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The Official Biography of Winston Spencer Churchill
, by Martin Gilbert (Boston, 1966–), is cited as follows:
WSC V
Volume V.
The Prophet of Truth, 1922–1939
(biography)
CV V/1
Companion Volume V, part 1 (1922–1929, Documents)
CV V/2
Companion Volume V, part 2 (1930–1935, Documents)
CV V/3
Companion Volume V, part 3 (1936–1939, Documents)
WSC VI
Volume VI,
Finest Hour 1939–1941
Preamble

1
. WM/Lady Soames (at Chartwell), 10/27/80; Robin Fedden,
Churchill and Chartwell
(Westerham, Kent, 1968), 13 ff.

2
. Walter Henry Thompson,
Assignment Churchill
(New York, 1955), 92.

3
. Walter Thompson, 183.

4
. Mary Soames,
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
(Boston, 1979), 352; Adam Sykes and Iain Sproat, eds.,
The Wit of Sir Winston
(London, 1965), 85.

5
. WM/Lady Soames (at Chartwell), 10/27/80; Fedden, 25–26, 43–44. R. Howells,
Simply Churchill
(New York, 1965), 19.

6
. WM/Grace Hamblin, 11/4/80, and letter of 9/12/87; Hamblin, letter to Martin Gilbert, 6/12/78; WM/Lady Soames (at Chartwell), 10/27/80; Fedden, 27; Kay Halle,
The Irrepressible Churchill: A Treasury of Winston Churchill’s Wit
(New York, 1967), 109.

7
. Howells, 41, 36; WM/Sir William Deakin, 10/5/80.

8
. Howells, 36; Elizabeth Nel,
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary
(New York, 1958), 33.

9
. Norman McGowan,
My Years with Churchill
(London, 1958), 86–87; Howells, 19.

10
. Howells, 19–20, 49; Halle, 313.

11
. Winston S. Churchill,
The World Crisis
, 5 vols. and
The Aftermath
(New York, 1923–1931), V, Afterword.

12
. Bruce West,
Churchill’s Pilot: The Man Who Flew Churchill
(Canada, 1975), 6; McGowan, 93; Howells, 110.

13
. Fedden, 50–51; Howells, 37–39; WM/Lieutenant General Sir Ian Jacobs, 11/12/80; Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, ed.,
Action This Day: Memoirs
by Lord Normanbrook, John Colville, Sir John Martin, Sir Ian Jacobs, Lord Bridges, Sir Leslie Rowan (London, 1968), 183; Charles Eade, ed.,
Churchill by His Contemporaries
(London, 1953), 309.

14
. Howells, 36, 138; McGowan, 92–93.

15
. Howells, 20.

16
. Howells, 138; CV I/2 996; Phyllis Moir,
I Was Winston Churchill’s Private Secretary
(New York, 1941), 1, 89–90; WM/ Deakin; WM/Kathleen Hill, 11/4/80.

17
. WM/Sir John Colville, 10/8/80; Sarah Churchill,
A Thread in the Tapestry
(New York, 1967), 38.

18
. Fedden, 49.

19
. Fedden, 49; Sir David Hunt,
On the Spot: An Ambassador Remembers
(London, 1975), 63; Colin Coote and Denvil Batchelor,
Maxims and Reflections
(London, 1947), 36; Viscount Chandos,
Memoirs
(London, 1962), 167; Howells, 150.

20
. WM/Virginia Cowles, 10/15/80; WM/George Malcolm Thompson, 10/13/80; WM/Lord Geoffrey Lloyd, 11/27/80, WM/Deakin; WM/Lady Soames, 10/9/80; WM, personal information.

21
. Wheeler-Bennett, ed., 87.

22
. WM/Lord Lloyd; WM/Lord Boothby, 10/16/80.

23
. WM/A. J. P. Taylor 12/1/80; WM, personal information.

24
. Second Earl of Birkenhead,
The Professor and the Prime Minister
(Boston, 1962), 27–35, 36.

25
. Birkenhead, 129–159
passim
.

26
. Sir John Colville,
Footprints in Time
(London, 1976), 100; WM/Colville.

27
. Birkenhead, 38.

28
. WM/Lady Soames, 10/9/80; Halle, 263; Wheeler-Bennett, ed., 25–28.

29
. Kenneth Young,
Churchill and Beaverbrook: A Study in Friendship and Politics
(New York, 1966), 130.

30
. Coote and Batchelor, 44.

31
. WM/Cowles; WM/Kay Halle, 8/6/80; WM/Pamela Harriman, 8/22–23/80; Elizabeth Longford,
Winston Churchill: A Pictorial Life Story
(Chicago, 1974), 87, 130–131.

32
. Sykes and Sproat, eds., 70, 71; Eade, ed., 307; Coote and Batchelor, 119–120.

33
. Lord Moran,
Churchill. Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran: The Struggle for Survival. 1940–1965
(Boston, 1966), 198; Halle, 152.

34
. WM/Colville; Wheeler-Bennett, ed., 59–60.

35
. McGowan, 72.

36
. McGowan, 70; WM/Vanda Salmon, 11/26/80.

37
. WM/Salmon; Martin Gilbert,
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
(London, 1981), 28; Virginia Cowles,
Winston Churchill, The Era and the Man
(New York, 1953), 11.

38
. Walter Thompson, 94; Eade, ed., 356–357; McGowan, 60.

39
. John Paget,
The New “Examen”
(London, 1934).

40
. Halle, 263; Soames, 323; Gilbert,
Wilderness
, 129.

41
. Hunt, 77.

42
. Soames, 301.

43
. Eade, ed., 300, 309.

44
. Eade, ed., 305.

45
. Violet Bonham Carter,
Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait
(New York, 1965), 151, 152; Moran, 449.

46
. Kenneth Young,
Churchill and Beaverbrook: A Study in Friendship and Politics
(New York, 1966), 26.

47
. Soames, 305; WM/Deakin; Moran, 420; Winston S. Churchill,
Young Winston’s Wars; The Original Despatches of Winston S. Churchill, War Correspondent 1897–1900
, edited by Frederick Woods (New York, 1972), xiii; WM/William L. Shirer, 7/20/74.

48
. WM/Deakin.

49
. WM/Cecily Gemmell, 7/10/80; Walter Thompson, 45.

50
. Wheeler-Bennett, ed., 144; Harold Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters
, II, edited by Nigel Nicolson, 3 vols. (London, 1966), 320–321.

51
. Peter Stansky, ed.,
Churchill: A Profile
(New York, 1973), 38.

52
. Robert Rhodes James,
Anthony Eden
(London, 1980), 229; Moran, 604.

53
. WM/Hill, 11/4/80.

54
. WM/Gemmell, 7/10/80.

55
. Nel, 31.

56
. Moir, 2, 58; Howells, 61.

57
. Nel, 32; Moir, 88.

Prologue

1
.
Times
11/12/32.

2
.
NYT
10/19/32;
Times
10/31/32.

3
.
NYT
10/6/32, 10/25/32, 11/1/32;
Time
11/7/32.

4
.
Time
11/14/32.

5
. James Morris,
Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
(New York, 1978), 314, 311; Colin Cross,
The Fall of the British Empire
(New York and London, 1968), 216.

6
. Morris, 313–314;
Time
3/21/32.

7
. Morris, 362;
Time
4/11/32, 4/18/32.

8
. Sir John Colville,
The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries, 1939–1955
(New York, 1985), 71.

9
. Morris, 335

10
.
Times
8/18/14; Robert Rhodes James,
Memoirs
(New York, 1970), 110.

11
.
NYT
11/18/29;
Nation
2/12/30.

12
.
Times
1/22/29;
Book Review Digest
433–434, 792–793; Siegfried Sassoon,
Siegfried’s Journey, 1916–1920
(New York, 1946), 116–119.

13
. Harold Nicolson,
Public Faces
(London, 1932), 16–17; Richard Kenin and Justin Wintle, eds.,
The Dictionary of Biographical Quotations
(New York, 1958), 35.

14
. Winston S. Churchill,
Amid These Storms: Thoughts and Adventures
(New York, 1932), 15–16; Telford Taylor,
Munich: The Price of Peace
(New York, 1979), 204.

15
. Lincoln Steffens,
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
(New York, 1931), 131.

16
. Winston S. Churchill,
The World Crisis
, 5 vols. and
The Aftermath
(New York, 1923–1931), V, 66.

17
. Hugh Dalton,
The Fateful Years
(London, 1957), 41–42.

18
. William Manchester,
The Last Lion: Visions of Glory
(Boston, 1983), 76.

19
. T. R. Fehrenbach,
F.D.R.’s Undeclared War 1939 to 1941
(New York, 1967), 22.

20
. Telford Taylor, 107; Alistair Horne,
To Lose a Battle
(Boston, 1969), 22–23.

21
. Churchill,
Crisis, The Aftermath
, 156.

22
. William L. Shirer,
The Collapse of the Third Republic
(New York, 1969), 137.

23
. Alistair Horne,
To Lose a Battle
(Boston, 1969), 56–57; Simone de Beauvoir,
La Force de l’âge
(Paris, 1961), 116–117.

24
. Shirer,
Collapse
, 203; Beauvoir, 120–121; Horne, 57.

25
. Beauvoir, 120–121.

26
. Horne, 52; Beauvoir, 155.

27
. Robert T. Elson and the editors of Time-Life Books,
Prelude to War
(New York, 1976), 47.

28
. Elson et al., 74–79.

29
.
NYT
12/2/25.

30
.
Berliner Tageblatt
6/25/22.

31
.
Frankfurter Zeitung
12/2/25;
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica
, 15th ed. (Chicago, 1974), XIX, 966–967;
Berliner Tageblatt
5/9/19;
NYT
6/25/22.

32
. WSCHCS 5197–5206; J. D. Scott,
Vickers: A History
(London, 1962), 86–87, 150–151; Otto Lehmann-Russbüldt,
Die blutige Internationale der Rüstungen
(Berlin, 1933), 50.

33
. General Karl von Clausewitz,
On War
, trans. Col. J. J. Graham, 3 vols. (London, 1911), I, 5: Barbara Tuchman,
The Guns of August
(New York, 1962), 314.

34
. Hugh Gibson,
A Journal from Our Legation in Belgium
(New York, 1917), 324.

35
. Adolf Hitler,
Mein Kampf
(Munich, 1932), 369–370; Konrad Keiden,
Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus
(Berlin, 1932), 36.

36
.
Living Age
12/12/25; WM/Tilo Freiherr von Wilmowsky, 5/30/63 (Essen);
Der Spiegel
6/5/63; Tilo von Wilmowsky,
Rückblickened möchte ich sagen
… (Hamburg, 1961), 178–181;
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica
, XIX, 969.

37
. Hans Kohn,
The Mind of Germany, The Education of a Nation
(New York, 1960), 308; Franz L. Neumann,
Behemoth
(New York, 1942), 23.

38
.
Süddeutsche Monatshafte
12/21/24.

39
.
Time
8/22/32, 10/17/32.

40
.
Time
9/5/32, 11/28/32.

41
.
Times
2/2/32; Arnold Brecht,
Prelude to Silence
(New York, 1944), 35.

42
. ND 203, 204, 37–25 PS.

43
. André François-Poncet,
The Fateful Years: Memoirs of a French Ambassador in Berlin 1931–1938
(New York, 1949), 61.

44
.
NYT
3/25/33; Oswald Spengler,
Jahre der Entscheidung
(Munich, 1933), xiii.

45
. Winston S. Churchill,
The Gathering Storm
(Boston, 1948), 84; Hansard 5/13/32, 7/11/32.

46
. Churchill,
Storm
, 84; Ernst Hanfstaengl,
Hitler, The Missing Years
(London, 1957), 193–196.

47
. Hansard 11/23/32;
Daily Mail
10/17/32; WSC V, 627.

48
. Günter Grass,
On Writing and Politics 1957–1983
, trans. Ralph Manheim (San Diego, 1985), cited in
NYT Book Review
6/23/85.

49
.
Times
2/18/33.

50
.
Times
2/24/34; WSC V, 545; Christopher Hollis,
The Oxford Union
(London, 1955), 184–193.

51
. Churchill,
Storm
, 85 fn.; WSC V, 504–505.

Shoals

1
.
Fodor’s London 1984
(New York, 1984), 152.

2
. WM, personal information (1/30/53).

3
. WM, personal information (1/30/53); Sir John Colville,
The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries, 1939–1955
(New York, 1985), 36.

4
. Sir David Hunt,
On the Spot: An Ambassador Remembers
(London, 1975), 30–31.

5
. Lord Boothby,
I Fight to Live
(London, 1947), 38.

6
. Telford Taylor,
Munich: The Price of Peace
(New York, 1979), 549, 550, 555.

7
. WM/Lady Soames, 10/9/80.

8
. Winston S. Churchill,
The Gathering Storm
(Boston, 1948), 83.

9
. Thomas Jones,
A Diary With Letters, 1931–1950
(Oxford, 1954), 239–265.

10
. Frank Owen,
Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George, His Life and Times
(London, 1954), 737;
Daily Express
9/16/36.

11
. DBFP series 2, vol. IV, no. 265; Vernon Bartlett,
Nazi Germany Explained
(London, 1933), 517–522.

12
. Telford Taylor, 217 fn.;
New York Herald Tribune
5/19/33, 5/12/33.

13
.
München Süddeutsche Zeitung
9/26/30;
Frankfurter Zeitung
9/26/30.

14
. Fritz Hesse,
Hitler and the English
(England, 1954), 11–12; WM/R. A. Butler, 12/5/80.

15
.
Strand
11/35.

16
. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, ed.,
Action This Day: Memoirs
by Lord Normanbrook, John Colville, Sir John Martin, Sir Ian Jacobs, Lord Bridges, Sir Leslie Rowan (London, 1968), 11.

17
. Lord Vansittart,
The Mist Procession
(London, 1958), 482; WM/R. A. Butler.

18
.
NYT
7/30/31; Lord Moran,
Churchill, Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran: The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965
(Boston, 1966), 65; Virginia Cowles,
Winston Churchill; The Era and the Man
(New York, 1953), 285.

19
. WM/A. J. P. Taylor, 12/1/80; WM/Harold Macmillan, 12/4/80; Harold Macmillan,
Winds of Change
(London, 1966), 291; Charles Eade, ed.,
Churchill by His Contemporaries
(London, 1953), 67.

20
. Elizabeth Longford,
Winston Churchill: A Pictorial Life Story
(Chicago, 1974), 84; Macmillan, 437; Victor Wallace Germains,
The Tragedy of Winston Churchill
(London, 1931).

21
. WM/Lady Soames, 10/9/80; Macmillan, 113.

22
. Kenneth Young,
Churchill and Beaverbrook: A Study in Friendship and Politics
(New York, 1966), 120–122.

23
. WM/Malcolm Muggeridge, 11/25/80.

24
. Hansard 11/23/32.

25
. DBFP series 2, vol. IV, nos. 263, 30.

26
. DBFP series 2, vol. V, nos. 5, 2229.

27
. DBFP series 2, vol. V, no. 2229.

28
. William E. Dodd,
Ambassador Dodd’s Diary, 1933–1938
, edited by William E. Dodd, Jr., and Martha Dodd (London, 1941), 239 (4/15/35); Foreign Relations of the U.S., 1937, I, 84.

29
. Jones, 180; Josiah Wedgwood,
Memoirs of a Fighting Life
(London, 1941), 225.

30
. WM/William L. Shirer, 7/5/83.

31
. WM/Shirer.

32
. Vernon Bartlett, 242–243.

33
. Churchill,
Storm
, 207.

34
. Winston S. Churchill,
While England Slept
(New York, 1938), 35.

35
. Claud Cockburn,
The Week
, No. 166, June 17, 1936; Martin Gilbert,
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
(London, 1981), 165; CAB 23/86.

36
. Stephen Roskill,
Hankey: Man of Secrets
, vol. III,
1931–1963
(London, 1974), 53.

37
. A. L. Kennedy,
Britain Faces Germany
(London, 1937), 83–86; Gilbert,
Wilderness
, 136.

38
. Hansard 6/29/31; Gilbert,
Wilderness
, 37.

39
. Hansard 6/29/31.

40
. WSC V, 445;
Daily Mail
5/26/32.

41
. ChP 18/75;
Daily Mail
5/26/32.

42
. Hansard 11/10/32.

43
. Len Deighton,
Fighter
(New York, 1977), 39.

44
.
Daily Mail
11/17/32; 11/23/32.

45
. Alistair Horne,
To Lose A Battle
(Boston, 1969), 22; WM/Lady Soames; WM/R. A. Butler.

46
. ChP 9/103;
Times
4/13/33.

47
. Hansard 4/13/33.

48
.
Birmingham Post
4/19/33.

49
. WSC V, 460–461.

50
. Macmillan, 354; Hansard 3/23/33.

51
. Hansard 3/23/33.

52
. Hansard 11/5/29 (Lords); Telford Taylor, 249.

53
.
Birmingham Post
3/28/33.

54
. Jones, 129; Murray Papers.

55
. Martin Gilbert and Richard Gott,
The Appeasers
(Boston, 1963), 11.

56
. ChP 2/266;
Times
9/27/33, 6/17/36; J. R. M. Butler,
Lord Lothian
(London, 1960), Appendix IV, 354–362.

57
. Cowles, 293.

58
.
Times
6/26/33.

59
.
Times
6/26/33.

60
. Vernon Bartlett, 242–243.

61
. Gilbert,
Wilderness
, 161; Norman Angell,
The Defence of the Empire
(New York, 1937), 183–184; Kennedy, 83–86.

62
. Eade, ed., 44.

63
. Kay Halle,
The Irrepressible Churchill: A Treasury of Winston Churchill’s Wit
(New York, 1967), 37, 181, 323.

64
. Halle, 268, 322.

65
. Hansard 7/10/35, 6/25/41.

66
. Colin Coote and Denvil Batchelor, eds.,
Maxims and Reflections
(London, 1947), 53–54; Hansard 12/8/44.

67
. Halle, 269; Coote and Batchelor, eds., 142.

68
. Hansard 1/21/31; Halle, 125, 257.

69
. Halle, 131, 133.

70
. William Safire, “Banned Words,”
NYT
10/28/84.

71
. Gilbert,
Wilderness
, 132.

72
. Telford Taylor, 205; CAB 23/76.

73
. John Baker White,
True Blue
(London, 1970), 161.

74
. ChP 2/201.

75
. BSCP 8/31/29.

76
. Cowles, 296; Gilbert,
Wilderness
, 15.

77
. Foreign Office Papers 371/16733.

78
.
Harper’s
, March 1946.

79
. Gilbert,
Wilderness
, 120.

80
.
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica
, 15th ed. (Chicago, 1974), VII, 4, 597.

81
. DBFP series 2, vol. V, no. 127;
NYT
2/17/85.

82
. Vansittart, 478.

83
. Gilbert,
Wilderness
, 118, 119.

84
. Hansard 5/11/35; Sir John Colville,
Foot-prints in Time
(London, 1976), 95; WM/Sir John Colville, 10/8/80.

85
.
Epping West Essex Gazette
8/13/33; Hansard 8/23/33.

86
. Horne, 38
passim.

87
. Oswald Spengler,
Jahre de Entscheidung
(Munich, 1935), viii; TMWC XXXIV.

88
.
Völkischer Beobachter
5/18/33.

89
. Hermann Rauschning,
Gesprache mit Hitler
(Munich, 1940), 55; Franz von Papen,
Der Wahrheit eine Gasse
(Munich, 1953), 330–333.

90
. Beaverbrook Papers.

91
. Blomberg’s directive, TMWC, XXIV, 487–491.

92
. William L. Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
(New York, 1960), 212.

93
. Gottfried Benn,
Der neue Staat und die Intellecktuellen
(Stuttgart/Berlin, 1933), 576.

94
. André François-Poncet,
De Versailles à Potsdam
(Paris, 1948), 107; ND 2001-PS; Alan Bullock,
Hitler

A Study in Tyranny
(New York, 1952), 199; ND EC-419.

95
. Wolfgang Foerster,
Ein General kaempft gegen den Krieg
(Munich, 1949), 70–73.

96
. NCA, VII, 335; Foerster, 122;
Völkischer Beobachter
8/20/34;
Frankfurter Zeitung
8/20/34;
Berliner Tageblatt
, 8/20/34.

97
. ND C-100.

98
. Telford Taylor, 205; CV V/1, 306, 307.

99
. Robert Rhodes James,
Churchill: A Study in Failure, 1900–1939
(New York, 1970), 262; “How Wars of the Future Will Be Waged,”
News of the World
4/24/38.

100
. Ronald H. Bailey and the editors of Time-Life Books,
The Air War in Europe, 1940–1945
(Chicago, 1981), 26.

101
. PrP 1/237; Bailey et al., 43; Deighton, 78.

102
. Churchill,
Storm
, 116, 127, 128.

103
. WSC V, 553.

104
. Hansard 3/11/35; Vansittart, 509.

105
. Wheeler-Bennett, ed.,
Action This Day
, 11.

106
. Lord Eustace Percy,
Some Memories
(London, 1958), 187.

107
. General Georg Thomas,
Basic Facts for a History of German War and Armament Economy
(mimeographed) (Nuremberg, 1945), cited in Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 259; NCA, I, 827–830.

108
. Walter Görlitz,
History of the German General Staff 1657–1945
(New York, 1953), 299.

109
. Vansittart, 226; Gilbert,
Wilderness
, 108; Telford Taylor, 591–592; CAB 23/83–86.

110
. ChP 2/271; WM/Kathleen Hill 11/4/80.

111
. Templewood Papers.

112
.
Times
11/17/34; WSCHCS 5433 (verse form added).

113
. Hansard 11/28/34.

114
. Hansard 11/28/34.

115
. Frances Stevenson,
Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson
, edited by A. J. P. Taylor (New York, 1971), 294.

116
. Hansard 11/28/34.

117
. Hansard 3/8/34.

118
. Telford Taylor, 246.

119
. BSCP 3/8/35.

120
. Foreign Office Papers 371/18828.

121
. White Papers Cmd. 5107; BSCP 3/8/35.

122
. Foreign Office Papers 371/18828.

123
.
NYT
3/17/35; Telford Taylor, 98; Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 284.

124
.
Strand
11/35.

125
. Hansard 3/19/35.

126
. ChP 4/143.

127
. Hansard 3/19/35.

128
. Hansard 3/19/35.

129
. Foreign Office Papers 371/18828.

130
. BSCP 4/5/35.

131
. Telford Taylor, 218.

132
. Hansard 5/2/35.

133
. Hansard 5/22/35.

134
. Vansittart, 497–498.

135
. BSCP 5/11/35, 5/13/35.

136
.
Daily Telegraph
4/26/35;
Daily Express
5/3/35.

137
. ChP 8/503; BSCP, 4/11/35.

138
. Churchill,
Storm
, 126; Coote and Batchelor, 158–159.

139
. Telford Taylor, 123.

140
.
NYT
5/23/35;
Times
5/23/35.

141
. John Evelyn Wrench,
Geoffrey Dawson and Our Times
(London, 1955), 361.

142
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 287–288.

143
. Telford Taylor, 222–223; CAB 23/82, 6/19/35.

144
. CAB 23/82, 6/19/35; Hansard 7/11/35.

145
. Telford Taylor, 223.

146
. Hansard 7/11/35.

147
.
Daily Herald
3/27/36; Halle, 299.

148
. Telford Taylor, 97.

149
. Telford Taylor, 222.

150
. Hansard 3/19/35.

151
. Churchill,
Storm
, 123.

152
. Birla Papers; Martin Gilbert,
Churchill’s Political Philosophy
(Oxford, 1981), 85–88; Peter Stansky, ed.,
Churchill: A Profile
(New York, 1973), 201.

153
. Robert Keith Middlemas and John Barnes,
Baldwin
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