Franklin And Winston Part 28

"I like Mr. Churchill" Bernard Asbell, ed., Mother & Daughter: The Letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt (New York, 1982), 141.

Mrs. Roosevelt's skepticism Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 664, is one example.

"I do not think Mrs. Roosevelt" Author interview with Lady Soames.

She was rather arch TIR, 260.

"I know our better halves" C & R, I, 633.

"I would appreciate" Ibid., 639.

honey and a Virginia ham Clementine Churchill to FDR, November 2, 1942, President's Secretary's Files, Diplomatic Correspondence, Great Britain, Churchill, Winston: 19401942, Box 37.

"I so love" Ibid.

Mountbatten's action under fire For a devastating revision of the Mountbatten legend, see Andrew Roberts, Eminent Churchillians, 55136.

The film cuts back and forth Author viewing of In Which We Serve.

"It was a novel experience" TIR, 265.

The evidence of the bombings Ibid., 267. Also see The New York Times, October 25, 1942.

"This was something that Franklin" Ibid., 269.

one day Clementine had to break off CCTBOM, 420. Lady Soames's key line: "The First Lady's pace was too much for her-visibly-on one occasion, when . . . Clementine simply sat down on a marble staircase, and joined up with Mrs. Roosevelt later!" Kathleen Harriman, who was in England at the time, followed Eleanor on this trip as well and recalled: "I was exhausted. She would walk us all off our feet and then want to keep on going. She was tireless." (Author interview with Kathleen Harriman Mortimer) "I have been fortunate" Clementine Churchill to FDR, November 2, 1942.

"I did my best to advise" C & R, I, 655.

"On another day, when she was" Clementine Churchill to FDR, November 2, 1942.

"On each occasion" Ibid.

Churchill joined his wife C & R, I, 655.

"I remember my English friends" Author interview with Trude Lash.

Asked at a London press conference The New York Times, October 25, 1942.

"I feel that" The New York Times, October 28, 1942.

"The spirit of the English people" Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 662.

measured the dimensions and doorways November 20, 1942, FDR Papers, Diplomatic Correspondence, microfilm edition, Part 2, Reel 15.

Eleanor and Churchill exchanged words TIR, 275.

"It annoyed Mrs. R." Author interview with Trude Lash.

"One feels that, being in" TIR, 267.

"Hurrah!" C & R, I, 592.

"Okay full blast" Ibid.

"All the Shermans" Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 589.

"For weeks, the P." CC, 184.

"Quite cold" Ibid., 184186.

On Sunday, November 8 Ibid., 186.

"Once he began to bark" WSC, VII, 252.

"I have never promised" Ibid., 254.

lean back, and say of 1943 Diary of Meeting, Charles Eade, October 14, 1943, CEP.

One afternoon over Thanksgiving CC, 187188.

Churchill, who was turning sixty-eight WSC, VII, 267.

"I predict nothing" Robert Rhodes James, ed., Complete Speeches of Winston Churchill, VI (New York, 1974), 6714.

He quoted Kipling Ibid.

"I know of nothing" Ibid., 67146715.

Clementine gave him a lovely CCTBOM, 421.

"My darling" WAC, 471.

The Roosevelts' pre-Casablanca exchanges TIR, 279.

"I think F. has mixed feelings" CC, 194.

"The weather is bright" WAC, 471473.

Cabling Clementine about Roosevelt Ibid., 473.

the princ.i.p.als' kith and kin RAH, 674.

"These meetings meant a great deal" TIR, 282.

"I was very glad to see him" WAC, 475.

"Much good talk of war" RAH, 674.

"We had a very agreeable" WAC, 475.

Mike Reilly was on patrol Reilly and Sloc.u.m, Reilly of the White House, 155.

Their vision Burns, The Soldier of Freedom, 317318.

"was a man of extraordinarily" Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Churchill as an Ally in War," in Churchill by His Contemporaries (New York, 1954), ed. Charles Eade, 159.

Marshall continued to urge the direct approach Burns, The Soldier of Freedom, 318.

striking France in 1943 was not ruled out WSC, VII, 311.

"It is in every respect" WAC, 475.

One day, Churchill was strolling "Trip to Casablanca, January 1943," U.S. Secret Service Records, Box 20, FDRL.

"Churchill asked his man Sawyers" Harry Hopkins Papers, Box 330, FDRL.

really a few teeth in a removable plate Lady Soames note to author, January 12, 2003.

The king of Morocco was to dine RAH, 685.

The rivalry between the leaders Claude Fohlen, "De Gaulle and Franklin D. Roosevelt," in FDR and His Contemporaries, eds. van Minnen and Sears, 34. I am indebted to Fohlen's essay for its succinct summary of this complicated story.

"Behind his patrician mask" Ibid., 36.

"the squalid tangles" WAC, 475.

Reporters, Time noted Time, February 1, 1943.

"Somehow it all seemed" Newsweek, February 1, 1943.

"The elimination of" Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, 187188.

Picnicking with Daisy at Hyde Park CC, 187.

"PRESIDENT'S DARING AIR TRIP" The Was.h.i.+ngton Post, January 27, 1943.

"Many thousand American troops" Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 694.

olive-drab Daimler Kenneth Pendar, Adventure in Diplomacy (London, 1966), 144.

"looked like an Oriental potentate's" Ibid.

Churchill asked Pendar Ibid., 145.

Churchill counted the steps Ibid.

sixty of them Ibid.

"I have every intention" Ibid.

"Never have I seen" Ibid., 145146.

Churchill sent for Ibid., 146.

"It's the most lovely spot" TSFS, 90.

"Just as the sun set" Pendar, Adventure in Diplomacy, 146.

donned a siren suit Ibid., 147.

lying on a couch Ibid., 146.

"I am the Pasha" Ibid.

"Mr. Pendar was telling" "Trip to Casablanca, January 1943," U.S. Secret Service Records, Box 20, FDRL.

There was lobster and filet mignon Pendar, Adventure in Diplomacy, 147.

"made little affectionate speeches" TSFS, 90.

"Oh, let's don't" Pendar, Adventure in Diplomacy, 148.

"much banter" RAH, 694.

"struck by the fact" Pendar, Adventure in Diplomacy, 149.

were not going to please Burns, The Soldier of Freedom, 324325.

"Both men had a catching" Pendar, Adventure in Diplomacy, 150.

Over a nightcap Ibid.

"we heard his bedroom slippers" TSFS, 90.

"the weirdest outfit" Pendar, Adventure in Diplomacy, 151.

Hopkins, who was also seeing RAH, 694.

went to the airport together Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, 695.

"Churchill and I took one last" RAH, 694.

"Come, Pendar" Pendar, Adventure in Diplomacy, 151152.

"You can get in" Ibid., 152.

Cabling Clementine, Churchill was warm WAC, 476.