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302
. Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
152–53.

303
. Dilks,
Diaries,
471–72.

304
. Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
157–59; Thompson,
Assignment: Churchill,
268; Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York, 1992), 727–30.

305
. Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
161; WSC 4, 492; Dilks,
Diaries,
472; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
301–3.

306
. Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
163; WSC 4, 499.

307
. WSCHCS, 6675.

308
. GILBERT 7, 211–12.

309
. Boatner,
Biographical Dictionary,
380; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
438; WM/Averell Harriman, 8/22/80; Colville,
Fringes,
622.

310
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
317; WSC 4, 509.

311
. WSC 4, 63, 471; Panter-Downes,
War Notes,
235–36.

312
. WSC 4, 523; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
313.

313
. Montgomery,
Memoirs,
100, 107; Ronald Walker,
Alam Halfa and Alamein
(Wellington, NZ, 1966), 180 (“The swine will not attack”).

314
. Bryant,
Tide,
412.

315
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
326; Bryant,
Tide,
407.

316
. Joesph P. Lash,
Eleanor and Franklin
(New York, 1971), 664, 666.

317
. Butcher,
Eisenhower,
20; Philip Ziegler,
London at War
(New York, 1995), 219;
Time,
10/19/42, 33–34.

318
. W&C-TPL, 459; TWY, 198.

319
. Peter Catterall, ed.,
The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, 1950–57
(London, 2003), 383; Moran,
Diaries,
692.

320
. Joseph P. Lash,
Eleanor and Franklin
(New York, 1971), 600–64, 667.

321
. TWY, 258;
Atlantic Monthly,
3/65, 79–80.

322
. Desmond Young,
Rommel: The Desert Fox
(New York, 1967), 147.

323
. Collier,
War in the Desert,
109–10; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
338.

324
. Bryant,
Tide,
417, 421.

325
. Moran,
Diaries,
83–84; Bryant,
Tide,
412, 421.

326
. Collier,
War in the Desert,
115; Montgomery,
Memoirs,
137–40.

327
. Collier,
War in the Desert,
115; William L. Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
(New York, 1960), 920; Young,
Rommel,
251; TWY, 349.

328
. WSC 4, 601; TWY, 257; WSCHCS, 6694.

329
. Miller,
U-Boats,
188.

330
. Kenneth Young,
Churchill and Beaverbrook
(London, 1966), 248–50;
Time,
11/30/42, 38.

331
. Eisenhower,
Crusade,
95.

332
. WSC 4, 529

333
. Bryant,
Tide,
415; Winterbotham,
Ultra Secret,
140; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
332.

334
. Eisenhower,
Crusade,
88; Grigg,
1943,
41; Butcher,
Eisenhower,
145.

335
. Eisenhower,
Crusade,
99–100.

336
. Jean Lacouture,
De Gaulle
(New York, 1965), 121–22.

337
. Winterbotham,
Ultra Secret,
307; Bryant,
Tide,
423; Boatner,
Biographical Dictionary,
9.

338
. Sarah Churchill,
Keep On Dancing
(London, 1981), 111; WM/Pamela Harriman, 8/22/80.

339
. GILBERT 7, 251–52; Bryant,
Tide,
423, 424; Morison,
Two-Ocean War,
220–24.

340
. Eisenhower,
Crusade,
105; Butcher,
Eisenhower,
178.

341
. WSC 4, 616; Lochner,
Goebbels Diaries,
235 (Dec. 7, 1941); A. M. Sperber,
Murrow: His Life and Times
(New York, 1986), 217.

342
. Butcher,
Eisenhower,
179.

343
. Collier,
War in the Desert,
149–50.

344
. Morison,
Two-Ocean War,
82.

345
. Eisenhower,
Crusade,
104; Farago,
Patton,
202; Morison,
Two-Ocean War,
225, 228.

346
. Carlos D’Este,
Patton: A Genius for War
(New York, 1995), 431, 435; Bryant,
Tide,
333.

347
. Eisenhower,
Crusade,
104–5; WSCHCS, 6729 (Darlan).

348
. Farago,
Patton,
200–201.

349
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall,
922–23.

350
. Panter-Downes,
War Notes,
253; WSC 4, 632; 651; C&R-TCC, 2:7; TWY, 266.

351
. WSC 4, 647; Eden,
The Reckoning,
414.

352
. C&R-TCC, 2:90, 103, 104.

353
. WSCHCS, 6695.

354
. Joseph P. Lash,
Eleanor and Franklin
(New York, 1971), 664; Wheeler-Bennett,
Action This Day,
74, 75; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
474; Colville,
Fringes,
340.

355
. Wheeler-Bennett,
Action This Day,
74; Churchill,
English-Speaking Peoples,
1: preface; Cv/2, 925–26.

356
. WSCHCS, 6499.

357
. Lady Mary Soames letter to PFR, 11/07 (“un-manned him”).

358
. GILBERT 7, 239–40; Dilks,
Diaries,
488.

359
. Soames,
Clementine,
419; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
338.

360
. Panter-Downes,
War Notes,
251.

361
. George Orwell, “England, Your England” (1941), in
A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
(Orlando, FL, 1970).

362
. George F. Kennan,
Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin
(Boston, 1960), 349.

363
. GILBERT 7, 217.

364
. GILBERT 7, 255; Martin Gilbert,
Churchill’s War Leadership
(New York, 2004), 50; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
207.

365
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
345.

Crosscurrents

1
. Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman, eds.,
Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke: War Diaries 1939–1945
(Berkeley, 2003), 344; GILBERT 7, 270–71.

2
. Richard Collier,
The War in the Desert
(New York, 1980), 159; Robert E. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
(New York, 1948), 659; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
342, 346.

3
. John Keegan,
The Second World War
(London, 1989), 297, 312, 317; GILBERT 7, 265.

4
. Samuel Eliot Morison,
The Two-Ocean War
(Boston, 1963), 199–205.

5
. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
656; Morison,
Two-Ocean War,
208.

6
. GILBERT 7, 271.

7
. Keegan,
Second World War,
234, 235.

8
. Keegan,
Second World War,
231, 234.

9
. Harry C. Butcher,
My Three Years with Eisenhower
(New York, 1946), 198; 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), 428; C&R-TCC 2:48–49.

10
. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
658.

11
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
346, 347; GILBERT 7, 298.

12
. C&R-TCC, 1:669, 2:11.

13
. Morison,
Two-Ocean War,
238; Butcher,
Eisenhower,
644.

14
. James MacGregor Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940–1945
(New York, 1970), 314.

15
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
346, 350; C&R-TCC, 1:552; Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
588, 615; Butcher,
Eisenhower,
644.

16
.
NYT,
11/12/42; GILBERT 7, 255; Bryant,
Tide,
428; WSCHCS, 6698.

17
. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
591; WSCHCS, 7160 (“intriguers”).

18
. Mark Mayo Boatner,
The Biographical Dictionary of World War II
(New York, 1999), 13–14; Bryant,
Tide,
442.

19
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
342; Louis P. Lochner,
The Goebbels Diaries 1942–1943
(New York, 1948), 160, 352.

20
. Lochner,
Goebbels Diaries,
243, 245, 250.

21
. Lochner,
Goebbels Diaries,
251, 252.

22
. Leonard Mosley,
Battle of Britain
(New York, 1980), 191; Philip Ziegler,
London at War
(New York, 1995), 224;
Time,
12/28/42.

23
. WSCHCS, 6714;
Time,
12/7/42, 40.

24
. Mollie Panter-Downes,
London War Notes, 1939–1945
(London, 1972), 254, 255, 257; GILBERT 7, 264.

25
. WM/Pamela Harriman, 8/22/80.

26
. WM/Pamela Harriman, 8/22/80.

27
. Burns,
Roosevelt,
315; C&R-TCC, 2:73.

28
. C&R-TCC, 2:109; WSC 4, 667–70; W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel,
Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin: 1941–1946
(New York, 1975), 177–78.

29
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
351, 451.

30
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
346; Bryant,
Tide,
443.

31
.
Time,
12/28/42.

32
.
Daily Telegraph,
5/11/07; WM/Jock Colville, 10/14/80; Mary Soames,
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
(New York, 2003), 69 (pink silk underclothes); Anthony Montague Browne,
Long Sunset
(London, 1996), 219–20.

33
. Tom Hickman,
Churchill’s Bodyguard
(London, 2005), 219–20.

34
. Tizard memo, Imperial War Museum archives; WSC 4, 679–80.

35
. John Colville,
The Churchillians
(London, 1981), 35.

36
. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe
(New York, 1948), 61; WSC 4, 679.

37
. GILBERT 6, 1205–6; John Colville,
The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955
(New York, 1985), 563.

38
. GILBERT 7, 647.

39
. Dean Acheson,
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
(New York, 1969), 48, 49; Browne,
Long Sunset,
127.

40
. Acheson,
Present,
48, 49, 52.

41
. Brian Gardner,
Churchill in Power: As Seen by His Contemporaries
(Boston, 1970), 211.

42
. GILBERT 7, 292–93.

43
. TWY, 286, 264–65.

44
.
Chambers Biographical Encyclopedia
(London, 1984), 135; GILBERT 7, 367;
NYT,
1/8/39.

45
. WSC 4, 930; Edward Stettinius Jr.,
Lend Lease: Weapon for Victory
(New York, 1944), 254–55.

46
. Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
180; Hastings Lionel Ismay,
The Memoirs of General Lord Ismay
(London, 1960), 284–85.

47
. Lord Moran,
Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran
(Boston, 1966), 85–86; WSC 4, 674–75.

48
. Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
180.

49
. W&C-TPL, 471.

50
. GILBERT 7, 273.

51
.
NYT,
1/25/43; Walter H. Thompson,
Assignment: Churchill
(New York, 1953), 276.

52
. Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon,
The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden
(New York, 1965), 398; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
338, 356.

53
. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
671–73;
Time,
2/1/42, 11.

54
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
359; Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
688–89.

55
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
359.

56
. GILBERT 7, 417; WSCHCS, 6785.

57
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
361; Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
689; Bryant,
Tide,
454–55.

58
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
362; Morison,
Two-Ocean War,
239; WSC 4, 692.

59
. GILBERT 7, 277; Eden,
The Reckoning,
416–17.

60
. Eden,
The Reckoning,
420, 421.

61
. Moran,
Diaries,
88; W&C-TPL, 475.

62
. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
685.

63
. The American Presidency Project, 17: Excerpts from the Press Conference for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 2/12/43.

64
.
Time,
2/5/45; Rene De Chambrun, I Saw France Fall (New York, 1940), 100.

65
. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
695–97; WSC 4, 687.

66
. WM/Averell Harriman, 8/22/80.

67
. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
695–97; WSC 4, 687–88.

68
. Butcher,
Eisenhower,
386;
Time,
5/10/43; GILBERT 7, 581; WM/Averell Harriman, 8/22/80.

69
. Moran,
Diaries,
89–90, WSC 4, 94–95; GILBERT 7, 31.

70
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
368–69.

71
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
368–69; David Dilks, ed.,
The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938–1945
(New York, 1972), 508, 510–11.

72
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
375.

73
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
375; WSC 4, 710–11.

74
.
Time Capsule 1943: A History of the Year Condensed from the Pages of Time,
edited by Henry R. Luce (New York, 1968), 121;
NYT,
2/9/43; Keegan,
Second World War,
236, 237, 458; William L. Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
(New York, 1960), 933.

75
.
Time,
2/1/43, 33–34.

76
. Dilks,
Diaries,
511; GILBERT 7, 318–19.

77
. GILBERT 7, 318–19.

78
.
Time Capsule 1943,
121.

79
. Butcher,
Eisenhower,
691; Sherwood, 677;
Sunday Telegraph,
2/9/64, 4.

80
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
378–79.

81
. Dilks,
Diaries,
513.

82
. Butcher,
Eisenhower,
255.

83
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
380.

84
. Bryant,
Tide,
474–75.

85
. W&C-TPL, 477.

86
.
NYT,
2/3/43;
NYT,
2/9/43.

87
. John Keegan,
Winston Churchill
(New York, 2002), 161.

88
. C&R-TCC, 2:138; GILBERT 7, 337.

89
. Moran,
Diaries,
95–96.

90
. Collier,
War in the Desert,
162–63; John Keegan, ed.,
Churchill’s Generals
(New York, 1991), 114; Eisenhower,
Crusade,
145; Thomas E. Griess, ed.,
The West Point Atlas for the Second World War, Europe and the Mediterranean
(New York, 2002), 41; Butcher,
Eisenhower,
267.

91
. WSC 4, 734; GILBERT 7, 348.

92
. Butcher,
Eisenhower,
273.

93
. GILBERT 7, 348, 350; WSC 4, 736–37.

94
.
Time,
5/3/43; GILBERT 7, 343; WM/Averell Harriman, 8/22/80.

95
. Collier,
War in the Desert,
168; Keegan,
Second World War,
342.

96
.
Time,
3/22/42, 26; Lochner,
Goebbels Diaries,
262.

97
. GILBERT 7, 338, 379.

98
. GILBERT 7, 352.

99
. C&R-TCC, 2:161.

100
. Morison,
Two-Ocean War,
242; Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
212.

101
. Morison,
Two-Ocean War,
242–44.

102
. C&R-TCC, 2:177.

103
. C&R-TCC, 2:180.

104
. David Miller,
U-Boats
(New York, 2000), 123–24; Morison,
Two-Ocean War,
242.

105
.
Time,
3/22/43.

106
.
Time,
3/22/43.

107
. Collier,
War in the Desert,
171–73; Eisenhower,
Crusade,
151.

108
. WM/Sir William Deakin, 1980.

109
. WSCHCS, 6755;
Time,
4/16/43, 18–19; Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
716.

110
. WSCHCS, 6756.

111
. TWY, 286.

112
.
Time,
3/1/43, 30.

113
.
Time,
4/16/43; WSCHCS, 6771.

114
. WSC 4, 769; Panter-Downes,
War Notes,
274.

115
. Eden,
The Reckoning,
440.

116
. Eden,
The Reckoning,
438–39; Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
714–15; Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
227.

117
. Colville,
Fringes,
245, 312.

118
. Eden,
The Reckoning,
432–33; George F. Kennan,
Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin
(Boston, 1960), 368; John Grigg,
1943: The Victory That Never Was
(New York, 1980), 156.

119
. Kennan,
Russia and the West,
355.

120
. Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
227; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
390.

121
.
Time,
3/22/43, 15.

122
. Kennan,
Russia and the West,
359–63; Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
206–7.

123
. Ziegler,
London at War,
237.

124
. Ziegler,
London at War,
238; Ernie Pyle,
Brave Men
(New York, 1944), 324; PFR/Andy Rooney, 5/08.

125
.
Time,
3/15/43, 28–29; WM/Averell Harriman, 8/22/80; Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
165–66.

126
.
NYT,
3/11/25; WSC 4, 749.

127
. WSC 4, 749.

128
. WSC 4, 747, 751.

129
. GILBERT 7, 370; Panter-Downes,
War Notes,
279.

130
. Lochner,
Goebbels Diaries,
387–88; Panter-Downes,
War Notes,
282.

131
. Charles Eade, ed.,
Churchill by His Contemporaries
(New York, 1954), 300–301;
Time,
5/3/43.

132
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
393.

133
. GILBERT 7, 383; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
394.

134
. Martin Gilbert,
The Second World War: A Complete History
(London, 1989), 421.

135
.
Time,
3/29/43, 25; Lochner,
Goebbels Diaries,
325.

136
.
Time,
3/15/43; GILBERT 7, 676.

137
. Lochner,
Goebbels Diaries,
318, 332.

138
. Dilks,
Diaries,
520; Lochner,
Goebbels Diaries,
348; WSC 4, 759.

139
. Dilks,
Diaries,
526; C&R-TCC, 2:194, 199; WSC 4, 759–61.

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