Part 22 (1/2)

In Was.h.i.+ngton, Charles Lindbergh was testifying The New York Times, January 24, 1941; Warren F. Kimball, The Most Unsordid Act: Lend-Lease, 19391941 (Baltimore, 1969), 189190.

Churchill and Hopkins went to Dover WSC, VI, 992.

”There goes the b.l.o.o.d.y British Empire” TFOP, 341.

Churchill's grandson Winston related Author interview with Winston S. Churchill.

At midnight at Chequers TFOP, 342.

”We must all of us” CWP, III, 196200. Joseph Lash reported that the speech itself ”was written with the a.s.sistance of Hopkins” and ”had been urged by, among others, Walter Lippmann, who was afraid that 'Americans might still be frightened into thinking that their help was too late to be of use. . . . Colonel Lindbergh had cleverly and successfully touched this weak and cowardly spot in the American character by his testimony before the Foreign Affairs Committee last week.' ” (Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 283284) Over a lunch of corned beef hash RAH, 267.

According to Sherwood Ibid.

American military planners Reynolds, From Munich to Pearl Harbor, 116119.

won the Lend-Lease vote The New York Times, February 9, 1941.

Churchill was asleep RAH, 265.

”I find my thoughts constantly with you” Ibid.

”Thank G.o.d for your news” Churchill, The Grand Alliance, 128.

”Our blessings from the whole of” Ibid.

”Far more was needed” Ibid.

”The President knew his man” Pamela Churchill Harriman interview, Newton Collection, FDRL.

CHAPTER 4: LUNCHING ALONE BROKE THE ICE.

At a No. 10 Downing Street lunch Diary of Meeting, Charles Eade, March 6, 1941, CEP.

Berlin continued to seize territory I.C.B. Dear, ed., The Oxford Companion to World War II (New York, 1995), 422.

In North Africa Ibid., 748.

Americans were producing three times as many Cohen in Grand Strategies in War and Peace, ed. Kennedy, 51.

”I was faced with a practical problem” Memorandum of Trip to Meet Winston Churchill, August 23, 1941, PSF, Safe, Atlantic Charter, FDRL. Roosevelt dictated the doc.u.ment after his return.

telling reporters Ibid.

”This . . . became the basis” Ibid.

ham, cheese, and cigars TFOP, 415.

”Harry Hopkins came into the garden” Churchill, The Grand Alliance, 427.

Roosevelt kept Eleanor in the dark August 2, 1941, FDR Papers, microfilm edition, ”Mrs. Roosevelt's Folder,” Office Files, Subject Files, Part 4.

”Even at my ripe old age” CC, 140.

an intriguing figure in the Roosevelt world Ibid., ixxvii.

”We always thought of him” Author interview with Margaret Hendrick.

”I don't want to harp” CC, 138.

Churchill rushed WSC, VI, 1120.

Roosevelt said little Burns, The Soldier of Freedom, 103.

”I pray America won't let the Huns” Nancy Astor to Agnes Meyer, October 10, 1941, MP.

Churchill arranged RAH, 318319.

a sunny, warm day Valentin Berezhkov interview, Newton Collection, FDRL.

”He looked very frail” Ibid.

”No man could forget the picture of” RAH, 343344.

the Soviets would lose about 12,000,000 soldiers Polmar and Allen, eds., World War II: The Encyclopedia of the War Years, 836; the British and Americans figures are on 193. Statistics on battles losses (those killed or missing) are slippery, but whatever numbers one chooses to settle on, it is clear that the Soviet Union paid a vastly steeper price in blood than its allies did-which is not to minimize in any way the horrific casualties, military and civilian, sustained by those nations who took up arms against the Axis.

In a speech to the House The New York Times, July 30, 1941.

”What do you think of” Complete Presidential Press Conferences, July 29, 1941, XVIII, 63.

Grace Tully, who had also been Tully, FDR: My Boss, 246.

rode by train from Union Station Log of the President's Cruise, FDR Papers, microfilm edition, Office Files, Part 1, Safe and Confidential.

It was still light out Memorandum of Trip to Meet Winston Churchill, August 23, 1941, FDRL.

”many persons saw me” Ibid.

”Strange thing happened this morning” CC, 140.

”delightful story” Memorandum of Trip to Meet Winston Churchill, August 23, 1941, FDRL.

”The President sends word” August 7, 1941, FDR Papers, microfilm edition, Office Files, Part 1, Safe and Confidential; The Was.h.i.+ngton Post, August 8, 1941.

”From USS Potomac” August 7, 1941, FDR Papers, microfilm edition, Office Files, Part 1, Safe and Confidential; The New York Times, August 8, 1941.

Hopkins arrived from C & R, I, 226.