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978 “old, unwell and depressed”: Brooke, p. 589, September 8, 1944.
979 “gargantuan in scale”: Colville, p. 509, September 6, 1944.
980 The prime minister said that he would not regret: Ibid.
981 “All he could now do was to finish the war”: Colville, p. 510, September 7, 1944.
982 Earlier that year, Churchill: Brooke, p. 525, February 25, 1944.
983 “high political consequences, but also has serious military potentialities”: Churchill to Chiefs of Staff, September 9, 1944.
984 Brendan Bracken dismissed him: Colville, p. 555, January 23, 1945.
985 Yet there is no reason to suppose: BNA, FO371/38550/AN4451.
986 “my illusions about the French”: Colville, p. 517, September 20, 1944.
987 “The affairs go well”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 306, October 13, 1944.
988 “We fucked this England!”: Chuev, p. 75.
989 “Our lot from London are, as Your Majesty knows”: BNA, CAB120/165.
990 “The Poles’ game is up”: Moran, p. 249, October 17, 1943.
991 “Far quicker than the British”: CAC, Deakin Papers, DEAL16, p. 14.
992 “You must remember … that our armies”: BNA, PREM4/337/23, December 3, 1944.
993 “How much depends on this man”: Headlam, p. 435, December 13, 1944.
994 “He oughtn’t to do it”: Nicolson, p. 406, October 9, 1944.
995 “He is not of course”: Ibid., p. 352, February 22, 1944.
996 “The upper classes feel that all this sacrifice”: Ibid., p. 356, March 27, 1944.
997 “Winston Churchill is a bastard”: Ibid., p. 347, February 7, 1944.
998 “Collins, I should like a whisky and soda”: Ibid., pp. 408–9, October 27, 1944.
999 “completely frozen”: Brooke, p. 625, November 13, 1944.
1000 “[He] is fighting for the future of the world”: Spectator, November 24, 1944.
CHAPTER NINETEEN: ATHENS: “WOUNDED IN THE HOUSE OF OUR FRIENDS”
1001 “It is good that there is one country”: Eden, October 26, 1944.
1002 “Despite Churchill’s belief”: Mazower, Inside Hitler’s Greece, p. 352.
1003 “My darling Winston”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 507, December 4, 1944.
1004 “We expect the Italians to work out their own problems”: Foreign Relations of the United States, Conferences at Washington, 1942, 3:1162.
1005 “‘Liberal’ papers, pleading for a greater representation”: USNA, RG59, Box 11, State Department Surveys of Public Opinion on International Affairs, 1943–1975.
1006 “Substantially universal approval has greeted the proposition”: USNA, RG59, Box 11, Survey No. 17, December 23, 1944.
1007 “seeking to bury”: Ibid.
1008 A Princeton poll: USNA, RG59, Box 11, Princeton Poll, December 23, 1944.
1009 “Winston Churchill, the present”: Tribune, December 1944.
1010 “This is good”: Churchill to Eden, November 23, 1944.
1011 “at its best was one of distressed”: Nicolson, p. 416, December 8, 1944.
1012 “He rambled on”: Macmillan, p. 600, December 8, 1944.
1013 “Our version of the facts is largely disbelieved”: BNA, CAB121/559.
1014 “We do not wish to start the Third World War”: Macmillan, p. 612, December 19, 1944.
1015 “These ELAS guerillas don’t care”: IWM, 06/110/1, letter of January 7, 1945.
1016 “but I think the bulk of Greek youth wants socialism”: IWM, 86/61/1, letters of December 5 and 12, 1944, and February 5, 1945.
1017 “Poor Winston!”: Macmillan, December 21, 1944, p. 613.
1018 “I won’t instal a Dictator”: Cadogan, p. 689, December 21, 1944.
1019 “Indignation with Britain has given way”: Nicholas, p. 481, December 24, 1944.
1020 “Glad I am not going on an expedition”: CAC, Martin Papers, MART/2, December 24, 1944.
1021 “had the air of men to whom a brilliant idea”: Osbert Lancaster, Spectator, November 12, 1965.
1022 “in a most mellow, not to say chastened mood”: Macmillan, p. 616, December 25, 1944.
1023 “struck me as a very remarkable man”: Hansard, January 18, 1945.
1024 “We are now in the curious”: Colville, p. 540, December 26, 1944.
1025 “the pink and ochre panorama of Athens”: Hansard, January 18, 1945.
1026 “One can see the smoke of battle”: Colville, p. 540, December 26, 1944.
1027 “The change in his appearance”: Lancaster, Spectator, November 12, 1965.
1028 “three shabby desperados