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  “I have given”: Leutze, ed., p. 353

  “be careful”: Abramson, p. 304.

  “I had known”: Eleanor Roosevelt, p. 263

  “a feeling of inadequacy”: Ibid.

  “a country”: Ibid., p. 190.

  “gave little thought”: Ibid., p. 266.

  “He took it”: Jacob Beam interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.

  “He carried”: Theodore Achilles interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.

  “If you break down”: David Gray to Winant, Nov. 24, 1942, Winant/State Department papers, National Archives.

  “caring much”: Anthony Eden, The Reckoning (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), p. 295.

  “one of the best”: Winant, A Letter from Grosvenor Square, p. 64

  “I lack the spunk”: Olson, Troublesome Young Men, p. 99.

  “I have never”: Winant, A Letter from Grosvenor Square, p. 67.

  “At this very moment”: Sarah Churchill, Keep on Dancing, p. 111

  “love affair”: Ibid., p. 159.

  CHAPTER 11: “HE’LL NEVER LET US DOWN”

  “He had an unusual”: T. T. Scott interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.

  “He understood them”: Arthur Jenkins, “John Winant: An Englishman’s Estimate,” Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 9, 1944, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “If you went”: Carroll, p. 134.

  “was every bit”: Juliet Gardiner, Wartime Britain, 1939–1945 (London: Headline, 2004), p. 430

  “more of work”: Calder, p. 443.

  “Everything save”: Jose Harris, “Great Britain: The People’s War?,” in David Reynolds, Warren F. Kimball, and A. O. Chubarian, eds., Allies at War: The Soviet, American and British Experience, 1939–1945 (New York: St. Martin’s, 1994), p. 238.

  “drawn so tight”: Calder, pp. 323–24

  “hated, with the free”: Sevareid, p. 480

  “what they were going”: Ziegler, p. 262.

  “These British Isles”: Eleanor Roosevelt, p. 274

  “What are the”: Kendrick, p. 222.

  “There must be”: Sperber, p. 184

  “We would talk”: Sevareid, pp. 173–74.

  “With Winston”: Moran, p. 139.

  “old, benevolent Tory squire”: Paul Addison, “Churchill and Social Reform,” in Robert Blake and William Roger Louis, eds., Churchill (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), p. 77

  “He’s never been”: Moran, p. 301.

  “In Mr. Churchill”: Olson, Troublesome Young Men, p. 264. 181 “This is your”: Olson and Cloud, p. 392.

  “to buy this heavy”: Panter-Downes, p. 253.

  “an awful windbag”: Paul Addison, “Churchill and Social Reform,” in Blake and Louis, eds., p. 72.

  “When the war”: New York Times, Feb. 7, 1941

  “without the maladjustment”: Shirer, p. 505

  “There is a deep”: Winant, Our Greatest Harvest, p. 22

  “to concentrate”: The Star, Feb. 3, 1941.

  “requires not only skill”: Bellush, p. 183.

  “You who suffered”: Winant, Our Greatest Harvest, p. 56

  “We think, sir”: Daily Express, June 8, 1942.

  “WINANT TALKS”: I bid.

  “a new, greater”: Daily Herald, June 8, 1942, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “one of the great”: Manchester Guardian, June 8, 1942, Winant papers, FDRL.

  CHAPTER 12: “ARE WE FIGHTING NAZIS OR SLEEPING WITH THEM?”

  “blackest day”: Sherwood, p. 648.

  “Only by an intellectual”: Mark Stoler, “The United States: the Global Strategy,” in David Reynolds et al., eds., Allies at War, p. 67.

  “I swear to fight”: Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper, Paris After the Liberation, 1944–1949 (New York: Doubleday, 1994), p. 13.

  “regardless of how”: Sherwood, p. 629

  “I consider”: Atkinson, p. 27.

  “where no major”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1948), p. 72.

  “highly trained personnel”: Ismay, p. 120.

  “We were still”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 77.

  “this bizarre”: Burns, p. 285.

  “I was regaled”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 89

  “wonderful charm”: Bryant, The Turn of the Tide, p. 431.

  “had only the vaguest”: Ibid.

  “completely sincere”: Atkinson, p. 59.

  “a comparable understanding”: Perry, p. 191.

  “This was the”: Carroll, p. 12.

  “belonged to a single”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 76.

  “did not understand”: Sir Frederick Morgan, p. 17

  “the attitude”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 76

  “apparently regarding it”: Ibid., p. 90.

  “The British are really”: Butcher, p. 239.

  “It is very noticeable”: David Irving, The War Between the Generals: Inside the Allied High Command (New York: Congdon & Lattes, 1981), p. 55.

  “invade a neutral country”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 88.

  “a three-star bundle”: Kay Summersby Morgan, p. 47.

  “He had aged”: Perry, p. 125.

  “men wandered”: Atkinson, p. 144.

  “We can only”: Joseph Persico, Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage (New York: Random House, 2001), p. 210.

  “with brass bands”: Atkinson, p. 141

  “officers as well”: Ibid., p. 144.

  “As far”: Ibid.

  “had no effect whatsoever”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 104

  “not even remotely”: Sherwood, p. 652.

  “In both our nations”: Merle Miller, Ike the Soldier: As They Knew Him (New York: Putnam’s, 1987), p. 426.

  “America had spoken”: Carroll, pp. 50–51.

  “a callow”: Atkinson, p. 159.

  “we did not”: Ibid., p. 198.

  “We have perpetuated”: Cloud and Olson, p. 161.

  “We must not overlook”: François Kersaudy, Churchill and De Gaulle (New York: Atheneum, 1982), p. 224.

  “are convinced”: Panter-Downes, p. 252.

  “honeymoon is over”: Carroll, p. 53.

  “Much as I hate”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 105.

  “Since 1776”: Winston Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, p. 638.

  “something that afflicts”: Burns, p. 297

  “only a temporary”: Sherwood, p. 653.

  “What the hell”: Milton S. Eisenhower, The President Is Calling (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974), p. 137

  “there is nothing”: Kendrick, p. 254

  “This is a matter”: Ibid.

  “He never raised”: Sperber, p. 223.

  “You are endangering”: Paul White to Murrow, Jan. 27, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “definitely dangerous”: Telegram to Murrow, Nov. 16, 1942, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “I believe”: Murrow to unidentified, Nov. 18, 1942, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “Developments in North Africa”: Murrow to Ted Church, Jan. 22, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “The British fear”: Murrow to Ed Dakin, Jan. 6, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “Darlan was there”: Nicolson, p. 263

  “No matter what”: Gunther, p. 331

  “Giraud was”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 129.

  “North Africa”: Atkinson, p. 164

  “The German army”: Ibid., p. 261

  “The proud and cocky”: Butcher, p. 268

  “So far as soldiering”: Atkinson, p. 471

  “downright embarrassing”: Ibid., p. 477.

  “Eisenhower as a general”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 351

  “The best way”: Atkinson, p. 246.

  “we were pushing”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 365

  “soft, green”: Atkinson, p. 377

  “How he hates”: Irving, p. 15.

  “niggling and insulting”: Perry, p. 174

  “It is better”: Ibid.

  “In his current”: Bu
tcher, p. 274.

  “One of the constant”: Merle Miller, p. 459.

  “as an American”: Atkinson, p. 467.

  “without even”: Ibid.

  “Ike is more”: Ibid.

  “damned near”: Irving, p. 63.

  “God, I wish”: Atkinson, p. 523.

  “His blood”: Ibid., p. 461.

  “The American army”: Ibid., p. 415

  “acting in a minor”: Ibid., p. 481.

  “a marked fall”: Ibid., p. 482.

  “one continent”: Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, p. 780.

  “a place to be lousy”: Atkinson, p. 538.

  “Alan Brooke”: Perry, p. 110.

  “the British will have”: Burns, p. 315

  “the dripping”: Atkinson, p. 270

  “One thing”: Merle Miller, p. 454.

  “They swarmed”: Atkinson, p. 289.

  “Our ideas”: Bryant, The Turn of the Tide, p. 459.

  “no soldier”: Atkinson, p. 533

  “Before he left”: Ibid.

  “One of the fascinations”: Ibid.

  “Goddamn it”: Ibid., p. 466.

  “Eisenhower was probably”: Merle Miller, p. 372.

  “Where he shone”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 351.

  CHAPTER 13: THE FORGOTTEN ALLIES

  “To cross over to England”: Erik Hazelhoff, Soldier of Orange (London: Sphere, 1982), p. 42.

  “all those insane”: Eve Curie, Journey Among Warriors (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1943), p. 481

  “swimming in”: Ritchie, p. 59.

  “ministers got reports”: A. J. Liebling, The Road Back to Paris (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1944), p. 148.

  “No matter”: Erik Hazelhoff, In Pursuit of Life (Phoenix Mill, U.K.: Sutton, 2003), p. 110.

  “the glamor boys of England”: Olson and Cloud, p. 169.

  “As for the women”: Ibid., p. 178.

  “The Occupation had descended”: Hazelhoff, Soldier of Orange, p. 38.

  “It would drive”: BBC listening survey of Czechoslovakia, Sept. 1941, BBC Archives.

  “It’s impossible”: Tangye Lean, Voices in the Darkness: The Story of the European Radio War (London: Secker & Warburg, 1943), p. 149.

  “almost drunk”: Henrey, The Incredible City, p. 2.

  “If Poland had”: Olson and Cloud, p. 5.

  “the finest”: Christopher M. Andrew, Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community (New York: Viking, 1986), p. 448.

  “The Poles had”: Douglas Dodds-Parker, Setting Europe Ablaze (Windlesham, Surrey: Springwood, 1983), p. 40.

  “If you live trapped”: Anthony Read and David Fisher, Colonel X: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984), p. 278.

  “We arrived in London”: William Casey, The Secret War Against Hitler (New York: Berkley, 1989), p. 37.

  “How well I remember”: Ibid., pp. 24–25.

  “The truth is”: Nelson D. Lankford, OSS Against the Reich: The World War II Diaries of Col. David K. E. Bruce (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991), p. 125

  “inestimable value”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 262.

  “Britain does not solicit”: Olson and Cloud, p. 96

  “We shall conquer”: Ibid., p. 90.

  “You are alone”: Kersaudy, p. 83

  “leader of all Frenchmen”: Ibid.

  “The United Nations”: FDR national radio broadcast, Feb. 23, 1942, FDRL.

  “Winston, we forgot Zog!”: Meacham, p. 164.

  “talked idealism”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., “FDR’s Internationalism,” in Cornelis van Minnen and John F. Sears, eds., FDR and His Contemporaries: Foreign Perceptions of an American President (New York: St. Martin’s, 1992), p. 15.

  “have any territorial”: Valentin Berezhkov, “Stalin and FDR,” in ibid., p. 50

  “He allowed”: Lord Chandos, The Memoirs of Lord Chandos (New York: New American Library, 1963), pp. 296–97.

  “can’t live together”: Ibid., p. 297.

  “I poured water”: Eden, p. 432.

  “Roosevelt was familiar”: Ibid., p. 433.

  “a kind of benevolent”: Olson and Cloud, p. 241.

  “There is a great fear”: Murrow to Ed Dakin, Jan. 6, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “What would”: Carroll, p. 72.

  “has produced violent”: Kersaudy, p. 225

  “positively goes out”: Moran, pp. 97–98

  “in a hideously difficult position”: Ismay, p. 356.

  “Coming to”: Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle: The Rebel, 1890–1944 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990), p. 265.

  “I am no man’s subordinate”: Ibid., p. 267

  “You think”: Kersaudy, p. 138

  “You may be right”: Ibid., p. 210.

  “is almost”: De Gaulle to Pamela Churchill, undated, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.

  “France had failed”: Claude Fohlen, “De Gaulle and FDR,” in van Minnen and Sears, eds., p. 42.

  “He takes himself”: Lacouture, p. 335.

  “convinced”: Carroll, p. 103.

  “Roosevelt meant”: Jean Edward Smith, p. 567

  “talked about”: Gunther, p. 54.

  “Between Giraud”: Nicolson, p. 294

  “has been”: Kersaudy, p. 288.

  “Every time”: Lacouture, p. 521

  “this vain”: Kersaudy, p. 275.

  “we would not only”: Ibid., p. 279.

  “in terms of orders”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 137.

  “It seemed”: Carroll, p. 308.

  “were being played”: R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), p. 31.

  “at all times”: Carroll, p. 106.

  “a diplomat”: Charles de Gaulle, The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998), p. 220.

  “splendid ambassador”: Ibid., p. 310.

  “Who is it”: Carroll, p. 107.

  “I do not think”: Ibid., p. 108.

  “was in the dog kennel”: Howland, p. 268

  “I am reaching”: Kersaudy, p. 291.

  “Whether you wish”: Olson and Cloud, pp. 220–21.

  “could afford”: Edward Raczynski, In Allied London (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963), p. 155.

  “The increasing gravity”: Olson and Cloud, p. 233.

  “go[ing] to the peace conference”: Ibid., p. 250.

  “found it convenient”: Max Hastings, Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), p. 508.

  CHAPTER 14: “A CAUL OF PRIVILEGE”

  “a human head”: Hemingway, p. 109

  “I don’t suppose”: Calder, p. 321.

  “Many a time”: Maureen Waller, London 1945: Life in the Debris of War (London: Griffin, 2006), p. 163.

  “The whole island”: Hemingway, p. 108.

  “It is difficult”: Theodora FitzGibbon, With Love: An Autobiography, 1938–1946 (London: Pan, 1983), p. 170.

  “every day was”: Longmate, The Home Front, p. 160.

  “It’s a case”: Janet Murrow to parents, May 16, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “I think it would”: Edwin R. Hale and John Frayn Turner, The Yanks Are Coming (New York: Hippocrene, 1983), p. 56.

  “No war”: David Reynolds et al., eds., Allies at War, p. xvi.

  “There was money”: Sevareid, p. 214.

  “an equality of sacrifice”: Goodwin, p. 339.

  “Aside from”: Tania Long, “Home—After London,” New York Times, Oct. 3, 1943.

  Most parts”: Frances Perkins Oral History, Columbia University.

  “The American people”: Sherwood, p. 547.

  “It really would”: Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 440

  “The very men”: Goodwin, p. 357

  “se
emed to be no”: Sevareid, p. 193.

  “less realization”: Brinkley, p. 106

  “influential people”: Ibid., p. 142.

  “where manners”: Mary Lee Settle, All the Brave Promises: Memories of Aircraft Woman 2nd Class 214639 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), p. 3.

  “makes one”: Janet Murrow to parents, undated, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “It was all”: Harriman to Harry Hopkins, March 7, 1942, Harriman papers, LC.

  “bought a beautiful”: Kathleen Harriman to Marie Harriman, Feb. 3, 1942, Harriman papers, LC.

  “It’s such fun”: Kathleen Harriman to Marie Harriman, undated, Harriman papers, LC.

  “London was one”: Arbib, p. 85.

  “the fastest company”: Harrison Salisbury, A Journey for Our Times: A Memoir (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), p. 179.

  “with a feeling”: Nelson D. Lankford, The Last American Aristocrat: The Biography of David K. E. Bruce (Boston: Little, Brown, 1996), p. 64

  “an abounding self-esteem”: Ibid., p. 63.

  “one of the few”: E. J. Kahn Jr., “Profiles: Man of Means—1,” New Yorker, Aug. 11, 1951.

  “the most elaborate”: Ibid.

  “life had never been”: Sally Bedell Smith, In All His Glory, p. 225.

  “The guy had guts”: Jan Herman, A Talent for Trouble: William Wyler (New York: Putnam’s, 1995), p. 255.

  “propaganda worth”: Ibid., p. 235

  “I was a warmonger”: Ibid., p. 234.

  “only scratched”: Ibid., p. 237.

  “an escape into reality”: Ibid., p. 278.

  “unreal, a stage”: Mary Lee Settle, “London—1944,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1987.

  “We were young”: Settle, All the Brave Promises, p. 1.

  “It was my first”: Ibid., p. 19.

  “caul of privilege”: Mary Lee Settle, Learning to Fly: A Writer’s Memoir (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007), p. 99.

  “I had had the experience”: Mary Lee Settle, “London—1944,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1987.

  “as if I were bone china”: Settle, Learning to Fly, p. 97.

  “We were really”: Abramson, p. 316.

  “It was a terrible war”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.

  “They were caught out”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 100

  “beneath their own roof”: Abramson, p. 316.

  “He used terrible”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 106.

  “that might do”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.

 

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