The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 (509 page)

354
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall,
854.

355
.
NYT,
9/2/41; Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
369.

356
. T. R. Fehrenbach,
FDR’s Undeclared War 1939–1941
(New York, 1967).

357
. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Fireside Chat, 9/11/41.

358
. Klingaman,
1941,
370.

359
. War Cabinet No. 112 of 1941; C&R-TCC, 1:265.

360
. War Cabinet No. 112 of 1941.

361
. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, 9/11/41.

362
. C&R-TCC, 1:198.

363
. C&R-TCC, 1:265.

364
. Wheeler-Bennett,
Action This Day,
202.

365
. Gordon Prange,
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
(London, 1983), 37–39, 320; Liddell Hart,
History,
227.

366
. Cv/3, 236;
Time,
1/19/42, 9.

367
. WSC 3 (memo to Ismay), 177.

368
. Colville,
Footprints,
150; Cv/3, 44; Premier (Prime Minister) Papers, Public Record Office, Kew, 3/156/6.

369
. Klingaman,
1941,
346.

370
. WSC 3, 580–81.

371
. C&R-TCC, 1:108; ChP 20/13 (Ismay Minute, 7/25/40); Colville,
Fringes,
335; Cv/3, 575.

372
. C&R-TCC, 1:257; WSC 3, 603.

373
. Cv/3, 1094.

374
. Cv/3, 1555.

375
.
Chicago Tribune,
10/27/41.

376
. Cv/3, 1111.

377
. C&R-TCC, 1:276.

378
. Cv/3, 1530–31.

379
. ChP 2/416.

380
. Eden,
The Reckoning,
325.

381
. Boatner,
Biographical Dictionary
63 (Brooke); Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
89–90.

382
. Colville,
Fringes,
446.

383
. Cv/3, 1534; Cv/3, 1530–36.

384
. C&R-TCC, 1:266.

385
. Cv/3, 1530.

386
. Colville,
Fringes,
414–15; Churchill,
Keep On Dancing,
95.

387
. WM/Lady Mary Soames, 10/27/80; Mary Soames,
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
(New York, 2003), 403; Churchill,
Keep On Dancing,
160.

388
. Soames,
Clementine,
404.

389
. Collier,
War in the Desert,
83–86.

390
. Cv/3, 1531 (Auchinleck greetings).

391
. WSCHCS, 6519.

392
. TWY, 190.

393
. TWY, 205.

394
. Cv/3, 1534–36.

395
. Keegan,
Second World War,
538.

396
. Keegan,
Second World War,
203, 206.

1
. Walter H. Thompson,
Assignment: Churchill
(New York, 1953), 3.

2
. PFR/Winston S. Churchill, 4/04 (Christmas at Chequers); WM/Pamela Harriman, 8/22/80; Martin Gilbert,
Churchill and the Jews
(New York, 2007), 2; John Colville,
The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955
(New York, 1985), 392.

3
. PFR/Winston S. Churchill (Christmas at Chequers), 4/04.

4
. Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman, eds.,
Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke: War Diaries 1939–1945
(Berkeley, 2003), 209.

5
. Cv/3, 1553; Cv/3, 1235.

6
. W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel,
Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin: 1941–1946
(New York, 1975), 111.

7
.
Time,
5/11/42, 90; C&R-TCC, 1:279.

8
. C&R-TCC, 1:280–81;
Time,
1/19/42, 9.

9
. Arthur Bryant,
The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diaries of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, 1939–1943
(New York, 1957), 233.

10
. Cv/3, 1574.

11
. WM/Averell Harriman, 8/22/80.

12
. Cv/3, 1576–77; WM/Pamela Harriman, 8/22/80; WM/Averell Harriman, 8/22/80.

13
. Cv/3, 1576–77; WM/Pamela Harriman, 8/22/80; WM/Averell Harriman, 8/22/80; WM/John Martin, 10/23/80.

14
. WSC 3, 604; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
209.

15
. Cv/3, 1579.

16
. ChP 20/36; Bryant,
Tide,
226; Duff Cooper,
Old Men Forget
(London, 1954), 301.

17
. William Manchester,
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964
(Boston, 1978), 209–11; Samuel Eliot Morison,
The Two-Ocean War
(Boston, 1963), 82; Clay Blair Jr.,
Silent Victory
(Annapolis, MD, 1975), 134, 171.

18
.
NYT,
12/12/41; Manchester,
American Caesar,
209–11; Morison,
Two-Ocean War,
82.

19
. Eisenhower,
Crusade,
21; Leonard Mosley,
Marshall: Hero for Our Times
(New York, 1982), 189–91.

20
. C&R-TCC, 1:283.

21
. WSCHCS, 6525; TWY, 194.

22
. WSC 3, 611; ChP 20/46; ChP 20/20.

23
. Cv/3, 1586; Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon,
The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden
(New York, 1965), 330–31.

24
. Mary Soames,
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
(New York, 2003), 349–50 (Komodo); WM/Viscount Antony Head, 1980.

25
. Winston S. Churchill,
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples,
4 vols. (New York, 1993), 3:212.

26
. WM/Mark Bonham Carter, 10/20/80.

27
. Cv/3, 1435; Cv/3, 1455; WM/Sir Ian Jacob, 11/12/80.

28
. Cv/3, 1083; WM/Sir Ian Jacob, 11/12/80.

29
. WM/G. M. Thompson, 1980; WSC 3, 854; WM/Sir Ian Jacob, 11/12/80.

30
. Mark Mayo Boatner,
The Biographical Dictionary of World War II
(New York, 1999), 428; Stephen Roskill,
Churchill and the Admirals
(New York, 1978), 199; Hastings Lionel Ismay,
The Memoirs of General Lord Ismay
(London, 1960), 240.

31
. WM/G. M. Thompson, 1980.

32
. Cv/3, 1592; Cecil Brown,
Suez to Singapore
(New York, 1942), 298.

33
. WSC 3, 619; David Reynolds,
Britannia Overruled
(London, 2000), 141.

34
. Brown,
Suez to Singapore,
311–23; Cv/3, 1474.

35
. Brown,
Suez to Singapore,
311–23; Cv/3, 1474.

36
. Brown,
Suez to Singapore,
328.

37
. WM/Averell Harriman, 8/22/80.

38
. Cv/3, 1593; WSC 3, 620.

39
. Mollie Panter-Downes,
London War Notes, 1939–1945
(London, 1972), 198.

40
. Thompson,
Assignment: Churchill,
245–46.

41
. Winston Churchill,
My Early Life: 1874–1904
(New York, 1996), 19; WM/Lady Mary Soames, 10/27/80.

42
. Churchill,
Early Life,
19; WM/Lady Mary Soames, 10/27/80.

43
. Hansard 12/11/41; TWY, 196–97.

44
. WSC 3, 616; CAB 69/4 (Cv/3, 1651); Winston S. Churchill,
The World Crisis,
5 vols. (New York, 1923–31), 1:212 (“gigantic castles of steel”).

45
. The Editors of the Viking Press,
The Churchill Years 1874–1965, with Foreword by Lord Butler of Saffron Walden
(London, 1965), 21; WM/R. A. B. Butler, 12/5/80.

46
. Cv/3, 1627.

47
.
Time,
1/5/42, 13–14;
Time,
3/2/42, 57.

48
.
NYT,
12/12/42.

49
. WSCHCS, 6530; TWY, 196–97.

50
. Colville,
Fringes,
404; WSCHCC, 6531.

51
. C&R-TCC, 1:286.

52
. Cv/3, 1612; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
209.

53
. GILBERT 7, 6–7; PFR/Lady Mary Soames, 6/07.

54
. W&C-TPL, 459–61.

55
. WM/G. M. Thompson, 1980.

56
.
NYT,
12/12/41.

57
. Richard Collier,
The War in the Desert
(New York, 1980), 84–85.

58
. Cv/3, 1657; David Dilks, ed.,
The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938–1945
(New York, 1972), 439.

59
. PFR/Winston S. Churchill, 5/04; Soames,
Clementine,
499.

60
. WSC 3, 696; PFR/Winston S. Churchill, 4/04.

61
. James MacGregor Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940–1945
(New York, 1970), 551.

62
. WSC 6, 400–401; C&R-TCC, 3:68–69; WSCHCS, 7117.

63
. John Gunther,
Inside Europe
(New York, 1938), 464–65; WM/Averell Harriman, 8/22/80; Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
283.

64
. Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
77, 220.

65
. Elisabeth Barker,
Churchill and Eden at War
(New York, 1978), 233–35; ChP 20/50.

66
. Cv/3, 1644.

67
. Louis P. Lochner,
The Goebbels Diaries 1942–1943
(New York, 1948), 136; Charles Burdick and Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, eds.,
The Halder War Diary, 1939–1942
(New York, 1988); Boatner,
Biographical Dictionary,
200–201.

68
. Panter-Downes,
War Notes,
191.

69
. Thompson,
Assignment: Churchill,
246; WSC 3, 682.

70
. Cv/3, 1344–45.

71
. John Keegan, ed.,
Churchill’s Generals
(New York, 1991), 86; Cv/3, 1341; WSC 4, 24.

72
. CAB 69/2; ChP 20/20.

73
. Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
216; Bryant,
Tide,
15.

74
. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe
(New York, 1948), 22.

75
. Bryant,
Tide,
16 (“salt water” general).

76
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
281; Bryant,
Tide,
234.

77
. Edward Jablonski,
Airwar: Tragic Victories
(Garden City, NY, 1971), “American Renegades,” 26–42.

78
. WSC 3, 674; Bryant,
Tide,
231.

79
. WSCHCS, 6535; Written Archives Center, U.S. National Park Service.

80
. William K. Klingaman,
1941: Our Lives in a World on the Edge
(New York, 1989), 449.

81
. WSC 3, 666.

82
. ChP 20/50;
Time,
1/5/42, 22–23;
Time,
8/3/42, 15.

83
.
Time,
1/5/42, 16; Moran,
Diaries,
11; WSCHCS, 6536.

84
. WSCHCS, 6537–39.

85
.
NYT,
12/27/41; ChP 20/49; Bryant,
Tide,
229; GILBERT 7, 28–29.

86
. WSC 3, 691; Lord Moran,
Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran
(Boston, 1966), 17–18.

87
. Moran,
Diaries,
20.

88
. WSC 3, 679; Martin Gilbert,
In Search of Churchill: A Historian’s Journey
(New York, 1994), 295–96.

89
. Thompson,
Bodyguard,
257; WSC 3, 680–81.

90
. PFR/Brig. General Albin Irzyk (U.S. Army ret.), 12/11.

91
. TWY, 199; WSC 3, 681.

92
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
217; Klingaman,
1941,
450–51.

93
. Boatner,
Biographical Dictionary,
324; WSC 3, 682–83.

94
. Boatner,
Biographical Dictionary,
324; WSC 3, 682–83; GILBERT 7, 35; WM/Pamela Harriman, 8/22/80. This was her secondhand recollection of what Churchill said to Roosevelt when the president encountered WSC naked. Afterward Churchill disputed the recollection of his bodyguard, Inspector Walter Thompson (
Assignment: Churchill,
248), and his secretary, Patrick Kinna, who both claimed Churchill said to the president, “You see Mr. President, I have nothing to conceal [or “hide”] from you.” (GILBERT 7, 28). Churchill later told Robert E. Sherwood (
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
[New York, 1948], 442–43) that he in fact had secrets to keep from the Americans, and did so.

95
.
NYT,
12/12/41.

96
. Mencken,
American Language,
785–86.

97
.
Atlantic Monthly,
3/65, 79.

98
. Tom Hickman,
Churchill’s Bodyguard
(London, 2005), 261; WSC 3, 691, 706; Celia Sandys,
Chasing Churchill
(New York, 2005), 148; WM/John Martin, 10/23/80.

99
.
Time,
5/25/42, 22–23; The Adamic Louis Papers, Slovene American Collection, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota; WM/Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10/15/80.

100
. GILBERT 6, 1215 (lisp);
Time,
9/2/46;
Time,
11/4/46.

101
. WM/Cecily (“Chips”) Gemmell, 7/10/80; WM/Jock Colville, 10/14/80.

102
. WM/Cecily (“Chips”) Gemmell, 7/10/80; WM/Jock Colville, 10/14/80; WM/Sir David Hunt, 1980.

103
. Barbara Tuchman,
Stilwell and the American Experience in China
(New York, 1971), 296, 308–9.

104
. Tuchman,
Stilwell,
625; WSC 3, 705; WSC 4, 123.

105
. WSC 3, 689–90;
Time,
5/5/43.

106
. WSC 2, 115; Morison,
Two-Ocean War,
138.

107
. WSC 3, 710–11.

108
. WSC 3, 708.

109
. GILBERT 7, 53–54; Eden,
The Reckoning,
369.

110
. ChP 20/23; WSC 4, 8.

111
. Moran,
Diaries,
28; WSC 4, 60–61.

112
. Brian Gardner,
Churchill in Power: As Seen by His Contemporaries
(Boston, 1970), 150.

113
. David Stafford,
Churchill and Secret Service
(London, 2000), 280.

114
.
Time,
3/2/42, 27 (“Christ and Carrots” Cripps); Lochner,
Goebbels Diaries,
137.

115
. Kenneth Young,
Churchill and Beaverbrook
(London, 1966), 230, 232; WSC 4, 75; Cv/3, 1373–74; Gardner,
Churchill in Power,
183.

116
. WSC 4, 61; Gardner,
Churchill in Power,
157.

117
. Gardner,
Churchill in Power,
147.

118
. John Colville,
The Churchillians
(London, 1981), 69; John Wheeler-Bennett,
Action This Day: Working with Churchill
(London, 1968), 79; Charles Eade, ed.,
Churchill by His Contemporaries
(New York, 1954), 298; WM/Jock Colville, 10/14/80.

119
. Brian Gardner,
Churchill in Power: As Seen by His Contemporaries
(Boston, 1970), 152; Moran,
Diaries,
80; WSCHCS, 7269.

120
. Jan Morris,
The Matter of Wales
(New York, 1984), 404, 405; Gardner,
Churchill in Power,
152; Moran,
Diaries,
649.

121
. WM/Pamela Harriman, 8/22/80; WSC 4, 61; Gardner,
Churchill in Power,
157; TWY, 207, 208, 209; Colville,
Fringes,
737.

122
. WM/Averell Harriman, 8/22/80; WSC 4, 61; Gardner,
Churchill in Power,
157; TWY, 207, 208, 209.

123
. Gardner,
Churchill in Power,
158.

124
. TWY, 209.

125
.
Time,
10/24/1941.

126
. WSC 3, 576–77.

127
. WSC 3, 576–77; W&C-TPL, 558;
Time,
5/3/43, 40.

128
. Collier,
War in the Desert,
89; WSC 4, 21; TWY, 209.

129
.
Time,
3/2/42, 20.

130
. Basil Collier,
The Second World War: A Military History from Munich to Hiroshima
(New York, 1967), 268;
Time,
3/2/42, 20.

131
. Brown,
Suez to Singapore,
370, 392.

132
. WSC 4, 50–51; Collier,
Second World War,
273.

133
. Brown,
Suez to Singapore,
373; Cooper,
Old Men,
305; PFR/Michael Browning, 7/04.

134
. GILBERT 7, 47, 57; ChP 20/67.

135
. John Toland,
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945
(London, 2003), 336–37;
Time,
3/2/42, 21; C&R-TCC, 1:381; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
231.