by Lynne Olson
“saw each other”: Howland, p. 272.
“a political disgrace”: Reston, p. 112.
“there were very”: Eileen Mason interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“You are doing”: FDR to Winant, Oct. 31, 1942, President’s Secretary’s File, FDRL.
“I have given”: Leutze, ed., p. 353
“be careful”: Abramson, p. 304.
“I had known”: Eleanor Roosevelt, p. 263
“a feeling of inadequacy”: Ibid.
“a country”: Ibid., p. 190.
“gave little thought”: Ibid., p. 266.
“He took it”: Jacob Beam interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“He carried”: Theodore Achilles interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“If you break down”: David Gray to Winant, Nov. 24, 1942, Winant/State Department papers, National Archives.
“caring much”: Anthony Eden, The Reckoning (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), p. 295.
“one of the best”: Winant, A Letter from Grosvenor Square, p. 64
“I lack the spunk”: Olson, Troublesome Young Men, p. 99.
“I have never”: Winant, A Letter from Grosvenor Square, p. 67.
“At this very moment”: Sarah Churchill, Keep on Dancing, p. 111
“love affair”: Ibid., p. 159.
CHAPTER 11: “HE’LL NEVER LET US DOWN”
“He had an unusual”: T. T. Scott interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.
“He understood them”: Arthur Jenkins, “John Winant: An Englishman’s Estimate,” Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 9, 1944, Winant papers, FDRL.
“If you went”: Carroll, p. 134.
“was every bit”: Juliet Gardiner, Wartime Britain, 1939–1945 (London: Headline, 2004), p. 430
“more of work”: Calder, p. 443.
“Everything save”: Jose Harris, “Great Britain: The People’s War?,” in David Reynolds, Warren F. Kimball, and A. O. Chubarian, eds., Allies at War: The Soviet, American and British Experience, 1939–1945 (New York: St. Martin’s, 1994), p. 238.
“drawn so tight”: Calder, pp. 323–24
“hated, with the free”: Sevareid, p. 480
“what they were going”: Ziegler, p. 262.
“These British Isles”: Eleanor Roosevelt, p. 274
“What are the”: Kendrick, p. 222.
“There must be”: Sperber, p. 184
“We would talk”: Sevareid, pp. 173–74.
“With Winston”: Moran, p. 139.
“old, benevolent Tory squire”: Paul Addison, “Churchill and Social Reform,” in Robert Blake and William Roger Louis, eds., Churchill (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), p. 77
“He’s never been”: Moran, p. 301.
“In Mr. Churchill”: Olson, Troublesome Young Men, p. 264. 181 “This is your”: Olson and Cloud, p. 392.
“to buy this heavy”: Panter-Downes, p. 253.
“an awful windbag”: Paul Addison, “Churchill and Social Reform,” in Blake and Louis, eds., p. 72.
“When the war”: New York Times, Feb. 7, 1941
“without the maladjustment”: Shirer, p. 505
“There is a deep”: Winant, Our Greatest Harvest, p. 22
“to concentrate”: The Star, Feb. 3, 1941.
“requires not only skill”: Bellush, p. 183.
“You who suffered”: Winant, Our Greatest Harvest, p. 56
“We think, sir”: Daily Express, June 8, 1942.
“WINANT TALKS”: I bid.
“a new, greater”: Daily Herald, June 8, 1942, Winant papers, FDRL.
“one of the great”: Manchester Guardian, June 8, 1942, Winant papers, FDRL.
CHAPTER 12: “ARE WE FIGHTING NAZIS OR SLEEPING WITH THEM?”
“blackest day”: Sherwood, p. 648.
“Only by an intellectual”: Mark Stoler, “The United States: the Global Strategy,” in David Reynolds et al., eds., Allies at War, p. 67.
“I swear to fight”: Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper, Paris After the Liberation, 1944–1949 (New York: Doubleday, 1994), p. 13.
“regardless of how”: Sherwood, p. 629
“I consider”: Atkinson, p. 27.
“where no major”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1948), p. 72.
“highly trained personnel”: Ismay, p. 120.
“We were still”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 77.
“this bizarre”: Burns, p. 285.
“I was regaled”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 89
“wonderful charm”: Bryant, The Turn of the Tide, p. 431.
“had only the vaguest”: Ibid.
“completely sincere”: Atkinson, p. 59.
“a comparable understanding”: Perry, p. 191.
“This was the”: Carroll, p. 12.
“belonged to a single”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 76.
“did not understand”: Sir Frederick Morgan, p. 17
“the attitude”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 76
“apparently regarding it”: Ibid., p. 90.
“The British are really”: Butcher, p. 239.
“It is very noticeable”: David Irving, The War Between the Generals: Inside the Allied High Command (New York: Congdon & Lattes, 1981), p. 55.
“invade a neutral country”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 88.
“a three-star bundle”: Kay Summersby Morgan, p. 47.
“He had aged”: Perry, p. 125.
“men wandered”: Atkinson, p. 144.
“We can only”: Joseph Persico, Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage (New York: Random House, 2001), p. 210.
“with brass bands”: Atkinson, p. 141
“officers as well”: Ibid., p. 144.
“As far”: Ibid.
“had no effect whatsoever”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 104
“not even remotely”: Sherwood, p. 652.
“In both our nations”: Merle Miller, Ike the Soldier: As They Knew Him (New York: Putnam’s, 1987), p. 426.
“America had spoken”: Carroll, pp. 50–51.
“a callow”: Atkinson, p. 159.
“we did not”: Ibid., p. 198.
“We have perpetuated”: Cloud and Olson, p. 161.
“We must not overlook”: François Kersaudy, Churchill and De Gaulle (New York: Atheneum, 1982), p. 224.
“are convinced”: Panter-Downes, p. 252.
“honeymoon is over”: Carroll, p. 53.
“Much as I hate”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 105.
“Since 1776”: Winston Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, p. 638.
“something that afflicts”: Burns, p. 297
“only a temporary”: Sherwood, p. 653.
“What the hell”: Milton S. Eisenhower, The President Is Calling (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974), p. 137
“there is nothing”: Kendrick, p. 254
“This is a matter”: Ibid.
“He never raised”: Sperber, p. 223.
“You are endangering”: Paul White to Murrow, Jan. 27, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“definitely dangerous”: Telegram to Murrow, Nov. 16, 1942, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“I believe”: Murrow to unidentified, Nov. 18, 1942, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“Developments in North Africa”: Murrow to Ted Church, Jan. 22, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“The British fear”: Murrow to Ed Dakin, Jan. 6, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“Darlan was there”: Nicolson, p. 263
“No matter what”: Gunther, p. 331
“Giraud was”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 129.
“North Africa”: Atkinson, p. 164
“The German army”: Ibid., p. 261
“The proud and cocky”: Butcher, p. 268
“So far as soldiering”: Atkinson, p. 471
“downright embarrassing”: Ibid., p. 477.
“Eisenhower as a general”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 351
“The best way”: Atkinson, p. 246.
“we were pushin
g”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 365
“soft, green”: Atkinson, p. 377
“How he hates”: Irving, p. 15.
“niggling and insulting”: Perry, p. 174
“It is better”: Ibid.
“In his current”: Butcher, p. 274.
“One of the constant”: Merle Miller, p. 459.
“as an American”: Atkinson, p. 467.
“without even”: Ibid.
“Ike is more”: Ibid.
“damned near”: Irving, p. 63.
“God, I wish”: Atkinson, p. 523.
“His blood”: Ibid., p. 461.
“The American army”: Ibid., p. 415
“acting in a minor”: Ibid., p. 481.
“a marked fall”: Ibid., p. 482.
“one continent”: Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, p. 780.
“a place to be lousy”: Atkinson, p. 538.
“Alan Brooke”: Perry, p. 110.
“the British will have”: Burns, p. 315
“the dripping”: Atkinson, p. 270
“One thing”: Merle Miller, p. 454.
“They swarmed”: Atkinson, p. 289.
“Our ideas”: Bryant, The Turn of the Tide, p. 459.
“no soldier”: Atkinson, p. 533
“Before he left”: Ibid.
“One of the fascinations”: Ibid.
“Goddamn it”: Ibid., p. 466.
“Eisenhower was probably”: Merle Miller, p. 372.
“Where he shone”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 351.
CHAPTER 13: THE FORGOTTEN ALLIES
“To cross over to England”: Erik Hazelhoff, Soldier of Orange (London: Sphere, 1982), p. 42.
“all those insane”: Eve Curie, Journey Among Warriors (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1943), p. 481
“swimming in”: Ritchie, p. 59.
“ministers got reports”: A. J. Liebling, The Road Back to Paris (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1944), p. 148.
“No matter”: Erik Hazelhoff, In Pursuit of Life (Phoenix Mill, U.K.: Sutton, 2003), p. 110.
“the glamor boys of England”: Olson and Cloud, p. 169.
“As for the women”: Ibid., p. 178.
“The Occupation had descended”: Hazelhoff, Soldier of Orange, p. 38.
“It would drive”: BBC listening survey of Czechoslovakia, Sept. 1941, BBC Archives.
“It’s impossible”: Tangye Lean, Voices in the Darkness: The Story of the European Radio War (London: Secker & Warburg, 1943), p. 149.
“almost drunk”: Henrey, The Incredible City, p. 2.
“If Poland had”: Olson and Cloud, p. 5.
“the finest”: Christopher M. Andrew, Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community (New York: Viking, 1986), p. 448.
“The Poles had”: Douglas Dodds-Parker, Setting Europe Ablaze (Windlesham, Surrey: Springwood, 1983), p. 40.
“If you live trapped”: Anthony Read and David Fisher, Colonel X: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984), p. 278.
“We arrived in London”: William Casey, The Secret War Against Hitler (New York: Berkley, 1989), p. 37.
“How well I remember”: Ibid., pp. 24–25.
“The truth is”: Nelson D. Lankford, OSS Against the Reich: The World War II Diaries of Col. David K. E. Bruce (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991), p. 125
“inestimable value”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 262.
“Britain does not solicit”: Olson and Cloud, p. 96
“We shall conquer”: Ibid., p. 90.
“You are alone”: Kersaudy, p. 83
“leader of all Frenchmen”: Ibid.
“The United Nations”: FDR national radio broadcast, Feb. 23, 1942, FDRL.
“Winston, we forgot Zog!”: Meacham, p. 164.
“talked idealism”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., “FDR’s Internationalism,” in Cornelis van Minnen and John F. Sears, eds., FDR and His Contemporaries: Foreign Perceptions of an American President (New York: St. Martin’s, 1992), p. 15.
“have any territorial”: Valentin Berezhkov, “Stalin and FDR,” in ibid., p. 50
“He allowed”: Lord Chandos, The Memoirs of Lord Chandos (New York: New American Library, 1963), pp. 296–97.
“can’t live together”: Ibid., p. 297.
“I poured water”: Eden, p. 432.
“Roosevelt was familiar”: Ibid., p. 433.
“a kind of benevolent”: Olson and Cloud, p. 241.
“There is a great fear”: Murrow to Ed Dakin, Jan. 6, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“What would”: Carroll, p. 72.
“has produced violent”: Kersaudy, p. 225
“positively goes out”: Moran, pp. 97–98
“in a hideously difficult position”: Ismay, p. 356.
“Coming to”: Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle: The Rebel, 1890–1944 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990), p. 265.
“I am no man’s subordinate”: Ibid., p. 267
“You think”: Kersaudy, p. 138
“You may be right”: Ibid., p. 210.
“is almost”: De Gaulle to Pamela Churchill, undated, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.
“France had failed”: Claude Fohlen, “De Gaulle and FDR,” in van Minnen and Sears, eds., p. 42.
“He takes himself”: Lacouture, p. 335.
“convinced”: Carroll, p. 103.
“Roosevelt meant”: Jean Edward Smith, p. 567
“talked about”: Gunther, p. 54.
“Between Giraud”: Nicolson, p. 294
“has been”: Kersaudy, p. 288.
“Every time”: Lacouture, p. 521
“this vain”: Kersaudy, p. 275.
“we would not only”: Ibid., p. 279.
“in terms of orders”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 137.
“It seemed”: Carroll, p. 308.
“were being played”: R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), p. 31.
“at all times”: Carroll, p. 106.
“a diplomat”: Charles de Gaulle, The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998), p. 220.
“splendid ambassador”: Ibid., p. 310.
“Who is it”: Carroll, p. 107.
“I do not think”: Ibid., p. 108.
“was in the dog kennel”: Howland, p. 268
“I am reaching”: Kersaudy, p. 291.
“Whether you wish”: Olson and Cloud, pp. 220–21.
“could afford”: Edward Raczynski, In Allied London (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963), p. 155.
“The increasing gravity”: Olson and Cloud, p. 233.
“go[ing] to the peace conference”: Ibid., p. 250.
“found it convenient”: Max Hastings, Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), p. 508.
CHAPTER 14: “A CAUL OF PRIVILEGE”
“a human head”: Hemingway, p. 109
“I don’t suppose”: Calder, p. 321.
“Many a time”: Maureen Waller, London 1945: Life in the Debris of War (London: Griffin, 2006), p. 163.
“The whole island”: Hemingway, p. 108.
“It is difficult”: Theodora FitzGibbon, With Love: An Autobiography, 1938–1946 (London: Pan, 1983), p. 170.
“every day was”: Longmate, The Home Front, p. 160.
“It’s a case”: Janet Murrow to parents, May 16, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“I think it would”: Edwin R. Hale and John Frayn Turner, The Yanks Are Coming (New York: Hippocrene, 1983), p. 56.
“No war”: David Reynolds et al., eds., Allies at War, p. xvi.
“There was money”: Sevareid, p. 214.
“an equality of sacrifice”: Goodwin, p. 339.
“Aside from”: Tania Long, “Home—After London,” New York Times, Oct. 3, 1943.
Most parts”: Frances Perkins Oral History, Columbia University.
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bsp; “The American people”: Sherwood, p. 547.
“It really would”: Robert Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 440
“The very men”: Goodwin, p. 357
“seemed to be no”: Sevareid, p. 193.
“less realization”: Brinkley, p. 106
“influential people”: Ibid., p. 142.
“where manners”: Mary Lee Settle, All the Brave Promises: Memories of Aircraft Woman 2nd Class 214639 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), p. 3.
“makes one”: Janet Murrow to parents, undated, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.
“It was all”: Harriman to Harry Hopkins, March 7, 1942, Harriman papers, LC.
“bought a beautiful”: Kathleen Harriman to Marie Harriman, Feb. 3, 1942, Harriman papers, LC.
“It’s such fun”: Kathleen Harriman to Marie Harriman, undated, Harriman papers, LC.
“London was one”: Arbib, p. 85.
“the fastest company”: Harrison Salisbury, A Journey for Our Times: A Memoir (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), p. 179.
“with a feeling”: Nelson D. Lankford, The Last American Aristocrat: The Biography of David K. E. Bruce (Boston: Little, Brown, 1996), p. 64
“an abounding self-esteem”: Ibid., p. 63.
“one of the few”: E. J. Kahn Jr., “Profiles: Man of Means—1,” New Yorker, Aug. 11, 1951.
“the most elaborate”: Ibid.
“life had never been”: Sally Bedell Smith, In All His Glory, p. 225.
“The guy had guts”: Jan Herman, A Talent for Trouble: William Wyler (New York: Putnam’s, 1995), p. 255.
“propaganda worth”: Ibid., p. 235
“I was a warmonger”: Ibid., p. 234.
“only scratched”: Ibid., p. 237.
“an escape into reality”: Ibid., p. 278.
“unreal, a stage”: Mary Lee Settle, “London—1944,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1987.
“We were young”: Settle, All the Brave Promises, p. 1.
“It was my first”: Ibid., p. 19.
“caul of privilege”: Mary Lee Settle, Learning to Fly: A Writer’s Memoir (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007), p. 99.
“I had had the experience”: Mary Lee Settle, “London—1944,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1987.
“as if I were bone china”: Settle, Learning to Fly, p. 97.
“We were really”: Abramson, p. 316.
“It was a terrible war”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.
“They were caught out”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 100
