by Lynne Olson
“I am so glad”: Eleanor Roosevelt to Winant, June 25, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.
“He dared to hope”: Text of Winant speech, Winant papers, FDRL.
“Seldom if ever”: Sperber, p. 256.
“something like independent”: Howland, p. 400.
“None of the Allies”: Daniel J. Nelson, Wartime Origins of the Berlin Dilemma (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1976), p. 163
“running a race”: Howland, p. 414
“Never before”: Ibid., p. 412
“the most successful”: Ibid.
“significant achievements”: Ibid., p. 311.
“In our informal”: Nelson, p. 23
“The machinery”: Sherwood, p. 843.
“He was much too restless”: Bellush, p. 226.
“I have never seen”: Arthur Coyle interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“deep brutal exhaustion”: Mary Lee Settle, “London—1944,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1987.
“a curious feeling”: Sevareid, p. 510.
“Free!”: Sarah Churchill, Keep On Dancing, p. 159.
“Don’t you want”: Bellush, p. 228.
“The difference”: Colville, Footprints in Time, p. 156.
“It is now obvious”: Dimbleby and Reynolds, p. 188
“as close to destitution”: Abramson, p. 413.
“Are you doing”: Louis Fischer, “The Essence of Gandhism,” Nation, Dec. 6, 1947.
“to make sure”: Dean Dexter interview with Abbie Rollins Caverly.
“To the tiny valley”: New York Herald Tribune, Nov. 5, 1947, Winant papers, FDRL.
“has affected”: “British Mourn Winant,” New York Times, Nov. 5, 1947
“walked with Britain”: Daily Express, undated, Winant papers, FDRL.
“What he said”: New York Herald Tribune, Nov. 5, 1947, Winant papers, FDRL.
“It is a terrible”: Manchester Guardian, Nov. 5, 1947.
“Was it that”: Bellush, p. viii.
“as truly”: Eleanor Roosevelt, “My Day” column, undated, Winant papers, FDRL.
“I have lost”: New York Times, Nov. 5, 1947.
“He couldn’t”: Author interview with Rivington Winant.
“self-destruction”: Thompson, p. 217.
“What a waste!”: Sperber, p. 298
“golden boys”: Cloud and Olson, p. 244.
“grim and glorious years”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 80
“left all of his”: Ibid., p. 75.
“news was his hobby”: Interview with Don Hewitt.
“an individual”: Jack Gould, “Edward R. Murrow: 1908–1965,” New York Times, May 2, 1965.
“honorary Briton”: “Britain Mourns a Friend,” New York Times, April 28, 1965.
“super diplomat”: “ Ex-Gov. Averell Harriman, Adviser to 4 Presidents, Dies,” New York Times, July 27, 1986.
“aloof, distant”: Abramson, p. 409.
“sex hung”: Cloud and Olson, p. 197.
“Never has anyone”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 603.
“was the closest thing”: E. J. Kahn, “Profiles: Plenipotentiary—1,” New Yorker, May 3, 1952.
“reshaping of America’s”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 407
“Everybody has his”: Schlesinger, p. 249.
“I am confident”: New York Times, July 27, 1986.
“My dear”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.
“It helped me”: Interview with Rev. J. Parker Jameson.
“No other country”: Burk, p. 578
“Here was a people”: Hitchens, p. 302.
“The Americans’ coming”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 375.
“Whatever happens”: Ibid., p. 376
“I think I understand”: Ibid.
“I have loved London”: Pyle, Brave Men, p. 315
“The years in London”: Middleton, p. 186
“It embarrasses me”: Saroyan, p. 238
“Every Englishman”: Arbib, pp. 210–11.
“Paris died”: Sevareid broadcast, Oct. 4, 1940, NA.
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