‘We could have …’: ibid.
‘He’d mix around …’: author’s interview with May Bailey, February 2004.
‘Everyone used to come …’: author’s interview with Walker Scales, May 2004.
p. 279 ‘He never went anywhere …’: author’s interview with Peter Diggle, June 2004.
‘God lived in’t big house …’: author’s interview with Jim McGuinness, July 2004.
‘There were a lot of talk …’: author’s interview with Walt Hammond, August 2006.
‘There was a boy …’: author’s interview with Bert May, March 2004.
‘His Lordship …’: ibid.
p. 280 ‘My grandmother …’: author’s interview with David Sylvester, January 2006.
‘Lord Milton …’: ibid.
p. 281 ‘Ooh, Lord Milton …’: author’s interview with May Bailey, June 2004.
‘I started down the mine …’: author’s interview with Jim McGuinness, July 2004.
‘She was a notable girl …’: author’s interview with Walker Scales, September 2004.
p. 282 ‘All the boys in the village …’: author’s interview with May Bailey, June 2004.
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p. 286 ‘Dear Jim …’: Billy Fitzwilliam to Jim Landon, 8 May 1931. Private Collection.
‘It were his father …’: author’s interview with Walt Hammond, August 2005.
p. 287 ‘Aside from …’: The Times, 10 June 1931.
p. 288 ‘There are …’: minutes of Milton Committee Meeting, 10 June 1931. Private Collection.
‘Once a year …’: author’s interview with Roy Young, May 2004.
p. 289 ‘Captain North began …’: minutes of Milton Committee Meeting, 10 June 1931. Private Collection.
p. 290 ‘Admiral Hugh Douglas …’: ibid.
‘Tout passe …’: Duke of Portland, Men, Women and Things, Faber and Faber, 1937, pp. 1 and 2.
‘in the years immediately …’: David Cannadine, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Yale University Press, 1990.
p. 291 ‘A silent revolution …’: cited ibid., p. 111.
‘One, Sudbrooke Holme …’: cited ibid., p. 119.
‘If I close …’: Frances, Countess of Warwick, Afterthoughts, Cassell and Co., 1931, p. 247.
‘In 1870 …’: Cannadine, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, p. 92.
p. 292 ‘Nearly all these …’: Duke of Portland, Men, Women and Things, p. 2.
p. 293 ‘Times change …’: Frances, Countess of Warwick, Afterthoughts, p. 246.
‘Margaret Sweeny …’: Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, Forget Not, W. H. Allen, 1975, p. 92.
p. 294 ‘Over Grapefruit Supreme …’: lunch menu, Milton Committee,10 June 1931. Private Collection.
‘I want to suggest …’: minutes of meeting, Milton Committee, 10 June 1931. Private Collection.
‘Mr Hebden …’: ibid.
‘Alfred Wright …’: ibid.
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
p. 297 ‘The train bore me …’: George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Victor Gollancz, 1937, paperback edition, Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics, 1989, p. 14.
p. 298 ‘It is a kind of duty …’: ibid., p. 14.
‘Here are one or two …’: ibid., p. 49.
‘It is in the rooms …’: ibid., p. 55.
p. 299 ‘Rent, 9 0 ½d …’: ibid., p. 85.
p. 300 ‘You see very few …’: ibid., p. 89.
‘They were rough times …’: author’s interview with Ralph Boreham, August 2005.
p. 301 ‘Though both my wife …’: Walter Brierley, ‘Frustration and bitterness – a colliery banksman’, the Listener, 9 August 1933.
p. 302 ‘Capacity to work …’: Roger Dataller (pseud.), A Yorkshire Lad, unpublished memoir.
‘I could give you …’: Jim Bullock, Bowers Row, EP Publishing,1976, p. 224.
p. 303 ‘One day …’: ibid.
p. 304 ‘I remember …’: B. L. Coombes, These Poor Hands, Victor Gollancz, 1939, p. 215.
‘We are sitting …’: cited in Kenneth Rose, King George V, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983, paperback edition, Phoenix Press,2000, p. 370.
p. 305 ‘Interrupting his holiday …’: A. J. P. Taylor, English History 1914–1945, Oxford University Press, 1965, paperback edition, 1992, p. 288.
‘It was the “Invisibles” …’: ibid., p. 287.
p. 306 ‘In the years after …’: ibid., p. 289.
‘It was a time …’: minutes of Milton Committee Meeting. Private Collection.
p. 307 ‘It were the last hurrah …’: author’s interview with Walker Scales, June 2004.
p. 308 ‘You never saw him …’: author’s interview with Charles Booth, May 2004.
‘As dusk fell …’: Mexborough and Swinton Times, 2 January 1932.
‘Coloured lights …’: author’s interview with Charles Booth, May 2004.
‘The freedom of Wentworth …’: Sheffield Daily Telegraph,1 January 1932.
‘Me father and grandfather …’: author’s interview with Ralph Boreham, August 2005.
p. 309 ‘The setting …’: Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1 January 1932.
p. 310 ‘Ay, that party were a treat …’: author’s interview with Ralph Boreham, August 2005.
p. 311 ‘There were a great gang of us …’: author’s interview with Geoffrey Steer, August 2005.
‘As a Trades Union Secretary …’: Mexborough and Swinton Times, 2 January 1932.
p. 312 ‘At Elsecar …’: ibid.
‘Ever since …’: ibid.
p. 313 ‘There are two men …’: ibid.
‘I am overwhelmed …’: ibid.
‘He made a short speech …’: author’s interview with Walt Hammond, August 2005.
p. 314 ‘As a child …’: Lynne McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984, p. 210.
‘Grandpa didn’t want …’: author’s interview with Lady Barbara Ricardo, November 2005.
p. 315 ‘I was sitting …’: ibid.
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p. 320 ‘I was on the bus …’: author’s interview with Charles Booth, February 2006.
p. 321 ‘Our kitchen door …’: Alicia Dufton, Recollections of a Lifetime, unpublished memoir, Doncaster Library, Local Studies Centre.
‘Everything was moving …’: author’s interview with Bert May, June 2004.
p. 322 ‘A stick of bombs …’: author’s interview with Charles Booth, February 2006.
‘The war turned …’: author’s interview with Lady Barbara Ricardo, March 2006.
‘The other ranks …’: Dr Patrick Hewlings, cited in John Martin Robinson, The Country House at War, Bodley Head, 1989, p. 138.
‘We were very comfortable …’: ibid.
p. 324 ‘I wrapped so many …’: author’s interview with Ethel Jones, October 2002.
‘The thing that …’: author’s interview with Lady Barbara Ricardo, March 2006.
p. 325 ‘He had a reputation …’: ibid.
‘There were a lot of talk …’: author’s interview with Geoffrey Steer, August 2005.
‘As Lady Barbara …’: author’s interview with Lady Barbara Ricardo, March 2006.
p. 326 ‘100 tons would be sufficient …’: cited in Ralph Barker, The Blockade Busters, Chatto & Windus, 1976, p.150.
‘We have our traditions …’: ibid., p. 153.
‘None of the family …’: author’s interview with Lady Barbara Ricardo, November 2005.
p. 327 ‘Service with the Motor Gunboats …’: Public Records Office, Kew, London, HS 7/191.
p. 328 ‘The boats didn’t cut …’: cited in Barker, The Blockade Busters p. 187.
‘They were like corks …’: author’s interview with Irwin Jones, February 2004.
‘There were three of us …’: ibid.
‘During many …’: cited in Barker, The Blockade Busters, p. 159.
p. 329 ‘We were wary of him …’: author’s interview with Jack Baron, Feb
ruary 2004.
‘I think he drove himself …’: author’s interview with Lady Barbara Ricardo, March 2006.
‘In the gathering gloom …’: Barker, The Blockade Busters, p. 163.
‘Rounding the Bull Light …’: ibid.
p. 330 ‘They didn’t stand …’: ibid.
p. 331 ‘There was a family …’: author’s interview with Lady Barbara Ricardo, March 2006.
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p. 333 ‘Mother …’: KK, round-robin letter to family, 27 June 1943, cited in Amanda Smith, Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy, Viking Penguin, 2001, p. 562.
‘Heavy fighting …’: Winston Churchill, speech in London, 30 June 1943.
‘The only lounge available …’: KK, round-robin letter to family, 27 June 1943, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 562.
p. 334 ‘About a half-hour …’: ibid.
‘This life …’: ibid.
‘her hat …’: Daily Express, 16 March 1938.
‘Now I’ve got …’: ibid.
p. 335 ‘When the President …’: James Roosevelt, My Parents: A Differing View, Chicago, 1976, p. 208.
‘After ushering …’: ibid., p. 209.
p. 336 ‘a very dangerous man …’: The Presidential Diaries of Henry Morgantheau (microform), 8 December 1937, Clearwater Publishing Co., New York, 1980.
‘I have a beautiful …’: JPK to James Roosevelt, 3 March 1938, FDR Library/James Roosevelt.
p. 337 ‘After he referred …’: E. Wilder Spaulding, Ambassadors Ordinary and Extraordinary, Washington, 1961, pp. 218–19.
‘You watched …’: P. Collier and D. Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama, Summit Books, 1984, p. 131.
p. 338 ‘Met the King …’: JFK to Lem Billings, August 1938, ibid., p. 102.
‘As I entered …’: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Recollections, John F. Kennedy Library, Rose Kennedy Papers, Series 7.10.
p. 339 ‘Eighty guests …’: Laurence Leamer, The Kennedy Women, Ballantine Books, 1996, p. 257.
‘When she came …’: interview with Dinah Bridge, recorded 1966, JFKL Oral History Program.
‘She was just …’: author’s interview with Janie Compton, November 2005.
‘Wish you could …’: cited in David Michaelis, The Best of Friends, New York, 1983, p. 160.
‘Very chummy …’: KK to Lem Billings, 29 April 1938, cited in Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga, Simon and Schuster, 1987, p. 541.
p. 340 ‘Veronica Fraser …’: Lynne McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984, p. 33.
‘The boys …’: ibid.
‘Small things …’: ibid.
‘I can’t get …’: KK to JPK, 18 September 1939, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 381.
p. 341 ‘All my ducks …’: cited in Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, p. 71.
‘Those three …’: ibid.
‘Today it is windy …’: KK, round-robin letter to family, 27 June 1943, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 562.
p. 342 ‘a living room …’: Torb Macdonald, cited in Leamer, The Kennedy Women, p. 329.
‘Kick is very …’: JFK to JPK, spring 1940, cited in Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, p. 607.
‘Mr Kennedy …’: cited in Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, p. 119.
‘The British have had it …’: ibid., author’s interview with Harvey Klemmer, p. 122.
p. 343 ‘In her absence …’: McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 91.
‘Sometimes I feel …’: KK to Janie Compton, cited in ibid.
p. 344 ‘Listen, the thing …’: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, p. 143.
‘I think …’: Tom Egerton, cited in Leamer, The Kennedy Women, p. 225.
‘Darling Kick …’: ibid, p. 260.
‘before the war …’: ibid.
‘On knocking …’: ibid, p. 261.
‘In the months …’: Joan and Clay Blair, The Search for JFK, Berkeley/Putnam, 1976, p. 128.
‘I would advise …’: JFK to KK, 10 March 1942, cited in Leamer, The Kennedy Women, p. 337.
p. 345 ‘Yesterday …’: KK, round-robin letter to family, 14 July 1943, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 564.
‘Everyone has been …’: KK to JFK, 29 July 1943, ibid., p. 566.
‘You had to go out …’: Lady Virginia Ford, cited in Leamer, The Kennedy Women, p. 338.
p. 346 ‘With so many …’: cited in McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 76.
‘5½ days …’: KK to Frank Waldrop, 20 July 1943, cited in Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, p. 666.
p. 347 ‘Chiswick? …’: cited in McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 52.
‘I remember …’: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, p. 103.
‘I have just returned …’: KK to JFK, 29 July 1943, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 566.
p. 348 ‘I think Kick …’: author’s interview with Janie Compton, November 2005.
‘At the moment …’: KK to JPK, 21 May 1940, cited in Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, p. 607.
p. 349 ‘Romeo and Juliet …’: Fiona Gore, cited in Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, p. 104.
p. 350 ‘The one thing …’: KK, round-robin letter to family, 18 May 1944, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 592.
‘the worst-dressed …’: Andrew Cavendish, cited in Leamer, The Kennedy Women, p. 263.
‘He was a frustrated …’: Sir Henry Channon, Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, 1967, p. 547.
‘One of his favourite …’: cited in Leamer, The Kennedy Women, p. 263.
‘It was said …’: cited in McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 47.
‘I think it’s fair …’: Andrew Cavendish, cited in Leamer, The Kennedy Women, p. 263.
p. 351 ‘The religious difficulties …’: the Marquess of Hartington to RK, 30 April 1944, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 584.
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
p. 352 ‘Do you think …’: Derbyshire Sunday Express, 13 February 1944.
‘The by-election …’: Andrew Cavendish, cited in Laurence Leamer, The Kennedy Women, Ballantine Books, 1996, p. 359.
‘He should never …’: Lady Maureen Fellowes, ibid.
p. 353 ‘Lord Hartington …’: Derbyshire Times, February 1944.
‘He looks absolutely repulsive …’: KK, round-robin letter to family, 22 February 1944, cited in Amanda Smith, Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy, Viking Penguin, 2001, p. 574.
‘She fell in love …’: author’s interview with Janie Compton, November 2005.
p. 354 ‘evil influence …’: KK, round-robin letter to family, 18 May 1944, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 592.
‘News of me …’: KK, round-robin letter to family, 22 February 1944, cited ibid., p. 574.
‘It really was …’: ibid.
‘In the interests …’: Derbyshire Times, 11 February 1944.
‘Are you in favour …’: ibid.
‘Can you milk a cow …’: Evening Standard, 9 February 1944.
p. 355 ‘My dear Hartington …’: published in Derbyshire Times, 11 February 1944.
p. 356 ‘It’s all very upsetting …’: KK, round-robin letter to family, 22 February 1944, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 574.
‘It has been a fierce …’: Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 15 May 1948.
‘It just leaves …’: KK, round-robin letter to family, 22 February 1944, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 574.
p. 357 ‘Received …’: ibid.
‘I think something …’: KK to parents, 4 March 1944, cited in Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga, Simon and Schuster, 1987, p. 675.
‘I do not seem …’: RK to KK, 24 February 1944, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 577.
p. 358 ‘She was deeply …’: author’s interview with Janie Compton, November 2005.
‘Ursula Wyndham Quinn …’: c
ited in Leamer, The Kennedy Women, p. 356.
‘Kick calls to me …’: cited in D. Collier and P. Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama, Summit Books, 1984, pp. 142–3.
‘The thing the priest …’: ibid.
p. 359 ‘When both people …’: RK to KK, 24 February 1944, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 577.
‘The Duchess with …’: KK to parents, 22 March 1944, cited ibid., p. 578.
p. 360 ‘When I left …’: ibid.
‘I am no good …’: ibid.
p. 361 ‘If, he promised …’: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, p. 159.
‘Of course …’: KK, round-robin letter to family, 4 April 1944, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 581.
p. 362 ‘Dear Mrs Kennedy …’: Marquess of Hartington to RK, 30 April 1944, cited ibid., p. 584.
p. 364 ‘Personal Reminiscences …’: cited ibid.
‘Everyone pointed …’: ibid.
‘EFFORT IN VAIN …’: Archbishop William Godfrey to Archbishop Francis Spellman, n.d., cited ibid., p. 586.
‘As sister Eunice …’: JFK to Lem Billings, 19 May 1944, cited in Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, p. 161.
p. 365 ‘Whenever she heard …’: JPK Jr to his parents, 8 May 1944, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 587.
‘RELIGION EVERYTHING …’: KK to JPK, 5 May 1944, cited ibid., p. 586.
‘WILL YOU KINDLY …’: Archbishop Francis Spellman to Archbishop William Godfrey, 6 May 1944, cited ibid.
p. 366 ‘The dress …’: Lynne McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984, p. 161.
‘Charles Granby …’: ibid.
‘quite conscious …’: KK to RK, 9 May 1944, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 589.
‘Parnell’s ghost …’: cited in McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 159.
‘Over in America …’: Boston Traveller, 4 May 1944.
p. 367 ‘Anne was mortified …’: McTaggart, Kathleen-Kennedy, p. 161.
‘a shy old bird …’: JPK Jr to his parents, 8 May 1944, cited in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 587.
‘The ring …’: Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 518.
‘It seemed better …’: JPK Jr to his parents, 8 May 1944, cited ibid., p. 587.
‘The chef …’: KK to RK, 9 May 1944, cited ibid., p. 589.
‘a few of the GIs …’: ibid.
‘Listen, you God damn …’: KK, round-robin letter to family, 18 May 1944, cited ibid., p. 592.
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