25. Churchill, The Malakand Field Force, p. 16
26. Kimball, Warren F., “Like Goldfish in a Bowl: The Alcohol Quotient”, Finest Hour, 134, p. 32
27. James, Robert Rhodes, Churchill: A Study in Failure, p. 389
28. Danchev and Todman (eds.), p. 566
29. Harmon, Christopher C., “Alanbrooke and Churchill”, a review of the Alanbrooke Diaries, in Finest Hour 112, p. 34
30. Langworth, Richard M. (ed.), Churchill by Himself, p. 550. (Langworth says that Churchill was paraphrasing a W.C. Fields retort.)
31. Acheson, Dean, Sketches From Life Of Men I have Known, p. 66. John Martin tells this same story taking place on 3 August 1941 on the train north when Churchill was on the way to meet with President Roosevelt in Newfoundland. Martin p. 56
32. Beschloss, p. 135
33. Letter from Jo Sturdee, later, Countess of Onslow, to her family from La Mamounia Hotel, Marrakesh, Morocco, 7 January 7 1948, to her family. ONSL 1
34. Louanne Cox, www.helium.com, February 2011.
35. CHUR 1/15/32 and 33
36. Gilbert, Volume VI, p. 336 note 1
37. Gilbert, Martin, In Search of Churchill, p. 209
38. Williams, Jane, conversations with author
39. Eden, The Reckoning, p. 494
40. Finest Hour 144, “The Churchill Quiz”, p. 63
41. Churchill, Randolph S., p .453
42. Langworth (ed.), Churchill by Himself, p. 37
43. Acheson, p. 64
44. Ray, Jonathan, “Winston Churchill drank Pol Roger by the Pint”, Telegraph, 30 September 2006
45. Telegraph, Odette Pol Roger, 30 December 2000
46. Roberts, Andrew, The Holy Fox: A Life of Lord Halifax, p. 186
47. Churchill, My Early Life, p. 178
48. McGowan, p. 90
49. Rose, Kenneth, The Elusive Rothschild, The Life of Victor, Third Baron, p. 58
50. Telegraph, Odette Pol Roger, 30 December 2000
51. Independent, Odette Pol Roger, 30 January 2001
52. www.polroger.co.uk
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid.
55. Dilks (ed.), Cadogan, p. 707
56. McGowan, p. 104
57. Kersaudy, Francois, Churchill et Monaco, p. 46
58. Rose, p. 73
59. McGowan, p. 55
60. Kimball, Warren, Finest Hour 134, p. 31
61. Bonham Carter, p. 135
62. Gilbert (ed.), Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence, 1937-1964, pp. 376-377
63. Gilbert, Volume VIII, p 630
64. Rose, p. 53
Chapter 12 Cigars
1. Acheson, Dean, Sketches From Life Of Men I Have Known, p. 63, after a working lunch with Churchill at the British Embassy in Washington in 1946
2. Welsh, Peter, “A Gentleman of History”, Cigar Aficionado, Autumn, 1995, p. 1
3. Hough, Richard, Winston & Clementine, p. 69
4. CHUR 1/351/50-52
5. Howells, p. 94
6. Wingfield-Stratford, Esmé, Churchill: The Making of a Hero, p. 95
7. Acheson, Dean, Present at the Creation, p. 596
8. McGowan, Norman, My Years With Churchill, p. 93. Howells contends that Churchill did indeed smoke his cigars to the very end. p.35
9. That is the estimate of his valet, who precedes the “nine a day” estimate with the word “only”. McGowan, p. 92
10. Photo of letter, preserved at J.J. Fox
11. Golding, Ronald E., “Did You Fly? Hmph!”, Finest Hour 34, p. 4
12. Gilbert, Churchill, Vol. IV, 1916-1922, p. 139
13. McGowan, p. 93
14. Welsh, p. 2
15. CHUR 1/351/50-52
16. Howells, p.37; McGowan, p. 92, reports that the matches were “specially imported from America”, not Canada
17. Howells, p. 36
18. Howells, p. 35. This ashtray traveled with Churchill.
19. Welsh, p. 1
20. Hirshson, Stanley P., General Patton: A Soldier’s Life, pp. 299-300
21. Packwood, Allen, “Cigars: Protecting the Premier,” Finest Hour 106, p. 1
22. Rose, Kenneth, London, 2003, p. 73
23. Hall, Douglas, The Book of Churchilliana, p. 50
24. Vines, C. M., A Little Nut Brown Man, My Three Years with Beaverbrook, p. 28
25. West, Bruce, The Man Who Flew Churchill, p. 105
26. Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 921
27. Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, p. 504. Clementine Churchill described it in a letter to her daughter as “a small shadow on one lung, but he himself is well …” Soames, Clementine Churchill, p. 357
28. Colville, p. 507
29. Soames, Speaking For Themselves, p. 504
30. Soames, Clementine Churchill, Revised Edition, p. 502
31. Colville, John, pp. 215-216
32. CHUR 1/15/169
33. CHUR 1/15/167
Chapter 13 Rationing
1. CAB 120/854
2. CAB 123/74
3. CAB 120/854
4. Gardiner, Juliet, Wartime London, 2004, p. 147
5. CAB 123/74
6. Gilbert, Volume VII, pp. 161 and Calder, Angus, The People’s War, p. 71
7. Calder, p. 405
8. NF 1/292 Home Intelligence Weekly Report, No. 90, 16-23 June 1942
9. Gilbert, Churchill War Papers, Volume III, p. 376
10. CHAR 1/379/40 and 1/379/39
11. CHAR 1/389/5
12. Nesbitt, p. 274
13. Hastings, Max, Finest Years: Churchill as War Lord 1940-1945, p. 202
14. News Chronicle, 30 September 1941
15. CHAR 1/380/25 and CHAR 1/368/85
16. CHAR 2/441/61
17. CHAR 2/446A
18. Profumo, David, The Laxford Shows its True Colours, Country Life, 6 October 2010, p. 104
19. CHAR 20/53C/256
20. Char 2/442/51
21. Char 2/446 B
22. Gilbert, Churchill War Papers, Volume 3, p. 357
23. Meiklejohn to Thompson, “Subject: Hams”, 3 January 1942. Library of Congress, Harriman Papers, Box 161, Folder 6
24. Colville, The Churchillians, p. 156
25. CHAR 20/138A/11
26. Hastings, p. 203
27. Ibid.
28. Pawle, p. 155
29. Hastings, p. 203
30. Gilbert, The Churchill War Papers, Volume 3, p. 990
31. MAF, 286/8
32. Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John (ed.), Action This Day: Working With Churchill, p. 30
33. Halle, Kay (ed.), Winston Churchill on America and Britain, p. 259
34. Gilbert, The Churchill War Papers, Never Surrender, Volume 2, p. 514
35. MAF 286/6
36. MAF 286/6
37. MAF 286/3
38. CAB 123/74
39. CAB 123/74
40. CAB 123/74
41. MAF 286/8
42. CHAR 1/394/22
43. CHAR 2/446/A
44. CHAR 2/445/72
45. CHAR 1/380/34
46. Nelson, James (ed.), General Eisenhower on the Military Churchill: A Conversation With Alistair Cooke, p.54
47. Unless otherwise indicated, correspondence relating to the affair of the plovers’ eggs can be found in MAF 286/1
Epilogue
2. Jenkins, p. 95, cited by Himmelfarb, ibid.
3. Halle, Kay (ed.), The Irrepressible Churchill, p. 10
4. Martin Gilbert, email, 19 April 2011, to the author. The cigar may just be seen in the ash tray in the photograph on page 83 of Martin Gilbert’s book Churchill At War 1940-1945: His “Finest Hour” In Photographs
5. Halle, p.10.
6. G. R. Elton, Political History: Principles and Practice, p. 71. Cited in Himmelfarb, Moral Imagination, p. 197
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