The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (52 page)

‘a sharp stab
 . . . dominated my mind’
Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, vol. 8: ‘Never Despair’ 1945–1965,
p. 106.

‘Cheer for Churchill
 . . . Labour’
Adrian Fort,
Nancy: The Story of Lady Asto
r (London: 2012), p. 304.

‘It may well be
 . . .
effectively disguised’
Paul Addison,
Churchill: The Unexpected Hero
(Oxford: 2005), p. 215.

‘I wouldn’t call
 . . . hard time’
John Severance,
Winston Churchill: Soldier, Statesman, Artist
(New York: 1996), p. 115.

‘weak and rhetorical
 . . . public affairs’
The Spectator
upon news of Churchill’s appointment to First Lord of the Admiralty; quoted from Rose,
Unruly Life
, p. 88.

19.
T
HE
C
OLD
W
AR AND
H
OW
H
E
W
ON
I
T

‘Are we beasts
 . . . too far?’
Norman Rose,
Churchill: An Unruly Life
(London: 1994), p. 337.

‘mere act
 . . . wanton destruction’
Winston Churchill Cabinet minutes, 28 March 1945; David Reynolds
, In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
(London: 2005), p. 481.

‘My hate died
 . . . clothes’
Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p. 850.

he sketched out his plans
Lord Moran,
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965
(London: 1966),
p. 163.

‘You said it!
 . . . over there’
Richard Collier,
The War That Stalin Won: Tehran–Berlin
(London: 1983), p. 240.

‘This brand
 . . .
on Christmas Day’
Geoffrey Best,
Churchill: A Study in Greatness
(London: 2001), p. 271.

‘constitutes
 . . . parallel’
Winston S. Churchill,
The Second World War, vol. 6
:
Triumph and Tragedy,
p. 438.

All that remained secret
See David Reynolds,
From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s
(Oxford: 2006).

‘I like that man’
David Carlton,
Churchill and the Soviet Union
(Manchester: 2000),
p. 144.

‘our misery’
Rose,
Unruly Life
, p. 255.

‘realist-lizards of the crocodile family’
Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, vol.8: ‘Never Despair’ 1945–1965,
p.161.

‘wonderful school’
Gregory Sand,
Defending the West: The Truman-Churchill Correspondence, 1945–1960
(London: 2004), p. 6.

‘seemed to like it very well’
Martin Gilbert,
Churchill and America
(London: 2005), p. 367.

‘I am sure
 . . . good’
Fraser J. Harbutt,
The Iron Curtain
(Oxford: 1988), p. 172.

‘enthusiastic’
Ibid., p. 180.

‘He told me
 . . . admirable’
Ibid.

Churchill’s speech at Fulton
Winston Churchill, 5 March 1946, Fulton, Missouri. See http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/120-the-sinews-of-peace. Accessed 3 September 2014.

‘special relationship
 . . . manuals of instruction’
Ibid.

‘less than happy
 . . . each other’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 867.

‘The United States
 . . . any other nation’
Ibid., p. 868.

‘inimical
 . . . peace’
Geoffrey Williams,
The Permanent Alliance: The Euro-American Relationship, 1945–1984
(London: 1977), p. 19.

‘tightness’
Lord Moran,
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965
(London: 1966),
p. 337.

‘complete rest’
Gilbert,
Churchill and America,
p. 421.

‘Colville
 . . . recover’
Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, vol. 8
,
‘Never Despair’,
p. 856.

‘like an aeroplane
 . . . safe landing’
James Muller,
Churchill as a Peacemaker
(London: 2003), p. 323.

‘Man is spirit
 . . .
Americans’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 939.

20.
C
HURCHILL THE
E
UROPEAN

‘We don’t need
 . . . right to be here’
See ‘stillpoliticallyincorrect’, http://disqus.com/telegraph-795480a5f59311af7dfc5b92f96f73d7/. Accessed 3 September 2014.

‘The Durham miners won’t wear it’
Alex May
, Britain and Europe Since 1945
(London: 2014), p. 18.

‘Utter rubbish!
 . . . Nonsense!’
Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 26 June 1950,
Hansard,
HC Deb, vol. 476, cc1907–2056.

‘High Authority’
For instance, see James Carmichael, House of Commons, 26 June 1950,
Hansard,
HC Deb, vol. 476, cc1907–2056.

‘They would be
 . . . in this country’
Maurice Edelman,
27 June 1950,
Hansard,
HC Deb, vol. 476, cc2104–59.

‘Do we really
 . . . nightmare century’
Robert Boothby, ibid.

‘He seeks to win
 . . . balance of Europe’
Winston Churchill, ibid.

‘The whole movement
 . . . home together’
Winston Churchill, ibid.

‘United States of Europe
 . . . possible’
Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p. 731.

‘We must build
 . . . those who can’
Winston Churchill, ‘Speech to the Academic Youth’, 19 September 1946; http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html. Accessed 3 September 2014.

‘the idea of
 . . . European family’
Winston Churchill,
Winston Churchill’s Speeches: Never Give In!
(London: 2007), pp. 439–42.

a speech in Scotland
Robert Rhodes James,
Churchill Speaks: Winston S. Churchill in Peace and War: Collected Speeches, 1897–1963
(London: 1980), p. 930.

‘But
 . . . dwell among my own people’
Winston Churchill, ‘Why Not the United States of Europe’,
News of the World,
29 May 1938; quoted from Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: The Power of Words: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches
(London: 2012), pp. 199–200.

‘The question
 . . . associated with it’
Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 27 June 1950,
Hansard,
HC Deb, vol. 476, cc2104–59.

‘Great Britain
 . . . triple part’
Winston Churchill, ‘Why Not the United States of Europe’,
News of the World
, 29 May 1938.

‘Look at it
 . . . final disaster’
Kevin Theakston,
Winston Churchill and the British Constitution
(London: 2004), p. 132.

21.
M
AKER OF THE
M
ODERN
M
IDDLE
E
AST

‘the war of the British succession’
C. J. Wrigley,
A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe
(London: 2006), p. 315.

‘Winston’s hiccup’
See ‘Frank Jacobs, ‘Winston’s Hiccup’
New York Times,
6 March 2013; http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/winstons-hiccup/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0. Accessed 3 September 2014.

surface area
 . . . ruled by Britain
See Walter Reid,
Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East
(London: 2011).

‘on an oriental scale’
Spectator,
‘The Question of the Mandates’, 28 August 1920.

a letter from A. J. Balfour
A. J. Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2 November 1917; Gudrun Krämer,
A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel
(Princeton: 2011), p. 149.

‘a land without
 . . . without a land’
Israel Zangwill, “The Return to Palestine”,
New Liberal Review
(December 1901), p. 615.

‘Gertie!
 . . . Dear boy!’
Shareen Brysac and Karl Meyer,
Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
(London: 2009), p. 176.

‘a bas Churchill’
Jack Fishman,
My Darling Clementine: The Story of Lady Churchill
(London: 1966), p. 92.

‘I’ve started
 . . . finish on a camel’
Janet Wallach
, Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
(New York: 2005), p. 300.

‘The Jews have been
 . . . the world over’
Michael J. Cohen,
Churchill and the Jews, 1900–1948
(London: 2013), p. 90.