Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made (80 page)

12
Clementine Churchill to Harold Wilson, 15 Feb. 1965, quoted in Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill
, vol. VIII:
‘Never Despair’, 1945–1965
, Heinemann, London, 1988, p. 1225.

13
WSC to Lionel Curtis, 25 April 1933, Lionel Curtis Papers, MSS Curtis 9, f. 26.

14
Anthony Montague Browne,
Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill’s Last Private Secretary
, Cassell, London, 1995, pp. 191–2.

15
Statement of 9 April 1963.

16
WSC to Jack Churchill, 2 Dec. [1897], CV I, part 2, p. 836.

17
‘Mr Macmillan’s Appeal to South Africans’,
The Times
, 4 Feb. 1960.

18
Norman Brook to Harold Macmillan, 3 March 1960, NA, PREM 11/3073.

19
Pottle,
Daring to Hope
, p. 224 (entry for 17 Feb. 1960).

20
WSC to Robert Menzies, 30 Oct. 1961, quoted in John Ramsden,
Man of the Century: Winston Churchill and His Legend since 1945
, HarperCollins, London, 2002, p. 500.

21
‘Lord Montgomery Sees Sir Winston’,
The Times
, 15 Aug. 1962.

22
Some of the details of this episode can be found in David Anderson, ‘Mau Mau at the Movies: Contemporary Representations of an Anti-Colonial War’,
South African Historical Journal
, 48 (2003), pp. 71–89, at 80–5.

23
Patrick McGilligan,
Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s
, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991, pp. 54–6.

24
Ibid., p. 56.

25
The prologue was later restored to the VHS version, but was omitted from the recent DVD release.

26
Al-Thawra al-Arabiyya
, 19 Jan. 1965, copy (with accompanying translation) in NA, FO 371/180673.

27
Quoted in Ramsden,
Man of the Century
, p. 262.

28
When criticized in the press, Lemass said, ‘The arrangements made to associate this country with his [Churchill’s] funeral were strictly in order, even if they did not represent the cap-in-hand attitude which these newspaper commentators seem to think is the appropriate posture for Irishmen in their relations with Britain.’ Dáil Éireann Debates, vol. 214, 17 Feb. 1965, col. 585.

29
‘Britain’s Unique Honour for Great War Leader’,
Irish Independent
, 1 Feb. 1965.

30
‘Leader with Magic Personality’ and ‘Tributes from Many Lands’,
The Times
, 25 Jan. 1965; Malcolm MacDonald,
Titans & Others
, Collins, London, 1972, pp. 124–6.

31
‘Tributes to a Great Leader’,
Daily Times
, 25 Jan. 1965.

32
Quoted in Wendy Webster,
Englishness and Empire, 1939–1965
, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, p. 187.

33
Radio Talk for USA and Canada, 16 Jan. 1965, Harold Macmillan Papers, MS Dep. C. 535, ff. 42–5.

34
‘Sir Robert Speaks of a Friend’,
Guardian
, 1 Feb. 1965.

35
National Geographic
, Aug. 1965, quoted in Webster,
Englishness and Empire
, p. 188.

36
The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill
, quoted ibid., pp. 186–7.

37
Alan Megahey,
Humphrey Gibbs: Beleaguered Governor: Southern Rhodesia, 1929–69
, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1998, p. 93.

38
Sunday Times
, 6 Nov. 1966, quoted in Webster,
Englishness and Empire
, p. 185.

39
John Grigg, ‘Churchill and After’,
Guardian
, 25 Jan. 1965.

40
John Charmley,
Churchill, The End of Glory: A Political Biography
, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993.

41
‘Churchill: Defender of Empire and Commonwealth’,
Round Table
, 218 (March 1965), pp. 103–5, at 103.

42
Richard B. Moore, ‘The Passing of Churchill and Empire’,
Liberator
, March 1965, in W. Burghardt Turner and Joyce Moore Turner (eds.),
Richard B. Moore, Caribbean Militant in Harlem: Collected Writings, 1920–1972
, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1992, pp. 245–6.

43
Speech of 16 July 2001, quoted in Richard Toye, ‘The Churchill Syndrome: Reputational Entrepreneurship and the Rhetoric of Foreign Policy since 1945’,
British Journal of Politics and International Relations
, 10 (2008), pp. 364–78, at 364.

44
Joe Klein, ‘Even Churchill Couldn’t Figure Out Iraq’,
Time
, 30 July 2006.

45
Rory Carroll, ‘Mbeki Attacks “Racist” Churchill’,
Guardian
, 5 Jan. 2005.

46
Anonymous letter postmarked 27 Jan. 1990, Churchill Additional Papers, WCHL 2/9.

47
‘Churchill Calls for Unity’,
Canberra Times
, 30 April 1953.

48
Speech notes prepared for debate on India, 30 March 1943, Churchill Papers, CHAR 9/191A, ff. 3–10. Piers Brendon draws attention to this important document in
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997
, Jonathan Cape, London, 2007, p. 397.

49
John Barnes and David Nicholson (eds.),
The Empire at Bay: The Leo Amery Diaries, 1929–1945
, Hutchinson, London, 1988, p. 879 (entry for 29 March 1945).

50
Charles de Gaulle,
Memoires de Guerre: Le Salut, 1944–1946
(1959), quoted in François Kersaudy,
Churchill and de Gaulle
, Collins, London, 1981, p. 382.

51
‘Pater’s Chats with the Boys’,
Otago Witness
, 16 Aug. 1900.

52
Speech notes for debate on India, 30 March 1943, Churchill Papers, CHAR 9/191A, f. 10.

53
Nelson Mandela,
Long Walk to Freedom
, Abacus, London, 1995 (first published 1994), p. 110.

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