Dinner With Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table (30 page)

SECTION 2

1
. Halle, Kay (ed.),
Winston Churchill On America and Britain
, p. 256

2
. Moir, Phyllis,
I Was Winston Churchill’s Private Secretary
, p. 132

3
. Winston S. Churchill,
The Story of the Malakand Field Force
, p. 201 (Originally published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1898.)

4
. CHAR 1/351/50-52

5
. Soames (ed.),
Speaking for Themselves
, p. 582

6
. Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill
, Volume VII, p. 127

7
. Jenkins, p. 711

8
. Addison,
The Road to 1945
, p. 245

9
. CHAR 1/116/60

10
. Gilbert, 1914-1916, Volume III, p. 502

11
. Soames (ed.),
Speaking for Themselves
, p. 117

12
.
Ibid
., p.164

13
.
Ibid
., p. 178

14
. Nicolson. Nigel (ed.),
Harold Nicolson, The War Years, 1939-1945
, p. 166

15
. Pawle, p. 171

16
. McGowan, p. 87

17
. Montague Browne,
Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill’s Last Private Secretary
, p. 314

18
. Howells,
Churchill’s Last Years
, pp. 111-112

19
. Eden, Anthony,
Memoirs, The Reckoning
, p. 202

20
. Danchev and Todman (eds.), p. 390

21
. Felipe Fernández-Armesto,
Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food
, p. 133

22
. Moran, p. 283, referring to Churchill’s distaste for devilled chicken.

23
. CHAR 1/391/1

24
. Colville, p. 309

25
. Murray,
I Was Churchill’s Bodyguard
, p. 90

26
. Coote, p. 40

27
. Cooke, Alistair,
General Eisenhower on the Military Churchill
, p. 54

28
. Martin, John, MART 2, unpublished diaries for 30 November 1944, p. 168

29
. Soames (ed.),
Speaking for Themselves
, p. 581

30
. Buczacki, Stefan,
Churchill and Chartwell
, p. 258

31
. Colville, John,
The Churchillians
, p. 112

32
. Soames, Mary,
Finest Hour
, 115, p. 42

33
.
Ibid
.

34
. Soames, Mary,
Clementine Churchill
, p. 344

35
. Brocklesby, Eddie, “Nan’s Kitchen at No. 10” from the Serpentine running Club Newsletter, Autumn, 2003, p. 3

36
. Brocklesby, p. 3

37
. BBC TV Archives, Joan Bakewell Interview, 1973

38
. Langworth, Richard,
Finest Hour, Frequently Asked Questions

39
. Nicolson, Juliet,
The Perfect Summer
, p. 47

40
.
Finest Hour 144
, Churchill Quiz, p. 63

41
. Gilbert (ed.),
Churchill War Papers, The Ever-Widening War 1941
, Volume 3, p. 1470

42
. Colville, p. 454 (paperback version)

43
. McGowan, p. 89

44
. Gilbert, Sir Martin, in conversation with Admiral Hetherington, 1965. Sir Martin Gilbert email to the author 19 April 2011

1
. Moir, p 138

2
. Churchill, Winston S.,
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
, p. 125

3
. Churchill, Randolph S.,
Winston S. Churchill, Youth, 1874-1900
, Volume I, p. 453

4
. Philip and Susan Larson, “Winston S. Churchill and Robert R. McCormick,”
Finest Hour
, 131, p. 33

5
. McJimsey, George,
Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy
. P. 140 refers to the “prodigious quantities of weak whiskey” that Churchill consumed during Hopkins’ 1941 visit to Britain.

6
. Churchill, Winston S.,
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
, p. 125

7
. CHAR 1/400A/46

8
. Tugwell, Rexford G.,
The Democratic Roosevelt
, p. 593

9
. Sherwood, Robert E., p. 442

10
. Butcher, Captain Harry C.,
My Three Years With Eisenhower
, p. 75

11
. Skidelsky, Vol. 3, p. 92

12
.
Finest Hour
, 131, p. 35

13
. King, Mackenzie, Diary, 23 August 1941, from
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
, p. 879

14
. Kimball, Warren F.,
Forged in War: Roosevelt Churchill and the Second World War
, p. 22

15
. Reilly, Michael F., as told to William J.
Slocum, Reilly of the White House
, p. 125

16
. Gilbert, Martin,
In Search of Churchill
, p. 209

17
. Wilson, A.N.,
After The Victorians
, p. 390

18
. Moran, p. 390

19
. Roberts, Andrew,
Eminent Churchillians
, p. 170

20
. Harvey, John (ed.),
The War Diaries of Oliver Harvey, 1941-1945
, p. 369

21
. Nevezhin, Vladimir A., in a collection of “Stalin’s Table Speeches”, Moscow: AIRO-XX, 2003

22
. Gilbert, Volume VII p. 191

23
. Moran, p. 59

24
. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 193

25
. Churchill,
The Malakand Field Force
, p. 16

26
. Kimball, Warren F., “Like Goldfish in a Bowl: The Alcohol Quotient”,
Finest Hour
, 134, p. 32

27
. James, Robert Rhodes,
Churchill: A Study in Failure
, p. 389

28
. Danchev and Todman (eds.), p. 566

29
. Harmon, Christopher C., “Alanbrooke and Churchill”, a review of the
Alanbrooke Diaries
, in Finest Hour 112, p. 34

30
. Langworth, Richard M. (ed.),
Churchill by Himself
, p. 550. (Langworth says that Churchill was paraphrasing a W.C. Fields retort.)

31
. Acheson, Dean,
Sketches From Life Of Men I have Known
, p. 66. John Martin tells this same story taking place on 3 August 1941 on the train north when Churchill was on the way to meet with President Roosevelt in Newfoundland. Martin p. 56

32
. Beschloss, p. 135

33
. Letter from Jo Sturdee, later, Countess of Onslow, to her family from La Mamounia Hotel, Marrakesh, Morocco, 7 January 7 1948, to her family. ONSL 1

34
. Louanne Cox, www.helium.com, February 2011.

35
. CHUR 1/15/32 and 33

36
. Gilbert, Volume VI, p. 336 note 1

37
. Gilbert, Martin,
In Search of Churchill
, p. 209

38
. Williams, Jane, conversations with author

39
. Eden,
The Reckoning
, p. 494

40
.
Finest Hour
144, “The Churchill Quiz”, p. 63

41
. Churchill, Randolph S., p .453

42
. Langworth (ed.),
Churchill by Himself
, p. 37

43
. Acheson, p. 64

44
. Ray, Jonathan, “Winston Churchill drank Pol Roger by the Pint”,
Telegraph
, 30 September 2006

45
.
Telegraph
, Odette Pol Roger, 30 December 2000

46
. Roberts, Andrew,
The Holy Fox: A Life of Lord Halifax
, p. 186

47
. Churchill,
My Early Life
, p. 178

48
. McGowan, p. 90

49
. Rose, Kenneth,
The Elusive Rothschild, The Life of Victor, Third Baron
, p. 58

50
.
Telegraph
, Odette Pol Roger, 30 December 2000

51
.
Independent
, Odette Pol Roger, 30 January 2001

52
. www.polroger.co.uk

53
.
Ibid
.

54
.
Ibid
.

55
. Dilks (ed.),
Cadogan
, p. 707

56
. McGowan, p. 104

57
. Kersaudy, Francois,
Churchill et Monaco
, p. 46

58
. Rose, p. 73

59
. McGowan, p. 55

60
. Kimball, Warren,
Finest Hour
134, p. 31

61
. Bonham Carter, p. 135

62
. Gilbert (ed.),
Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence, 1937-1964
, pp. 376-377

63
. Gilbert, Volume VIII, p 630

64
. Rose, p. 53

1
. Acheson, Dean,
Sketches From Life Of Men I Have Known
, p. 63, after a working lunch with Churchill at the British Embassy in Washington in 1946

2
. Welsh, Peter, “A Gentleman of History”,
Cigar Aficionado
, Autumn, 1995, p. 1

3
. Hough, Richard,
Winston & Clementine
, p. 69

4
. CHUR 1/351/50-52

5
. Howells, p. 94

6
. Wingfield-Stratford, Esmé,
Churchill: The Making of a Hero
, p. 95

7
. Acheson, Dean,
Present at the Creation
, p. 596

8
. McGowan, Norman,
My Years With Churchill
, p. 93. Howells contends that Churchill did indeed smoke his cigars to the very end. p.35

9
. That is the estimate of his valet, who precedes the “nine a day” estimate with the word “only”. McGowan, p. 92

10
. Photo of letter, preserved at J.J. Fox

11
. Golding, Ronald E., “Did You Fly? Hmph!”,
Finest Hour
34, p. 4

12
. Gilbert,
Churchill
, Vol. IV, 1916-1922, p. 139

13
. McGowan, p. 93

14
. Welsh, p. 2

15
. CHUR 1/351/50-52

16
. Howells, p.37; McGowan, p. 92, reports that the matches were “specially imported from America”, not Canada

17
. Howells, p. 36

18
. Howells, p. 35. This ashtray traveled with Churchill.

19
. Welsh, p. 1

20
. Hirshson, Stanley P.,
General Patton: A Soldier’s Life
, pp. 299-300

21
. Packwood, Allen, “Cigars: Protecting the Premier,”
Finest Hour
106, p. 1

22
. Rose, Kenneth, London, 2003, p. 73

23
. Hall, Douglas,
The Book of Churchilliana
, p. 50

24
. Vines, C. M.,
A Little Nut Brown Man, My Three Years with Beaverbrook
, p. 28

25
. West, Bruce,
The Man Who Flew Churchill
, p. 105

26
. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 921

27
. Soames (ed.),
Speaking for Themselves
, p. 504. Clementine Churchill described it in a letter to her daughter as “a small shadow on one lung, but he himself is well …” Soames,
Clementine Churchill
, p. 357

28
. Colville, p. 507

29
. Soames,
Speaking For Themselves
, p. 504

30
. Soames,
Clementine Churchill
, Revised Edition, p. 502

31
. Colville, John, pp. 215-216

32
. CHUR 1/15/169

33
. CHUR 1/15/167

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. CAB 120/854

2
. CAB 123/74

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. CAB 120/854

4
. Gardiner, Juliet,
Wartime London
, 2004, p. 147

5
. CAB 123/74

6
. Gilbert, Volume VII, pp. 161 and Calder, Angus,
The People’s War
, p. 71

7
. Calder, p. 405

8
. NF 1/292 Home Intelligence Weekly Report, No. 90, 16-23 June 1942

9
. Gilbert,
Churchill War Papers
, Volume III, p. 376

10
. CHAR 1/379/40 and 1/379/39

11
. CHAR 1/389/5

12
. Nesbitt, p. 274

13
. Hastings, Max,
Finest Years: Churchill as War Lord 1940-1945
, p. 202

14
.
News Chronicle
, 30 September 1941

15
. CHAR 1/380/25 and CHAR 1/368/85

16
. CHAR 2/441/61

17
. CHAR 2/446A

18
. Profumo, David, The Laxford Shows its True Colours,
Country Life, 6
October 2010, p. 104

19
. CHAR 20/53C/256

20
. Char 2/442/51

21
. Char 2/446 B

22
. Gilbert,
Churchill War Papers
, Volume 3, p. 357

23
. Meiklejohn to Thompson, “Subject: Hams”, 3 January 1942. Library of Congress, Harriman Papers, Box 161, Folder 6

24
. Colville,
The Churchillians
, p. 156

25
. CHAR 20/138A/11

26
. Hastings, p. 203

27
. Ibid.

28
. Pawle, p. 155

29
. Hastings, p. 203

30
. Gilbert,
The Churchill War Papers
, Volume 3, p. 990

31
. MAF, 286/8

32
. Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John (ed.),
Action This Day: Working With Churchill
, p. 30

33
. Halle, Kay (ed.),
Winston Churchill on America and Britain
, p. 259

34
. Gilbert,
The Churchill War Papers, Never Surrender
, Volume 2, p. 514

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. MAF 286/6

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. MAF 286/6

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. MAF 286/3

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. CAB 123/74

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. CAB 123/74

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. CAB 123/74

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. MAF 286/8

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. CHAR 1/394/22

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. CHAR 2/446/A

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. CHAR 2/445/72

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. CHAR 1/380/34

46
. Nelson, James (ed.),
General Eisenhower on the Military Churchill: A Conversation With Alistair Cooke
, p.54

47
. Unless otherwise indicated, correspondence relating to the affair of the plovers’ eggs can be found in MAF 286/1