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“sad and discreet”: Ibid.
“I want our programs”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 8.
“Ed’s true”: Ibid., p. 50.
“Well, brothers”: Sperber, p. 138.
“one of the major neutrals”: Tom Hickman, What Did You Do in the War, Auntie? (London: BBC Books, 1995), p. 30.
“The BBC”: Ibid., p. 205.
“We were giving”: Sperber, p. 181.
“Everyone regarded”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 51.
“As far as I”: Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud, A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), p. 93.
“Everyone is going”: Ibid., p. 94.
“We decided”: Janet Murrow to parents, May 13, 1940, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“It just isn’t”: Janet Murrow to parents, June 11, 1940, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“a man of”: “Quentin Reynolds Is Dead at 62,” New York Times, March 18, 1965.
“Never before”: Janet Murrow to parents, June 23, 1940, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“vultures and jackals”: Harry Watt, Don’t Look at the Camera (London: Paul Elek, 1974), p. 134.
“Here lie”: Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996), p. 88.
“London is burning”: Sperber, p. 167.
“as continually alive”: Charles Ritchie, The Siren Years: A Canadian Diplomat Abroad, 1937–1945 (Toronto: Macmillan, 1974), p. 65.
“You can’t do this”: Eric Sevareid notes on Blitz, Sevareid papers, LC.
“Like everyone else”: Robertson, p. 129.
“the same luxury”: Ernie Pyle, Ernie Pyle in England (New York: McBride, 1941), pp. 22–23.
“messenger from hell”: Sperber, p. 172
“shaken to the core”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 38.
“Words are such puny”: Murrow broadcast, Sept. 14, 1940, National Archives.
“He made everything”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 94
“spoken word”: Ibid., p. 84.
“looking like broken”: Sperber, p. 173.
“cold, choking fog”: Murrow broadcast, Dec. 2, 1940, National Archives.
“They’re working”: Persico, Edward R. Murrow, p. 174.
“the little people”: Murrow broadcast, Aug. 18, 1940, National Archives.
“unsung heroes”: Ibid.
“Do you think”: Persico, Edward R. Murrow, p. 178.
“This is what”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 100.
“Are you”: Briggs, p. 295.
“I’ve seen some”: Sperber, p. 169
“Everyone was red-eyed”: Robertson, p. 126.
“You walk through”: Quentin Reynolds, A London Diary (New York: Random House, 1941), p. 65.
“The city”: Robertson, p. 131
“It was like”: Ibid., pp. 182–83.
“stiff dowagers”: Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream (New York: Atheneum, 1976), p. 176.
“American stranger”: Ibid.
“showed the world”: Ibid., p. 166.
“They are extremely”: Philip Seib, Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War (Washington: Potomac Books, 2006), p. 65.
“bellowed out”: Watt, p. 141.
“I am a neutral”: Nicholas Cull, Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign Against American “Neutrality” in World War II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 103.
“a belief”: Watt, p. 142.
“It must have been”: Ibid.
“a good child”: Cloud and Olson, p. 58.
“He made no pretense”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 117.
“I have no desire”: Seib, p. 109.
“except where”: Ibid, p. 127.
“a thousand years”: Ibid., p. 108.
“He wanted”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 109.
“Perhaps you can”: Murrow broadcast, Sept. 30, 1940, NA.
“Murrow and his colleagues”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 107.
“Every shelter”: Janet Murrow to parents, Oct. 22, 1940, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“disembodied”: Angus Calder, The People’s War: Britain, 1939–1945 (New York: Pantheon, 1969), p. 173.
“He looked like”: Persico, Edward R. Murrow, p. 178.
“Sometimes he seemed”: Ibid., p. 184.
“He internalizes”: “This Is Murrow,” Time, Sept. 30, 1957
“the windows”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 101
“You will have no”: Kendrick, p. 225.
CHAPTER 3: THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME
“malefactors of great wealth”: Christopher Ogden, Life of the Party: The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), p. 112.
“was no good”: Rudy Abramson, Spanning the Century: The Life of W. Averell Harriman (New York: William Morrow, 1992), p. 271.
“He was good-looking”: Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (New York: Touchstone, 1986), p. 121.
“Confidentially, Franklin”: Ibid., p. 188.
“Are we willing”: Harriman speech transcript, Feb. 14, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“recommend everything”: W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941–1946 (New York: Random House, 1975), p. 19.
“was a bit foggy”: Harriman memo, March 18, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“as soon as”: Abramson, p. 277.
“Mr. President”: Roosevelt press conference transcript, Feb. 18, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“a never-ending”: Abramson, p. 65.
“had no fun”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 79.
“needed reinforcement”: Abramson, p. 16.
“He went into”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 42
“trying to match”: Abramson, p. 137.
“Averell’s a power”: E. J. Kahn, “Profiles: Plenipotentiary—1,” New Yorker, May 3, 1952.
“Averell was regarded”: Abramson, p. 127
“Intellectually, I could reason”: Harriman and Abel, p. 6.
“Anyone who says”: Abramson, p. 273.
“There is a sense”: Harriman to Harry Hopkins, June 6, 1940, Harriman papers, LC.
“spent more”: Henry H. Adams, Harry Hopkins: A Biography (New York: Putnam’s, 1977), p. 22.
“was bound”: Sherwood, p. 159
“Harry never had”: Ibid., p. 29.
“a tongue”: Ibid., p. 80.
“he would snarl”: Adams, p. 52.
“He was pleased”: Sherwood, p. 6
“with all the vigor”: Adams, p. 152.
“was always willing”: “Ave and the Magic Mountain,” Time, Nov. 14, 1955.
“I suppose Churchill”: Sherwood, p. 232
“the personal representative”: Ibid., p. 247.
“that extraordinary man”: Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), pp. 20–21.
“Churchill is the gov’t”: Sherwood, p. 243
“It seemed to me”: Meacham, p. 84
“I suppose you wish”: Adams, p. 207.
“a completely changed man”: Sherwood, p. 268
“This island needs”: Ibid., p. 260.
“Let me carry”: Adams, p. 199.
“might have something”: Abramson, p. 276.
“Here in Washington”: James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970), p. 51.
“so orderly”: Reston, p. 98.
“a pleasant place”: Ibid., p. 101.
“leafy, dreaming”: Sevareid, p. 193.
“a town”: David Brinkley, Washington Goes to War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), p. xiv.
“It is difficult”: Sherwood, p. 161.
“The production program”: Vincent Sheean to Murrow, Dec. 26, 1940, Murrow
papers, Mount Holyoke.
“repel raids”: D’Este, p. 259.
“We are so short”: Harriman memo, March 11, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“We can’t take”: Ibid.
“was very much disturbed”: James Leutze, ed., The London Journal of General Raymond E. Lee, 1940–1941 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), p. 175
“Without an understanding”: Harriman memo, March 11, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“as a sort”: Dimbleby and Reynolds, p. 145.
“I left feeling”: Harriman memo, March 11, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“He has talked to me”: Harriman to Marie Harriman, March 30, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“Nothing will”: Harriman and Abel, p. 22.
“became little short”: John Colville, Footprints in Time: Memories (London: Century, 1985), p. 154
“made four pertinent”: Ibid.
“Quite early”: Winant, A Letter from Grosvenor Square, p. 68
“We had an”: Ibid., p. 67.
“complete confidence”: Harriman to FDR, April 10, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“one of the world’s worst”: Theodore Achilles interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“You might like”: Murrow to Chet Williams, May 15, 1941, Janet Murrow pa pers, Mount Holyoke.
“Each of the ministers”: Harriman and Abel, p. 23.
“I am accepted”: Harriman to Union Pacific president, May 30, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“I am with”: Harriman to Marie Harriman, May 6, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“I was very excited”: Harriman to Herbert Feis, undated, Harriman papers, LC.
“a somewhat”: Robert Meiklejohn to Mr. Wooley, May 21, 1941, Harriman pa pers, LC.
“that gilded refuge”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 77.
“a modern wartime Babylon”: Robert Rhodes James, ed., Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon (London: Phoenix, 1997), p. 272.
“a fortress”: Leutze, ed., p. 61.
“I’ve never seen”: Ibid.
“I never felt easy”: Robertson, p. 137.
“My mail”: Harriman to Marie Harriman, March 30, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“wear the aspect”: Gilbert, Finest Hour, p. 972
“As far as I”: Ibid., p. 1040.
“How the English”: Ritchie, p. 100.
CHAPTER 4: “HE SEEMS TO GET CONFIDENCE IN HAVING US AROUND”
“that ghastly, tired”: Philip Ziegler, London at War, 1939–1945 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), p. 177.
“I’m really scared”: Sperber, p. 192.
“It’s the office”: Janet Murrow diary, April 16, 1941, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“many of our”: Ibid.
“Now that I”: Theodore Achilles interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“based in human terms”: Ibid.
“I see no”: Janet Murrow to mother, April 18, 1941, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“His personality”: Virginia Cowles interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“typified to the British”: Sir Arthur Salter interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“He seems”: Harriman to FDR, April 10, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“devastation such”: Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 373.
“The news”: Winant to FDR, April 10, 1941, Winant/State Department files, National Archives.
“He reviews”: Harriman to FDR, April 11, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“I am sorry”: Walter Thompson, Assignment: Churchill (New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1955), p. 216.
“They had been”: Harriman to FDR, April 11, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“seemed to underline”: Winant, A Letter from Grosvenor Square, p. 48.
“They have such”: Harriman to FDR, April 11, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“all this pain”: Clementine Churchill to Harriman, April 15, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“The stench”: Calder, p. 185.
“It is the spirit”: Harriman to president of Union Pacific, May 30, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“The women are”: Harriman to Marie Harriman, April 17, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“What the women”: Agar, p. 202.
“magnificent body”: Norman Longmate, The Home Front: An Anthology of Personal Experience, 1938–1945 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1981), p. 75
“living in a nightmare”: Sherwood, p. 276.
“There is no question”: Leutze, ed., p. 243.
“You won’t find”: Vincent Sheean, Between the Thunder and the Sun (New York: Random House, 1943), p. 296.
“is worried”: Harold Nicolson, The War Years, 1939–1945 (New York: Atheneum, 1967), p. 164.
“The fatigue”: Winant, A Letter from Grosvenor Square, p. 39
“All that the country”: Nicolson, p. 162.
“Serious injury”: Sherwood, p. 275.
“a disaster”: Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance, p. 190.
“Evacuation going”: Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, p. 301.
“discouragement and disheartenment”: Ibid., p. 312
“I feel”: Gilbert, Finest Hour, p. 1083.
“Mr. President”: Ibid., p. 1078.
“The whole thing”: Leutze, ed., p. 244.
“The situation is”: Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, p. 298
“We cannot allow”: Ibid., p. 304.
“The President is waiting”: William Bullitt to Harriman, April 29, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“I told Hopkins”: Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, p. 321
“I think”: Adams, p. 223
“I do know”: Ibid., p. 224.
“I cautioned him”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 24.
“How much”: Jean Edward Smith, p. 492.
“The truth was”: Frances Perkins Oral History, Columbia University.
“The people as a whole”: Sperber, p. 131
“Why don’t you”: Belle Roosevelt, speech at Hobart and Smith College, June 1945, Winant papers, FDRL.
“World opinion”: Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, p. 329
“how he had to fight”: Ibid., p. 342.
“shocking to see”: Leutze, ed., p. 287.
“There is still too much”: Ibid., p. 275.
“It is impossible”: Harriman to William Bullitt, May 21, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“using warships”: Harriman to Marie Harriman, May 6, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“England’s strength”: Harriman to FDR, April 10, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“greatly encouraged”: Gilbert, Finest Hour, p. 1036.
“two men”: Colville, Footprints in Time, p. 152
“What America requires”: Ibid.
“As an American”: Winant, A Letter from Grosvenor Square, p. 40.
“We have all slept”: “Winant Indicates He Backs Convoys,” New York Times, May 15, 1941, Winant papers, FDRL.
“We have made”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 5: MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY
“simply been”: Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), p. 343.
“had less schedule”: Thompson, p. 127.
“loved an audience”: Roy Jenkins, Churchill: A Biography (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001), p. 639.
“as much for”: Colville, Footprints in Time, p. 153.
“I want to thank you”: Mary Churchill to Harriman, May 13, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“what a wonderful”: Harriman memo, May 5–9, 1943, Harriman papers, LC.
“the most important”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 86.
“was a hick from America”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.
“absolutely marvelous looking”: Abramson, p. 312.
“I would get trapped”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman
papers, LC.
“as cold and calculated”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 76.
“could be quite”: Mary Soames, “Father Always Came First, Second and Third,” Finest Hour, Autumn 2002.
“One of the most”: Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 177
“There was a diffused”: Ziegler, p. 169. 100
“The normal barriers”: Sally Bedell Smith, In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), p. 217
“It was a liberation”: Olson and Cloud, p. 178.
“London was a Garden”: Mary Welsh Hemingway, How It Was (New York: Ballantine, 1976), p. 105.
“Here I am”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.
“Last night”: Harriman to Marie Harriman, April 17, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“intercepted glances”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 87
“microbe”: Soames, p. 351.
“Some thought him evil”: Drew Middleton, Where Has Last July Gone? (New York: Quadrangle, 1973), p. 68.
“took particular pleasure”: Ogden, p. 154
“She passed everything”: Ibid., p. 123.
“It was very”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.
“got a big”: Ibid., p. 127.
“fearing stories”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Journals, 1952–2000 (New York: Penguin, 2007), p. 343.
“could have gone”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.
“We do not”: Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry (London: Deutsch, 1967), p. 29.
“You know”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.
“feel as if”: Felix Frankfurter interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“A man of quiet”: Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), p. 390
“gentle, dreamy”: Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 773.
“When Winant enters”: “A New Kind of Envoy to a New Kind of Britain,” New York Times, Feb. 16, 1941.
“There was something”: Ethel M. Johnson, “The Mr. Winant I Knew,” South Atlantic Quarterly, January 1949, Eleanor Roosevelt Correspondence, FDRL.
“quite lost”: James, ed., p. 297
“one of the most charming”: Nicolson, p. 186
“the superb”: Ibid, p. 198.
“Other men”: Lord Moran, Churchill at War, 1940–45 (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002), p. 151