Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood With Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
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“There was Winant”: Ibid., p. 152.
“one of those great”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 474.
“Winant gives me”: Theodore Achilles interview, Winant papers, FDRL.
“The P.M.”: Moran, p. 152.
“liked bounders”: Jenkins, p. 188
“one more rich”: Ogden, p. 119
“understood intuitively”: Soames, p. 390.
“most charming and entertaining”: Meacham, p. 94.
“charming, vivacious”: Janet Murrow to parents, Dec. 7, 1940, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“very attractive”: Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember (New York: Harper, 1949), p. 267.
“One feels”: Ibid.
“when she married”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 67.
“total egotist”: John Pearson, The Private Lives of Winston Churchill (New York: Touchstone, 1991), p. 216.
“In his heart”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.
“I am easily satisfied”: Soames, p. 103.
“for not turning”: Mary Soames, “Father Always Came First, Second and Third,” Finest Hour, Autumn 2002.
“never did anything”: Soames, p. 266.
“A weekend here”: Kathleen Harriman to Mary Fisk, undated, Harriman papers, LC.
“taking a back seat”: Kathleen Harriman to Mary Fisk, June 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“This sounds”: Clementine Churchill to Winant, April 2, 1941, Winant papers, FDRL.
“Do not let”: Soames, p. 96.
“She dropped on him”: Ibid., p. 261.
“one of the loneliest”: Dean Dexter interview with Abbie Rollins Caverly.
“As children”: Soames, p. 268
“A wife first”: Pearson, p. 126
“it took me”: Soames, p. 266.
“a mixture of tenderness”: Ibid., p. 267.
“an authoritarian figure”: Sarah Churchill, Keep on Dancing (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1981), p. 67
“Although her children”: Soames, p. 267
“All those”: Pearson, p. 221
“escape from”: Ibid., p. 233
“If I really”: Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry, pp. 31–32.
“I walked out”: Ibid., p. 51.
“gave a good performance”: Colville, The Fringes of Power, pp. 200–201.
“common as dirt”: Pearson, p. 265.
“addressed me”: Sarah Churchill, Keep on Dancing, p. 67.
“a magical creature”: Edwina Sandys, “A Tribute to Sarah Churchill,” Daily Mail, Sept. 25, 1982.
“More than anybody”: Lynda Lee Potter, Daily Mail, Sept. 25, 1982.
“Sarah is a terribly”: Kathleen Harriman to Mary Fisk, July 7, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“the iron curtain”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 474.
CHAPTER 6: “MR. HARRIMAN ENJOYS MY COMPLETE CONFIDENCE”
“This is worse”: “Winant Returns; Silent on Mission,” New York Times, May 31, 1941.
“There is no doubt,”: Anne O’Hare McCormick, “The Usual Intermission for Peace Feelers,” New York Times, June 7, 1941, Winant papers, FDRL. “a high Washington authority”: Daily Mail, June 2, 1941, Winant papers, FDRL.
“almost a Chinese wall”: Harriman memo to FDR, April 10, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“We are advertising”: Burns, p. 119.
“We are deceiving”: William Whitney to Harriman, Aug. 25, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“The delivery of needed”: Adams, p. 226.
“almost like a call”: Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, p. 326
“taken as a solemn”: Sherwood, p. 298.
“paralyzed between”: Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969), p. 3
“straining every nerve”: Leutze, ed., p. 388.
“Winant asked me”: Nina Davis Howland, “Ambassador John Gilbert Winant: Friend of Embattled Britain, 1941–1946,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 1983, p. 108.
“We must not”: Daily Telegraph, June 19, 1941, Winant papers, FDRL. “If Munich”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 12.
“an excellent mandate”: Harriman and Abel, p. 19.
“Laddie was not”: Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., Tommy Hitchcock: An American Hero (New York: Fleet Street, 1984), p. 208.
“we are working”: Harriman to FDR, May 7, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“interfere in anything”: Leutze, ed., p. 359.
“Mr. Harriman enjoys”: Harriman and Abel, p. 63.
“I don’t think”: Kathleen Harriman to Mary Fisk, June 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“I have made”: Ogden, p. 130.
“I found him absolutely”: Pearson, p. 303
“He has definitely”: Ogden, p. 131.
“a sense of complacency”: Harriman to Churchill, July 1, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“ ‘Mr. Harriman is a go-getter’ “: Howard Bird to Harriman, July 1, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“the moral foes”: Olson and Cloud, p. 218.
“probably never”: Thompson, p. 224.
“He had firmly”: Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, p. 391.
“to keep those two”: Sherwood, p. 236
“At last”: Goodwin, p. 265.
“Does he like me”: Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, p. 391
“Papa completely forgot”: Meacham, p. 109.
“dominating every”: Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1946), p. 28.
“easy intimacy”: Sherwood, p. 363.
“take care of him”: Thompson, p. 238.
“had broken the ice”: Eleanor Roosevelt, p. 226.
“I formed”: Meacham, p. 108.
“I would rather”: Jean Edward Smith, p. 502.
“You’ve got to”: Elliott Roosevelt, p. 29.
“he would look”: Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, p. 402.
“The President”: Gilbert, Finest Hour, p. 1177.
“The flood is raging”: Leutze, ed., p. 383
“I don’t know”: Sherwood, p. 373.
“give and give”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 212
“suspicion that has existed”: Harriman and Abel, p. 92.
“No one will deny”: Lord Ismay, The Memoirs of Lord Ismay (New York: Viking, 1960), p. 231.
CHAPTER 7: “I WANT TO BE IN IT WITH YOU—FROM THE START”
“died that England”: “All Britain Honors Independence Day,” New York Times, July 5, 1941, Winant papers, FDRL.
“very much the golden boy”: Alex Kershaw, The Few: The American “Knights of the Air” Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain (New York: Da Capo, 2006), p. 60
“I want to be”: Ibid., p. 58.
“They were”: Capt. John R. McCrary and Capt. David Scherman, First of the Many: A Journal of Action with the Men of the Eighth Air Force (London: Robson, 1944), p. 210.
“It was unbelievable”: Kershaw, p. 66.
“He had no”: New York Times, July 5, 1941, Winant papers, FDRL.
“Our homes”: Mrs. Anthony Billingham, America’s First Two Years: The Story of American Volunteers in Britain, 1939–1941 (London: John Murray, 1942), pp. 59–60.
“might lead”: Kershaw, p. 55.
“The Germans”: “Americans ‘Capture’ Headquarters of a British Brigade in War Games,” New York Times, July 22, 1940.
“jeopardizing U.S. neutrality”: Watt, p. 157.
“to play opposite”: James Saxon Childers, War Eagles: The Story of the Eagle Squadron (New York: D. Appleton–Century 1943), p. 17.
“I felt”: Kershaw, p. 62.
“an overwhelming fury”: James A. Goodson, Tumult in the Clouds (New York: St. Martin’s, 1993), p. 25.
“typical Americans”: Kershaw, p. 83.
“the war could not”: Philip D. Caine, Eagles of the RAF (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1991), p. 30.
“T
hese people”: Kershaw, pp. 160–61
“They were always”: Caine, p. 105.
“It just seemed”: Ibid., p. 217.
“Once again”: Kershaw, p. 214
“a mad bunch”: Ibid., p. 205
“Their exploits”: Caine, p. 148
“Look, these people”: Kershaw, p. 216
“They were”: Caine, p 218.
“To fight”: Kershaw, p. 62.
“What’s he doing?”: Caine, p. 105
“They were saboteurs”: Kershaw, p. 204.
“politely told him”: Watt, p. 155
“four weeks”: Ibid.
“Far from”: Bosley Crowther, “Eagle Squadron,” New York Times, July 3, 1942.
“You know”: Childers, p. 15.
“A rather scruffy-looking”: “Winant Lauds R.A.F. at Eagle Luncheon,” New York Times, Nov. 20, 1941.
“truck drivers”: Robertson, p. 71
“laughed and joked”: Ibid., p. 72.
“contact with life”: Winant to Dr. Brister, July 1, 1943, Winant papers, FDRL.
“as gallant”: Winant to unidentified recipient, Nov. 1, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
CHAPTER 8: “PEARL HARBOR ATTACKED?”
“Leaving this country”: Murrow to Winant, Nov. 10, 1941, Winant papers, FDRL.
“I am convinced”: Murrow to Chet Williams, May 15, 1941, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“baby the Japs along”: Adams, p. 255.
“had done practically nothing”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 205.
“In this looming crisis”: Burns, p. 148.
“Nothing is more”: Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, p. 427.
“If some time”: Murrow to Winant, Nov. 10, 1941, Winant papers, FDRL.
“Everywhere I go”: Sperber, p. 188.
“Edward R. Murrow”: Paley, p. 143
“a period”: Gunther, p. 300.
“He walked”: Persico, Edward R. Murrow, p. 196.
“spending most”: Murrow to Harold Laski, Dec. 6, 1941, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“It is difficult”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 81
“Almost every eminent”: Paley, p. 143
“stunned by the whole”: Sperber, p. 204
“along the banks”: Kendrick, p. 238
“You burned”: Cloud and Olson, p. 143.
“You … who gather”: FDR telegram to William Paley, Dec. 2, 1941, President’s Personal File, FDRL.
“This means war”: Adams, p. 257.
“Do you think”: Winant, A Letter from Grosvenor Square, p. 197.
“The Japanese have”: Harriman and Abel, p. 113.
“We shall declare”: Winant, A Letter from Grosvenor Square, p. 199
“Mr. President”: Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance, p. 538
“exaltation”: David Reynolds, In Command of History, p. 264
“sort of danced”: Howland, p. 149.
“They did not wail”: Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance, p. 538.
“We still”: Seib, p. 156.
“He was living”: Frances Perkins Oral History, Columbia University.
“You’re not fit”: Gunther, p. 324.
“Destroyed on the ground”: Burns, p. 165
“the idea seemed”: Sperber, p. 207
“What did you”: Cloud and Olson, p. 145.
CHAPTER 9: CREATING THE ALLIANCE
“He was like a child”: Moran, p. 10
“The Winston I knew”: Ibid., p. 8.
“one of the most beautiful”: Sir John Martin, Downing Street: The War Years (London: Bloomsbury, 1991), p. 69.
“with its myriad”: Gerald Pawle, The War and Colonel Warden (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963), p. 138
“We’re here”: Goodwin, p. 305.
“Olympian calm”: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 7, Road to Victory 1941–1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986), p. 43
“a pair”: Meacham, p. 5
“Being with them”: Ibid.
“was always full”: Ibid., p. 157
“You could almost”: Moran, p. 21.
“Sir Walter Raleigh”: Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance, p. 558
“cast off”: Sherwood, p. 437.
“the most complete”: Dimbleby and Reynolds, p. 152.
“The United States”: David Reynolds, The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance, p. 11.
“I have never”: Mark Perry, Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace (New York: Penguin, 2007), p. 54
“were filled”: Brinkley, p. 91.
“I have never”: Alex Danchev, “Very Special Relationship: Field Marshal Sir John Dill and General George Marshall,” Marshall Foundation essay, 1984.
“I could see”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 216.
“As is usual”: Sir Frederick Morgan, Overture to Overlord (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1950), p. 25.
“One might think”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 275
“We had sustained”: Sir Frederick Morgan, p. 26.
“For Marshall”: Stanley Weintraub, 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century (New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 33
“too much”: Perry, p. 50.
“Not even the president”: D’Este, p. 259.
“a big man”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 247.
“By almost”: Arthur Bryant, The Turn of the Tide (Garden City, N.Y.: Double-day, 1957), p. 6.
“I found”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 249
“Rather over-filled”: Ibid., p. 246.
“In many respects”: Ibid., p. 249
“although he may be”: Sherwood, p. 523.
“In my whole experience”: Calder, p. 265.
“We seem to lose”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 68.
“the greatest disaster”: Sherwood, p. 501.
“Defeat is one thing”: Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), p. 383.
“You … hear”: Mollie Panter-Downes, London War Notes, 1939–1945 (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971), p. 205.
“During my period”: Thompson, p. 263.
“at a very low ebb”: Soames, p. 415.
“the massacre”: Sherwood, p. 498.
“The losses”: Bryant, The Turn of the Tide, p. 296.
“Terrible”: Moran, p. 38.
“We simply”: Nicolson, p. 196.
“malicious delight”: Juliet Gardiner, “Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here”: The American GI in World War II Britain (New York: Canopy, 1992), p. 32.
“Americans ought really”: Ibid., p. 33.
“has caused”: Ritchie, pp. 127–28.
“Broadly speaking”: David Reynolds, Rich Relations, p. 38.
“The seeds”: Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 (New York: Henry Holt, 2002), p. 478.
“Probably not one”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 2.
“I met so many”: David Reynolds, Rich Relations, p. 36.
“mixture of slaves”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 27.
“Are you”: Robert S. Arbib, Here We Are Together: The Notebook of an American Soldier in Britain (London: Right Book Club, 1947), p. 79
“I hope”: Times (London), July 22, 1941, Winant papers, FDRL.
“wanted the people”: Wallace Carroll, Persuade or Perish (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948), p. 134.
“We set out”: Ibid., p. 135.
“British newspapers”: New York Times, April 21, 1943.
“I would like”: Janet Murrow to parents, Feb. 28, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“a surprising new”: Joseph P. Lash, From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter (New York: W. W. Norton, 1975), p. 159.
“an oppressor people”: Ibid., p. 147.
“their factual knowledge”: David Reynolds, Rich Relations, p. 34.
“intense”: Nicolson, p. 226.
“It would be”: Murrow to Harry Hopkins, unda
ted, Hopkins papers, FDRL. “We might understand”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 60.
“a cram course”: Sperber, p. 190
“Later on”: Ibid.
“vigorous criticisms”: Ibid.
“Frankness and honesty”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 60.
CHAPTER 10: “AN ENGLISHMAN SPOKE IN GROSVENOR SQUARE”
“An Englishman”: David Reynolds, Rich Relations, p. 114.
“an air of near-frantic”: Kay Summersby Morgan, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975), p. 45.
“the sight”: New York Times Magazine, Nov. 1, 1942.
“a miniature Fifth Avenue”: Mrs. Robert Henrey, The Incredible City (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1944), p. 39.
“a millionaires’ club”: Daily Telegraph, July 6, 1942, Winant papers, FDRL.
“There was not a tailor”: Henrey, The Incredible City, p. 40.
“Gentlemen”: David Reynolds, Rich Relations, p. 95
“There is no question”: D’Este, p. 37.
“He feared nothing”: Ibid., p. 91.
“Makes me feel”: Kay Summersby Morgan, p. 44.
“Despite the fact”: Ibid., p. 36.
“I don’t think”: Ibid.
“After all”: Harry Butcher, My Three Years with Eisenhower (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946), p. 6.
“From the outset”: Ismay, p. 258.
“was having”: Butcher, p. 6.
“see eye to eye”: Ibid., p. 36.
“another of”: Dwight D. Eisenhower interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“was a big job”: New York Herald Tribune, July 14, 1942, Winant papers, FDRL.
“exerted an uncanny”: Wallace Carroll, letter to Washington Post, undated, Winant papers, FDRL.
“Every informant”: New York Herald Tribune, July 14, 1942, Winant papers, FDRL.
“Many of us”: Acheson, p. 38.
“to see whether”: New York Herald Tribune, July 14, 1942, Winant papers, FDRL.
“Averell substantively”: Abramson, p. 303.
“a moth”: William Standley, Admiral Ambassador to Russia (Chicago: Regnery 1955), p. 213.
“Every now and then”: Abramson, p. 340.
“I think”: Harriman interview with Elie Abel, Harriman papers, LC.
“He’s not a good”: Kathleen Harriman to Mary Fisk, Nov. 21, 1941, Harriman papers, LC.
“Winant was very”: Harriman interview with Elie Abel, Harriman papers, LC.
“Roosevelt always saw”: Gunther, p. 51