The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 (296 page)

177
. Gardner, 17–18.

178
. Command Paper 6144.

179
. DGFP series D, vol. VII, nos. 664, 639, 648.

180
. ChP 4/96; Churchill,
Storm
, 406.

181
. WM/Kathleen Hill, 11/4/80.

182
. Camrose Papers; Hankey Papers.

183
. Minney, 225.

184
. Minney, 225, 226.

185
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 731, 713.

186
. Spears, I, 18.

187
. Churchill,
Storm
, 406; Spears, I, 20.

188
. Spears, I, 20; Hansard 9/2/39.

189
. Hugh Dalton,
Memoirs, 1931–1945: The Fateful Years
(London, 1957), 264–265; Alfred Duff Cooper,
Old Men Forget
(London, 1953), 259; Spears, I, 21; Churchill,
Storm
, 406; L. S. Amery,
My Political Life
, 3 vols. (London, 1953), III, 324; Hansard 9/2/33.

190
. Amery, III, 324; Ivone Kirkpatrick,
The Inner Circle
(London, 1959), 143–144; Spears, I, 22; Halifax, 210.

191
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 734.

192
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 751.

193
. DGFP series D, vol. VII, no. 558.

194
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, nos. 740, 743.

195
. Lady Diana Cooper,
The Light of Common Day
(Boston, 1959), 257; WM/Lady Diana Cooper, 10/20/80.

196
. WM/Lady Diana Cooper; Duff Cooper, 259.

197
. Duff Cooper, 259; Churchill,
Storm
, 407; Norwich Papers.

198
. Norwich Papers.

199
. Norwich Papers.

200
. Norwich Papers.

201
. ChP 4/96; Churchill,
Storm
, 407.

202
. ChP 4/96; Churchill,
Storm
, 407.

203
. Minney, 226;
Sunday Times
9/6/64; Robert Rhodes James,
Churchill: A Study in Failure
, 1900–1939 (London, 1970), 379; Amery, III, 324.

204
.
Sunday Times
9/6/64; Minney, 227.

205
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 739.

206
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 740.

207
.
Sunday Times
9/6/64; Bonnet, 364.

208
. Gilbert and Gott, 308; DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 741.

209
. Kirkpatrick, 143–144.

210
.
Sunday Times
9/6/64; Minney, 227; DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 746.

211
.
Sunday Times
9/6/64.

212
.
Sunday Times
9/6/64.

213
. Norwich Papers, Duff Cooper diary; ChP 8/639.

214
. Kirkpatrick, 144; Bonnet, 363; Count Galeazzo Ciano,
The Ciano Diaries, 1939–1943
, edited by Hugh Wilson (London, 1946), 137.

215
. Dahlerus, 109.

216
. ChP 2/363; Churchill,
Storm
, 408; W. H. Thompson,
Sixty Minutes with Winston Churchill
(London, 1953).

217
. W. H. Thompson; Martia Russell Papers; Churchill,
Storm
, 408.

218
. Hansard 9/3/39; Churchill,
Storm
, 409.

219
. Hansard 9/3/39.

220
. Hansard 9/3/39.

221
. Amery Papers, Amery Diary.

222
. Churchill,
Storm
, 409; Gilbert,
Wilderness
, 267.

223
. Churchill,
Storm
, 419–420; Laurence Thompson,
1940
(New York, 1966), 31.

224
. CAB 65/1; Churchill,
Storm
, 442; Minney, 228–230; WM/Sir Ian Jacob, 11/1/80; Jacob to Martin Gilbert, 7/1/82.

225
. WM/Lady Diana Cooper.

1
. WM/Kathleen Hill, 11/4/80; Winston S. Churchill,
The Gathering Storm
(Boston, 1948), 409–410.

2
. Churchill,
Storm
, 410; CAB 100/1; Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fraser of North Cape, “Churchill and the Navy,” in Sir James Marchant, ed.,
Winston Spencer Churchill: Servant of Crown and Commonwealth
(London, 1954), 78–79; Jonn Higham recollections in conversation with Martin Gilbert, 3/1/82.

3
. Hansard 9/6/39; Churchill,
Storm
, 331; CAB 16/11.

4
. Fraser, in Marchant, 81.

5
. ChP 4/123.

6
. Sir John Colville,
The Churchillians
(London, 1981), 88.

7
. T. R. Fehrenbach,
F.D.R.’s Undeclared War 1939–1941
(New York, 1967).

8
. Francis L. Loewenheim, Harold D. Langley, and Manfred Jonas, eds.,
Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence
(New York, 1975), 5.

9
.
New York Sun
9/2/39;
NYT
8/20/14, 9/4/39.

10
. Fehrenbach, 42–43.

11
. Churchill,
Storm
, 440–441.

12
. Admiralty Papers 199/1928; ChP 4/123.

13
. Churchill,
Storm
, 421; WM/Lady Soames, 10/9/80; Mary Soames,
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
(Boston, 1979), 372.

14
. Diana Cooper,
Trumpet from the Steep
(London, 1960), 37.

15
. Pim Papers; Arthur Marder,
From the Dardanelles to Oran
(London, 1974), 29; Fraser, in Marchant, 87.

16
. Pim Papers.

17
. Pim Papers.

18
. Recollections of Bernard Sendall in conversation with Martin Gilbert, 11/14/79; Shakespeare Papers.

19
. Churchill,
Storm
, 411; Fraser, in Marchant, 79–80; Arthur Marder, “Winston Is Back: Churchill at the Admiralty,”
English Historical Review
, Supplement 5 (Aberdeen, 1972), 2; Marder,
Dardanelles
, 106–107.

20
. Turner Catledge,
My Life and the Times
(New York, 1971), 157.

21
. Marder,
English Historical Review
, 2; Admiralty Papers 205/2.

22
. Charles Eade, ed.,
Churchill by His Contemporaries
(New York, 1954), 121; Fraser, in Marchant, 78–80.

23
. Führer’s Conferences on Naval Affairs, 1939 (mimeographed by British Admiralty, London, 1947), 13–14.

24
. DBFP series 3, vol. VII, no. 283.

25
. ND C-189, C-190.

26
. Churchill,
Storm
, 163–164.

27
. DBFP series 3, vol. VIII, no. 283.

28
. Hansard 9/26/39.

29
. Hansard 9/26/39.

30
. WSCHCS 6160–6164 (10/1/39).

31
. Winston S. Churchill,
The World Crisis
, 5 vols. and
The Aftermath
(New York, 1923–1931), II, 391.

32
. Churchill,
Storm
, 429.

33
. Chiefs of Staff, 17 of 1939; CAB 79/1; Stephen Roskill,
The War at Sea
, 3 vols. (London, 1954), I, 78–80.

34
. Churchill,
Storm
, 433–444.

35
. CAB 65/1; Admiralty Papers 205/2.

36
. William L. Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
(New York, 1960), 646.

37
. Churchill,
Storm
, 433.

38
. Brian Gardner,
Churchill in Power: As Seen by His Contemporaries
(Boston, 1970), 27; Hansard 11/8/39; CAB 65/1.

39
. William L. Shirer,
Berlin Diary
(New York, 1941), 237.

40
. WM/Lady Soames; Soames, 372.

41
. Churchill,
Storm
, 528, 527; Soames, 374; Templewood Papers.

42
. Marder,
English Historical Review
, 2; J. H. Godfrey,
Naval Memoirs of Admiral J. H. Godfrey
(privately printed, 1964–1965), I, vi, 35.

43
. Marder,
English Historical Review
, 9.

44
. ChP 19/3; Churchill,
Storm
, 465.

45
. ChP 19/3; Churchill,
Storm
, 465.

46
. Captain J. S. S. Litchfield to the author; Marder,
English Historical Review
, 3; Churchill,
Storm
, 414.

47
. Hansard 12/6/39; Churchill,
Storm
, 414, 505–508, 706–711; Marder,
English Historical Review
, 10, 28; CAB 65/6.

48
. Admiralty Papers 199/1928; Churchill,
Storm
, 413–414.

49
. Admiralty Papers 205/5, 199/19.

50
. Admiralty Papers 199/1928, 205/5; Marder,
English Historical Review
, 31–38; WSC VI, 26–27, 37–38.

51
. Fraser, in Marchant, 78.

52
. Fraser, in Marchant, 78; ChP 19/3, 25/4; CAB 16/132; Weir Papers.

53
. S. W. Roskill, “Marder, Churchill, and the Admiralty 1932–42,” RUSI
Journal
, December 1972.

54
. Admiralty Papers 205/6.

55
. Vice-Admiral R. D. Oliver to the author; Marder,
English Historical Review
, 22.

56
. Donald McLachan, “Naval Intelligence in the Second World War,” RUSI
Journal
, 112, August 1967, 244.

57
. CAB 66/1; Admiralty papers 199/1928.

58
. Charles Stuart, ed.,
The Reith Diaries
(London, 1975), 249; CAB 132/33.

59
. B. H. Liddell Hart,
The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart
, 2 vols. (London, 1965), II, 27.

60
. Charles de Gaulle,
Le fil de l’épée
(Paris, 1932).

61
. Robert Wernick,
Blitzkrieg
(New York, 1976), 24.

62
. Churchill,
Storm
, 450, 442.

63
. Churchill,
Storm
, 451.

64
. CAB 61/11.

65
. CAB 65/1; Command Paper 6144 (Treaty Series No. 58) 1939.

66
. B. H. Liddell Hart,
History of the Second World War
(New York, 1971), 18; William L. Shirer,
The Collapse of the Third Republic
(New York, 1969), 519; Churchill,
Storm
, 558.

67
. Churchill,
Storm
, 451; CAB 83/3, 92/111; WSC VI, 15.

68
. Hoare Diary, Templewood Papers; CAB 66/1; ChP 4/131.

69
. CAB 65/1, 100/1; L. S. Amery,
My Political Life
, 3 vols. (London, 1953), III, 330; E. L. Spears,
Assignment to Catastrophe
, 2 vols. (New York, 1955), I 31–32; Hugh Dalton,
Memoirs, 1931–1945: The Fateful Years
(London, 1957), 274.

70
. R. J. Minney,
The Private Papers of Hore-Belisha
(London, 1960), 251; Iain Macleod,
Neville Chamberlain
(New York, 1962), 286.

71
. Hansard 9/6/39; Spears, I, 29; Dalton, 274, 277.

72
. Sir Keith Feiling,
The Life of Neville Chamberlain
(London, 1946), 440.

73
. Churchill,
Storm
, 574–575.

74
. Dalton, 292; L. F. Ellis,
The War in France and Flanders
(London, 1953), 30–31; Viscount Templewood,
Nine Troubled Years
(London, 1954), 428.

75
. General Maurice Gustave Gamelin,
Servir
, 3 vols. (Paris, 1947), II, 413–416, 424–425; Sir Lewis B. Namier,
Diplomatic Prelude
(London, 1948), 459–460.

76
. Gamelin, I, 23–24;
Événements
, II, 276–278.

77
. Gamelin, I, 24.

78
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 840.

79
. TMWC XI, 350; TMWC X, 519.

80
. TWCXII, 1086.

81
. Franz Haider diary, 9/7/39.

82
. Jacques Minart,
P.C. Vincennes Secteur 4
, 2 vols. (Paris, 1945), I, 19–20; Gamelin, III, 60–61, 55.

83
. Général André Beaufre,
Le Drame de 1940
(Paris, 1965), 189; Général Charles de Gaulle,
Mémoires de Guerre
, 3 vols. (Paris, 1954), I, 22.

84
. TMWC I, 257.

85
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 744.

86
. A. J. P. Taylor,
The Origins of the Second World War
(New York, 1962), 228 fn. 4.

87
. Virginia Cowles,
Winston Churchill: The Era and the Man
(New York, 1953), 313.

88
. WSCHCS 6160–6164 (10/1/39; verse form added).

89
. WSCHCS 6160–6164.

90
. Sir John Colville,
The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries
1939–1955 (New York, 1985), 29; Templewood Papers; Chamberlain Papers.

91
. Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 229;
Time
10/16/39.

92
. WSCHCS 6171–6175 (11/12/39).

93
. WSCHCS 6171–6175 (11/12/39).

94
. Colville,
Fringes
, 50; Harold Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters, 1930–1962
, edited by Nigel Nicolson, 3 vols. (London, 1966), II, 59.

95
. WSCHCS 6183–6186 (1/20/40; verse form added).

96
. Hoare diary, Templewood Papers; ChP 23/3.

97
. CAB 11/39; Général Paul-Emile Tournoux, “Les origines de la ligne Maginot,”
Revue d’Histoire de la Deuxième Mondiale
, No. 33, January 1959, 14.

98
. WSCHCS 6183–6186 (1/20/40).

99
. Churchill,
Storm
, 541; Liddell Hart,
Second World War
, 45.

100
. Kay Halle,
The Irrepressible Churchill: A Treasury of Winston Churchill’s Wit
(New York, 1967), 153.

101
. WSCHCS 6171–6175 (11/12/39).

102
. B. Baxter,
Men, Martyrs, and Mountebanks
(London, 1940), 251; Cowles, 312–313.

103
. Nicolson, II, 34–35, 37, 38.

104
. Laurence Thompson,
1940
(New York 1966), 32.

105
. WSCHCS 6171–6175 (11/12/39); Colville,
Fringes
, 108; N. Chamberlain Papers, diary.

106
. Cowles, 311; Gardner, 21.

107
. Churchill,
Storm
, 495.

108
. Churchill,
Storm
, 494–495.

109
. Soames, 374; Fraser, in Marchant, 81.

110
. Soames, 374; Diana Cooper, 37; WM/Lady Soames; WM/Lady Diana Cooper.

111
. Thompson, 24.

112
.
Times
10/5/39; ChP 1/355.

113
. WM/Lady Soames.

114
. Thompson, 17.

115
. WM/Lady Soames.

116
. Feiling, 424; Churchill,
Storm
, 549; Fehrenbach, 45.

117
. T. Harrison and C. Madge, eds.,
War Begins at Home
(London, 1940), 39; Margery Allingham,
The Oaken Heart
(London, 1941), 84; Thompson, 14.

118
.
Time
1/22/40.

119
. Colville,
Fringes
, 116; Thompson, 15; ChP 19/2.

120
.
Times
12/26/39.

121
. Thompson, 13–28
passim.

122
. Thompson, 13–28
passim.

123
. Thompson, 13–28
passim.

124
. Thompson, 16.

125
. Telford Taylor,
The Breaking Wave: The Second World War in the Summer of 1940
(New York, 1967), 39.

126
. CAB 65/3.

127
. ChP 19/2.

128
. ND L-52; DGFP series D, vol. VIII, no. 224.

129
. WM/William L. Shirer, 7/20/71; Emmanuel Beau de Loménie,
La Mort de la Troisième République
(Paris, 1951), 128–129.

130
. Foreign Relations of the U.S., 1940, I, 107.

131
. Churchill,
Storm
, 479.

132
.
Time
9/18/39; Shirer,
Berlin Diary
, 9/26/39.

133
. Alphonse Goutard,
1940: La Guerre des Occasions Perdus
(Paris, 1956), 234.

134
. Shirer,
Collapse
, 535–536.

135
. Goutard, 132–133.

136
. CAB 83/3; Churchill,
Storm
, 558–559.

137
.
Événements
, III, 690, Beaufre, 232; Shirer,
Collapse
, 620–621.

138
. Shirer,
Collapse
, 183–187.

139
.
Time
12/18/39.

140
. Ronald Steel,
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
(Boston, 1980), 381.

141
. Goutard, 131.

142
. Goutard, 131;
Événements
, II, 281–282; Shirer,
Collapse
, 533–534

143
. CAB 65/1.

144
. CAB 65/1; ChP 19/3; Eade, ed., 122.

145
. CAB 65/1; ChP 19/3; Churchill,
Storm
, 554.

146
. Churchill,
Storm
, 561–562.

147
. Sir Philip Vian,
Action This Day: A War Memoir
(London, 1960), 26.

148
. Marder,
English Historical Review
, 31 fn.

149
. Churchill,
Storm
, 561–562; Nicolson, II, 59.

150
. Churchill,
Storm
, 562, 564.

151
. Churchill,
Storm
, 564; Vian, 26; ChP 19/5.

152
. WSC VI, 154.

153
. Churchill,
Storm
, 563; Marder,
English Historical Review
, 30; Thompson, 51.