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to soak up some sun CWP, II, 80.

"full of fight" TFOP, 134.

"Our task is not only" CWP, II, 8890.

"were a tonic to us here" TIR, 255.

"To explain to one's country" Ibid., 246247.

At Admiralty House TFOP, 136.

"With regard to the closing part" CWP, II, 93. On May 20, the date of this telegram, came a scandal: Tyler Kent, a clerk at the American emba.s.sy in London, had stolen doc.u.ments, including pieces of the Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence. "Kent's intention," wrote Martin Gilbert, "had been to smuggle his doc.u.ments back to the United States, to serve as ammunition for the isolationist organisations opposed to Roosevelt's pro-British policies." Kent was tried, convicted, and held in England until the end of the war. (Ibid.) Also see Beschloss, Kennedy and Roosevelt, 206207.

"Considering the soothing words" TFOP, 136.

"We need not fear" The New York Times, May 20, 1940.

Roosevelt had been cruising Ibid.

"Colonel Lindbergh has given" Ibid.

"A Summons to Speak Out" Langer and Gleason, The Challenge to Isolation, 507.

"indicated that only 7.7 percent" Ibid., 495496.

"Although President is our best friend" CWP, II, 255.

about four hundred thousand men Martin Gilbert, The Second World War: A Complete History (New York, 1989), 72.

"should prepare itself" CWP, II, 179.

"Tonight there was no levity" Samuel I. Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt (New York, 1952) 195196.

On May 27 came a disturbing cable Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 146.

Lord Halifax, then the foreign secretary, suggested CWP, II, 180.

"there are signs that Halifax is being defeatist" TFOP, 140141.

Churchill resisted CWP, II, 180.

Halifax said that he did not see why Ibid., 181.

"too rambling and romantic" David Dilks, ed., The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan (New York, 1972), 290. For more on this early period of Churchill's prime ministers.h.i.+p, see Lukacs, Five Days in London, May 1940. Also see Andrew Roberts, Eminent Churchillians (New York, 1994) and "The Holy Fox."

Neville Chamberlain, who was now lord president CWP, II, 181.

"nations which went down fighting" Ibid.

"The Foreign Secretary said" Ibid.

"the chances of decent terms" Ibid.

"He was determined to prepare public opinion" Ibid., 183. Dalton's diary also recorded this version of Churchill's peroration: "If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground." (Ibid.) "There was a murmur" Ibid., 184.

"They had not expressed alarm" Ibid., 185.

nearly 340,000 Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen, World War II: America at War (New York, 1991), 262.

"Even though large tracts of Europe" CWP, II, 247.

"We understood the kind of courage" TIR, 211.

at the Brenner Pa.s.s in March 1940 s.h.i.+rer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 690692.

"It was a curious trip" TIR, 211.

The day was rainy The New York Times, June 11, 1940.

"On this 10th day of June" Ibid.

"In our American unity" Ibid.

"We all listened to you last night" CWP, II, 287288.

"Of course I made it clear" Ibid., 308.

"As I have already stated" C & R, I, 4546.

"Mr President," Churchill wrote CWP, II, 324.

"I appreciate fully the significance" C & R, I, 48.

"I understand all of your difficulties" CWP, II, 337338.

"the French will very quickly" Ibid., 341.

Churchill seemed lost in his thoughts Author interview with Winston S. Churchill.

"Upon this battle depends" CWP, II, 368.

"was furious" TFOP, 165.

"He was an alarming master" Sir John Martin in Action This Day, ed. Wheeler-Bennett, 140.

"On one of those early nights" Ibid.

"the only person who was never" Colville in Action This Day, ed. Wheeler-Bennett, 65.

"My Darling" WAC, 454.

became lifelong Churchillians CCTBOM, 383384.

"For forty years" C. P. Snow, Variety of Men (New York, 1967), 166.

a recommendation from the joint planners Langer and Gleason, The Challenge to Isolation, 568.

even the Dutch were stronger Reynolds, From Munich to Pearl Harbor, 78.

"There was no doubt" Langer and Gleason, The Challenge to Isolation, 569.

"The night he decided" BBK 480, LBP.

"served forcibly to underscore" RAH, 149.

were beginning to figure out how to decipher Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, 637.

In July Roosevelt dispatched David Stafford, Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets (London, 1999), 4344.

"Are we going to throw all our secrets" WSC, VI, 672.

"If Hitler fails to invade" CWP, II, 384386.

It would not much matter There was no const.i.tutional limit on presidential terms until the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment in 1951.

he had begun to build CC, 112.

a $75,000 annual deal with Collier's Frank Freidel, A Rendezvous with Destiny (Boston, 1990), 328.

"I think my husband was torn" EROH, Session 9, 10.

"In times like these" FDR speech by radio to the Democratic convention, July 19, 1940. Rosenman, ed., Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin Roosevelt, IX, 296297.

"I think the greatest drive" EROH, Session 1, 1516.

"feminine intuition" Marquis Childs, COH, 109.

"I think they'll resist" Lippmann, COH, 179.

"It is some time since" CWP, II, 593594.

"Well, that'll do it" Lippmann, COH, 179.

"The President, having always" Churchill, Their Finest Hour, 408.

"We intend to fight this out here" CWP, II, 668.

"But in any use" Ibid.

"Oddly enough" Snow, Variety of Men, 150.

"You ask, Mr President" CWP, II, 746747.

"Thus all was happily settled" Churchill, Their Finest Hour, 414.

"to place the transaction" Ibid., 408.

"somewhat mixed up together" CWP, II, 697.

"the Day of the Eagle" Gilbert, The Second World War, 116.

went to the operations room General the Lord Ismay, The Memoirs of General Lord Ismay (New York, 1960), 181182.

On August 23, the Luftwaffe bombed London Gilbert, The Second World War, 118.

Then, on September 7 WSC, VI, 775.

"How I wish you could see" Nancy Astor to Eugene Meyer, May 27, 1941, 120121.

Hitler postponed SEA LION Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen, World War II: The Encyclopedia of the War Years, 19411945 (New York, 1976), 721.

killing in all more than forty thousand people-at least five thousand of them children Ibid., 161.

The Battle of the Atlantic Ibid., 139142.

oil-rich Middle East The military historian John Keegan has argued that Hitler could have won the war by focusing on driving through the Middle East rather than invading the Soviet Union, possibly linking up with the j.a.panese. See Keegan, "How Hitler Could Have Won the War," in What If? ed. Robert Cowley (New York, 1999), 295305.

"Let me say to you" The New York Times, September 14, 1940.

" 'Your boys are not going' " Rosenman, Working with Roosevelt, 242.

"except in case of attack" Ibid.

"Of course we'll fight if" RAH, 191.

"profound anxiety" Churchill, Their Finest Hour, 553.

"expressed himself as having" Henry A. Wallace Diary, August 7, 1942, 45.

"You cannot imagine" Brendan Bracken to Eugene Meyer, October 11, 1940, MP.

"America is profoundly impressed" Eugene Meyer to Brendan Bracken, October 25, 1940, MP.

In the broadcast to the French CWP, II, 982.

an October 1940 poll William L. Langer and S. Everett Gleason, The Undeclared War, 19401941 (New York, 1953), 198.

There was a news ticker Author tour of Hyde Park. In an interview with Henry Morgenthau III, Eleanor remembered that her husband "would have a regular set-up in the dining room and in the little room off it, where machines would be put." See Ellen Paul Denker, Historic Furnis.h.i.+ngs Report: Springwood, Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, I (Northeast Museum Services Center, Boston Support Office, National Park Service, 1998), 50.