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by Lynne Olson


  “staying close”: Arbib, p. 205.

  “as a farmer”: Settle, “London 1944,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, August 1987.

  “making D-Day possible”: Weintraub, p. 217.

  “incessant clashes”: Sir Frederick Morgan, p. 41.

  “there was never”: Ibid., p. 49.

  “All entered”: Ibid., p. 80

  “For Christ’s sake”: Ibid., p. 72.

  “That way”: Kay Summersby Morgan, p. 172

  “developed a relationship”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 290

  “loved and respected”: Ibid., p. 116.

  “deliberately thought”: Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, Special Relationships: America in Peace and War (London: Macmillan, 1975), pp. 178–79

  “regarded Ike”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 116.

  “It was the greatest”: D’Este, p. 495.

  “a disaster”: Sir Frederick Morgan, p. 279.

  “By God”: Irving, p. 81.

  “we went into France”: David Reynolds, Rich Relations, p. 357

  “more like”: Ibid., p. 365.

  “regard the war”: Ibid.

  “torn to shreds”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 551

  “He was as nervous”: Kay Summersby Morgan, p. 182

  “In this particular venture”: Irving, p. 94.

  “I decided that”: Pyle, Brave Men, p. 317

  “if Dog News”: Ibid., p. 318.

  “Everything that happened”: Sally Bedell Smith, In All His Glory, p. 216.

  “I believe”: Caroline Moorehead, Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life (New York: Henry Holt, 2003), p. 209.

  “To me”: Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (New York: Scribner, 1967), pp. 392–93.

  “They want to stay”: Hemingway, p. 133.

  “By God”: Cloud and Olson, p. 158.

  “Last night”: Edward Bliss Jr., In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938–1961 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), p. 76.

  “one of the finest”: L. M. Hastings to Murrow, Dec. 4, 1943, Murrow papers.

  “magnificent”: Arthur Christensen to Murrow, Dec. 4, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “Ed was cynical”: Pamela Harriman interview with Christopher Ogden, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.

  “the most faithful”: Kendrick, p. 262.

  “My dear Ed”: Brendan Bracken to Murrow, Dec. 21, 1943, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “I think this was”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 45.

  “It was a drug”: Ibid., p. 47.

  “a thing about speed”: Ibid.

  “Three or four times”: Persico, Edward R. Murrow, p. 221.

  “In order to write”: Murrow to Remsen Bird, Jan. 31, 1944, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “fatigue and frustration”: Persico, Edward R. Murrow, p. 222

  “I tried to convince him”: Paley, p. 152.

  “No longer”: Arbib, pp. 206–7.

  “We stood”: Longmate, The GI’s, p. 298

  “Good luck”: Hale and Turner, p. 161.

  “My heart ached”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 310.

  “It was so drab”: Gardiner, “Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here,” p. 211.

  “like a giant factory”: Bliss, p. 81.

  “In perfect”: Gardiner, “Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here,” p. 180.

  “The sky looked”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 307.

  “Ladies and gentlemen”: Gardiner, Wartime Britain, p. 544.

  “The church”: Janet Murrow to parents, June 11, 1944, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “our sons”: Burns, p. 476.

  “Except for the planes”: Pamela Churchill to Averell Harriman, June 8, 1944, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.

  “Walking along”: Kendrick, p. 269.

  “There was a kind”: William Saroyan, The Adventures of Wesley Jackson (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1946), p. 258.

  “One could sense”: Panter-Downes, p. 328.

  “If I had had”: Cloud and Olson, p. 204.

  “In the old days”: Henrey, The Siege of London, p. 72.

  “The man going home”: Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953), p. 39

  “as impersonal”: Calder, p. 560

  “We now live”: Ziegler, p. 292.

  “Most of the people”: David Reynolds, Rich Relations, p. 402

  “I’m afraid”: Irving, p. 180.

  “in worried tones”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 260

  “We have had”: Ziegler, p. 299.

  “The nation’s deep”: Panter-Downes, p. 350.

  “Like everyone else”: Wheeler-Bennett, Special Relationships, p. 189.

  “very old”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 544.

  “how tired”: Janet Murrow to parents, June 22, 1944, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “Look … the first time”: Sperber, p. 243.

  “London is deserted”: Gardiner, Wartime Britain, p. 556.

  “Winston never talks”: Moran, pp. 185–86.

  “Winston hated”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 473

  “being mis-employed”: Meacham, p. 294.

  “I wanted you”: Winant to FDR, July 3, 1944, Map Room files, FDRL.

  “There is one name”: Kersaudy, p. 354

  “We are the French”: Ibid., p. 334

  “the sixty-day”: Ibid., p. 332.

  “It seems to me”: Ibid., p. 331

  “feel that the French”: Ibid., p. 333.

  “An open clash”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 248

  “All circles”: Irving, p. 135.

  “a state of”: Beevor and Cooper, p. 28

  “treason at the height”: Lacouture, p. 524.

  “It’s pandemonium”: Beevor and Cooper, pp. 28–29

  “girls’ school”: Kersaudy, p. 346

  “it was a fatal mistake”: Ibid., p. 351

  “The Prime Minister”: Ibid., p. 352.

  “in the initial stages”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 248.

  “The brigadiers”: Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, Vol. 2, The Infernal Grove (London: Collins, 1973), p. 212

  “flogging a dead horse”: Jean Edward Smith, p. 614

  “FDR … believes”: Kersaudy, p. 361

  “He’s a nut”: Ibid.

  “As a cordial”: Ibid., p. 370.

  “FDR’s pique”: Jean Edward Smith, p. 616.

  “a sleepy, empty”: Henrey, The Siege of London, p. 91.

  “Where every man”: Sevareid, p. 477.

  “the Paris”: Donald L. Miller, p. 137.

  “in guilty splendour”: Wheeler-Bennett, Special Relationships, p. 186

  “familiar, well-fed”: Kendrick, p. 273.

  “Perhaps the world”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 124.

  CHAPTER 19: CRISIS IN THE ALLIANCE

  “in the interests”: Olson and Cloud, p. 333.

  “The time has come”: Harriman to Hopkins, Sept. 10, 1944, Hopkins papers, FDRL.

  “put in the humiliating”: Sherwood, p. 756

  “He wanted to operate”: Abramson, p. 367

  “I cannot say”: Bohlen, p. 127.

  “They are tough”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 232

  “knew the Russians”: Salisbury, p. 242.

  “my views on policy”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 227.

  “I used him”: Ibid., p. 229.

  “A great deal”: Salisbury, p. 242.

  “the touchstone”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 223.

  “We intend”: Olson and Cloud, p. 333.

  “turned on his heel”: Discussion with Winston Churchill, Coudert Institute, Palm Beach, Florida, March 28, 2008.

  “rivalry for control”: Bellush, p. 203

  “there will be plenty”: Moran, p. 220.

  “You can’t do this!”: Robert M. Hathaway, Ambiguous Partnership: Britain and America, 1944–1947 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981), p. 64.

  “In Christ’s name”: Ibid
.

  “I dislike”: Sherwood, p. 819.

  “placed his prestige”: Howland, p. 374.

  “decided disadvantage”: Ibid.

  “We hear”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 575.

  “The only times”: Meacham, p. 339

  “a national slap”: D’Este, p. 599.

  “Montgomery is a third-rate”: Irving, p. 268

  “There was arrogance”: Ibid., p. 392.

  “Ike is bound”: Ibid., p. 190.

  “in a powerful”: D’Este, p. 672

  “Between our front”: Max Hastings, p. 196.

  “He lacked”: D’Este, p. 602.

  “the savior”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 356

  “MONTGOMERY STOPS”: Sevareid, p. 485.

  “so irritated”: Irving, p. 375

  “It did more”: Clarke, p. 155

  “terrible”: D’Este, p. 676.

  “it remains impossible”: Max Hastings, “How They Won,” New York Review of Books, Nov. 22, 2007.

  “behavior at moments”: Merle Miller, p. 587

  “Something very like”: Max Hastings, p. 222

  “pure blackmail”: Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 528.

  “one might make”: Hathaway, p. 83.

  “Please take”: FDR to Winant, Nov. 24, 1944, Map Room files, FDRL.

  “that even a declaration”: Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 528

  “You would not send”: Hitchens, p. 233.

  “I have loyally”: Clarke, p. 113.

  “really irritated”: Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 536

  “European questions”: Olson and Cloud, p. 363

  “What makes”: Clarke, p. 147

  “We do not mind”: Hathaway, p. 103.

  “there is good reason”: Ibid, p. 104

  “He just doesn’t”: Sherwood, p. 820

  “Physically”: Doenecke and Stoler, p. 86

  “talking to”: Clarke, p. 218.

  “The P.M.’s box”: Colville, The Fringes of Power, p. 530.

  “I don’t feel”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 649.

  “was tired”: Geoffrey Best, Churchill: A Study in Greatness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 260.

  “I must say”: Olson and Cloud, p. 365.

  “It was two to one”: Hathaway, p. 123.

  “That the President”: Ibid.

  “Let him wait”: Andrew Roberts, Masters and Commanders, p. 554.

  “We went into the war”: Cecil King, With Malice Toward None: A War Diary (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970), p. 298.

  “fought like a tiger”: Olson and Cloud, p. 365

  “coming from America”: Ibid., p. 366.

  “We could never”: Ibid.

  “might reach”: Bellush, p. 205.

  “of the greatest urgency”: Thomas M. Campbell and George C. Herring, eds., The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius Jr, 1943–1946 (New York: New Viewpoints, 1975), p. 227.

  “I think our attitude”: Bellush, p. 207

  “clearly wanted”: Olson and Cloud, p. 383.

  “Looks as if”: Harriman notes, undated, Pamela Harriman papers, LC. “the Soviet Government”: Isaacson and Thomas, p. 247.

  “There is no doubt”: Olson and Cloud, p. 384

  “feeling of bitter resentment”: Ibid., p. 386

  “minimize the general”: Ibid., p. 387.

  “Berlin has lost”: Max Hastings, p. 421

  “Churchill’s anger”: Ibid., p. 423.

  CHAPTER 20: “FINIS”

  “Men and boys”: Bliss, p. 91.

  “two rows”: Ibid, p. 94.

  “What he had seen”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 89.

  “I pray you”: Murrow broadcast, April 15, 1945, National Archives.

  “One shoe”: Kendrick, p. 279.

  “I’m Roosevelt’s man”: Jacob Beam interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.

  “Thank God for you”: Howland, p. 28

  “I always think”: Ibid.

  “could make”: Robert H. Ferrell, Choosing Truman: The Democratic Convention of 1944 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994), p. 13.

  “weeping, reminiscing”: Thompson, p. 303.

  “This country”: Hathaway, pp. 130–31.

  “quiet as”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 317.

  “stood in the streets”: Panter-Downes, p. 368.

  “being stopped”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 317

  “I don’t think”: Ziegler, p. 310.

  “was the greatest American”: Clarke, p. 259.

  “an immense effect”: Jenkins, p. 783.

  “how greatly”: Ibid.

  “It is difficult”: Max Hastings, p. 512.

  “I think that it would”: Meacham, p. 351.

  “With this signing”: Cloud and Olson, p. 237

  “taken over”: Panter-Downes, p. 374.

  “Their minds”: Bliss, p. 97.

  “almost with a start”: Kendrick, p. 280.

  “When the whole”: Henry Chancellor, Colditz: The Untold Story of World War II’s Great Escapes (New York: William Morrow, 2001), p. 362.

  “That your anxiety”: Bellush, p. 213.

  “On the continent”: Olson and Cloud, p. 392

  “poisonous politics”: Ibid., p. 393.

  “By the time”: D’Este, p. 807.

  “There had been applause”: LaRue Brown, “John G. Winant,” Nation, Nov. 15, 1947.

  “Ike made a wonderful”: Danchev and Todman, eds., p. 697.

  “was worried about Winston”: Moran, p. 302.

  “Though [the British people]”: Pamela Churchill to Averell Harriman, July 27, 1945, Pamela Harriman papers, LC.

  “he scoffs”: Moran, p. 308.

  “this damned election”: Ibid., p. 310.

  “a complete debacle”: Pawle, p. 501.

  “one of the most stunning”: Hathaway, p. 176.

  “mortally wounded”: Campbell and Herring, eds., p. 413.

  “The whole focus”: Soames, p. 425.

  “It was not so much”: Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry, p. 86.

  “Sir, you have”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 242.

  CHAPTER 21: “I SHALL ALWAYS FEEL THAT I AM A LONDONER”

  “GOODBYE, ENGLAND”: Longmate, The G.I.’s, p. 325.

  “It is hard”: Waller, p. 205

  “We must all”: Ibid., p. 241.

  “The American people”: Hathaway, p. 23

  Donald Worby: Dimbleby and Reynolds, p. 175

  “I think they’re behaving”: Waller, p. 347.

  “We’d given”: Dimbleby and Reynolds, p. 177

  “Anybody who thinks”: Sherwood, p. 827.

  “It is aggravating”: Dimbleby and Reynolds, p. 180

  “economic Munich”: Ibid.

  “The American people”: Sherwood, p. 922

  “I believe”: Ibid., p. 921.

  “would work great hardship”: Howland, p. 448

  “Did any nation”: Carroll, p. 142

  “would have made”: Penrose, p. 206

  “alien to him”: Howland, p. 442

  “I want to do”: Ibid.

  “not idealism”: Arnold A. Rogow, “Private Illness and Public Policy: The Cases of James Forrestal and John Winant,” American Journal of Psychiatry, Feb. 8, 1969.

  “His nerves”: Maurine Mulliner interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.

  “I’ve lost”: Grace Hogarth interview, Bellush papers, FDRL.

  “I have no life!”: Bellush, p. 215

  “I cannot explain”: Soames, p. 429

  “has been and is”: Ibid., p. 380.

  “I do not know”: Sarah Churchill, A Thread in the Tapestry, p. 88

  “I wish”: Ibid., p. 91.

  “Sarah has been”: Soames, p. 433.

  “You’ve no idea”: Pearson, p. 338.

  “cage of affection”: Sarah Churchill, Keep on Dancing, p. 159.

  “mental and physical”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 124.

 
; “For many things”: Murrow to Janet Murrow, Sept. 18, 1944, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “I am lonesome”: Murrow to Janet Murrow, Sept. 29, 1944, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “Maybe I had begun”: Murrow to Janet Murrow, Oct. 28, 1944, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “Fred took me”: Pamela Churchill to Averell Harriman, March 8, 1944, Pamela Harriman papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “We didn’t talk”: Sally Bedell Smith, Reflected Glory, p. 125

  “I’ve never been”: Ibid., p. 125

  “Casey Wins”: Ogden, p. 181

  “We live in the light”: Kendrick, p. 275.

  “This is a great nation”: Sperber, p. 257.

  “an awkward position”: Lash, From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter, p. 256

  “Your country”: Bliss, pp. 3–4.

  “It is men”: Emilie Adams to Murrow, Feb. 24, 1946, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “Please tell”: Unidentified to Murrow, Feb. 24, 1946, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “When you get home”: W. E. C. McIlroy to Murrow, Feb. 24, 1946, Murrow papers, Mount Holyoke.

  “Now, for the last time”: Persico, Edward R. Murrow, p. 242.

  “THIS MICROPHONE”: Ibid.

  “the only trophy”: R. Franklin Smith, p. 75.

  “close friend”: Unidentified clipping, Nov. 29, 1945, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “commanded to such”: Manchester Guardian, undated, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “Almost everyone”: New Statesman, March 30, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “the personification”: Daily Express, March 25, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “came to us”: Daily Herald, April 27, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “Goodbye, sir”: Punch, May 8, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “I do not think”: Arthur L. Goodhart to Winant, April 15, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “Those of us”: John Martin to Winant, Jan. 1, 1947, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “rather hard-boiled”: Barbara Wace to Winant, April 22, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “My driver”: Herbert Agar to Winant, May 2, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “a unique honor”: Daily Telegraph, April 26, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “Official British reserve”: Concord Daily Monitor, Jan. 18, 1947, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “infinitely more”: New York Times, April 24, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “In adversity”: Daily Telegraph, April 26, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “In a long life”: Daily Telegraph, May 21, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “I propose”: Ibid.

  “I would say”: Daily Telegraph, April 26, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “Neither you”: News Chronicle, May 1, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

 

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