by Working
38 Charles Moore, ‘Secrets Are Safe With the Garden Room Girls’, Telegraph (13 July 2009).
39 Peter Hennessy, The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders since 1945, p. 184.
40 Howells, Churchill’s Last Years, p. 83.
41 In conversations with the author.
42 Randolph S. Churchill, The Churchill Documents: Minister of the Crown, 1907–1911, Vol. 4, p. 753.
43 In conversation with the author. Another favourite ditty: ‘He jumped upon his bloody horse, and galloped on the bloody course, the bloody road was muddy, the bloody creek was bloody floody.’ One more: ‘Whiter than Whitewash on the Wall, Oh, wash me in the dirty water, you washed your dirty daughter in.’ A variant last line is ‘the colonel’s daughter’ instead of ‘your dirty daughter’. From Don Cusic, Winston Churchill’s Love of Music, p. 32. Another favourite Churchill tune is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmk8dbFv_o.
44 Churchill Archives Centre, WCHL 6/54.
45 Churchill Documents, Volume 14, p. 673.
46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2gF-jaVuK4.
47 David Cecil, The Young Melbourne & Lord M, pp. 289–384.
48 Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 836.
49 Colville, Fringes of Power, p. 668.
50 Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 860.
51 Ibid., p. 886.
52 Ibid., p. 892.
53 Ibid., p. 871.
54 Butler, The Art of the Possible, p. 171.
55 Some eight years earlier Churchill had rejected use of ‘speech secrecy equipment’, because he was told that President Roosevelt said it made the prime minister sound ‘like Donald Duck’. He was said to have remarked that ‘he would never use that damn thing again’. In Ruth Ive, The Woman Who Censored Churchill, pp. 109, 112.
56 Watch to see the audience’s reactions to the prime minister’s joke: https://www.britishpathe.com/video/margate-tories-conference. And https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/in-the-media/newsreel-video-archive/margate-tories-conference-1953">https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/in-the-media/newsreel-video-archive/margate-tories-conference-1953.
57 Butler, The Art of the Possible, p. 171.
58 Glueckstein, “Cats Look Down on You”’, p. 50.
59 Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, Descent to Suez: Diaries 1951–1956, p. 117.
60 Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 691.
61 Jenkins, Churchill, p. 892.
62 Later recollection. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 1097.
Chapter 11: Doreen Pugh
1 A. J. P. Taylor et al., Churchill: Four Faces and the Man, p. 207, fn.
2 Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 1128.
3 Roy Howells, Simply Churchill, p. 108.
4 Browne, Long Sunset, p. 208.
5 Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 1140.
6 Ibid., p. 1135.
7 Author’s conversation with Jane Portal, now Lady Williams, 9 April 2018.
8 Purnell, First Lady, p. 357.
9 Gilbert, The Churchill Documents, Winston S. Churchill: Wilderness Years 1929–1935, Vol. 12, p. 874, fn 3.
10 CHUR 2/387/106.
11 Lord Normanbrook, memoir in Wheeler-Bennett, Action This Day, p.20.
12 Roberts, Hitler and Churchill, p. 117.
13 Hindley, Destination Casablanca, p. 157.
14 Stelzer, Dinner with Churchill.
15 Ibid., p. 214.
16 Colville, The Churchillians, p. 159.
17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrmR8guKdgU&t=81s.
18 Gill Morton, ‘I Was Winston Churchill’s Nurse’, The Oldie (February 2018), p. 16.
19 Ibid.
20 Moore, ‘Secrets Are Safe with the Garden Room Girls’.
21 Portal recalls that at one lunch she peeked into the dining room and she saw Churchill ‘spellbound by her beauty’. A&E’s Biography Series: Biography – The Complete Churchill, VHS.
22 Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 1267. Churchill also shared the proof of General Ismay’s memoirs with his wife. In ibid., p. 1267.
23 Alan Hodge’s wife Jane was a favourite of Churchill’s and he was amused by the fact that Hodge had named his cat Johnson. Churchill admired ‘his use of words’ – mighty praise coming from Churchill. In ibid., p. 1148.
24 Wardell, ‘Churchill’s Dagger’, p. 16.
25 Lovell, The Riviera Set, p. 120.
26 Ibid., p. 299.
27 Ibid., p. 213.
28 Wardell, ‘Churchill’s Dagger’, pp. 17, 19.
29 Ibid., p. 17.
30 Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 1190.
31 Stelzer, Dinner with Churchill, p. 76.
32 Grace Hamblin OBE, ‘Frabjous Days: Chartwell Memories’, p. 24.
33 Glueckstein, ‘ “Cats Look Down on You”’, p. 50.
34 Martin, Downing Street: The War Years, p. 106.
35 Layton, Winston Churchill by His Personal Secretary, p. 44.
36 Ibid., p. 59.
37 Oddly, Hamblin refers to Churchill working ‘like a tiger to keep up his literary output’, ‘Frabjous Days: Chartwell Memories’.
38 Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 1285.
39 Soames (ed.), Winston and Clementine, p. 500.
40 Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 1356.
41 Ibid., p. 1352.
42 Lewis E. Lehrman, ‘Toasting Winston Churchill’s Birthday’, Putnam County News and Records (27 November 2013), p. 3.
43 Ibid.
44 Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 1358.
45 Soames, Clementine Churchill, p. 478, but quoted in Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 1345.
Chapter 12: Catherine Snelling
1 Taylor et al., Churchill: Four Faces and the Man, p. 51. And W. F. Buckley said of Churchill ‘The genius of Churchill was his union of affinities of the heart and of the mind, the total fusion of animal and spiritual energy.’ ICS Boston Conference speech by Buckley, 1955.
2 Howells, Simply Churchill, p. 108.
3 Ferdinand Mount, English Voices: Lives, Landscapes, Laments, p. 70.
4 Professor A. M. Low, ‘Churchill and Science’, in Charles Eade (ed.), Churchill by His Contemporaries, pp. 380–1.
5 Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 1269.
6 Sinclair McKay, The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, pp. 156–63.
7 Lough, No More Champagne, passim.
8 Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 27.
9 Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair 1945–1965, Vol. VIII, p. 988.
10 Ibid., p. 1266.
Epilogue
1 John Keegan, The Battle for History; Re-Fighting World War Two, pp. 52–3.
2 Tom Hickman, Churchill’s Bodyguard, p. 95.
3 Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Road to Victory, 1941–1945, Vol. VII, p. 1148 n. 2.
4 According to Sir John Colville, Churchill’s Private Secretary, the remark was made by Churchill’s close friend F. E. Smith (Lord Birkenhead). International Churchill Society, winstonchurchill.org.
5 Hickman, Churchill’s Bodyguard, p. 95.
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