The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 (515 page)

140
. Colville,
Fringes,
591.

141
. Gilbert,
Second World War,
669; WSC 6, 516.

142
. Keegan,
Second World War,
521–22.

143
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall,
1112, 1117; Albert Speer,
Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs by Albert Speer
(Macmillan, 1970), 480.

144
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall,
1114; Speer,
Memoirs,
473.

145
. Speer,
Memoirs,
480, 485.

146
. David Rising, “Hitler’s Final Days Described by Bodyguard,” AP, 4/24/05.

147
. WSC 6, 502–3; Harry S. Truman,
Year of Decisions
(Garden City, NY, 1955), 106–7.

148
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall,
1131, 1138; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
686.

149
. GILBERT 7, 1318–22; Eden,
The Reckoning,
615–16; Colville,
Fringes,
592.

150
. Djilas,
Conversations,
114.

151
. WSC 6, 506–7; Eden,
The Reckoning,
616.

152
. Colville,
Fringes,
596–97.

153
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall,
1133.

154
. Louis P. Lochner,
The Goebbels Diaries, 1942–1943
(New York, 1948), 254.

155
. Shirer,
Rise and Fall,
1136–37; Keegan,
Second World War,
528.

156
. Colville,
Fringes,
588, 590; TWY, 453.

157
. TWY, 453;
Time,
5/14/45, 70.

158
. Colville,
Fringes,
596.

159
. Rising, “Hitler’s Final Days”; Keegan,
Second World War,
532; Mary Shelley, the final line of
Frankenstein; Time,
5/7/45, 45.

160
. WSCHCS, 7150.

161
.
Times,
5/3/45.

162
. Montgomery,
Memoirs,
335–36.

163
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
687.

164
. Dilks,
Diaries,
736, 738.

165
. Ismay,
Memoirs,
394.

166
.
Time,
5/7/45, 37; Panter-Downes,
War Notes,
373.

167
. Ismay,
Memoirs,
395; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
687–88.

168
.
The Daily Telegraph,
5/8/45; Panter-Downes,
War Notes,
376.

169
. Cooper,
Old Men,
325.

170
. TWY, 457.

171
. Moran,
Diaries,
269.

172
. WSCHCS, 7154; TWY, 457.

173
. WSCHCS, 7155; Panter-Downes,
War Notes,
377–78.

174
. WSCHCS, 7161; Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
689.

175
. Panter-Downes,
War Notes,
378; TWY, 459.

176
. WSCHCS, 7155.

177
. Soames,
Clementine,
375; GILBERT 7, 1351.

178
. My wording recalls the translation by Emily Wilson (
Six Tragedies,
Oxford, 2010).

1
. WSCHCS, 7214.

2
. Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman, eds.,
Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke: War Diaries 1939–1945
(Berkeley, 2003), 691; John Keegan,
The Second World War
(London, 1989), 590–91.

3
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
691.

4
. WSC 6, 571, 573.

5
. WSC 6, 575.

6
. WSC 6, 578.

7
. Keegan,
Second World War,
592–93; Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe
(New York, 1948), 439.

8
. Viscount Montgomery of Alamein,
The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery
(London, 1958), 356; WSCHCS, 7214.

9
. WSCHCS, 7163.

10
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
598, 690, 693, 695; Montgomery,
Memoirs,
214–15.

11
. Montgomery,
Memoirs,
336; WSC 6, 570; GILBERT 8, 1070.

12
. WSCHCS, 8612.

13
. WSCHCS, 5694.

14
. Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon,
The Reckoning: The Memoirs of Anthony Eden
(New York, 1965), 637.

15
. GILBERT 7, 972.

16
. WSCHCS, 7130–33.

17
. J. B. Priestley,
Letter to a Returning Serviceman
(London, 1945);
Time,
12/31/45, 92.

18
. WSCHCS, 6764.

19
. WSCHCS, 7133.

20
. John Colville,
The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955
(New York, 1985), 606; WSCHCS, 7170.

21
. WSCHCS, 7172–73.

22
. Roy Jenkins,
Churchill: A Biography
(London, 2011), 793; Colville,
Fringes,
606–7.

23
. Brian Gardner,
Churchill in Power: As Seen by His Contemporaries
(Boston, 1970), 299; TWY, 472, 475.

24
. Henry Pelling,
Winston Churchill
(Conshohocken, PA, 1999), 560; Eden,
The Reckoning,
638.

25
. Colville,
Fringes,
611; Gardner,
Churchill in Power,
301.

26
. WSCHCS, 7201–3.

27
. John Wheeler-Bennett,
Action This Day: Working with Churchill
(London, 1968), 72–73.

28
. Colville,
Fringes,
610; Lord Moran,
Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran
(Boston, 1966), 276, 279; W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel,
Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin: 1941–1946
(New York, 1975), 397 (Leahy offers odds).

29
. Hansard 6/14/45; Colville,
Fringes,
611.

30
. WSC 6, 637–38; Anthony Montague Browne,
Long Sunset
(London, 1996), 127.

31
. Eden,
The Reckoning,
632, 634; David Dilks, ed.,
The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938–1945
(New York, 1972), 765.

32
. Eden,
The Reckoning,
634.

33
. Moran,
Diaries,
291.

34
. WSC 6, 642.

35
. Harry S. Truman,
Year of Decisions
(Garden City, NY, 1955), 416; WSC 6, 669–70; Georgii Konstantinovich Zhukov,
The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov
(New York, 1971), 674–75.

36
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
709.

37
. WSC 6, 632;
Time,
8/27/45;
Herald Tribune Europe,
12/29/06.

38
. WSC 6, 674–75.

39
.
Time,
7/9/45; Mary Soames,
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
(New York, 2003), 508–9; WSC 6, 674–75; Gardner,
Churchill in Power,
307.

40
. Soames,
Clementine,
509; Moran,
Diaries,
307.

41
. Gardner,
Churchill in Power,
307–9.

42
.
NYT,
1/25/65.

43
. Soames,
Clementine,
509; TWY, 479.

44
. Gardner,
Churchill in Power,
308; WSCHCS, 7204.

45
. Danchev and Todman,
War Diaries,
713.

46
. Eden,
The Reckoning,
639.

47
. Soames,
Clementine,
511.

48
. Soames,
Clementine,
511; Colville,
Fringes,
612.

49
. WSCHCS, 7505, 7257.

50
. WSCHCS, 7252–53.

51
. Moran,
Diaries,
335.

52
. Robert E. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
(New York, 1948), 922, 931.

53
. Dean Acheson,
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
(New York, 1969), 150–51.

54
. George F. Kennan,
Memoirs: 1925–1950
(New York, 1967), 290–91, 546.

55
. Montgomery,
Memoirs,
362, 454.

56
. Clark Clifford,
Counsel to the President
(New York, 1991), 100–2.

57
. Clifford,
Counsel,
100; Moran,
Diaries,
303, 350.

58
. Clifford,
Counsel,
101.

59
. WSCHCS, 7286.

60
. WSCHCS, 7289.

61
. WSCHCS, 7286;
NYT,
3/6/46.

62
. GILBERT 8, 204–6, 211.

63
. Harriman and Abel,
Special Envoy,
550–51.

64
. WSCHCS, 7382.

65
. WSCHCS, 7380–82.

66
. GILBERT 8, 286–88; WSCHCS, 8016.

67
. WSCHCS, 7367.

68
. Clifford,
Counsel,
131; Acheson,
Present,
217–18.

69
. Clifford,
Counsel,
138; Moran,
Diaries,
231; Leonard Mosley,
Marshall: Hero for Our Times
(New York, 1982), 396–98.

70
. Acheson,
Present,
212.

71
. Mosley,
Marshall,
402; Acheson,
Present,
217–18; Clifford,
Counsel,
145.

72
. Soames,
Clementine,
522.

73
. Colville,
Fringes,
648; John Colville,
The Churchillians
(London, 1981), 156.

74
. Stewart Alsop,
Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir
(New York, 1973); WM/Cecily (“Chips”) Gemmell (German prisoners), 7/10/80.

75
. WM/Cecily (“Chips”) Gemmell, 7/10/80; Roy Howells,
Churchill’s Last Years
(Philadelphia, 1965), 163–64; Diana Cooper,
The Light of Common Day
(London, 1959), 109.

76
. GILBERT 8, 563n2; Soames,
Clementine,
522, 564.

77
. GILBERT 8, 244–45.

78
. Soames,
Clementine,
543.

79
. Jenkins,
Churchill,
824; Gilbert 8, 315.

80
. W&C-TPL, 545; Moran,
Diaries,
339.

81
. Moran,
Diaries,
341, 344, 356, 838.

82
. Moran,
Diaries,
336;
Herald Tribune Europe,
12/29/06; WSCHCS, 7909.

83
.
Time,
6/13/45;
Time,
9/3/45, back cover.

84
. Nigel Nicolson, ed.,
The Harold Nicolson Diaries: 1907–1963
(London, 2004), 346.

85
. Nigel Nicolson,
Diaries,
346; Colville,
Fringes,
618–21.

86
. Colville,
Fringes,
620–21; GILBERT 8, 422.

87
. WSCHCS, 7387–88, 7525.

88
. WSCHCS, 7387.

89
. Moran,
Diaries,
336.

90
. WSCHCS, 7314, 7328.

91
. WSCHCS, 7376.

92
. Moran,
Diaries,
337–38.

93
. WSCHCS, 7458.

94
. WSCHCS, 7458.

95
. WSCHCS, 7774–77.

96
. WSCHCS, 7444.

97
. WSCHCS, 7447, 7655 (Punjab massacres).

98
. WSCHCS, 7673.

99
. Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York, 1992), 879.

100
. WSCHCS, 7627.

101
. Nigel Nicolson,
Diaries,
361.

102
. Nigel Nicolson,
Diaries,
363.

103
. David Reynolds, ed.,
The Origins of the Cold War in Europe
(New Haven, CT, 1994), 13.

104
. GILBERT 8, 467.

105
. Colville,
Fringes,
626.

106
.
Time,
1/5/50; WSCHCS, 7797.

107
. WSCHCS, 8023.

108
. Peter Catterall, ed.,
The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, 1950–57
(London, 2003), 17.

109
. WSCHCS, 8023.

110
. WSCHCS, 7793.

111
. WSCHCS, 7653; WSCHCS, 7501.

112
. WSCHCS, 7680.

113
. GILBERT 8, 226; WM/Cecily (“Chips”) Gemmell, 7/10/80.

114
. WM/Cecily (“Chips”) Gemmell, 7/10/80; WM/Jane (Portal) Williams, 1980.

115
. WM/Jane (Portal) Williams, 1980.

116
. Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life,
887; WM/Jane (Portal) Williams, 1980; WM/Cecily (“Chips”) Gemmell, 7/10/80.

117
. WM/Cecily (“Chips”) Gemmell, 7/10/80.

118
. WM/Cecily (“Chips”) Gemmell 7/10/80; WM/Jane (Portal) Williams, 1980.

119
. Richard Langworth, ed.,
Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations
(London, 2008), 330;
Time,
1/5/50.

120
. James Reston,
Deadline: A Memoir
(New York, 1991).

121
. W&C-TPL, 553.

122
. Moran,
Diaries,
358, 360.

123
. Jenkins,
Churchill,
829; WSCHCS, 7927.

124
. WSCHCS, 7938, 7948.

125
. WSCHCS, 7915.

126
. WSCHCS, 7943.

127
. WSCHCS, 7951.

128
. Moran,
Diaries,
359; GILBERT 8, 514.

129
. WSCHCS, 7966.

130
. Pelling,
Winston Churchill,
642.

131
. WSCHCS, 8236, 7897; Charles Eade, ed.,
Churchill by His Contemporaries
(New York, 1954), 58, 301.

132
. Eade,
Churchill,
295.

133
. WSCHCS, 8017, 8023, 8191; Jenkins,
Churchill,
837.

134
. WSCHCS, 8005, 8016, 8018, 8021, 8023, 8025, 8027.

135
. WSCHCS, 8059.

136
. WSCHCS, 8062.

137
. WSCHCS, 7800.

138
. WSCHCS, 8028, 8048; Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries,
4.

139
. WSCHCS, 8119, 8075.

140
. WSCHCS, 8065; Nigel Nicolson,
Diaries,
372.

141
. WSCHCS, 8068–69.

142
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries,
6, 7, 10.

143
.
Time,
10/16/50, 10/30/50.

144
. Acheson,
Present,
467–69, 478; Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries,
33.

145
. Acheson,
Present,
478, 481–82.

146
. WSCHCS, 8109.

147
. W&C-TPL, 558.

148
. Nigel Nicolson,
Diaries,
374.

149
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries,
33, 47, 49.

150
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries,
52.

151
. Colville,
Fringes,
759; Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries,
63.

152
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries,
53–54, 90; WSCHCS, 8203, 8238, 8240.

153
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries,
90–91; Moran,
Diaries,
360.

154
. Soames,
Clementine,
562; GILBERT 8, 631.

155
. GILBERT 8, 638; WSCHCS, 7214.

156
. WSCHCS, 8243.

157
. WSCHCS, 8246.

158
. WSCHCS, 8253.

159
. Alec Cairncross,
The British Economy Since 1945,
2nd ed. (Boston, 1995), 55–57, 102–3.

160
. Moran,
Diaries,
384; WSCHCS, 8256, 8261.

161
. Violet Bonham Carter,
Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait
(New York, 1965), 4–5; WSCHCS, 8268.

162
. WSCHCS, 8283.

163
. Moran,
Diaries,
366; Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries,
105; WSCHCS, 8283.

164
. Soames,
Clementine,
429.

165
. Hastings Lionel Ismay,
The Memoirs of General Lord Ismay
(London, 1960), 453.

166
. Colville,
Fringes,
631.

167
. Catterall,
Macmillan Diaries,
111, 114–15.

168
. Acheson,
Present,
608.

169
. WSCHCS, 8307.

170
. WSCHCS, 7793.

171
. WSCHCS, 8307.

172
. WSCHCS, 8297.

173
. Nigel Nicolson,
Diaries,
378; Acheson,
Present,
595.

174
. WSCHCS, 8329.

175
. Colville,
Fringes,
634, 641.

176
. Moran,
Diaries,
433, 436–37; Colville,
Fringes,
675.

177
. Moran,
Diaries,
473.

178
. Colville,
Fringes,
672.