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Six Minutes in May

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by Nicholas Shakespeare


  8 To think that I, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 601

  9 he was quite, BOD MS Eng hist 497, Wallace diary

  10 I am always, Sylvester, 249

  11 I have a great, ibid., 251

  12 Well, there was, Geoffrey Shakespeare, 62

  13 Every day he is crazy, Sylvester, 239

  14 I heard men … interested, PA LG/g/241/1

  15 sound … play, Thomas Jones, Diary with Letters, 457

  16 Nancy welcomed … longer, ibid., 457

  17 very soul … Asquith, Roskill, Hankey, 270

  18 more presence than, Information from Christopher Clement-Davies

  19 I gather I owe, Amery, Diaries, vol. 1, 78

  20 knowing my Neville, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 578

  21 Give this to, Geoffrey Shakespeare, 60

  22 standing in … urchin, Faber, Speaking for England, 18

  23 How could … grip, Churchill, My Early Life, 18

  24 fully-clothed (footnote), Wm. Louis, In the Name of God, Go!, 30

  25 the best ducking, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 104

  26 for lectures and, Faber, 38

  27 to desert his Liberal, ibid., 176

  28 at sixes and sevens, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 590

  29 What I shall achieve, Amery, Diaries, vol. 1, 78

  30 an immense advantage … in the right, ibid., 78

  31 being right, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 257

  32 the greatest law-giver, Blake & Louis, Churchill, 258

  33 a bigger man, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 397

  34 alpinising energy, Vansittart, 354

  35 a steep snow-crowned, Canadian Alpine Journal, 1929, 3

  36 Oh, Leo’s on the executive, Information from Frances Campbell-Preston, 4/5/2015

  37 I … made him, Faber, 267

  38 a reward of successful, Amery, Diaries, vol. 1, 244

  39 if only he, NC Diary Letters, vol. 2, 104

  40 listened to with, NC Diary Letters, vol. 3, 170

  41 pull his coat, Faber, 239

  42 moral collapse … leader, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 226

  43 with such gifts, ibid., 538

  44 I shall be justified, ibid., 396

  45 there are always, Faber, 275

  46 What a difference, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 443

  47 spoke of my, ibid., 55

  48 the cleverest … politics, Faber, 240

  49 He had, David Faber interview with author, 28/1/2015

  50 a scheming little, Faber, 102

  51 combative and persistent, Macmillan, Blast of War, 69

  52 a wise and benevolent, Spears, 39

  53 I had the best, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 1069

  54 irritated snort, Faber, 356

  55 as if stung, Dugdale, Baffy, 2/9/1939

  56 most insulting, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 443

  57 killed off all, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 570

  58 the smaller … Quisling, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 526

  59 very hard not, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 453

  60 he has not been, CA Amel 2/1/31, LA to Jacques Bardou

  61 just senior to Winston, BOD MSS Dawson 81 39-41/13

  62 would make a real … today, BOD MSS Dawson 81

  63 always seeing further, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 257

  64 distorted or damaged, C. F. Amery, Notes on Forestry, 35

  65 Every tree threatening, ibid., 38

  66 to harass the, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 558

  67 Are you aware, ibid., 559

  68 insane ban … Norway, BOD MSS Dawson 81 39-41/1

  69 helplessness and vacillation, Amery, Times History of the War in South Africa, vol. 2, 305

  70 not merely to upset, CA Amel 2/1/31 1940

  71 Neville giving place, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 580

  72 a pale-faced, Sunday Express, 12/5/1940

  73 I have no doubt, Boothby letter to Observer, 4/9/1966

  74 Thank God, Alun Wyburn-Powell, Clement Davies, 110

  75 I do deplore, CA Amel 8/76/5, CD to LA, 21/10/1954

  76 a very live wire, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 576

  77 an able and successful, SP Wolmer to Salisbury, 15/4/1940

  78 treacherous Welshman, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 535

  79 to take the measures, Liberal Magazine, 1949, vol. 48, 65

  80 an orchestra without, Montgomeryshire Express, 17/2/1940

  81 brought things to, CA Amel 2/1/31 1940

  82 The Government must, Cross, Hoare, 255

  83 almost criminal, The Times, 4/5/1940

  84 big words … Cabinets, Bruce Lockhart, 52

  85 at the complacent, CA Amel 2/1/31 1940

  86 to scotch the Opposition, PA LG/g/241/1

  87 without bothering … founder”, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 590

  88 Clam Attlee … reputation, Citrine, 367

  89 If I pass you, William Douglas-Home, The Prime Ministers, 237

  90 unseating Chamberlain … at all, Orwell, Collected Essays, vol. 2, 359

  91 sordid gatherings, Self, Chamberlain, 440

  92 He has told us, Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, 208

  93 Again and again, Hansard, 1/2/1940

  94 To my mind, SP CD to Salisbury, 15/4/1940

  95 Not Winston … Churchill, Harold Wilson, in Attlee as I Knew Him, 42

  96 gollywog itching, Jeremy Lewis, David Astor, 183

  97 plump for Winston … crowd, At the Admiralty, 1186; Taylor, Beaverbook, 407

  98 very changeable … prostitute, Maisky, 239

  99 a mixture of scorn, Colville, Inner Circle, 91

  100 In every case, Taylor, Beaverbrook, 407

  101 We have this … combat, The Times, 4/5/1940

  102 We’ll all swing, Bruce Lockhart, 54

  103 good politically … through tomorrow, Colville, Fringes of Power, 91–92

  104 assured by the intelligence, Daily Herald, 7/5/1940

  105 no one expected, AM diary, 7/5/1940

  106 thought they would, At the Admiralty, 1191

  107 P.M. is expected, Jones, 457

  108 I think there … storm, PA LG/g/241/1

  109 Should one expect … We’ll see, Maisky, 273

  110 Remember the good … out, The Times, 7/5/1940

  111 as heroes, At the Admiralty, 1196

  112 to prevent all sorts, Reith, Into the Wind, 381

  113 shattering rumour … look over, BOD MSS Dawson diary 1940

  114 just returned … military history, SP S (4) WC1/64

  115 Yes, I’m 99.9 per cent, Jacynth Fitzalan Howard to author, 27/9/2016

  116 have seen … slender, SP S (4) WC1/64

  117 the whole … information, SP Salisbury to Cranborne, 2/5/1940

  15 TUESDAY 7 MAY

  1 The dead columns, Duff Cooper, Old Men Forget, 277

  2 might still lie, Moorehead, 128

  3 The general … historic, Nicolson, Montreal Standard, 11/5/1940

  4 Listening to the bores, Henry Morris-Jones, Doctor in the Whips’ Room, 158; Dennis Herbert, Backbencher and Chairman, 90

  5 I never saw, Dugdale, Baffy, 168

  6 Well staged, David, Daily Herald, 8/5/1940

  7 I confess that, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 491, 20/1/1940

  8 sick to see such, ibid., 491

  9 Silly bladders!, Cadogan, 18

  10 I feel just, Geoffrey Shakespeare, 41

  11 He has no charm, Cooper, ‘A Candid Portrait’, American Mercury, January 1940

  12 When he said, Christopher Sylvester ed., Literary Companion to Parliament, 414

  13 there is little or no, Walker-Smith, 15

  14 No one anticipated, Herbert, 226

  15 if he rallies, PA LG/g/241/1

  16 terrible place, Martin Lindsay, The House of Commons, 11

  17 everything mahn want, Simpson

  18 by allowing the, Nicolson, Montreal Standard

  19 rather feminine, Nicolson, 76

  20 looked a shattered man, FRO D/MJ/21 Diary 1940

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sp; 21 No one listening, Foot, 178

  22 Germany has invaded, New Statesman 9/5/1940

  23 That Churchill had, Amery, My Political Life, 359

  24 thin and burning-eyed, Blythe, 266

  25 his obvious satisfaction, Amery, My Political Life, vol. 3, 359

  26 was simply rot, Maisky, 274

  27 that the Government, Colville, Fringes of Power, 92

  28 a little mouse, Dalton, War Diary, 196

  29 When a Premier, Daily Worker, 8/5/1940

  30 made it much easier, Amery, My Political Life, vol. 3, 358

  31 a bad speaker, AM diary, 7/8/1940

  32 eloquent and venomous … inside information, Colville, Fringes of Power, 117

  33 Violent attacks … out, Groot, 153

  34 but not devastatingly, Dugdale, Baffy, 168

  35 Up to that moment, Nicolson, Montreal Standard

  36 determined not to, Dugdale, Baffy, 168

  37 This active and high-minded, Nicolson, Montreal Standard

  38 agonised discomfort, Amery, My Political Life, vol. 3, 359

  39 very distinguished, Herbert, 58

  40 a certain customary … trouble, ibid., 360

  41 to kill the debate, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 592

  42 a dreary and not, AM diary, 7/8/1940

  43 a veteran Socialist … wills, Nicolson, Montreal Standard

  44 Questionable taste, Channon, 245

  45 I am not very quick, Keyes Papers, 36

  46 very disappointed … all idea, Carton de Wiart, 176

  47 Now the Admiral … 101, Nicolson, Montreal Standard

  48 He stumbled, got confused, Maisky, 274

  49 The sincerity that, Cooper, Old Men Forget, 278

  50 Keyes’s words, Maisky, 274

  51 It knocked the House, Dugdale, Baffy, 168

  52 on the lines, AM diary, 7/5/1940

  53 The House notices, Nicolson, Montreal Standard

  54 There is a … effort, ibid.

  55 divided between, Amery, My Political Life, vol. 3, 359

  56 The whole effect, ibid., 360

  57 barely a dozen … day, ibid., 360

  58 cherubically asleep … African history, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 242–3

  59 Austen told me, ibid., 229

  60 Very rowdy meeting, Herbert Williams, Politics – Grave and Gay, 220

  61 a curious sing-song, Macmillan, 58

  62 Spoke with considerable, Amery, Diaries, vol. 1, 79

  63 my favourite old quotation, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 592

  64 Your troops are, Oliver Cromwell, Letters and Speeches, 300

  65 too strong meat … finish, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 592

  66 doubtful whether I, CA Amel 8/76

  67 The temperature … point, Nicolson, Montreal Standard

  68 a case of parliamentary, Roberts, Holy Fox, 195

  69 and naturally I, CA Amel 8/76, CD to LA 21/10/1954

  70 murmured in my, Amery, My Political Life, vol. 3, 360

  71 In the meantime, CA Amel 8/76, CD to LA 21/10/1954

  72 I’ve seen it, David Faber interview with author

  73 far beyond his, Macmillan, 58

  74 a tribute less, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 592

  75 a squashed little, Blythe, 270

  76 There are few sights, ibid., 269

  77 ear of the … action, Amery, My Political Life, vol. 1, 370

  78 I found myself, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 592

  79 The crash of glass, Spears, 120

  80 the impression of volleys, ibid., 119

  81 I could only … round me, Amery, My Political Life, vol. 3, 364–5

  82 that I cast prudence, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 592

  83 The debate in, Allingham, 168

  84 My dear Leo, CA Amel 2/1/31 1940

  85 so consistently helpful, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 21/10/1938

  86 not without real, CA Amel 2/1/31, LA to NC, 6/10/1940

  87 the pained faces … there, ibid.

  88 both Chamberlain and Churchill, King, 35

  89 His last words, Nicolson, Montreal Standard

  90 There is little doubt, Rhodes James, George VI, 187

  91 for some time past, ibid. 187

  92 and had asked … National Government, ibid., 189

  93 Neville Chamberlain, Frances Campbell Preston interview with author

  94 he felt he had, BI EH diary, 7/11/1940

  95 was always subject, Rhodes James, George VI, 187

  96 Harold Macmillan and, BOD MS Eng hist 497, Wallace diary

  97 Members began seriously, Foot, Guardian, 8/5/1965

  98 effectively destroyed, Macmillan, 55

  99 It settled the fate, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 592

  100 Your great speech, CA Amel 8/76

  101 which tipped the scale, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 670

  102 the Government had undergone, J. E. Sewell, Mirror of Britain, 164

  103 not want a change, Dugdale, Baffy, 168

  104 There is no doubt, Nicolson, 77

  105 the Labour leaders, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 593

  106 was still unclear, Maisky, 274

  107 Even the usually, Macmillan, 58

  108 the Old Man would, Dalton, War Diary, 341

  109 Labour is not to press, Brooks, 268

  110 more death and destruction, Mirror, 9/5/1940

  111 on account of his report, Shirer, Berlin Diary, 260

  16 WEDNESDAY 8 MAY

  1 If it’s piracy, quoted in Julian Amery, Approach March, 46

  2 If Lady Alexandra, BI EH note

  3 I was the first, World at War, Thames Television, 1973

  4 battle-stained service, Martin Lindsay, So Few Got Through, v

  5 private friendship, SP S (4) WC1/64 ‘Lindsay Memorandum’

  6 and I gave him, World at War

  7 His first-hand information, Oliver Lindsay in So Few Got Through, introduction, v

  8 that discontent had, CA Atle 1/7-1/17

  9 quite useless … accurate, SP ‘Lindsay Memorandum’

  10 to help him, World at War

  11 The House was packed, Spears, 123

  12 ringing in our ears, Macmillan, Blast of War, 59

  13 the most dramatic, Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, 209

  14 with all the vigour, Morrison, Autobiography, 173

  15 very formidable indictment, FRO D/MJ/21 Diary 1940

  16 astonishingly fierce, Maisky, 274

  17 He has lots, Dalton, War Diary, 340

  18 the most effective, Harvey, 355

  19 There they sat, Charles Ritchie, The Siren Years, 51

  20 a carefully prepared, PA HRS/1

  21 Providence designed, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 402

  22 perhaps the most, Foot, 178

  23 Chamberlain jumped, Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, 209–10

  24 Not I … blackbird, Boothby, Recollections of a Rebel, 143

  25 the match to, Wedgwood, 244

  26 turned the tide, AM diary, 8/5/1940

  27 We then knew, Channon, 245

  28 The House for a Minister, Walter Elliot, Long Distance, 3

  29 the worst of all, BOD MSS Simon 11

  30 with his usual little, CA Amel 8/76, LA to CD 26/7/1954

  31 There is the opening, Foot, 178

  32 Sometimes the answer … you, Morrison, 174

  33 There is terrific lobbying, PA LG/G/3/13

  34 It is a direct … lobby, PA LG/G/3/13

  35 with his feet, CA Amel 8/76, LA to CD 26/7/1954

  36 Has the great Achilles, National Library of Wales, Clement Davies I/2/8

  37 When I explained, Percy Harris, Forty Years in and out of Parliament, 150

  38 with all the dignity, Nicolson, Montreal Standard

  39 inimitable self, Maisky, 274

  40 he was in … sheath, Maisky diary, 4/4/1940

  41 His custom was, Geoffrey Shakespeare, 54

  42 His speech made, Ritchie, 51

  43 the b
est & most, Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, 210

  44 like a fat baby, AM diary, 8/5/1940

  45 It would be, Foot, Guardian, 8/5/65

  46 Horace Wilson, who sat, Colville, Fringes of Power, 119

  47 hoping to surround … husband’s blood, Channon, 245

  48 Chamberlain white, Daily Mirror, 9/5/1940

  49 Norway … Sacrifice, PA LG/G/190

  50 no one can feel, Minney, 271

  51 You are making, King, 16

  52 in war everybody, BOD MSS Simon diary 11, 15/1/1940

  53 Lloyd George’s personal (footnote), Channon, 249,

  54 The only person … frauds (footnote), Wrench, 415

  55 I have been listening, PA LG/G/3/13

  56 This is all making, Dalton, Fateful Years, 306

  57 My eye has always, At the Admiralty, 1244

  58 nothing should be, ibid., 1209

  59 It is as a symbol, ibid., 1221

  60 they could not, Fitzgerald, 38

  61 In the brown hours, Hansard, 8/5/1940

  62 all his time, BI EH diary, 7/5/1940

  63 if any speaker, Reith, Into the Wind, 382

  64 I hope you enjoyed that!, Somerset de Chair, Buried Pleasure, 50

  65 playing with his fingers, Ed Murrow, This is London, 98

  66 If he should openly, ibid., 99

  67 departmentally and in fact, CA HLSM 4/1/4

  68 A peculiar spirit, Campbell-Johnson, Halifax, 556

  69 I have been sometimes, Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years, 129

  70 the almost telepathic, Mcgowan, 36

  71 often saved her, Colville, Inner Circle, 33

  72 Churchill was lonely, Gilbert, Wilderness Years, 212

  73 thank goodness, Andrew Roberts interview with author

  74 monosyllables wherever, Halifax, Fulness of Days, 229

  75 Winstonian diction, Amery, Diaries, vol. 1, 546

  76 Quite unnecessary, Dilks, ‘Appeasement Revisited’, University of Leeds Reviews, vol. 15, no. 1, May 1972

  77 he was always fearful, Moran, 132

  78 He had found, ibid., 132

  79 scampered … as ever, Bernays, 62–63

  80 political career was finished, Gilbert, Wilderness Years, 171

  81 his quite extraordinary, BOD MSS Woolton 11

  82 broke like sunshine, Mohr, Churchill’s Visit to Norway, 13

  83 Asking me not, Roberts, Holy Fox, 189

  84 Churchill sees the world, Maisky, 440

  85 I am a child, Hansard, 24/10/1950

  86 We agree that, Nicolson, 79

  87 begged … voting, ibid., 78

  88 and that abstention, BL Add Ms 89013/2/1/9

  89 unexpected mutiny, Nicolson, Montreal Standard

  90 Which way … case, Chair, Die? I Thought I’d Laugh, 150

 

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