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254–6; Bevin rebukes, 273; letter from Frankfurter on Anglo-US relations, 300; resigns from war cabinet, 344
    Crossman, Richard, 351
    Crozier, W.P., 395
    Crusader , Operation, 161, 209, 215
    Cunliffe-Owen, Sir Hugo, 105
    Cunningham, Gen. Sir Alan Gordon, 210, 267
    Cunningham, Admiral Sir Andrew: commands Mediterranean fleet, 87, 101; dislikes publicity, 101–2; and Battleaxe operation in North Africa, 138; character and qualities, 142; succeeds Pound as first sea lord, 142; on shortage of fighter aircraft, 157; WSC threatens to dismiss, 260; reluctance to express view on course of war, 308; Harwood succeeds in Mediterranean, 319; scepticism on Overlord , 385; on loss of Leros, 417; dismisses Tehran conference as waste of time, 435; on Anzio landings, 439; dispute with WSC over Far East strategy, 477; on relations with Americans, 482; on WSC’s response to V1 crisis, 489; at second Quebec conference, 511; WSC toasts on VE-Day, 568
    Curtin, John, 162, 235, 350–1
    Czechoslovakia: Nazi reprisals for Heydrich’s assassination, 455
    D-Day: date established, 385–6; postponed to June, 438–9; WSC fears failure, 484; success, 487–8, 494; casualties, 488; see also Overlord , Operation
    D’Abernon, Edgar Vincent, Viscount, 35
    Dabney, Virginius, 541
    Daily Mail , 237–8
    Daily Mirror , 237
    Dakar: Free French failed attempt on, 70, 235
    Dalmatia, 392, 440
    Dalton, Hugh ( later Baron): diary, xx; qualities, 10, 275; praises WSC’s resolve, 37; heads SOE, 75, 275; as Minister of Economic Warfare, 98; on Beaverbrook’s defeatism, 111; on Halifax in Washington, 174; at party for Raymond Gram Swing, 176; and Brooke’s view of WSC’s temperament, 237; on Cazalet’s lack of faith in WSC, 257; and Maisky’s view of British soldiers, 263; praises Bevin, 273; on Woolton, 275; on North African successes, 341; inquires about possibility of separate Soviet peace with Germany, 373; on WSC’s need for Beaverbrook, 395; and European Resistance movements, 451; on colleagues’ exhaustion, 476; and WSC’s drinking, 498
    Daluege, Kurt, 159
    Damaskinos, Archbishop (Dimitrios Papandreou), 531–2, 535–7
    Dardanelles campaign (1915), 420, 441
    Darlan, Admiral Jean François: pessimism, 41; commands French troops against Allies in North Africa, 346; as France’s high commissioner in North Africa, 346–8; assassinated, 348–9
    David , Operation, 5
    Davies, Joseph E., 377–8
    Deakin, Sir William, 363, 467–8, 470
    Defence Registry, 143
    de Guingand, Maj.Gen. Sir Francis W., 482
    de la Warre, Herbrand Brassey Sackville, 9th Earl, 555
    Denmark: Resistance movement, 453
    Denver Post , 228–9
    Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , 77
    de Valeria, Éamon, 70–3
    Dieppe: raid (1942), 332–4
    Dill, Gen. Sir John: flies to France with WSC, 16,
    45–6; succeeds Ironside as CIGS, 25; and evacuation of forces from Cherbourg, 52; WSC turns against, 74; persuades WSC to send tanks to Wavell, 94; apprehension over prospective German invasion, 96; orders Kennedy to prepare strategy paper, 113; advocates reinforcing Far East, 117, 218; questions British intervention in Greece, 119, 125–7, 130; flies to Athens, 128; returns from Cairo, 131; dismissed, 133, 266; pessimism over Middle East, 133; qualities, 142–3; predicts loss of Middle East, 149; at Placentia Bay meeting, 194–5; sees no propect of engaging Germans on continent, 195; WSC dismisses, 210; accompanies WSC to Washington, 217; on shipping shortages for conveying US troops, 220; as chief of military mission in USA, 232–3; good relations with Marshall, 232–3; onpreventing junction of Japanese and German forces, 241; on inequitable exchange with USA, 258; and WSC’s dissatisfaction with commanders, 267; relations with Hopkins, 296; favours early second front, 311; on Hopkins-Marshall-King visit to WSC, 311; blames WSC for Auchinleck’s Middle East failure, 318; favours