Winston's War_ Churchill, 1940-1945 - Max Hastings [337]
1079 “What do you think?”: Zhukov, 3:224.
1080 “His vanity was astonishing”: Colville, April 26, 1945.
1081 “I have been much disturbed at the misunderstanding”: April 29, 1945.
1082 “I fear terrible things have happened”: BNA, FO954/20.
1083 “We have moved a long way”: Moran, p. 277, February 7, 1945.
1084 “I hoped that they would raise their glasses”: Ismay, p. 394.
1085 “I can’t feel thrilled, my main sensation”: Brooke, p. 688, May 7, 1945.
1086 “There is no doubt that the public has never understood”: Ibid., p. 689, May 8, 1945.
1087 “Without him England was lost for a certainty”: Ibid., p. 590, September 10, 1944.
1088 “in which case there was always a possibility”: Colville, p. 128.
1089 “the significance of the link-up of the Red Army”: Pravda, April 29, 1945.
1090 “From the present point of view”: BNA, FO954/26c.
1091 “Winston delighted, he gives me”: Brooke, p. 690, May 13, 1945.
1092 “Russian bear sprawled over Europe”: Ibid., p. 693, May 24, 1945.
1093 “We received reliable information”: Zhukov, 3:322.
1094 “The overall or political object is to impose upon Russia”: BNA, CAB120/691.
1095 “The idea is of course fantastic”: Brooke, p. 693, May 24, 1945.
1096 “again discussed the ‘unthinkable war’”: Ibid., p. 695, May 31, 1945.
1097 “In the attached report”: Ibid.
1098 In London, the Unthinkable file was taken: BNA, FO954/26c.
1099 On July 3, 1940, the American general: Lee, p. 10, July 3, 1940.
1100 “It would be the highest honour”: Eden, p. 522, February 16, 1945.
1101 “There are … many who think that this war”: Stebbing, November 27, 1940, quoted in Garfield, p. 24.
1102 “It is clear that the Churchill government”: Wall Street Journal, December 13, 1944.
1103 “[I am] in the throes of a mental political upheaval”: Mayhew, ed., pp. 234–35.
1104 “Well, Prime Minister, I know one thing”: Quoted in Levin, Standardbearer, p. 246.
1105 “They have saved this country”: Colville, p. 433, August 30, 1941.
1106 “We have been the dreamers”: Foot, p. 505.
1107 “One of the most extraordinary things”: IWM, Papers of Mrs. E. Elkus.
1108 “a jingo election which is terrifying”: Harvey, p. 383, June 10, 1945.
1109 “I won’t have it … I must have”: Moran, p. 319, July 10, 1945.
1110 “Churchill was extraordinarily angry”: Rzheshevsky, pp. 519–24.
1111 “My hate had died with their surrender”: Churchill, Second World War, 6:545.
1112 “I shall be only half a man”: Moran, p. 313, July 8, 1945.
1113 “I respect the old man, but he is difficult”: Zhukov, 3:325.
1114 “He had absorbed all the minor American”: Brooke, p. 709, July 23, 1945.
1115 During an Allied reception: Zhukov, 3:336.
1116 “He is again under Stalin’s spell”: Eden, July 17, 1945.
1117 “Of all the western leaders Churchill”: Beria, p. 135.
1118 “a lot of people talked a lot of nonsense”: Colville, p. 273, October 22, 1940.
1119 “no one in our conference delegation”: Kumanyov, p. 303.
1120 “I still cannot comprehend”: Chuev, p. 85.
1121 “You must not think of me any more”: Wheeler-Bennett, Action, p. 262.
1122 “The rest of my life will be holidays”: Moran, p. 353, July 27, 1945.
1123 he contributed about £35: CAC, Churchill Papers, CHAR1/379/12–20.
1124 “Winston’s mind has a stop in it”: Eden, p. 350, November 9, 1942.
1125 “I do not believe in this brave new world”: Moran, p. 224, September 20, 1943.
1126 “Churchill sees history—and life”: Berlin, pp. 4, 12.
1127 “After it was over I was on my way”: Eden, p. 551, July 27, 1945.
1128 “Why don’t you tell them to go to hell?”: Nicolson, p. 238, August 7, 1942.
1129 “No, I am a privileged domestic”: Kennedy diary, LHA, February 16, 1941.
1130 “He would no more think of consulting a party”: Gardiner, Prophets, p. 234.
1131 “Dull cabinet without PM”: Brooke, p. 388, March 8, 1943.
1132 “His countrymen have come to feel”: Moran, p. 13, December 23, 1941.
1133 “I should have liked my father”: Mary Soames to the author, May 23, 2004.
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