969 “The English are clever”: Djilas, p. 401.
970 “all spread along twenty miles of coast”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 500, August 17, 1944.
971 “I feel sure this is a secondary”: IWM, diary of W. A. Charlotte, 93/19/1.
972 “fooling about in Italy”: Harvey, p. 355, August 26, 1944.
973 David Reynolds notes: Reynolds, In Command, p. 395.
974 “The PM can be counted on to score”: Colville, p. 595, May 1, 1945.
975 “Our Cabinet meetings certainly get more”: Amery, p. 994 (August 9, 1944) and p. 1020 (November 23, 1944).
976 “Churchill is preoccupied by his own”: Berlin, pp. 13, 15.
977 “I do not consider it advantageous