Franklin And Winston Part 21

"FDR's nerves" Reilly and Sloc.u.m, Reilly of the White House, 66.

"Mike, I don't want to see" Ibid.

"I did not think it right" CWP, II, 10531054.

"I hope you" Ibid., 1099.

"Curiously enough, I never received" Churchill, Their Finest Hour, 554. Joseph Lash speculates that Roosevelt may have been annoyed at Willkie's use of Churchill's old antiNew Deal rhetoric the Republican nominee quoted during the fall campaign. Lash quotes quite a few pieces of British diplomatic correspondence on the question of whether Roosevelt received the letter and, after deciding that Roosevelt had, whether the Willkie issue had rankled Roosevelt. (See Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 245247.) Whatever the reason, the fact that Roosevelt felt he could ignore the letter suggests he felt a strong sense of superiority.

"one of the most important" Ibid., 558.

The cable went through numerous revisions C & R, I, 87109; Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 256259; Reynolds, From Munich to Pearl Harbor, 103105. I am grateful to Professor Reynolds for focusing my attention on the point about Churchill's help from Lothian. "WSC didn't dream up every bright idea-like every good leader he was quick to see and develop the ideas of others." (David Reynolds letter to author, April 1, 2003.) As I note in the text, that was also certainly true of Roosevelt.

"Even if the United States" CWP, II, 11901191.

Roosevelt and Hopkins had left RAH, 223.

"He had only his own intimates around him" Churchill, Their Finest Hour, 567.

"Tonight, in the presence of a world crisis" Buhite and Levy, eds., FDR's Fireside Chats, 164173.

Sitting in his study with Rosenman and Hopkins Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, 263264. I drew the scene and the "Four Freedoms" pa.s.sage from Rosenman's account. Roosevelt delivered the speech to Congress on January 6, 1941.

"You know-a lot of this" RAH, 230.

much of his stomach Ibid., 92.

"Harry had the capacity" Frances Perkins, COH, 563.

"How about me going over" RAH, 230.

"Harry is the perfect Amba.s.sador" Ibid., 4.

To load the gold aboard a U.S. wars.h.i.+p CWP, II, 1309.

"Please do not suppose" Ibid., 12961297.

"anxiety" Ibid., 1309.

"Remember, Mr President" Ibid.

CHAPTER 3: JESUS CHRIST! WHAT A MAN!.

"Churchill had no idea" Author interview with Robert Hopkins.

was "not a person" Sir John Martin interview, Newton Collection, FDRL.

"all geared up" Lady Soames interview, Newton Collection, FDRL.

"a mystery man" Ibid.

Jean Monnet, a Frenchman RAH, 232.

Hopkins "became a bit fed up" Ibid.

"Here I am, the son of" Childs, COH, 5556.

"It seemed to me" Ibid.

Joseph Lash related this anecdote Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 185.

There was a rumor RAH, 238.

was learning who his guest was Ibid., 234.

Within minutes of Hopkins's arrival Ibid., 235.

Herschel V. Johnson, took Hopkins Ibid.

They talked amid blasts Ibid.

"Churchill had been informed" Ibid., 236. Also see Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 274275, for correspondence related to Churchill's speech, which was delivered during a lunch marking Halifax's departure for Was.h.i.+ngton as amba.s.sador after Lothian's death.

"I have always taken the view" CWP, III, 51.

Johnson told Hopkins RAH, 237.

Hopkins then asked Edward R. Murrow Ibid., 236.

Hopkins wanted to get the journalist's take Ibid.

"I suppose you could say" Ibid.

notes written on Claridge's stationery Ibid., 237.

he found No. 10 Downing Street Ibid., 238.

"most of the windows are out" Ibid.

In a small dining room Ibid.

"a rotund-smiling-red faced" Ibid.

"Thus I met Harry Hopkins" Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance: The Second World War (Boston, 1950), 23.

While Churchill's cook and housekeeper I am grateful to Sir Martin Gilbert for this detail.

the two men talked RAH, 238240.

"were so impressed" TFOP, 331.

"I have never had such an enjoyable" Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 277.

Ditchley, an eighteenth-century house RAH, 240.

"Week-ends were anything but restful" Ibid.

Bracken told Colville TFOP, 331.

As the weekend began, Churchill seemed pleased Ibid.

In Was.h.i.+ngton Ibid., 331332.

That evening, the party gathered Ibid., 332333.

was "touched and gratified" Ibid., 333.

Speaking in the "unhesitating" Ibid.

"We seek no treasure" Lyttleton, Memoirs, 165. Joseph Lash, an unabashed liberal, also rendered this scene at Ditchley and thought Churchill's sentences on this evening "limp," the result of political advice Churchill had received to tell Hopkins what Hopkins wanted to hear (see Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 277281). They do not seem limp to me, and I am not so sure we should dismiss Churchill's postwar vision too easily; he was unquestionably focused on winning the war, but it is a dangerous thing to try to state categorically that Winston Churchill believed this or believed that. Though he was no New Dealer and no Labourite, he was defending democracy and keeping the possibility of progress alive.

"the best part of a minute" Lyttleton, Memoirs, 165.

"Well, Mr Prime Minister, I don't think" Ibid.

"Winston hastily explained" TFOP, 334.

"At that moment," Lyttleton, Memoirs, 166.

"The people here . . . are amazing" RAH, 243.

"slow, deliberate, halting" TFOP, 333.

in the middle of the film Ibid., 334.

The HMS Southampton had been destroyed Ibid.

"I was sitting in an air raid shelter" Snow, Variety of Men, 151.

"Having had no direct experience" RAH, 240.

Churchill did not tell Hopkins Stafford, Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets, 5154.

another piece of signals intelligence Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, 688.

The sharing of intelligence would soon improve Stafford, Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets, 5657.

Mary Soames thought him Lady Soames interview, Newton Collection, FDRL.

"I think he suffered desperately" Ibid.

"Hopkins never seemed to eat anything" Pamela Churchill Harriman interview, Newton Collection, FDRL.

"small, shrunken, sick" Ibid.

"Then his face would light up" Ibid.

"Dear Mr. President-" RAH, 243246. Also see CWP, III, 7677.

"was not a sinner but" BBK G/11/4, LBP.

"One of the things he always did" Childs, COH, 115.

"the most charming and entertaining" RAH, 241.

"My mother, who was quite a critical person" Lady Soames interview, Newton Collection, FDRL.

"Lord Root of the Matter" Pamela Churchill Harriman interview, Newton Collection, FDRL.

took a train trip north WSC, VI, 990.

Churchill would introduce Hopkins RAH, 247.

Hopkins stood and said TSFS, 6. Sir Charles Wilson, Churchill's doctor, became Lord Moran in 1943. For simplicity, he is called only Lord Moran here.

Churchill wept Ibid.

"He knew what it meant" Ibid.

"His was a soul" Churchill, The Grand Alliance, 23.

After a long night with Churchill Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 282.

It was snowing WSC, VI, 992.

Hopkins "is really" CWP, III, 97.

Willkie, who was to leave for England RAH, 233.

"The Building of the s.h.i.+p" Ibid., 234.

"Sail on, O s.h.i.+p of State!" Ibid.