Finest Years (80 page)

54 ‘
less violent, less wild
' ibid. p.170 25.6.40

55 ‘
The French will never forgive
' MH interview with George Starr 3.3.80

56 ‘
Mr Churchill finds that there are
'
Le Matin
24.6.40

57 ‘
When a flood comes
' Brooke op. cit. p.69 25.5.40

57 ‘
My reason tells me
' Nicolson op. cit. p.96 15.6.40

57 ‘
This period was one of
' Peter Fleming
Invasion 1940
Hart-Davis 1957 pp.88 & 92

58 ‘
Here lies the material
' Potsdam Research Institute for Military History Bock diary 2.6.40

58 ‘
An American correspondent
'
New Yorker
17.6.40

60 ‘
Thank heavens they have
' Horsfall op. cit. p.153

60 ‘
Winston Churchill has told us
' IWM G.W. King 85/49/1 16.6.40

60 ‘
Now we know that we have got to
' Hichens op. cit. p.90

61 ‘
Now I suppose it's our turn
'
One Family's War
ed. Patrick Mayhew Hutchinson 1985 p.77

62 ‘
[Captain] Bill Tennant came in
' CAC Edwards diary REDW1/2

63 ‘
A government must never assume
' Carl von Clausewitz
On War
ed. Michael Howard and Peter Paret Princeton 1976

64 ‘
one thing that strikes me
' Lee op. cit. p.5 17.6.40

64 ‘
It is no secret that Great Britain
' quoted Joseph Lash
Roosevelt and Churchill: The Partnership that Saved the West
Norton 1976 p.197

64 ‘
The great majority of Americans
'
Philadelphia Inquirer
23.5.40

65 ‘
Richard E. Taylor of Apponaugh
' IWM Misc 200/3160

65 ‘
I have a feeling
' Somerset Maugham
Time
21.10.40

65 ‘
Propaganda is all very well
' Colville op. cit. p.175 28.6.40

65 ‘
One queer thing
' Lee op. cit. p.23 25.5.40

66 ‘
I don't know what we'll fight
' Kennedy MS op. cit. 12.11.42 story recounted by Walter Elliott

66 ‘
when so many interesting things
' CAC Martin diary MART1 p.12

67 ‘
You ought to have cried
' Colville op. cit. p.135 19.5.40

67 ‘
We should have had an enormous
' Kennedy MS op. cit. 27.5.41

67 ‘
I went on my knees
' Halifax diary op. cit. 8.2.41

69 ‘
It was a terrible decision
' Moran op. cit. p.316 9.7.45

70 ‘
Oran, a painful necessity
' see for instance Stanley G. Payne
Franco and Hitler
Yale 2007 passim

71 ‘
But all contingent upon
' BNA PREM3/131/1 27.6.40

71 ‘
You will observe that the document
' BNA PREM3/131/2

71 ‘
Am profoundly shocked and disgusted
' ibid.

71 ‘
Please remember the serious nature
' ibid.

71 ‘
This declaration would
' ibid.

72 ‘
There are difficulties
' CAC Bevin Papers Ernest Bevin to Professor W.K. Hancock 13.11.40 BEVNII/4/1

73 ‘
if the Government of Eire
' Kimball op. cit. p.106 7.12.40

73 ‘
Winston was in great form
'
The Ironside Diaries
ed. R. Macleod and D. Kelly Constable 1962 6.7.40

74 ‘
strikes me as tired
' Gilbert
The Churchill War Papers
op. cit. vol. ii 10.7.40

74 ‘
They paid lip-service
' Fleming op. cit. p.80

74 ‘
The menace of invasion
' ibid. p.307

75 ‘
Hitler must invade or fail
' Colville op. cit. p.195 14.7.40

75 ‘
Not until March 1941
' F.H. Hinsley et al.
British Intelligence in the Second World War
HMSO 1979 vol. i pp.429 & 451

75 ‘
in wonderful spirits
' Brooke op. cit. p.92 17.7.40

76 ‘
Radio sets were not then
' Henry Fairlie ‘The Voice of Hope'
New Republic
27.1.82 p.16

76 ‘
Gradually we came under
'
Few Eggs and No Oranges: The Diaries of Vere Hodgson
Persephone 1999 p.5

76 ‘
sent shivers (not of fear)
' Nicolson op. cit. p.93 5.6.40

76 ‘
Mr Churchill is the only man
'
New Yorker
25.8.40

76 ‘
Like a great actor
' Berlin op. cit. p.22

77 ‘
It is certainly his hour
' Headlam op. cit. p.213

77 ‘
I won't go on about the war
' IWM Papers of Mrs E. Elkus

77 ‘
she had saved her wages
' CAC Eade Papers 2/2 11.9.42 77 ‘Romans in Rome's quarrel' CAC Martin diary op. cit. p.7

80 ‘
Il y a beaucoup
' Boswell op. cit. p.876

80 ‘
I shall always associate
' Colville op. cit. p.505 24.8.44

80 ‘
Winston wept
' CAC Martin diary op. cit. p.29

81 ‘
The odds today
' George Barclay
Fighter Pilot
William Kimber 1976 pp.51-2

81 ‘
This sounds very peculiar
' IWM Alec Bishop MS 98/18/1

83 ‘
a farrago of operational
' Colville op. cit. p.288 7.11.40

83 ‘
It is the sneaks
' BNA PREM3/220/48

84 ‘
Jones spent twenty minutes
' R.V. Jones
Most Secret War
Hamish Hamilton 1978 p.101

84 ‘
Here was strength
' ibid. p.107

86 ‘
a little ruffled
' Colville op. cit. p.211 7.8.40

86 ‘
Don't speak to me
' Ismay op. cit. pp.179-80

87 ‘
He paweth in the valley
' John Kennedy
The Direction of War
Hutchinson 1957 p.62

87 ‘
I try myself by court martial
' Colville op. cit. p.231 27.8.40

88 ‘
glaucous, vigilant, angry
' Nicolson op. cit. p.127 20.11.40

89 ‘
There goes the bloody
' Colville op. cit. p.340 24.1.41

89 ‘
Gimme “Pug”!
' Elizabeth Nel
Mr Churchill's Secretary
Hodder & Stoughton 1958 p.74

89 ‘
whether very great men
' Colville op. cit. p.389 20.5.41

89 ‘
an unscrupulously rough-and-tumble
' Lee op. cit. p.77 3.10.40

90 ‘
You know, I may seem
' CAC Martin diary op. cit. p.4

90 ‘
Ll[oyd] G[eorge] was purely
' Amery op. cit. p.1034 26.3.45

90 ‘
It's very naughty
' Moran op. cit. p.287

90 ‘
the formidable ramparts
' ibid. p.324

90 ‘
Darling Winston
' quoted
Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill
ed. Mary Soames Doubleday 1998 p.454

91 ‘
to find himself subjected
'
Action this Day
op. cit. p.53

92 ‘
He has more wit
' Moran op. cit. p.226

92 ‘
collapsed between the chair
' Colville op. cit. p.319 15.12.40

92 ‘
Winston feasts on the sound
' Moran op. cit. p.8 12.12.41

92 ‘
No one could predict
'
Action this Day
op. cit. p.177

93 ‘
the ferment of ideas
' ibid. p.150

95 ‘
almost certain invasion
' Channon op. cit. p.266 16.9.40

96 ‘
like all the other soldiers
' Neville Chamberlain diary 1.7.40

96 ‘
the nakedness of our defences
' Brooke op. cit. p.90 2.7.40

96 ‘
not satisfied that…the co-operation
' BNA CAB69/1

97 ‘
I feel an immense joy
' Hichens op. cit. p.99

97 ‘
On 25 August…
' Sir Thomas Elmhirst
Recollections
p.51

98 ‘
Thank God…the defeatist opinions
' Lee op. cit. p.108 15.9.40

98 ‘
usual vigorous rhetorical
' Dalton op. cit. p.80

99 ‘
I am on top of
' Elmhirst op. cit. p.53

101 ‘
Publicity is anathema
' A.B. Cunningham
A Sailor's Odyssey
Hutchinson 1951 p.410

102 ‘
Do you like Bovril?
' Gen. Sir Frederick Pile
Ack-Ack: Britain's Defence Against Air Attack
Harrap 1949 p.171

102 ‘
That man's effort
' Colville op. cit. p.261 11.10.40

103 ‘
The club is burning
' CAC Martin diary op. cit. p.32

104 ‘
a farmer driving pigs
' Colville op. cit. 10.8.41

104 ‘
For something like a year
' R.W. Thompson
Churchill and Morton
Hodder & Stoughton 1976 p.41

104 ‘
One can now say
'
Dokumenty Vneshnei Politiki 1940—22.12.41
Moscow 1999 pp.361 & 387

105 ‘
Thus fades the last hope
' Channon op. cit. p.263

105 ‘
Lothian's “wild” appeal
' Nicolson op. cit. p.104 22.7.40

105 ‘
[He] was very interesting about
' Lee op. cit. 8.12.40

105 ‘
David Kynaston
' David Kynaston
A History of the City of London
vol. iii Chatto & Windus 1999 p.472

105 ‘
come back into his own
' ibid. p.479

106 ‘
Feeling in the Carlton Club
' Channon op. cit. p.268

107 ‘
I think it's a good thing
' IWM Green Papers 99/9/1 Letter of 4.9.40

107 ‘
this was the sort of war
' Colville op. cit. p.262 12.10.40

108 ‘
We…soon adapt ourselves
' Anthony Trollope
Autobiography
Trollope Society edn 1999 p.102

108 ‘
If one looked on all this
' Colville op. cit. 16.9.40

108 ‘
Malaya, the Australian government's
' Eden op. cit. 21.1.41

108 ‘
We [have] got to admit
' Colville op. cit. p.312 13.12.40

108 ‘
Mon général, devant
' ibid. p.289 9.11.40

109 ‘
the narrowest, most ignorant
' ibid. p.406 22.6.41

111 ‘
saw no prospect beyond
' see Bond
Liddell Hart
op. cit. pp.119-59

111 ‘
sit tight and defend ourselves
' Dalton op. cit. p.87

111 ‘
They say no one knows
' Lee op. cit. p.54 12.9.40

112 ‘
in a month's time
' ibid. p.10 3.7.40

112 ‘
If Hitler were to postpone
' Nicolson op. cit. p.103 20.7.40

112 ‘
I have heard
' diary 14.11.40 quoted Simon Garfield
Private Battles: How the War Almost Defeated Us
Ebury 2006 p.18

112 ‘
At our weekly meeting
' CAC Bevin Papers letter from F. Price BEVN6/59 22.9.40

113 ‘
Winston, why don't we land
' 6.3.41 CAC Eade Papers 2/2

113 ‘
We will go easy
' Andrew Gibb
With Winston Churchill at the Front
Gowans & Gray 1924 pp.40-1

113 ‘
the discharge of bombs
' BNA PREM3/21/1

113 ‘
No more than anyone else
' Pownall op. cit. vol. ii p.8 2.11.40

114 ‘
As the PM said goodnight
' Colville op. cit. p.266 13.10.40

114 ‘
He was always, in effect
' Attlee to NYC press conference 1.2.46

114 ‘
These military men v[er]y often
'
Speaking for Themselves
ed. Mary Soames Doubleday 1998 p.23 30.5.1909

115 ‘
The book is full of
' ibid. p.357 19.2.32

115 ‘
A series of absurd
' Winston Churchill
The World Crisis 1911-1918
Odhams 1927 pt iii chap X pp.1131 & 1134-5

116 ‘
I am so glad
' Churchill to Tovey 7.4.41

116 ‘
by 300 determined men
' Colville op. cit. p.186 3.11.40

119 ‘
He lay there in his
' ibid. p.285 3.11.40

120 ‘
as if it were the only source
' Nicolson op. cit. p.121 17.10.40

120 ‘
You should not telegraph
' Gilbert
Finest Hour
op. cit. pp.905-6

120 ‘
I purred like six cats
' WSC
The Second World War
vol. ii p.480

121 ‘
At long last we are
' Ismay op. cit. p.195

121 ‘
If, with the situation as it is
' BNA PREM3/288/1

121 ‘
He advanced a mad notion
' Eden op. cit. p.180 5.12.40

122 ‘
Off we went across
' Correlli Barnett
The Desert Generals
Allen & Unwin 1983 pp.37-65

123 ‘
For the first time
' Harvey diary 22 February 1941

124 ‘
Mr Churchill's speech
' Hodgson op. cit. 11.2.41

124 ‘
Here is the hand
' Colville op. cit. 16.2.41

124 ‘
We cannot, from Middle East
' Eden op. cit. p.168

125 ‘
The weakness of our policy
' ibid. p.170 3.11.40

125 ‘
We were near the edge
' Kennedy MS op. cit. 26.1.41 & 11.2.41

125 ‘
He thinks Greece
'
The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins
ed. Robert Sherwood Eyre & Spottiswoode 1948 vol. i pp.239-40

127 ‘
Found Wavell waiting
' Eden op. cit. p.131 13.8.40

127 ‘
a good average colonel
' ibid. p.133

128 ‘
Wavell, I think
' Tedder diary 18.4.41 quoted Lord Tedder
With Prejudice
Cassell 1966 p.74