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by Lynne Olson


  “No fairer”: Daily Express, May 1, 1946, Winant papers, FDRL.

  “hard years”: Unidentified clipping, May 1, 1941, Winant papers, FDRL.

  CHAPTER 22: “WE ALL LOST A FRIEND IN ’IM”

  “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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