72 a wall of ships … rifles, Haarr, Battle for Norway, 206
Nicholas Rodger interview with author, 15/5/2016
Gunnar Hojem interview with author, 17/10/2015
9 THE WINSTON IMPASSE
1 He was all, Philip Willamson and Edward Baldwin, Baldwin Papers, 475
2 An ill fate …, Philip Joubert de la Ferté, The Fated Sky, 173
3 overburdened with, CA WDVS 1/3, William Welclose Davies unpublished autobiography
4 immediate offensive action, Cecil Aspinall-Oglander, Roger Keyes, 345
5 What better way, CA WDVS 1/3
6 genius for making, CA CHAR 19/2B/194–5
7 with his Union Jack, Aspinall-Oglander, 63
8 as the finest, ibid., 221
9 to revive in, ibid., xiii
10 that as soon … Star, ibid., 339
11 oddments, CA CHAR 19/2C/233–37
12 smash up the Norwegian, Keyes Papers, 27
13 Some of the great, Aspinall-Oglander, 346
14 He rang the bell, Keyes Papers, 23, 37
15 Let me organise … linked, Aspinall-Oglander, 346
16 I know I represent … attack, CA CHAR 19/2C/233–37
17 a combination … to me, Keyes Papers, 33
18 to hammer a way, ibid., 37
19 very devoted, Keyes Papers, 26
20 I have to be guided, At the Admiralty, 1131
21 the universally recognised, CA CHAR 19/2B/194–5
22 the letter of, Soames, Clementine Churchill, 142
23 but he has … Germany, ibid., 142
24 It was a nasty … after all?, CA CHAR 19/2B/194–5
25 Do-Nothing Dudley, King, 85
26 so excited as, D. R. Thorpe, Alec Douglas-Home, 100
27 damnably … short-sighted, Keyes Papers, 41
28 Steinkjer will stink, ibid., 42
29 The Military situation, ibid., 34
30 If the scuttle, ibid., 36
31 the chief author, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 589
32 I don’t think, Keyes Papers, 25
33 He was very, Ironside, 268
34 a curious creature, ibid., 263
35 I still see the map, At the Admiralty, 1152
36 and had reported, ibid., 1082
37 The Norwegian Minister, Colville, Fringes of Power, 111
38 by the atmosphere, Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli, 40
39 Winston was a, Ironside, 282
40 being maddening, declaring, Colville, Fringes of Power, 107
41 his verbosity and recklessness, ibid., 108
42 The P.M. is depressed, ibid., 107
43 in fact he seems, Channon, 242
44 one of the worst, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 521
45 most difficult … powers, ibid., 522
46 the public must not, King, 16
47 I have been, At the Admiralty, 1128
48 He is proving, Colville, Fringes of Power, 107
49 My dear Neville … action, CA CHAR 19/2C/308
50 there would then, At the Admiralty, 1137
51 at a loss how, ibid., 1137
52 a revival in some form, Gilbert, Finest Hour, 264
10 EVACUATION
1 The evacuation of, Hansard, 8/5/1940
2 Norway was the dullest, Carton de Wiart, 174
3 Steinkjer has … this, Haarr, Battle for Norway, 128
4 sitting out like, Carton de Wiart, 171
5 Never reinforce … with em, Waugh, Men at Arms, 144
6 For political reasons, Carton de Wiart, 171
7 Many congratulations, PF diary, 27/4/1940
8 had a ghastly time, Hart-Davis, 229
9 in silk combinations … well do!, ibid., 229
10 dear Peter, CA CHUR 2/149A-B
11 Communications with “Sickle Force”, Ironside, 308
12 Pretty awful!, Cadogan, 273
13 in the greatest secrecy, At the Admiralty, 1141
14 Today our wings, Listener, 6/5/1940
15 We should then, At the Admiralty, 1140
16 a secret, complicated, RU MS1391 B/6
17 You can really, Carton de Wiart, 171
18 Evacuation decided, WO 106/1895
19 First to evacuate, Carton de Wiart, 173
20 unsound in … at Namsos, Haarr, Battle for Norway, 156
21 Orders have been, Lodge memoir
22 The Germans had bombed, Fowler interview with author
23 British expeditionary … crazy, Stowe, 113–14
24 wore all these things, Carton de Wiart, 169
25 like blackened totem, Lindsay, Spectator, ‘Death of a Town’
26 whether British … little, Walter Hingston, Never Give Up, 78
27 the only unenvied, Carton de Wiart, 173
28 that last, endless day, ibid., 174
29 absolute destruction such, The Times, 9/5/1940
30 It sounded as if, ML ‘Death of a Town’
31 Our house was pulverised, Hjørdis Mikalsen interview with author, 17/10/2015
32 The expression which … the air, Reynolds, 124–5
33 this brief campaign, Feiling, 438
34 for the first time, Fleming, Invasion 1940, 21
35 It was the fog, Ironside, 291
36 had made … coal, PF ‘Return to Namsos’
37 a very important, Evensen interview with author
38 It is with the deepest, Haarr, Battle for Norway, 172
39 physically sick … Germany, Partridge, 37–8
40 In unresting pursuit, Daily Herald, 3/5/1940
41 It would be hard, Shirer, This is Berlin, 3/5/1940
42 Hitler claims complete, Mackenzie King, 30/4/1940
43 There was a whole, Elaine Lodge interview with author, 12/11/2015
44 I said “I lost … Norway, Fowler interview with author
45 The whole thing, Waugh, Put Out More Flags, 211
46 From the military, Laurence Thompson, 1940, 64
47 lamentable, footling, Spears, 117
48 We are on, Ironside, 295
49 Today there is no, Rauschning, 124
50 It must be a dark, Mackenzie King, 3/5/1940
51 we were heading, Spears, 112
52 The general impression … gloom, Nicolson, 74
53 would be beaten, John Reith, Diaries, 246
54 You don’t think … possible, Partridge, 37
55 For hundreds, perhaps, RU MS1391 B/6
56 When men escape, Fleming, Invasion 1940, 23
57 however daringly, ibid., 156
58 untiring, resourceful, PF Report
59 My father was direct, Jacynth Fitzalan Howard interview with author, 18/12/2014
60 the skilful … hunger, Simon Courtauld, The Watkins Boys, 48
61 a very high … little food, SP S (4) WC1/64 ‘Lindsay Memorandum’
62 gallant picnic, Brooks, Fleet Street, 28/4/1940
63 This was a, Alexander Mackintosh, Echoes of Big Ben, 69
64 never seen the House, SP Tree to Cranborne, 2/5/1940
65 very shaken … extremis, SP E-E to Cranborne, 5/5/1940
66 under the very … advantage, Hansard, 2/5/1940
67 He might have, Sylvester, 258
68 Chamberlain is clearly, Maisky, 272
69 there was a flat, Ed Murrow, This is London, 98
70 What a Govt, BOD MS Eng hist d.360, Crookshank diary
71 The campaign … excitement, Partridge, 35
72 on the pretext … opinion, PA LG/g/241/1, 27/4/1940
73 the tremendous … news, Allingham, 132
74 the false news, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 591
75 we have been given, Mackenzie King, 3/5/1940
76 partially misled, Colville, Fringes of Power, 110
77 no more about, Reith, Into the Wind, 377
78 the smell of failure, Waugh, Men at Arms, 220
79 completely “winded”, Violet Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, 208
80 almost indescribable … danger, A
llingham, 166
81 scarcely capable … history, Fleming, Invasion 1940, 25
82 if the Germans, Maisky, 290
83 Each day and night, Irene Ravensdale diary, 24/5/1940
84 immediately on a pass-word … this idea (footnote), BCA Dep. Monckton Trustees file 2, 13/5/1940
85 Everything was very, Stowe, 112
86 one of America’s, PA LG/g/241/1
87 He told me, Kingsley Martin, Editor, 279
88 We talked about, Campbell-Preston interview with author
89 who had muffed, Allingham, 168
90 was like following, ibid., 67
91 something far more, ibid., 168
92 the debate is, BI EH diary, 3/5/1940
93 no doubt … mischief, ibid., 2/5/1940
94 the fiasco in Norway, Dalton speaking in Cambridge, 5/5/1940
95 What disgusts me, Colville, Fringes of Power, 118
96 A Westminster war, Channon, 244
97 were thinking more, Ironside, 288
98 there is a first-class, ibid., 293
99 Well, Steinkjer was, Stowe, 118
100 It is all terrible, Leo Amery, My Political Life, vol. 3, 357
101 Most of the Ministers, Ironside, 295
11 MONSIEUR J’AIMEBERLIN
1 Chamberlain. What a man, Martha Gellhorn, Letters, 64
2 He seemed the reincarnation, Channon, 172
3 When the perspective, Hansard, 12/11/1940
4 much needed rest, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 524
5 One may as well, Information from David Dilks
6 light-hearted, Reith, Diaries, 248
7 the good British, ibid., 527
8 When they went, Valerie Cole, taped interview with Martyn Downer, 2009
9 She was very, ibid.
10 an almost complete, Derek Walker-Smith, Neville Chamberlain, 189
11 the biggest practical, Dilks interview with author
12 incurably modest, Martyn Downer, The Sultan of Zanzibar, 238
13 I often think, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 418
14 the sort of man, Bernays, 53
15 this extraordinary man … father, Churchill, Great Contemporaries, 63
16 There is too deep, Self, Chamberlain, 121
17 was sent as Ambassador, Birmingham Post, 18/1/1907
18 the wild man, Thomas Dugdale to Nancy Dugdale, 12/5/1940, private collection
19 Hectic preparations, CA GBR/0014/MCHL, Mary Soames diary
20 I said no oysters … dingy.” CRL NC 11/2/1a, Anne Chamberlain journal 1940
21 my father was gripped, Soames, A Daughter’s Tale, 129
22 What a pity Hitler, Churchill, Gathering Storm, 495
23 really the only, ibid., 495
24 the finest cigars, CRL NC 3/2/1
25 Then he ain’t look … lumbah!, Simpson
26 spontaneously attached, Keith Feiling, The Life of Neville Chamberlain, 31
27 the best site, David Dilks, Neville Chamberlain: vol. 1, 47
28 seven thousand acres, Feiling, 31
29 I’m goin’ ‘ome!, Simpson
30 in spite of all, ibid., 30
31 very tough fibre, WSC BBC broadcast, 12/11/1939
32 All the time, Feiling, 16
33 in a position, ibid., 71
34 which had but a poor, note re NC’s donation of forty-nine birds (1896/7), Natural History Museum, Tring
35 I’d never heard … sisal, Hein van Grouw interview with author, 18/12/2015
36 the world’s life-buoy, Halifax, Fulness of Days, 202
37 The house was full, Valerie Cole interview
38 the greatest miracle, Geoffrey Lewis, Lord Hailsham, 56
39 Did you ever, Halifax, Fulness of Days, 195
40 since he loves to fish, Sydney Sun, 3/10/1938
41 divinely led, The Times, 16/9/1938
42 The day may come, John Evelyn Wrench, Geoffrey Dawson and Our Times, 416
43 the precious … ears, Geoffrey Shakespeare, 193
44 species of insanity, Dutton, Chamberlain, 130
45 and his friends … politically impossible, Hansard, 31/3/1947
46 The task of rehabilitating, Richard Gott, Guardian, 22/11/1984
47 It can ingest, Canetti, Notes from Hampstead, 38
48 No, just the same, Arthur Chamberlain interview with author, 3/12/2015
49 Neville’s my name … Randolph, Francis Chamberlain interview with author, 3/10/2015
50 the most disastrous, Attlee, in Francis Williams, A Pattern of Rulers, 193
51 a man ill-timed, CA Amel 8/76/5, Feiling to LA, 15/11/1954
52 Poor Chamberlain, Brooks, 268
53 He was … world, Alec Douglas-Home, The Way the Wind Blows, 60
54 His intimates, Nicolson, Spectator, 16/5/1940
55 What do you want?, Douglas-Home, 60
56 accursed shyness, NC Diary Letters, vol. 2, 6
57 I never knew … eye, G. S. Harvie-Watt, Most of My Life, 42
58 I can’t really, Self, Chamberlain, 206
59 the mind and manner, Nicolson, 345
60 if the b——, Walter Citrine, Men and Work, 367
61 Boiled down, Robert Self ed., The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters, 259
62 What a good, CA GBR/0014/LWFD 2/2, Valentine Lawford diary, 1/11/1940
63 Many people who, Cadogan, 132
64 She had got him … governments, Halifax, Fulness of Days, 227–33
65 I have increasing, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 548
66 his reputation is, Valerie Cole interview
67 You have a wonderful, CRL NC 18/2/1161–1198
68 Why look at our boss, Simpson
69 The Chamberlains, Francis Chamberlain interview with author
70 Papa could not, CRL NC 9/2/10, Ida Chamberlain memoir
71 Naturally reserved, shut, Chamberlain, Norman Chamberlain, 160
72 I was counting, ibid., 1
73 how greatly Norman, ibid., v
74 the statesman in, ibid., 80
75 The terror I suffered, ibid., 106
76 Everything is mud, ibid., 123
77 I do want to say, Francis Chamberlain to NC, 21/10/1940, private collection
78 stale digestive biscuits, Hart-Davis, 213
79 Look at his head … him, Sylvester, 235
80 advanced towards, Colin Coote, Editorial, 290
81 He looks well, Hart-Davis, 218
82 He is slow, ibid., 218
83 whole appearance, The Times, 20/3/1940
84 Not unsatisfactory, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 487
85 Every night I have, ibid., 473
86 surprisingly well, ibid., 518
87 pure ecstasy, CRL 11/2/5
88 He told us, Hart-Davis, 218
89 He gave a most humorous, CRL NC 9/2/9
90 good cooked breakfast, Anthony Seldon, 10 Downing Street, 135
91 strong burnt chicory … excellence, Colville, Fringes of Power, 45
92 his years in the Bahamas, King, 25
93 I have occasionally times, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 444
94 green and shapeless … mine, CRL NC 11/2/1a
95 Even walking near, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 466
96 I must remain P.M., ibid., 415
97 no young trees, CRL NC 2/26
98 dark halls, old paintings, Maisky, 372
99 always there … country, CRL NC 18/2/1161–1198
100 where one can be, Norma Major, Chequers, 186
101 It was his saw, CRL NC 11/2/5
102 It was given me, Kenneth Clark, Another Part of the Wood, 271
103 If ever that silly, Ivone Kirkpatrick, The Inner Circle, 135
104 One must have something, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 459
105 full, as was to, ibid., 490
106 I find it is, ibid., 491–2
107 one of the loveliest, CRL NC 13/17, NC to Morrison Bell 5/5/1940
108 It gives him, Maisky, 364
109 feeble, fatuou
s, BOD MS Eng hist 496, Wallace diary
110 a bad British, The Times, 6/5/1940
111 Then an encouraging, Dalton, 303
112 storm of abuse … hand, Channon, 244
113 Your endurance and courage, Reith, Into the Wind, 381
114 Chamberlain hates criticism, Crozier, 123
115 very down and depressed, Self, Chamberlain, 422
116 Our failure in Norway, At the Admiralty, Channon papers, 1136
117 covered in blood, Douglas-Home, 71
118 It was a massive, Francis Chamberlain interview with author
119 square with the picture, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 527
120 too apt to look, ibid., 527
121 more trouble than, ibid., 517
122 It was a shattering, BOD MSS Dawson 44 diary, 19/4/1940
123 strong inclination, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 523
124 he didn’t think, Joseph Kennedy, Letters, 399
125 half a dozen people, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 445
126 I don’t see that other, ibid., 493
127 ubiquitous … cadaverous-looking, Spears, 15, 106
128 like a teak-faced, Chair, Die? I thought I’d Laugh, 132
129 Our Secret Service, Feiling, 347
130 he had a devious, CA Amel 8/76, Vansittart to LA 12/7/1954
131 had been fixed up, Guy Liddell, Diaries, 55
132 The telephone check, ibid., 71
133 the seamy side … organisation”, J. C. C. Davidson, Memoirs of a Conservative, 272
134 had the gall, Tree, 76
135 Ring me there, SP Tree to Cranborne, 2/5/1940
136 Hoare’s star is, AM diary, 16/2/1940
137 Winston himself is very, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 432
138 It is very difficult, BCA Dep. Monckton Trustees file 17, 13/11/1939
139 To WHOMSOEVER, ibid.
140 What we really want, BCA Dep. Monckton Trustees file 24, 23/6/1940
141 carrying on a regular, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 351
142 whether there is, Hansard, 13/4/1939
143 and that his job, Andrew Roberts interview with author, 11/12/2014
144 You have been, Gerald de Groot, Life of Sir Archibald Sinclair, 22
145 Archie knows or guesses, ibid., 23
146 used to play football, Bernays, 134
147 blinded by prejudiced hatred, Colville, Fringes of Power, 91
148 scuttle away, Groot, 152
149 We had the impression, PA Harris papers HRS/1
150 close relations, BOD MSS Simon 12, 9/5/1940
151 this brilliant, puffing, At the Admiralty, Channon papers, 1136
152 Chagrined by his failure, Channon, 242
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