by Lynne Olson
“there was never”: Ibid., p. 49.
“All entered”: Ibid., p. 80
“For Christ’s sake”: Ibid., p. 72.
“That way”: Kay Summersby Morgan, p. 172
“developed a relationship”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 290
“loved and respected”: Ibid., p. 116.
“deliberately thought”: Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, Special Relationships: America in Peace and War (London: Macmillan, 1975), pp. 178–79
“regarded Ike”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 116.
“It was the greatest”: D’Este, p. 495.
“a disaster”: Sir Frederick Morgan, p. 279.
“By God”: Irving, p. 81.
“we went into France”: David Reynolds, Rich Relations, p. 357
“more like”: Ibid., p. 365.
“regard the war”: Ibid.
“torn to shreds”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 551
“He was as nervous”: Kay Summersby Morgan, p. 182
“In this particular venture”: Irving, p. 94.
“I decided that”: Pyle, Brave Men, p. 317
“if Dog News”: Ibid., p. 318.
“Everything that happened”: Sally Bedell Smith, In All His Glory, p. 216.
“I believe”: Caroline Moorehead, Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life (New York: Henry Holt, 2003), p. 209.
“To me”: Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (New York: Scribner, 1967), pp. 392–93.
“They want to stay”: Hemingway, p. 133.
“By God”: Cloud and Olson, p. 158.
“Last night”: Edward Bliss Jr., In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938–1961 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), p. 76.
“one of the finest”: L. M. Hastings to Murrow, Dec. 4, 1943, Murrow papers.
“magnificent”: Arthur Christensen to Murrow, Dec. 4, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“Ed was cynical”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.
“the most faithful”: Kendrick, p. 262.
“My dear Ed”: Brendan Bracken to Murrow, Dec. 21, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“I think this was”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 45.
“It was a drug”: Ibid., p. 47.
“a thing about speed”: Ibid.
“Three or four times”: Persico, Edward R. Murrow, p. 221.
“In order to write”: Murrow to Remsen Bird, Jan. 31, 1944, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“fatigue and frustration”: Persico, Edward R. Murrow, p. 222
“I tried to convince him”: Paley, p. 152.
“No longer”: Arbib, pp. 206–7.
“We stood”: Longmate, The GI’s, p. 298
“Good luck”: Hale and Turner, p. 161.
“My heart ached”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 310.
“It was so drab”: Gardiner, “Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here,” p. 211.
“like a giant factory”: Bliss, p. 81.
“In perfect”: Gardiner, “Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here,” p. 180.
“The sky looked”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 307.
“Ladies and gentlemen”: Gardiner, Wartime Britain, p. 544.
“The church”: Janet Murrow to parents, June 11, 1944, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“our sons”: Burns, p. 476.
“Except for the planes”: Pamela Churchill to Averell Harriman, June 8, 1944, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.
“Walking along”: Kendrick, p. 269.
“There was a kind”: William Saroyan, The Adventures of Wesley Jackson (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1946), p. 258.
“One could sense”: Panter-Downes, p. 328.
“If I had had”: Cloud and Olson, p. 204.
“In the old days”: Henrey, The Siege of London, p. 72.
“The man going home”: Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953), p. 39
“as impersonal”: Calder, p. 560
“We now live”: Ziegler, p. 292.
“Most of the people”: David Reynolds, Rich Relations, p. 402
“I’m afraid”: Irving, p. 180.
“in worried tones”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 260
“We have had”: Ziegler, p. 299.
“The nation’s deep”: Panter-Downes, p. 350.
“Like everyone else”: Wheeler-Bennett, Special Relationships, p. 189.
“very old”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 544.
“how tired”: Janet Murrow to parents, June 22, 1944, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“Look … the first time”: Sperber, p. 243.
“London is deserted”: Gardiner, Wartime Britain, p. 556.
“Winston never talks”: Moran, pp. 185–86.
“Winston hated”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 473
“being mis-employed”: Meacham, p. 294.
“I wanted you”: Winant to FDR, July 3, 1944, Map Room files, FDRL.
“There is one name”: Kersaudy, p. 354
“We are the French”: Ibid., p. 334
“the sixty-day”: Ibid., p. 332.
“It seems to me”: Ibid., p. 331
“feel that the French”: Ibid., p. 333.
“An open clash”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 248
“All circles”: Irving, p. 135.
“a state of”: Beevor and Cooper, p. 28
“treason at the height”: Lacouture, p. 524.
“It’s pandemonium”: Beevor and Cooper, pp. 28–29
“girls’ school”: Kersaudy, p. 346
“it was a fatal mistake”: Ibid., p. 351
“The Prime Minister”: Ibid., p. 352.
“in the initial stages”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 248.
“The brigadiers”: Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, Vol. 2, The Infernal Grove (London: Collins, 1973), p. 212
“flogging a dead horse”: Jean Edward Smith, p. 614
“FDR … believes”: Kersaudy, p. 361
“He’s a nut”: Ibid.
“As a cordial”: Ibid., p. 370.
“FDR’s pique”: Jean Edward Smith, p. 616.
“a sleepy, empty”: Henrey, The Siege of London, p. 91.
“Where every man”: Sevareid, p. 477.
“the Paris”: Donald L. Miller, p. 137.
“in guilty splendour”: Wheeler-Bennett, Special Relationships, p. 186
“familiar, well-fed”: Kendrick, p. 273.
“Perhaps the world”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 124.
CHAPTER 19: CRISIS IN THE ALLIANCE
“in the interests”: Olson and Cloud, p. 333.
“The time has come”: Harriman to Hopkins, Sept. 10, 1944, Hopkins papers, FDRL.
“put in the humiliating”: Sherwood, p. 756
“He wanted to operate”: Abramson, p. 367
“I cannot say”: Bohlen, p. 127.
“They are tough”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 232
“knew the Russians”: Salisbury, p. 242.
“my views on policy”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 227.
“I used him”: Ibid., p. 229.
“A great deal”: Salisbury, p. 242.
“the touchstone”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 223.
“We intend”: Olson and Cloud, p. 333.
“turned on his heel”: Discussion with Winston Churchill, Coudert Institute, Palm Beach, Florida, March 28, 2008.
“rivalry for control”: Bellush, p. 203
“there will be plenty”: Moran, p. 220.
“You can’t do this!”: Robert M. Hathaway, Ambiguous Partnership: Britain and America, 1944–1947 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981), p. 64.
“In Christ’s name”: Ibid.
“I dislike”: Sherwood, p. 819.
“placed his prestige”: Howland, p. 374.
“decided disadvantage”: Ibid.
“We hear”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 575.
“The only times”: Meacham, p. 339
“Montgomery is a third-rate”: Irving, p. 268
“There was arrogance”: Ibid., p. 392.
“Ike is bound”: Ibid., p. 190.
“in a powerful”: D’Este, p. 672
“Between our front”: Max Hastings, p. 196.
“He lacked”: D’Este, p. 602.
“the savior”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 356
“MONTGOMERY STOPS”: Sevareid, p. 485.
“so irritated”: Irving, p. 375
“It did more”: Clarke, p. 155
“terrible”: D’Este, p. 676.
“it remains impossible”: Max Hastings, “How They Won,” New York Review of Books, Nov. 22, 2007.
“behavior at moments”: Merle Miller, p. 587
“Something very like”: Max Hastings, p. 222
“pure blackmail”: Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 528.
“one might make”: Hathaway, p. 83.
“Please take”: FDR to Winant, Nov. 24, 1944, Map Room files, FDRL.
“that even a declaration”: Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 528
“You would not send”: Hitchens, p. 233.
“I have loyally”: Clarke, p. 113.
“really irritated”: Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 536
“European questions”: Olson and Cloud, p. 363
“What makes”: Clarke, p. 147
“We do not mind”: Hathaway, p. 103.
“there is good reason”: Ibid, p. 104
“He just doesn’t”: Sherwood, p. 820
“Physically”: Doenecke and Stoler, p. 86
“talking to”: Clarke, p. 218.
“The P.M.’s box”: Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 530.
“I don’t feel”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 649.
“was tired”: Geoffrey Best, Churchill: A Study in Greatness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 260.
“I must say”: Olson and Cloud, p. 365.
“It was two to one”: Hathaway, p. 123.
“That the President”: Ibid.
“Let him wait”: Andrew Roberts, Masters and Commanders, p. 554.
“We went into the war”: Cecil King, With Malice Toward None: A War Diary (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970), p. 298.
“fought like a tiger”: Olson and Cloud, p. 365
“coming from America”: Ibid., p. 366.
“We could never”: Ibid.
“might reach”: Bellush, p. 205.
“of the greatest urgency”: Thomas M. Campbell and George C. Herring, eds., The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius Jr, 1943–1946 (New York: New Viewpoints, 1975), p. 227.
“I think our attitude”: Bellush, p. 207
“clearly wanted”: Olson and Cloud, p. 383.
“Looks as if”: Harriman notes, undated, Pamela Harriman papers, LC. “the Soviet Government”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 247.
“There is no doubt”: Olson and Cloud, p. 384
“feeling of bitter resentment”: Ibid., p. 386
“minimize the general”: Ibid., p. 387.
“Berlin has lost”: Max Hastings, p. 421
“Churchill’s anger”: Ibid., p. 423.
CHAPTER 20: “FINIS”
“Men and boys”: Bliss, p. 91.
“two rows”: Ibid, p. 94.
“What he had seen”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 89.
“I pray you”: Murrow broadcast, April 15, 1945, National Archives.
“One shoe”: Kendrick, p. 279.
“I’m Roosevelt’s man”: Jacob Beam interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“Thank God for you”: Howland, p. 28
“I always think”: Ibid.
“could make”: Robert H. Ferrell, Choosing Truman: The Democratic Convention of 1944 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994), p. 13.
“weeping, reminiscing”: Thompson, p. 303.
“This country”: Hathaway, pp. 130–31.
“quiet as”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 317.
“stood in the streets”: Panter-Downes, p. 368.
“being stopped”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 317
“I don’t think”: Ziegler, p. 310.
“was the greatest American”: Clarke, p. 259.
“an immense effect”: Jenkins, p. 783.
“how greatly”: Ibid.
“It is difficult”: Max Hastings, p. 512.
“I think that it would”: Meacham, p. 351.
“With this signing”: Cloud and Olson, p. 237
“taken over”: Panter-Downes, p. 374.
“Their minds”: Bliss, p. 97.
“almost with a start”: Kendrick, p. 280.
“When the whole”: Henry Chancellor, Colditz: The Untold Story of World War II’s Great Escapes (New York: William Morrow, 2001), p. 362.
“That your anxiety”: Bellush, p. 213.
“On the continent”: Olson and Cloud, p. 392
“poisonous politics”: Ibid., p. 393.
“By the time”: D’Este, p. 807.
“There had been applause”: LaRue Brown, “John G. Winant,” Nation, Nov. 15, 1947.
“Ike made a wonderful”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 697.
“was worried about Winston”: Moran, p. 302.
“Though [the British people]”: Pamela Churchill to Averell Harriman, July 27, 1945, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.
“he scoffs”: Moran, p. 308.
“this damned election”: Ibid., p. 310.
“a complete debacle”: Pawle, p. 501.
“one of the most stunning”: Hathaway, p. 176.
“mortally wounded”: Campbell and Herring, eds., p. 413.
“The whole focus”: Soames, p. 425.
“It was not so much”: Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry, p. 86.
“Sir, you have”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 242.
CHAPTER 21: “I SHALL ALWAYS FEEL THAT I AM A LONDONER”
“GOODBYE, ENGLAND”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 325.
“It is hard”: Waller, p. 205
“We must all”: Ibid., p. 241.
“The American people”: Hathaway, p. 23
Donald Worby: Dimbleby and Reynolds, p. 175
“I think they’re behaving”: Waller, p. 347.
“We’d given”: Dimbleby and Reynolds, p. 177
“Anybody who thinks”: Sherwood, p. 827.
“It is aggravating”: Dimbleby and Reynolds, p. 180
“economic Munich”: Ibid.
“The American people”: Sherwood, p. 922
“I believe”: Ibid., p. 921.
“would work great hardship”: Howland, p. 448
“Did any nation”: Carroll, p. 142
“would have made”: Penrose, p. 206
“alien to him”: Howland, p. 442
“I want to do”: Ibid.
“not idealism”: Arnold A. Rogow, “Private Illness and Public Policy: The Cases of James Forrestal and John Winant,” American Journal of Psychiatry, Feb. 8, 1969.
“His nerves”: Maurine Mulliner interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“I’ve lost”: Grace Hogarth interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“I have no life!”: Bellush, p. 215
“I cannot explain”: Soames, p. 429
“has been and is”: Ibid., p. 380.
“I do not know”: Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry, p. 88
“I wish”: Ibid., p. 91.
“Sarah has been”: Soames, p. 433.
“You’ve no idea”: Pearson, p. 338.
“cage of affection”: Sarah Churchill, Keep on Dancing, p. 159.
“mental and physical”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 124.
“For many things”: Murrow to Janet Murrow, Sept. 18, 1944, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“I am lonesome”: Murrow to Janet Murrow, Sept. 29, 1944, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“Maybe I had begun”: Murrow to Janet Murrow, Oct. 28, 1944, Murrow papers, M
ount Holyoke.
“Fred took me”: Pamela Churchill to Averell Harriman, March 8, 1944, Pamela Harriman papers, Mount Holyoke.
“We didn’t talk”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 125
“I’ve never been”: Ibid., p. 125
“Casey Wins”: Ogden, p. 181
“We live in the light”: Kendrick, p. 275.
“This is a great nation”: Sperber, p. 257.
“an awkward position”: Lash, From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter, p. 256
“Your country”: Bliss, pp. 3–4.
“It is men”: Emilie Adams to Murrow, Feb. 24, 1946, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“Please tell”: Unidentified to Murrow, Feb. 24, 1946, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“When you get home”: W. E. C. McIlroy to Murrow, Feb. 24, 1946, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“Now, for the last time”: Persico, Edward R. Murrow, p. 242.
“THIS MICROPHONE”: Ibid.
“the only trophy”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 75.
“close friend”: Unidentified clipping, Nov. 29, 1945, Winant papers, FDRL.
“commanded to such”: Manchester Guardian, undated, Winant papers, FDRL.
“Almost everyone”: New Statesman, March 30, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“the personification”: Daily Express, March 25, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“came to us”: Daily Herald, April 27, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“Goodbye, sir”: Punch, May 8, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“I do not think”: Arthur L. Goodhart to Winant, April 15, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“Those of us”: John Martin to Winant, Jan. 1, 1947, Winant papers, FDRL.
“rather hard-boiled”: Barbara Wace to Winant, April 22, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“My driver”: Herbert Agar to Winant, May 2, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“a unique honor”: Daily Telegraph, April 26, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“Official British reserve”: Concord Daily Monitor, Jan. 18, 1947, Winant papers, FDRL.
“infinitely more”: New York Times, April 24, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“In adversity”: Daily Telegraph, April 26, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“In a long life”: Daily Telegraph, May 21, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“I propose”: Ibid.
“I would say”: Daily Telegraph, April 26, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“Neither you”: News Chronicle, May 1, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“No fairer”: Daily Express, May 1, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“hard years”: Unidentified clipping, May 1, 1941, Winant papers, FDRL.
CHAPTER 22: “WE ALL LOST A FRIEND IN ’IM”