The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 (295 page)

1
. Ironside Papers.

2
. Ironside Papers.

3
. PrP 1/332.

4
. Ironside Papers.

5
. Hansard 4/3/39.

6
.
Daily Telegraph
5/4/39.

7
. Hansard 4/3/39.

8
.
Sunday Express
12/5/30;
Times
1/21/27.

9
. Hansard 4/3/39.

10
. Keith Feiling,
The Life of Neville Chamberlain
(London, 1946), 603; Hansard 4/13/39.

11
. DBFP series 5, vol. II, no. 1222, 623–624; Ivan Maisky,
The Origins of the Second World War
, broadcast talk, 1961, cited in Martin Gilbert and Richard Gott,
The Appeasers
(Boston, 1963), 31.

12
. DBFP series 5, vol. II, no. 1221; DBFP series 5, vol. IV, no. 433; Hansard 3/23/39; WM/Lord Boothby, 10/16/80; Lord Boothby,
I Fight to Live
(London, 1947), 189.

13
. Harold Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters, 1930–1962
, edited by Nigel Nicolson, 3 vols. (London, 1966), I, 394.

14
. Nicolson, I, 391.

15
. N. Chamberlain Papers.

16
. Harold Macmillan,
Winds of Change
(London, 1966), 542.

17
. Thomas Jones,
A Diary with Letters, 1931–1950
(Oxford, 1954), 418–419.

18
. Hansard 4/13/39.

19
.
Times
4/16/39.

20
. David Dilks, ed.,
The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan O.M. 1938–1945
(New York, 1972), 4/19/39; Lord Halifax,
Fullness of Days
(London, 1957), 206–207; DBFP series 3, vol. V, nos. 228, 229.

21
. DBFP series 3, vol. I, no. 107.

22
. WM/Harold Macmillan, 12/4/80; Macmillan, 542; Winston S. Churchill,
The Gathering Storm
(Boston, 1948), 365.

23
. Jones, 418;
Le Monde
3/28/39.

24
. Dilks, ed., 175; CAB 23/98.

25
. Jones, 210; CAB 27/624, 27/627.

26
. CAB 27/624, 27/627.

27
. Dilks, ed., 180; WM/Duncan Sandys, 11/7/80.

28
. Churchill,
Storm
, 366.

29
. Robert Coulondre,
De Staline à Hitler: Souvenirs de deux ambassades, 1936–1939
(Paris, 1950), 270; Georges Bonnet,
De Munich à la guerre
(Paris, 1967), 184.

30
. Telford Taylor,
Munich: The Price of Peace
(New York, 1979), 975; William L. Shirer,
The Collapse of the Third Republic
(New York, 1969), 428; Churchill,
Storm
, 366, 367;
Frankfurter Zeitung
5/7/39.

31
. Nicolson, I, 401; Churchill,
Storm
, 366.

32
.
Daily Telegraph
5/4/39.

33
. Camrose Papers.

34
. William L. Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
(New York, 1960), 481.

35
. Churchill,
Storm
, 371, 373–374; Hansard 5/19/39; Feiling, 603.

36
. Feiling, 603; ChP 2/332.

37
. Hansard 5/19/39.

38
. Hansard 5/19/39.

39
.
Observer
7/22/39.

40
. Richard M. Watt,
Bitter Glory: Poland and Its Fate 1918–1939
(New York, 1974), 389–390; DBFP series 3, vol. VI, nos. 104–107; DGFP series D, vol. V, no. 13; Dilks, ed., 163–164; CAB 27/624.

41
. Józef Beck,
Dernier Rapport: politique polonaise 1926–1939
(Neuchatel, 1951), 187–189; DBFP series 3, vol. IV, no. 518.

42
. DGFP series D, vol. IV, no. 518.

43
. DBFP series 3, vol. V, no. 163; vol. VI, no. 16.

44
.
NYT
4/29/39; Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 455, 471.

45
. NCA, VI, 916–928.

46
. N. Chamberlain Papers; DGFP series D, vol. VII, no. 417.

47
. DGFP series D, vol. IV, no. 513; vol. VII, no. 307, ND TC-73.

48
. ChP 2/360.

49
. ChP 2/367.

50
. ChP 9/137.

51
. ChP 4/19;
Yorkshire Post
6/28/39; WSCHCP 6141–6142.

52
. N. Chamberlain Papers.

53
. DBFP series 3, vol. VI, nos. 289, 197, 198.

54
. DBFP series 3, vol. VI, no. 212; Hansard 7/10/39.

55
. N. Chamberlain Papers.

56
. DBFP series 3, vol. VI, nos. 176, 222, 327; Gilbert and Gott, 256.

57
. WM/Macmillan; Macmillan 542; DBFP series 3, vol. VI, no. 659.

58
. N. Chamberlain papers.

59
.
Times
6/13/39; Churchill,
Storm
, 389; Nicolson, I, 404.

60
. Churchill,
Storm
, 387–388.

61
. DDF-2e-II, III, IV, V; Earl of Avon,
Facing the Dictators
(Boston, 1962), 547–548.

62
.
Observer
7/22/39.

63
. WM/Boothby.

64
. Templewood Papers; Churchill,
Storm
, 363.

65
.
Pravda
6/16/39; Churchill,
Storm
, 390, 365, 368.

66
. Telford Taylor, 976; Dilks, ed., 189.

67
. WM/Macmillan; Macmillan, 542.

68
. Churchill,
Storm
, 363; Boothby,
I Fight to Live
, 189.

69
. Shirer,
Collapse
, 428fn.

70
. WM/Walter Lippmann, 10/10/64; “The Reminiscences of Walter Lippmann,” 191–193, in Oral History Collection, Yale University Walter Lippmann Collection; Shirer,
Collapse
, 426.

71
.
Le Livre Jaune Français. Documents diplomatiques, 1039–1940
, No. 120, 153–155.

72
. Churchill,
Storm
, 367–370; DGFP series D, vol. VI, nos. 616–617.

73
. Churchill,
Storm
, 393–394.

74
. DGFP series D, vol. VI, no. 429.

75
. ND 1526-PS, 084-PS, 288-P;
Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939–1941. Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Office
(Washington, 1948), 5–7, 8–9.

76
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 503.

77
. DGFP series D, vol. VI, nos. 1033–1035.

78
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 673; DBFP, Appendix V, 763.

79
. Shirer,
Collapse
, 454, 455–456; DBFP series 3, Appendix II, nos. 558–614;
Événements
, I, 39ff.

80
. Shirer,
Collapse
, 454–456.

81
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 714.

82
. Hansard 4/3/39.

83
. DBFP series 3, vol. V, Appendix I (i); vol. VI, nos. 458, 460.

84
. DBFP series 3, vol. VI, no. 461.

85
. DBFP series 3, vol. VI, no. 585.

86
. Shirer,
Collapse
, 451.

87
. Several of the author’s interviewees have cited WSC’s quip about weekends.

88
. Shirer,
Collapse
, 451–455.

89
. DGFP series D, vol. VII, nos. 49, 58–59, nn. 13, 48.

90
. Shirer,
Collapse
, 452.

91
. ND 1618–PS; DGFP series D, vol. II, nos. 67–68.

92
. DGFP series D, vol. VII, no. 75.

93
. DGFP series D, vol. VII, no. 105.

94
. Shirer,
Collapse
, 463; DGFP series D, vol. VII, no. 113.

95
. DGFP series D, vol. VII, no. 125.

96
. Shirer,
Collapse
, 465.

97
. Churchill,
Storm
, 391, 380.

98
. Bonnet, 301–302; General Maurice Gustave Gamelin,
Servir
, 3 vols. (Paris, 1946), I, 23–24.

99
. DBFP series 3, no. 212;
Événements
, II (Docs.), 276–278; Bonnet, 305–308.

100
. N. Chamberlain Papers.

101
. Selborne Papers; Nicolson, I, 8/1/39; WSC V, 1095.

102
. Nicolson, I, 407.

103
. Hansard 8/2/39.

104
. Hansard 8/2/39.

105
. Nicolson, I, 407–408.

106
. ChP 9/137.

107
. ChP 9/137.

108
. Jones, 419.

109
.
Observer
7/22/39.

110
. DGFP series D, vol. VII, nos. 62–64.

111
. ChP 2/365.

112
. BSCP 8/14/39.

113
. BSCP; E. L. Spears,
Assignment to Catastrophe
, 2 vols. (New York, 1955), I, 5.

114
. Alistair Horne,
To Lose a Battle
(Boston, 1969), 29.

115
. Spears, I, 9.

116
. Spears, I, 10.

117
. ChP 2/371.

118
. ChP 2/371.

119
. See Churchill,
Storm
, 474–475; ChP 2/371.

120
. Shirer,
Collapse
, 186.

121
. Spears, I, 9; Horne, 18; Churchill,
Storm
, 474; Simone de Beauvoir,
The Prime of Life
, trans. Peter Green (New York, 1962), 33.

122
. Churchill,
Storm
, 474; Horne, 72.

123
. Winston S. Churchill,
Their Finest Hour
(Boston, 1949), 36–37.

124
.
News of the World
4/24/38.

125
. B. H. Liddell Hart,
The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart
, 2 vols. (London, 1965), I, 373.

126
. Spears, I, 7.

127
. WM/Lady Soames, 10/9/80; Consuelo Balsan,
The Glitter and the Gold
(New York, 1952), 298.

128
. Maze Papers, Maze diary.

129
. Churchill,
Storm
, 400; Nicolson, I, 411; Brian Gardner,
Churchill in Power: As Seen by His Contemporaries
(Boston, 1940), 18.

130
. Churchill,
Storm
, 400–401.

131
. Churchill,
Storm
, 401.

132
. Churchill,
Storm
, 401; Mary Soames,
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
(Boston, 1979), 369.

133
. Nicolson, I, 411; ChP 1/344.

134
. Churchill,
Storm
, 396; CV V/3, 1597; Nicolson, I, 413; Norwich Papers.

135
. WSC V, 1105; Norwich Papers, Duff Cooper diary.

136
. Ironside Papers.

137
. ChP 2/361.

138
. Churchill,
Storm
, 396.

139
. The British Blue Book, 98–104; DGFP series D, vol. VII, nos. 210–219; Churchill,
Storm
, 396–397.

140
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 564.

141
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 564; Churchill,
Storm
, 442–443.

142
. C. Roberts,
The Nazi Claim to Colonies
, Introduction by Alfred Duff Cooper (London, 1939).

143
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 309.

144
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 367.

145
. The British Blue Book, 120–123.

146
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 479–480.

147
. Winston S. Churchill,
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
, 4 vols. (London, 1956–1958), I, 58–59.

148
. R. J. Minney,
The Private Papers of Hore-Belisha
(London, 1960), 220.

149
. Churchill,
English-Speaking Peoples
, II, 125–126.

150
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 3.

151
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 349, note 7; no. 402, note 3; nos. 406, 411.

152
. ChP 8/626.

153
. Churchill,
English-Speaking Peoples
, III, 306–308.

154
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, nos. 420, 426, 455.

155
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 455.

156
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 508.

157
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 508; Sir Nevile Henderson,
Failure of a Mission: Berlin 1937–1939
(New York, 1940), 266.

158
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 519.

159
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, nos. 501, 493; Henderson, 267–268.

160
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, nos. 523, 526.

161
. Foreign Relations of the U.S., Kennedy to Hull, 8/30/39; Minney, 223–224; DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 539.

162
. ND 2751-PS.

163
. Henderson, 270.

164
. Paul Schmidt,
Statist auf diplomatischer Buehne
(Bonn, 1949), 460; DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 589.

165
. DGFP series D, vol. VII, no. 405.

166
. ChP 2/364.

167
. ChP 8/626, 8/624.

168
. ChP 8/624.

169
. Ironside Papers.

170
.
Daily Mirror
7/13/39; Churchill,
Storm
, 405.

171
. Churchill,
Storm
, 405; Martin Gilbert,
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
(London, 1981), 262.

172
. Hansard, 9/1/39.

173
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 602.

174
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 500; Birger Dahlerus,
The Last Attempt
(London, 1947), 120; TMWC IX, 471.

175
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 644.

176
. DGFP series D, vol. VII, nos. 509–510; Josiah Wedgewood,
Memoirs of a Fighting Life
(London, 1941), 225.