91 I regard the war, CA Amel 2/1/31 1940
92 Feverishly did the Whips, Nicolson, Montreal Standard
93 it was our duty, Williams, 112
94 The fact is … heard? CA HLSM, 1/1/6
95 only found a man, CA HLSM, 4/1/4
96 a drastic reconstruction, BL Add Ms 89013/2/1/9
97 I told him … night, ibid.
98 and to vote, Macmillan, 61
99 We knew that, ibid., 59
100 to save him, Spears, 122
101 He is like, Bernays, 122
102 Why not? … angry with me, Macmillan, 61
103 was aggravated by, CA GBR/0014/MCHL
104 to trail a veil, Spears, 138
105 Papa rose to, Soames, A Daughter’s Tale, 139
106 The House was tense, Nicolson, Montreal Standard
107 was in a most uncertain, Soames, A Daughter’s Tale, 202
108 I can see him, CA HLSM 4/1/4
109 one of his greatest, ibid.
110 the least impressive, Foot, Guardian, 8/5/1965
111 How much of, Channon, 246
112 He said not, Nicolson, Montreal Standard
113 Defending Chamberlain, Maisky diary, 8/5/1940
114 a couple of, Joseph Kennedy, Letters, 422
115 My interjection caused, Shinwell in Charles Eade, Churchill by his Contemporaries, 125
116 rather the worse, Channon, 246
117 unfortunate brawl, Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, 210
118 It was enough, Eade, 125
119 a good deal, Dalton, Fateful Years, 306
120 baying like hounds, Chair, Die? I Thought I’d Laugh, 151
121 A storm of interruptions, CA GBR/0014/MCHL
122 like bedlam, Channon, 246
17 THE DIVISION
1 The scene in the House, Patrick Donner, Crusade, 273
2 great tensity in, Nicolson, 79
3 at one moment, BOD MS Eng hist 497, Wallace diary
4 All seemed to think, Colville, Fringes of Power, 119
5 May I ask … and you, Chair, Die? I Thought I’d Laugh, 151
6 intriguing and enjoying, Channon, 246
7 Dieu! Que les femmes, CA GBR/0014/MCHL
8 It was not easy, David Profumo, Bringing the House down, 77
9 and everybody felt, Joseph Kennedy, Letters, 422
10 to show courage, Spears, 129
11 as if they were, Foot, Guardian, 8/5/1965
12 What should … life, CA HLSM 4/1/4
13 I wish I could …, CA HLSM 1/1/6
14 unquestionably the most, Foot, 178
15 pleasure and surprise, Francis Williams, A Prime Minister Remembers, 32
16 Shifty eyes and blushes, Blythe, 276
17 a young officer, Cooper, 279
18 How many of … instead, Dalton, Fateful Years, 306
19 I came … machine gun, ibid., 308
20 looked triumphant … Opposition Lobby, Channon, 247
21 A quick look, Spears, 128
22 It was very … kindness, ibid., 129
23 My heart snapped, Channon, 247
24 buzzed like a disturbed, Maisky, 275
25 to be vibrating, Spears, 129
26 We are all right, Channon, 247
27 I don’t think anyone, AM diary, 8/5/1940
28 The Government’s majority … howl, Nicolson, Montreal Standard
29 It took five, Wedgwood, 244
30 Triumphant roars, Maisky, 275
31 The cries of “Go, go”, AM diary, 8/5/1940
32 Then followed a scene, Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, 211
33 We ought to sing, Wedgwood, 244
34 as neither of us, Macmillan, 62
35 scene of disgusting, Reith, 249
36 quite unable to, BOD MS Eng hist 497, Wallace diary
37 white as chalk, Maisky, 275
38 for a moment, Boothby, I Fight to Live, 218
39 We stood up, Reith, 249
40 Neville Chamberlain … erect, Nicolson, Montreal Standard
41 was a very, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 528
18 A TERRIFIC BUZZ
1 It is not a principle, Thorpe, Uncrowned Prime Ministers, 237
2 the maelstrom of war, Joseph Kennedy, Letters, 385
3 every shallow … power, Daily Worker, 10/5/1940
4 the green-eyed jungle, Thorpe, 237
5 terrific buzz, Dalton, War Diary, 342
6 Well, I expect, Roberts, Churchill: Embattled Hero, 8
7 And I tell you, Tim Renton, Chief Whip, 267
8 like a traitor … life, CA HLSM 4/1/4
9 was still planning, Cuthbert Headlam, Diaries, 190
10 muddled all his, King, 37
11 so bad, Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, 210
12 I suppose he, Daily Herald, 10/5/1940
13 That is not only, Samuel Hoare, Nine Troubled Years, 431
14 Chamberlain is done for, Maisky, 275
15 I remember David, CA MRSN 2/1, Colville to J. E. B. Hill 7/11/1978
16 I was not surprised, Hoare, Nine Troubled Years, 431
17 It did not take me, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 529
18 always hideously, BI EH diary, 8/3/1940
19 he felt he could … through, Churchill, Gathering Storm, 661
20 Winston cheers up Neville, CA Amel 8/76, LA to EH, 28/12/1954
21 were fairly satisfied, Colville, Fringes of Power, 119
22 he must be sustained, Churchill, Their Finest Hour, 15
23 This has been … deserts us, Churchill, Gathering Storm, 661
24 Winston had apparently, BOD MSS Simon diary 11
25 and I left him, Churchill, Gathering Storm, 661
26 No one has yet, CRL NC 18/2/1161–68
27 do not appear to, BOD MS Eng hist 497, Wallace diary
28 But what are, Cadogan, 277
29 might step in, Roberts, Churchill: Embattled Hero, 5
30 Anderson might be PM, Joseph Kennedy, Letters, 476
31 the Conservative party, Maisky, 108
32 Churchill, apparently, ibid., 239
33 who had … Chuchill, William Gallacher, Last Memoirs, 273
34 had never forgotten, Shinwell, Conflict Without Malice, 149
35 the grim … Strike, Addison, 76
36 many of them, P. F. Clarke, The Cripps Version, 172
37 Along the stone, Shinwell, 148
38 our people like, Gilbert, Wilderness Years, 11
39 did not have much, PA HRS/1
40 very undesirable, Rhodes James, George VI, 188
41 Churchill has energy, Joseph Kennedy, Letters, 391
42 however much people, BI EH diary, 18/3/1940
43 whether Churchill could, Harvey, 326
44 In House of Commons, Bruce Lockhart, 48
45 Churchill is undermined, Nicolson, 75
46 so abundantly right, Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, 441
47 so many and such, Cooper, 256
48 The constant agitation, CRL NC 13/17, ND to NC 11/5/1940
49 WC is really, Crathorne papers, ND to TD 12/5/1940
50 howled and hooted … Commons, Gallacher, Rolling of the Thunder, 214
51 Not a single one, Andrew Roberts interview with author
52 that a great section, Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, 224
53 He was widely, Blake & Louis, 264
54 no “serious politician”, S. J. D. Green, 259
55 They both said, Charles Mersey, A Picture of Life, 334
56 that Halifax should, Nicolson, Diaries and Letters 1930–1939, 393
57 Well, there is always, Sylvester, 235
58 Lady Astor immediately, Joseph Kennedy, Letters, 422
59 On the whole … dinner, BI EH diary, 8/5/1940
60 popped backwards … St Paul’s, AM diary, 8/5/1940
61 very sharp … was bad, BI EH diary, 8/5/1940
62 amazed at the, AM diary, 8/5/1940
63 What the solution, B
I EH diary, 8/5/1940
64 no other choice, Birkenhead, Halifax, 453
65 such long crime, Dalton, Fateful Years, 307
66 If I was asked … Churchill, ibid., 307
67 agrees with my, ibid., 308
68 to talk to Halifax, Butler, Art of the Possible, 83
69 was the personal, Douglas-Home, The Way the Wind Blows, 75
70 Winston could not, Eric Estorick, Stafford Cripps, 234
71 stupefied … Prime Minister!, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 73
72 very heavily loaded, PA BBK/G/11/11
73 would not accept, CA Amel 8/76 EE-E to LA, 14/1/1955
74 that he would, Hodgson, 11
75 I told him, BI EH diary, 9/5/1940
76 mystery, romance, adventure, Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book, 4
77 mystical, Christian, Joseph Kennedy, Letters, 384
78 snapshot photograph … each day!, BI EH to AM, 30/5/1941
79 jealous for her, Hodgson, 149
80 I can’t believe, Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, 224
81 He would have been, AM diary, 10/5/1940
82 I can’t share, BI EH to BM, 13/5/1940
83 We discussed the chances, AM diary, 8/5/1940
84 We all made our, Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, 211
85 I told Attlee, Dalton, Fateful Years, 309
86 awestruck … for Halifax, Dugdale, Baffy, 169
87 Churchill had earlier, PA BBK/G/11/11
88 It’s always a mistake, Dilks interview with author
89 who always knows, BOD MSS Eng hist d.360, Crookshank diary, 4/1/1940
90 completely unaware, Spears, 130
91 it was unlikely, BL Add Ms 89013/2/1/9
92 Discussing a possible, CA Amel 8/76, LA talk with BB 22/1/1955
93 I do not believe … with him, CA Amel 8/76, Attlee to LA, 15/11/1954
94 well scourged, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 595
95 blew up, CA Amel 8/76, 22/1/1955
96 word reached Brendan, Moran, 347
97 Brendan was unreliable, Bruce Lockhart, 52
98 fatal division, Channon, 249
99 with Dawson’s own, Rowse, All Souls and Appeasment, 107
100 fern-a-tic, Joseph Kennedy, Letters, 477
101 slant on the situation, ibid., 422
102 The President told, ibid., 423
103 A terrible world … for England, ibid., 423
19 THE OBVIOUS MAN
1 pit of the stomach, BI EH to AM, 25/5/1941
2 Dalton said there, Birkenhead, 453
3 who said that, Butler, Art of the Possible, 83
4 never had a disagreement, Joseph Kennedy, Letters, 476
5 I told him … Government, BI EH diary, 9/5/1940
6 the many difficulties, AM diary, 9/5/1940
7 You know my reasons, Blake & Louis, 273
8 the difficult position, BI EH diary, 9/5/1940
9 Edward did not, CRL Avon papers, AP20/1/20–20A
10 the Labour Opposition, Ravensdale, 38
11 the H of L problem, Thorpe, Uncrowned Prime Ministers, 153
12 The principle that, Churchill, Great Contemporaries, 225
13 No one objected, BOD MSS Macmillan c.874
14 arguing that ex-hypothesi, BI EH diary, 9/5/1940
15 very secret soundings, Self, Chamberlain, 408
16 dis-peered, ibid., 408
17 The only person, Rhodes James, George VI, 187
18 abeyance … obvious man, Wheeler-Bennett, George VI, 444
19 saw no objection, Birkenhead, 453
20 In time of war, Dalton, War Diary, 342
21 Edward, may I, Headlam, 125
22 How wise and calm he is, Rhodes James, Victor Cazalet, 211
23 but dragged there, Roberts, Holy Fox, 198
24 not one to burn, Thompson, 150
25 for me it never, Halifax, Fulness of Days, 101
26 took the opportunity, ibid., 178
27 as he invariably, CRL NC7/11/29/37
28 What then … this be? BI EH to AM 26/1/1942
29 no friend to unnecessary, Hodgson, 39
30 He said he, Harvey, 100
31 He was lazy … curtseyed to, Diana Holderness interview with author
32 E. said that, CP diary, 8/3/1941
33 No man climbs, Francis Williams, A Pattern of Rulers, 228
34 A more ambitious man, Channon, 249
35 dunghill, Michael Bloch, Closet Queens, 25
36 I think you really, Hodgson, 69
37 with the greatest … shot, Halifax, Fulness of Days, 195
38 he felt he, Butler, 84
39 really wanted the job, Miles Lampson, The Killearn diaries, 234
40 and I understand, Davidson to Baldwin, 14/5/1940; in Sheila Lawlor, Churchill and the Politics of War, 31
41 I think he will, Dugdale, Baffy, 169
42 He thinks that, Ironside, 83
43 Churchill needed, Butler, 84
44 butt into … ever afterwards, BI EH diary, 30/4/1940
45 different languages, CA GBR/0014/LWFD 2/2
46 I have seldom met, BI EH diary, 11/5/1940
47 Edward and Winston, AM diary, 11/12/1940
48 Could that restraint … Minister, Butler, 84
49 layman, Roberts, Holy Fox, 203
50 I think he is not, Cadogan, 280
51 and he would, BI EH diary, 25/2/1940
52 cool altruism, Campbell-Johnson, 557
53 W had better, Thorpe, 178
54 My father put, Ravensdale, 38
55 I simply … know, BI EH to AM 13/5/1940
56 having cold feet … before!, Chamberlain, Norman Chamberlain, 107
57 The conversation … broth again, BI EH diary, 9/5/1940
58 he would like, ibid.
59 were to resign, BOD MSS Simon 12
20 THE LIMPET
1 Politics are an uncertain, Mersey, 432
2 The sooner some, Headlam, 195
3 complete non-cooperation, BOD MS Eng hist 497, Wallace diary
4 come into the, BOD MSS Simon 12
5 the Government would, Rhodes James, George VI, 190
6 was telephoning personally, Dalton, Fateful Years, 308
7 always trying, ibid., 309
8 It has a great (footnote), BOD Greenwood MS Eng c 6262
9 an old widow, John Bew, Citizen Clem, 241
10 To me Chamberlain, Charles Lysaght, Brendan Bracken, 160
11 Remember … never withdraw, Thorpe, Uncrowned Prime Ministers, 50
12 fought like a tiger, D. R. Thorpe interview with author, 12/1/2015
13 I think, with a majority, Channon, 247
14 The only comment, CRL NC/18/2/1161–1198
15 You are the only, CRL NC 13/17
16 a grand National, CRL NC 13/17
17 So far I have, CRL NC 13/17
18 There is no member, CRL NC 13/17/106
19 that Chamberlain must go, Nicolson, 81
20 had nothing against, NC Diary Letters, vol. 4, 529
21 SHEFFIELD STRONG, CRL NC 13/17
22 with utmost … in mind, CRL NC 13/17
23 At nine in the morning, Maisky, 275
24 A fact that Amery, Rowse, 107
25 was proposing … methods, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 612
26 categorically refused, Maisky, 275
27 If someone had come, Campbell-Johnson, 545
28 the air was full of rumours, Colville, Fringes of Power, 120
29 we had to wait, Cadogan, 280
30 anything – even this, S. J. D. Green, 258
31 was referring to me, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 580
32 the turn of the wheel, CA Amel 8/76, HB to LA 5/10/1954
33 What a grotesque person, CA GBR/0014/LWFD 2/2
34 if he married a baroness, IR diary, 13/10/1939
35 in a wonderful, King, 17
36 My position is good, Crozier, 137
37 Is there any MP, King, 15
38
a clean sweep … all round, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 611
39 He no doubt … possible, ibid., 611–612
40 Curiously enough, ibid.
41 for, like Churchill, Amery, My Political Life, vol. 3, 370
42 both by experience, CA Amel 8/76, LA to HB 28/9/1954
43 I got them to agree, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 612
44 you would have stood, CA Amel 8/76
45 who were quite prepared, Amery, Diaries, vol. 2, 612
46 washout … to be, Crozier, 152
47 and I was worried, Brian Patton, Tales from the Canadian Rockies, 228
48 that the matter, CA Amel 8/76
21 A GREAT TIDE FLOWING
1 Who would have, Orwell, 346
2 seldom-lit … good looks, CA GBR/0014/LWFD ‘Three Ministers’
3 Eden is not made, Maisky, 92
4 Eden is on the fringe, Channon, 242
5 that Neville … take War, Eden diary, CRL AP20/1/20-20A
6 My darling – try, Richard Hough, Winston and Clementine, 459
7 I saw Churchill, Taylor, Beaverbrook, 409
8 He would not stake, Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie, Beaverbrook, 374
9 outlandish and potentially malign, Colville, The Churchillians, 42
10 much argument, Taylor, 409
11 Humble suggestions, CA Char 20/11/40-41
12 I do not remember, Churchill, Gathering Storm, 522
13 very summit … laughter, Spectator, 16/5/1940
14 There is a great, At the Admiralty, 1265
15 It can only be, CA Amel 8/76
16 a general attack, BOD MS Eng hist 497, Wallace diary
17 heavy business, At the Admiralty, 1262
18 the type of danger, ibid., 1256
19 that drivelling Corporal, Chair, Buried Pleasure, 254
20 Narvik goes none, Ironside, 297
21 of iron … to shift, Macclure, ‘Gladiators in Norway’
22 as these were, At the Admiralty, 1257
23 I formed the opinion, William Boyle, My Naval Life, 192
24 A chicken-hearted, Cadogan, 272
25 They had long, Churchill, Gathering Storm, 522
26 the qualities of accessibility, Walker-Smith, 202
27 What strikes me, R. J. Minney, Private papers of Hore-Belisha, 277
28 colourful Kingsley Wood, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop; see also BOD MSS Dawson diary, 13/5/1940
29 does not know, Gilbert, Wilderness Years, 146
30 When one bundle failed (footnote), H. Wilson, A Prime Minister Remembers, 235
31 general incompetence, Reith, Into the Wind, 379
32 he has the air, Cadogan, 276
33 one of those, Bonham Carter, Champion Redoubtable, 224
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