Part 17 (1/2)
”slightly supercilious” Ibid.
She once heard a fellow politician Ibid.
He was, she recalled, ”a very” Perkins, COH, 18.
Churchill, she would tell President Roosevelt Ibid., 19.
”so sure of himself” Ibid.
”He's pig-headed” Ibid.
a glittering occasion ”Speeches At a Dinner Given to the Ministers Responsible for the Fighting Forces of the Crown in Gray's Inn Hall on Monday, the 29th of July, 1918,” in The War Book of Gray's Inn (London, 1921), 3260.
Hailing Roosevelt as ”the member of” Ibid., 37.
”No one will welcome” Ibid., 38.
to his ”horror” Elliott Roosevelt, ed., The Personal Letters of Franklin D. Roosevelt, II (New York, 1948), 392.
”given to understand” The War Book of Gray's Inn, 57.
Citing the need for an ”intimate” Ibid.
”We are with you” Ibid., 58.
”I always disliked him” Amanda Smith, ed., Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy (New York, 2001), 411.
who won the Iron Cross, First Cla.s.s Alan Bullock, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (New York, 1952), 46. Hitler was awarded the decoration on August 4.
They had been born eight years and an ocean apart Many writers-first contemporaries of the two men, and later historians and biographers-have undertaken to compare and contrast Churchill and Roosevelt and summarize the course of their alliance. See, for instance, TIR, 251255; John Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect (New York, 1950), 1319; Kimball, Forged in War, 123 and C & R, I, 320; Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 179195; Sainsbury, Churchill and Roosevelt at War, 116; Stafford, Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets, xiiixviii; Tully, FDR: My Boss, 299305.
”Being with them was like sitting” Author interview with Lady Soames.
”There was a good deal” Mike Reilly as told to William J. Sloc.u.m, Reilly of the White House (New York, 1947), 124.
romanced by Winthrop Rutherfurd Elizabeth Shoumatoff, FDR's Unfinished Portrait (Pittsburgh, Pa., 1990), 75. Rutherfurd even played a role in the annulment of the Marlborough marriage in 1926. ”On Nov. 24, 1926, from Rome came the announcement of the annulment of the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough, with the reason for the annulment granted by the Sacred Rota of the Roman Catholic Church revealed in the fact that Consuelo, then 17, and in love with 'an American named Rutherfurd,' had been forced by her mother, Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, to give him up and marry the Duke,” wrote The New York Times in Rutherfurd's obituary on March 21, 1944. ”When asked in New York about his acquaintance with Consuelo in 1895, Mr. Rutherfurd said, 'Yes, some thirty years ago I knew Miss Vanderbilt and I was one of her great admirers.' ”
stamps, birds, books, and naval prints Rita S. Halle Kleeman, Gracious Lady: The Life of Sara Delano Roosevelt (New York, 1935), 176177; 223.
toy soldiers and b.u.t.terflies for Churchill MEL, 10; 28.
Cousin Theodore's legend fired young Roosevelt's political imagination James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (New York, 1956), 2425.
Lord Randolph's career fascinated his son MEL, 4647, is just one example.
they read the same books For Roosevelt's important ”early books,” see ”Memorandum for Hon. Lowell Mellett,” February 8, 1944, Mellett Papers, White House, 1944 File, Box 6, FDRL; for Churchill's, see MEL, xvi, 18, 111112. Churchill's view of the Sermon on the Mount is in Anthony Montague Browne, Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill's Last Private Secretary (London, 1995), 204.
”My husband always had a joy” EROH, Session 5, 18. ”n.o.body ever knew more about American politics than FDR; his knowledge ranged from const.i.tutional precedents on the highest level to exactly what was going on in the First Ward in Chicago or who was postmaster in Walla Walla, Was.h.i.+ngton,” wrote John Gunther. ”His ability to keep in mind the smallest political details was 'aldermanic,' the late Mayor La Guardia of New York once told me.” Gunther, Roosevelt in Retrospect, 66.
”Westminster is his ambience” Colin Coote, ”Churchill the Politician,” in Servant of Crown and Commonwealth, ed. Marchant, 3536.
”There are only two ways” WSC, IV, 4344.
”bold, persistent experimentation” May 22, 1932, Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, I, 639647.
liked to lecture Middle Eastern leaders Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, 8889; FDR to His Imperial Majesty Mohammad Rez Pahlavi, September 2, 1944, FDR Papers, microfilm edition, Diplomatic Correspondence, Part 2, Reel 19.
Felix Frankfurter was visiting Cliveden Harlan B. Phillips, Felix Frankfurter Reminisces (New York, 1960), 185186.
took time to confer about the music Papers of the White House Office of Social Entertainment, Box 108, FDRL.
dined together in the Pinafore Room Montague Browne, Long Sunset, 314. Also see WSC, III, 35.
Roosevelt ”really had military genius” Walter Lippmann, COH, 219.
”I have seen war” Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Apprentices.h.i.+p (Boston, 1952), 356. The remarks were made in 1936.
”War, which used to be cruel and magnificent” MEL, 65.
an a.s.sa.s.sin armed with a revolver Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 147.
That evening, the president-elect Frank Freidel, A Rendezvous with Destiny (New York, 1990), 8788.
Facing a ferocious storm Wilson Brown Memoir, 136, FDRL.
”as if all the devils” Ibid.
”He was interested but not” Ibid.
At Omdurman MEL, 182196.
preferred rooftops WSC, VII, 697.
En route to Was.h.i.+ngton W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 19411946 (New York, 1975), 205.
Seated next to Violet Bonham Carter Lady Violet Bonham Carter, ”Winston Churchill-As I Know Him,” in Servant of Crown and Commonwealth, ed. Marchant, 149.
first American lecture tour Arthur Schlesinger Jr., ”Randolph Churchill,” in The Grand Original: Portraits of Randolph Churchill by His Friends, ed. Kay Halle (Boston, 1971), 281.
”Why don't you run” Ibid.
Some of his critics, he wrote MEL, 162.
In an editorial addressed Freidel, The Apprentices.h.i.+p, 52.
”Sometimes he'd have nightmares” EROH, Session 1, 12.
”His parents' friends found him” John Colville, Winston Churchill and His Inner Circle (New York, 1981), 11. There is also evidence that contemporaries saw evidence of greatness in Churchill. See, for instance, Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York, 1991), 125, and Martin Gilbert, In Search of Churchill: A Historian's Journey (New York, 1994), 214215.
blackballed from Porcellian Burns, The Lion and the Fox, 18.