Finest Years (83 page)

271 ‘
These beastly Huns
' Ian McLaine
Ministry of Morale
Allen & Unwin 1979 p. 139

272 ‘
because they did not feel
' Amery op. cit. p.754 18.12.43

273 ‘
by far the best
' Dalton op. cit. p.677

273 ‘
he didn't know why
' ibid. p.736

273 ‘
He never really understood
' John Wheeler-Bennett
John Anderson Viscount Waverley
Macmillan 1962 p.224

274 ‘
There is no better warhorse
' ibid. p.256

275 ‘
He has had no political training
' Dalton op. cit. p.729

275 ‘
I am in exceptionally good form
' ibid. 20.3.42

275 ‘
the three profs
' Amery op. cit. p.707

276 ‘
that the work people
' Headlam op. cit. p.231 5.12.40

277 ‘
I was disgusted to hear
' Colville op. cit. 2.9.41

277 ‘
Of eight serious strikes
' BNA AVIA10/269

277 ‘
a marked absence of discipline
' BNA CAB102/406

277 ‘
had failed to improve
' BNA CAB70/6

277 ‘
Strikes continue to cause
' BNA INFI/282 October 1943

277 ‘
Byrd complained to
' BNA FO371/34115

278 ‘
I do not see why
' Kennedy MS op. cit. 12.3.42

278 ‘
Of all wartime industrial disputes
' P. Inman
Labour in the Munitions Industries
HMSO and Longmans 1957

278 ‘
The Cost of Living Index
' Inman op. cit. p.365 passim

279 ‘
it became necessary to
' W.H.B. Court
Coal
Longman 1951 p.158

279 ‘
The mining community
' quoted ibid. p.452

279 ‘
One can hardly overstress
' Inman op. cit. p.325

279 ‘
The center of the problem
' BNA CAB123/21

280 ‘
many of the people
' Min of Health report Cmd.6468

280 ‘
children in rags
' Richard Titmuss
History of the Second World War: Problems of Social Policy
HMSO 1950 p.115

280 ‘
From the way men like
' Headlam op. cit. p.243 9.3.41

280 ‘
Labour MPs, in turn
' Colville op. cit. p.401 19.6.41

281 ‘
Except for our Fighting Services
' Hansard 29.7.41

282 ‘
We [Chamberlain's ministers in early 1940]
' quoted McLaine op. cit. p.104

283 ‘
I was fortunate
' Brooke op. cit. p.247 10.4.42

283 ‘
no very great contribution
' ibid. p.246 9.4.42

284 ‘
In many respects he is
' ibid. p.249 11.4.42

284 ‘
The CIGS told his staff
' Kennedy MS op. cit. 5.4.42

284 ‘
The extraordinary thing
' ibid.

284 ‘
I am in entire agreement
' 12.4.42 Kimball op. cit. vol. i p.448

286 ‘
we are proceeding
' Kimball ibid. p.459

286 ‘
Arrangements are being made
' ibid. p.515

287 ‘
This universal cry
' Brooke op. cit. p.243 30.3.42

288 ‘
I might be the best
' Halifax diary op. cit. 31.3.42

288 ‘
Concerning the second front
' O.A. Rzheshevsky
Stalin and Churchill: Meetings, Conversations, Discussions
Moscow 2004 pp.113 & 190

289 ‘
We do not consider this
' ibid. p.157

290 ‘
It is the irony
' Joan Beaumont
Comrades in Arms
Davis-Poynter 1980 p.99

290 ‘
Considerable though these
' ibid. p.142

290 ‘
sending very few aircraft
' ibid. p.147

291 ‘
They offered no definite
' Rzheshevsky op. cit. p.231

291 ‘
preparations for the second front
' ibid. p.222

291 ‘
Finally, we think it
' ibid. p.250

291 ‘
First, and as the Russian leader
' F. Chuev
140 Conversations with Molotov
Moscow 1991 p.258

292 ‘
Here Churchill interrupted
' ibid. p.319

292 ‘
Roosevelt had calmly told
' Harvey op. cit. 10.6.42

292 ‘
We had to squeeze
' Chuev op. cit. p.66

292 ‘
the High Contracting Parties
'
Pravda
14.6.42

293 ‘
found Churchill “smarter”
' Chuev op. cit. p.26

293 ‘
I knew them all
' ibid. p.65

293 ‘
As for Roosevelt
' ibid. p.67

294 ‘
Two-thirds of weapons
' French op. cit. passim

295 ‘
This vicious rag should
' BNA PREM4/26/8 7.6.42

295 ‘
Advocacy of a second front
'
Washington Despatches
ed. H.G. Nicholas Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1981 25.7.42

295 ‘
A US officer at dinner
' Kennedy MS op. cit. 5.4.42

295 ‘
No Englishman here
' BNA CAB109/47 Birley to Jacob

296 ‘
We simply hold no cards
' Dykes diary 12.10.42 quoted Danchev op. cit. p.20

296 ‘
Private secretary John Martin
' Hassett op. cit. p.68

296 ‘
No responsible British
' Churchill Archive JACB1/14

297 ‘
It was Britain's beleaguered
' Douglas Porch
Hitler's Mediterranean Gamble
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004 p.208

297 ‘
Anti-British feeling is still
'
Washington Despatches
op. cit. 14.5.42

297 ‘
there was little point in supplying
' ibid. 26.6.42

297 ‘
These English are too aggressive
' Hassett op. cit. 20 & 24.6.42

297 ‘
a delightful companion
' ibid. 20.6.42

298 ‘
I knew when I saw
' BNA FO371/30656

299 ‘
All the old animosities
' USNA RG84 Box 5

299 ‘
Phrases such as
' ibid. OWI Survey No. 113 10.6.42

299 ‘
The OWI's July survey
' USNA OWI Survey No. 114 1.7.42

299 ‘
Some 65 per cent said
' USNA OWI No.117 29.8.42

300 ‘
The dominant underlying feeling
' BNA FO371/30656

300 ‘
The Asiatic war has revived
' Yale Lippmann Papers 18.4.42

300 ‘
old-fashioned imperialism
' BNA FO371/30656 Clark Kerr Despatch 28.9.42

300 ‘
The Embassy…has a quite fantastically
' BNA FO371/30656 6.7.42

301 ‘
were about as friendly
' BNA FO371/30656 5.10.42

302 ‘
We must have a victory!
' Harvey op. cit. 22.6.42

302 ‘
I told him what Winston
' Kennedy MS op. cit. 18.7.42

302 ‘
The people do not like
' IWM Cons Shelf P Yates letters 22.6.42

302 ‘
I myself felt
' quoted Mosley op. cit. p.254

303 ‘
The enemy did not seem
' Hodgson diary op. cit. p.293

303 ‘
Mr Churchill's speech did not
' ibid. 5.7.42

303 ‘
We heard yesterday
' IWM G.W. King 85/49/1 22.6.42

303 ‘
Russian successes continue
' BNA INF1/292 26.1.42-1.2.42

304 ‘
We received nothing
' Brooke op. cit. p.223 27.1.42

304 ‘
There is an extraordinary
' Kennedy MS op. cit. 23.3.42

304 ‘
Little as I formerly liked him
' IWM Cons Shelf P 2.1.42

304 ‘
That danger will never come
' McLaine op. cit. p.210

304 ‘
Reactionary attitudes are spreading
' IWM Belsey 92/12/1 6.8.42

305 ‘
When the Anglo-Soviet Alliance
' IWM Papers of Mrs E. Elkus

305 ‘
English people are willing
'
Pravda
5.8.42

306 ‘
Every week of successful
' BNA INF1/284

306 ‘
Ismay said that he admired
' Nicolson op. cit. 7.8.42

308 ‘
The trouble…is that
' Macmillan op. cit. p.46 20.3.43

308 ‘
I suppose that, with the exception
' Sir Alan Lascelles
King's Counsellor
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006 p.41 24.7.42

309 ‘
The fact that, during one of
'
Los Angeles Times
28.6.42

309 ‘
Winston is I think
' Amery op. cit. p.818 6.7.42

310 ‘
His speech sounds very good to us
'
Mrs Millburn's Diaries
Harrap 1979 1.7.42

310 ‘
He is a giant among pygmies
' Headlam op. cit. p.322

310 ‘
It is to be hoped that the PM
' Millburn op. cit. p.145 2.7.42

310 ‘
The simple question
'
The Times
1.7.42

311 ‘
a most objectionable young pup
' Brooke op. cit. 3.7.42

311 ‘
“discreditable” and “deplorable”
' Reynolds op. cit. p.303

311 ‘
The cheek of the young brute
' Brooke op. cit. 3.7.42

311 ‘
May I suggest with all respect
' BNA AIR8/1074 Dill JSM 300 Aide Memoire on Future Operations 16.7.42

312 ‘
Churchill, however, believes
' Wallace diary 25.5.43 quoted J.M. Blum (ed.)
The Price of Vision
Houghton Mifflin 1977

312 ‘
Well, how are we
' Kennedy MS op. cit. 18.7.42

313 ‘
We failed to see
' Pogue op. cit. vol. iii p.330

315 ‘
What energy and gallantry
' Harvey op. cit. 30.7.42

315 ‘
He felt the need
' Eden op. cit. p.338

316 ‘
looked exactly as though
' Ronald Winfield
The Sky Belongs to Them
William Kimber 1976 p.69

316 ‘
Often had I seen
' WSC
The Second World War
op. cit. vol. iii p.412

316 ‘
Old Miles
' Harvey op. cit. p.307 14.10.43

316 ‘
There seem to me
' IWM 4/27/1 8.7.42 Papers of Lt.Gen. Sir Charles Gairdner

317 ‘
far too many cases
' Charles Richardson op. cit. p.119

317 ‘
In the Middle East there was
' Moorehead op. cit. p.412

318 ‘
I intend to see every
'
Speaking for Themselves
op. cit. p.467 9.8.42

318 ‘
The general received his dismissal
' Kennedy MS op. cit. 23.8.42

319 ‘
All right. You can have
' Roskill
Churchill and the Admirals
op. cit. pp.236-7

321 ‘
Our NKVD resident
'
Studies on the History of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service
Moscow 2007 op. cit. 4.8.42

322 ‘
Churchill departed for the USSR
' ibid. 12.8.42

322 ‘
We know from a reliable source
' ibid.

325 ‘
I am downhearted and dispirited
' Moran op. cit. p.68 13.8.42

326 ‘
You know, I was not
' Harriman op. cit. p.161

326 ‘
May God prosper
' Moran op. cit. p.138

327 ‘
Don't be afraid
' Golovanov
Memoirs
Moscow 2007 p.345

328 ‘
No one but the Prime Minister
' Richardson op. cit. p.144

328 ‘
Churchill was decidedly
'
Action this Day
op. cit. pp. 215-16

329 ‘
He appealed to sentiments
' Brooke op. cit. p.300 13.8.42

329 ‘
Stalin told me the British Navy
' Harriman op. cit. p.161

330 ‘
When Harriman reported
' ibid. p.169

331 ‘
The deliveries were curtailed
' Trukhanovsky op. cit. pp.283-4

332 ‘
savages
' Harriman op. cit. p.352

332 ‘
He commissioned the ambassador's wife
' CAC Churchill Papers CHAR1/379/12-20

334 ‘
have changed so frequently
'
The Times
19.8.42

334 ‘
While I grumble
' Garfield op. cit. p.280

334 ‘
When looking back
' Brooke op. cit. p.314 24.8.42

335 ‘
was the only one trying
' ibid. p.324 24.9.42

335 ‘
super-chief of staff…Dill agreed
' Amery op. cit. p.830 25.8.42

336 ‘
Churchill later described
' Moran op. cit. p.85

336 ‘
It is an awful thing
' Amery op. cit. p.838 24.9.42

336 ‘
a “bent” man, and couldn't
' Harvey op. cit. 9.10.42

336 ‘
The dominance of Churchill
' Hume Wrong diary 4.11.42

336 ‘
He sat down
' Kennedy MS op. cit. 17.10.42

337 ‘
If we are beaten
' Moran op. cit. p.91

337 ‘
the unnecessary battle
' Porch op. cit. p.290

337 ‘
Winston was like
' Lascelles op. cit. pp.66-7 23.10.42

339 ‘
I am terribly anxious
' Amery op. cit. p.840 26.10.42

339 ‘
How minute and fragile
' Norman Craig
The Broken Plume
IWM 1982 p.79

339 ‘
There is more jam
' Nicolson op. cit. 2.11.42

339 ‘
If
Torch
succeeds
' Brooke op. cit. p.338 4.11.42

340 ‘
A sense of exaltation
'
The Times
11.11.42

341 ‘
The self-respect of the British Army
' Dalton op. cit. p.519

343 ‘
Pity our 1st victorious general
' Bonham-Carter diary op. cit. 7.11.42

343 ‘
It was nice Monty
' Kennedy MS op. cit. 1.8.43