To Lose a Battle (96 page)

Chapter 21
The armistice: Shirer (1) & (2), Halder, Mende, Warlimont,
Sieg im West
, Weygand (1), Benoist-Méchin. Casualties: Haupt, Manteuffel, Chastenet (3), Werth, Picht, Ellis, Webster & Frankland, Richards & Saunders, Tissier, Starcke, Spaeter, personal correspondence. First days after cease-fire: Stackelberg, Halder, Beauvoir, Ehrenburg, Shirer (1), Middleton, Thompson, Spaeter, Mende. Shadows of defeat for Hitler: Mende, Warlimont, Shirer (1) & (2), Telford Taylor, Blumentritt, Jacobsen (1), Klein, Murawski,
Sieg im West
, Bauer, Ellis. Post-mortems: French & German periodicals, Spears i, Jong, Habe, Doumenc, Ellis, Goutard (1), Telford Taylor,
Koestler, personal correspondence. Subsequent careers of principals: Reynaud (1), Gamelin ii, Prioux, Telford Taylor, Baudouin, d’Astier, Benoist-Méchin, Greenwell, Harold Nicolson (
Diaries
ii), personal correspondence,
The Times, Chambers Encyclopaedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Notes to Foreword

1
.
Time
, 14 August 1939, 21

2
. He did add that the Germans might catch up by 1940. Edmund Ironside,
Time Unguarded: The Ironside Diaries, 1937-1940
(New York, 1962), 40.

3
. Herbert Hoover,
Address Upon the American Road, 1940-1941
(New York, 1941), 108-9.

4
. Roosevelt to Ramsay MacDonald, 30 August 1933,
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1933
(Washington, 1950), I, 210-11.

5
. Roosevelt to W. C. Bullitt, 21 April 1935,
F.D.R. His Personal Letters, 1928–1945
, Elliott Roosevelt and Joseph P. Lash, eds. (New York, 1950), I, 476.

6
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Annual Message to the Congress, 3 January 1936,
Public Papers and Addresses… 1936
(New York, 1938), 12.

7
. La Grange to Joseph Caillaux, 21 January 1938, La Grange, “Final Report on American Trip, February 15, 1938,” La Grange Papers, J. McV. Haight, Jr.,
American Aid to France, 1938–1940
(New York, 1970), 7.

8
. Haight,
American Aid to France
, 231.

9
. Haight,
American Aid to France
, ch. 9.

10
. Harold L. Ickes,
The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: III, The Lowering Clouds, 1939–1941
(New York, 1954), 202.

11
. Marc Bloch,
Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940
(1949; Norton paperback, 1968), 25.

12
. Ickes,
Lowering Clouds
, 181.

13
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, press conference, 28 May 1940,
Complete Presidential Press Conferences
(New York, 1972), xv, 360.

14
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address at the University of Virginia, 10 June 1940,
Public Papers and Addresses… 1940
(New York, 1941), 263.

15
. British Library of Information Report 226, 21 May 1940, Foreign Office Papers 371/24240.

16
. Lord Lothian to Lord Halifax, 24 May 1940, Foreign Office Papers 371/24233.

17
. Frank Knox to FDR, 7 June 1940, Roosevelt Papers.

18
. Adolf A. Berle,
Navigating the Rapids, 1918–1971
, B. B. Berle and Travis Jacobs, eds. (New York, 1973), 321.

19
. William Allen White to FDR, 10 June 1940, Roosevelt Papers.

20
. Forrest Davis and Ernest K. Lindley,
How War Came
(New York, 1942), 52.

21
. British Library of Information Report 280,12 June 1940, Foreign Office Papers 371/24240.

22
. Cordell Hull,
Memoirs
(New York, 1948), 769, 788

23
. Winston S. Churchill,
Their Finest Hour
(Boston, 1949), 184–5.

24
. W. L. Langer and S. E. Gleason,
The Challenge to Isolation
(New York, 1952), 535.

25
. FDR to Reynaud, 15 June 1940,
Public Papers… 1940
, 267.

26
. British Library of Information Report 292, 21 June 1940, Report 301,27 June 1940, Foreign Office Papers 371/24240; Lothian to Halifax, 21 June 1940, Foreign Office Papers 371/24233.

27
. Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
The Wave of the Future
(New York, 1940), 19, 21, 34, 37.

Index

Aa Canal,
597–8
,
617

Abbeville,
517
,
527
,
558
,
560–2
,
565–6
,
583
,
629–30

Abetz, Otto,
130–1
,
225

Abwehr,
246–7
,
262
,
266
,
530–1

Agny,
578
,
581

Aisne, River,
494
,
534
,
540
,
545
,
627
,
630
,
639
,
643–4

Albert,
517
,
559–60

Albert Canal,
170
,
267–71
,
288
,
295

Altmayer, General René,
574–5
,
587
,
594
,
601

Altmayer, General Robert,
594
,
602
,
642

Amiens,
454
,
517–19
,
521–2
,
545
,
548
,
558–60
,
572
,
590
,
594
,
629
,
639–42

Anor,
474
,
500

Anthée,
378–80

anti-Nazis, French internment of,
157–8
,
527
,
619

Antwerp,
515
,
542

Archdale, Major A.O.,
586

Ardennes: ‘impenetrable’,
114
,
238
,
243
; German plan to attack through,
207
,
209–10
; Belgian plan to abandon,
242
; terrain,
242–4
; German advance through,
261
,
381
; French Army in,
273–7
; traffic jams in,
279
,
284
,
335
,
337
,
355
,
366
,
380
; reconnaissance reports,
292

Ardennes Canal,
387–8
,
392
,
419
,
423

Armengaud, General A.,
84
,
177–8

Arras,
542
,
545
,
546
,
561–2
,
564
,
568
,
573–82
,
590
,
598–9
,
604–5
,
610

Arnhem,
266

Astier de la Vigerie, François d’: visits Heinkel,
123–4
; and Z.O.A.N.,
233
,
277
,
289
,
299
,
339–40
,
407
,
431–2
,
504–5
,
540
,
543
,
576
,
627
,
640

Astor, Lady,
249

Austria,
133
,
355

Authie, River,
597

Avesnes,
475–7
,
498–500
,
561

Balan,
346–8

Balbaud, René,
143
,
154
,
506
,
534

Balck, Lieutenant-Colonel Hermann,
300
,
322
,
352–5
,
357
,
365–6
,
383
,
392
,
394
,
426–7
,
541
,
558–9
,
644
,
647
,
676

Bar, River,
334
,
356
,
392–4

Barbusse, Henri,
97
,
108

Bardies, Colonel R. M.,
377
,
404
,
410

Bardoux, Jacques,
180–1
,
222
,
454–5
,
509–10
,
525
,
550
,
590
,
619

Barlone, Major D.,
152
,
182
,
227
,
241
,
249
,
290
,
527
,
546–7
,
663

Barratt, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur: on Gamelin,
162
; and A.A.S.F.,
165
,
277–8
,
340
,
640
; and reconnaissance flights,
244
; on French Air Force defeatism,
245
; frustrated by French,
277–8
; and ‘Dirty Dozen’,
298
,
391
; and bombing of Sedan,
388–92
; moves back to Coulommiers,
434
,
504
; cannot accommodate Hurricanes,
462
; forbids bombing on estimated time of arrival,
505
; communication with Air Component cut,
543