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Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold Laski, 1916-1953 , p. 1136
20 . Henderson, Nicholas The Private Office Revisited , p. 83
21 . Davies, Joseph E., Mission to Moscow , p. 150
22 . Letter from the 4th Lord Dufferin and Ava. Lord Dufferin added, “I shall ever remember the evening throughout my life”. CHAR 1/232/11
23 . CHAR 1/232/ 7
24 . CHAR 1/242/21
25 . Nasaw, David, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst , p. 418
26 . CHAR 1/254/39
27 . Wyatt, To The Point , p. 32
28 . CHAR 1/244/81
29 . Gilbert, email to the author, 19 April 2011
30 . Buchan-Hepburn, Patrick, to Sir Martin Gilbert, In Search of Churchill: A Historian’s Journey , p. 304
31 . James Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, quoted in Gilbert, In Search of Churchill, A Historian’s Journey , p. 231
32 . Montague Browne, Anthony, The Long Sunset , p. 116
33 . Montague Browne, p. 118
34 . In conversation with the author
35 . Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves , p. 344
36 . Edward Rothstein, “Contemplating Churchill,” Smithsonian , March 2005, p. 91
37 . Soames (ed.), p. 259
38 . CHAR 1/386/16
39 . CHAR 1/386/17
40 . CHAR 7/15/103
41 . CHAR 7/15/99
42 . Martin, Ralph G., Lady Randolph Churchill , Volume I, p. 149, from George W. Smalley, Anglo-American Memories , 1911
43 . Churchill, My Early Life , p. 150
44 . Cooke, Alistair, General Eisenhower and the Military Churchill , p. 52
45 . CHAR 1/315/121 and CHAR 1/268/98
46 . CHAR 1/254/40 and CHAR 1/282/66
47 . CHAR 1/315/125
48 . CHAR 1/315/122
49 . CHAR 1/315/123
50 . Cooper, Trumpets from the Steep , p. 180
51 . Norwich, John Julius (ed.), The Duff Cooper Diaries , 11 January 1944
52 . Letter from Jo Sturdee, later Countess of Onslow, to her family from Hotel de la Mamounia, Marrakesh, Morocco, 7 January 1948. CHUR/ON SL 2
53 . Graebner, My Dear Mr. Churchill , p. 78
54 . Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Road to Victory, 1941-1945 , Volume VII, p. 979
55 . Moran, Winston S. Churchill, The Struggle for Survival , p. 213
56 . Pawle, p. 344
57 . Colville, The Fringes of Power , p. 639
58 . Reported by Elizabeth Olson, “Churchill’s Lifelong Romance With a Feisty Former Colony,” The New York Times , 7 February 2004
59 . Cohen, Supreme Command , p. 118
Chapter 2: Meeting off Newfoundland
1 . FDR to WSC on the occasion of FDR’s 60th birthday, in response to the Prime Minister’s birthday wishes, Moran, p. 25
2 . Larson, Philip P., “Encounters with Chicago”, Finest Hour 118, p. 30.
3 . McJimsey, The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt , p. 138
4 . Churchill, The Second World War, The Grand Alliance , Volume III, p. 427
5 . Colville, p. 415
6 . Colville, p. 368
7 . Colville, p. 369
8 . Dilks, David (ed.), Cadogan , p. 395
9 . Morton, H., Atlantic Meeting , p. 74
10 . Dilks (ed.), p. 396
11 . Joan Bright in conversation with the author
12 . Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939-1941 , p. 391
13 . Gilbert (ed.), The Churchill War Papers , Volume 3, p. 1036
14 . Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill , p. 391
15 . Wilson, Theodore, The First Summit , p. 92
16 . Morton, p. 104
17 . Wilson, p. 104
18 . Although the press was barred, Morton and Howard Spring, a novelist, were invited to go along to describe what they saw. They were not told where they were going and were sworn to secrecy by Brendan Bracken. Morton askedan important question: “Should I pack a dinner jacket?” Bracken said, “yes”.
19 . Morton, p. 105
20 . Montague Browne, The Long Sunset , p. 230
21 . Langworth, Richard, “On Turtles and Turtle Soup”, Finest Hour 146, p. 25
22 . CHUR 2/96B/224
23 . Morton, p. 95
24 . Wilson, p. 106
25 . Richardson, From Churchill’s Secret Circle to the BBC: The Biography of Lt. Gen. Sir Ian Jacob , p. 67
26 . Martin, Downing Street: The War Years , p. 59
27 . Ibid ., photo insert following p. 56
28 . Gilbert, Churchill: A Life , p. 889
29 . Gilbert, Volume VI, p. 1168
Chapter 3 Christmas at the White