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1029 “after some consideration I shook”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 509, December 26–27, 1944.
1030 “I thought it all very disingenuous”: Macmillan, p. 619, December 26, 1944.
1031 “I cannot tell you the feeling of security one enjoys”: Lancaster, Spectator, November 12, 1965.
1032 “Sit down, butcher!”: Macmillan, p. 619, December 27, 1944.
1033 “Of course this affair is a sort of ‘super Sidney Street’”: Ibid.
1034 “This Wednesday has been an exciting”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 509, December 28, 1944.
1035 “a short crack followed by”: Lancaster, Spectator, November 12, 1965.
1036 “Anglo-American differences and British military action”: USNA, RG59, Box 11, State Department Surveys of Public Opinion on International Affairs, 1943–1975.
1037 “an orgy of recrimination”: USNA, RG59, Box 11, p. 500, January 21, 1945.
1038 “The general reaction is that although the British attack”: Nicholas, p. 494, January 7, 1945.
1039 Office of War Information and State Department surveys: USNA, RG59, Box 11, Survey No. 22.
1040 “Despite recent press comment sympathetic to the British”: USNA, RG59, Box 11, State Department Surveys of Public Opinion on International Affairs, 1943–1975, No. 19.
1041 “Terrible Cabinet, first on Greece”: Eden, p. 506, January 12, 1945.
1042 “You know I cannot give you”: Quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 1138.
1043 “France cannot masquerade as a Great Power”: Churchill to Eden, January 19, 1945.
1044 “You wouldn’t like my job”: Holmes diary, January 14, 1945, quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 1148.
1045 “In all his moods”: Holmes letter to Gilbert, February 12, 1985, quoted in ibid.
1046 “It is a mistake to try to write out”: Churchill to Eden, January 4, 1945.
1047 “Smuts and I are like two old love-birds”: Colville, p. 553, January 17, 1945.
1048 “Why are we making a fuss”: BNA, FO954/26/382.
1049 “Make no mistake, all the Balkans”: Colville, p. 555, January 23, 1945.
1050 “Let us think no more of Hitlee”: Ibid., p. 554, January 20, 1945.
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1051 “As the purely military problems”: Harvey, p. 365, November 11, 1944.
1052 “I have great hopes of this conference”: Hansard, January 18, 1945.
1053 “Impossible even to get near basics”: Eden, p. 511, February 2, 1945.
1054 “What a hole I’ve brought you to!”: Holmes diary, February 3, 1945, quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 1172.
1055 “A terrible party, I thought”: Eden, p. 512, February 4, 1945.
1056 “Big Three”: New York Times, February 4, 1945.
1057 “During the past year, Britain”: USNA, RG59, Box 1, Opinion Studies, Special Poll, March 22, 1945.
1058 “We had the world at our feet”: Quoted in Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 1174.
1059 “Our guards compared Churchill to a poodle”: Beria, p. 137.
1060 “What a crook that man must be”: Chuev, p. 76.
1061 Soviet eavesdroppers laughed heartily: Beria, p. 138.
1062 “It has gone to my heart”: CAC Martin Papers, MART2.
1063 “I do not suppose that at any moment in history”: Sarah Churchill, Keep on Dancing, pp. 75–76.
1064 “I am free to confess to you”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 512, February 1, 1945.
1065 “We must do what we can”: BNA, CAB120/170.
1066 “followed so swiftly on the heels”: BNA, PREM4/77/1B/359.
1067 “even if we go to the verge of war”: Colville, p. 566, February 28, 1945.
1068 He voiced aloud his fear: Ibid., p. 562, February 23, 1945.
1069 “he had never been more distressed”: Brooke, p. 665, February 22, 1945.
1070 “Churchill wants a bourgeois Poland”: Zhukov, 3:216.
1071 “We see unprecedented unanimity”: Pravda, February 18, 1945.
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1072 “I cannot agree that we are confronted”: Kimball, 3:568.
1073 “calculated to hasten the disintegration”: BNA, PREM3/12/2, April 20, 1945.
1074 “In the full tilt of war”: Browne, p. 248.
1075 Portal had advocated heavy bombing of Rome: BNA, AIR8/436.
1076 “It was a relief to get Winston home”: Brooke, p. 678, March 26, 1945.
1077 “I’m an old man and I work hard”: Leslie, pp. 142–43.
1078 “The PM is now becoming”: Colville,