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CHURCHILL's WAR Is a Series of Volumes on the Life of the British Statesman David Irving CHURCHILL’S WAR i – The Struggle for Power Part of Source Notes and Index F FOCAL POINT Copyright © Parforce (UK) Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be commercially reproduced, copied, or transmitted save with written permission of the author in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act of (as amended). Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and to civil claims for damages. CHURCHILL'S WAR is a series of volumes on the life of the British statesman. Vol. i – The Struggle for Power (ISBN ) – was originally published by Veritas (Western Australia) in , by Hutchinson (London) in , by Avon Books (New York) in , and by Herbig Verlag (Munich) in . Vol. ii – Triumph in Adversity (ISBN ) – was published by Focal Point Publications (London) in . A third volume is in preparation. CHURCHILL’S WAR Notes and Sources : Faithless but Fortunate WSC to Clementine, Nov and , (ibid., ff). Harold Nicolson, MS: Portrait of WSC, Gilbert, vol. v, . (Columbia University, New York: WSC to Clementine, Sep , Longwell papers). (Gilbert, vol. v, ). Cecil King diary, Feb , (Boston WSC to Clementine, Sep , Univ.). (Gilbert, vol. v, ). General Sir Hastings Ismay; in Nicolson Maurice Ashley, Churchill as Historian diary, Aug , . (London, ), . Letter from Nigel Nicolson, Mar , Mackenzie King diary, Aug and . Aug , . William Lyon Mackenzie King diary, Chamberlain to Irwin; see note . Aug , (Public Archives of Can- John Davidson, diary, Mar , , ada, Ottawa). recording luncheon with Sir William N Chamberlain (Min of Health) to Ld Berry, later Lord Camrose (Gilbert, Irwin, Aug , (Gilbert, Winston vol. v, ). Churchill, vol. v, f). Interview of Kay Halle (see note ). WSC to Ld Hugh Cecil, unsent, Oct She was at Chartwell that evening; , : in R Churchill, Winston Chur- FDR’s son was present. chill (London ), vol. ii, f. Roskill, Churchill and the Admirals (Lon- : Keeping It under His Hat don, ), . Roskill remarks (ibid., ) that Gilbert Douglas had first published his infamous ‘glosses over’ WSC’s role in this attack, ‘The Murder of Lord Kitchener (Churchill, vol. iii, ff). and the Truth about the Battle of Jut- Mackenzie King diary, Aug , . land and the Jews,’ in his obscure From WSC, ‘My Life.’ First published weekly Plain English, Jan . The at- in Chicago Tribune, Feb , ; original torney general had at the time advised MS at Oregon Univ., Eugene, Oregon. WSC to ignore it. WSC had of course Interview of Kay Halle, Washington, left the admiralty in , one year May . before Jutland. Hankey cited in Liddell-Hart notes, Halifax, cited in Dalton diary, Dec , May , (King’s College, London: . Liddell-Hart papers). Prince Otto von Bismarck, Aufzeichnung, WSC to Baldwin, Dec , London den . Oktober (German (Gilbert, vol. v, ff; letter, Ld Beatty FO papers: microfilm , roll to his wife, Jan , ). , ff). Naval staff memo, Mar , WSC to Beaverbrook, Sep , (Gilbert, vol. v, ). (Beaverbrook papers, C.). Cf. Gilbert, vol. v, ff. WSC to Randolph, Jan. (Gil- Ibid. bert, vol. v, ). Memo on Anglo–American relations, WSC to Baruch, Nov , (Baruch Nov , (Gilbert, vol. v, ). papers). The Chartwell quotes are from the di- Washington Star, Jan , ; and see ary of Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, John Wheeler, I’ve Got News for You later an MP, Sep , (ibid., ). (E P Dutton, New York ), . He DAVID IRVING also sold it to the Daily Mail. WSC to Clementine, Nov , Clementine to Randolph, Jan , (Gilbert, vol. v, ). (Gilbert, vol. v, ). Colville diary, Nov , . C Murphy MS, Mar (FDR Libr., L Amery diary, Nov , (Gilbert, Winant papers, box , ‘Churchill’). vol. v, ). Speech in New York, January, WSC to Spears, Mar , (Chur- (Gilbert, vol. v, ). chill College, Cambridge: Spears pa- WSC, ‘Zionism versus Bolshevism: A pers, /). Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish Peo- Gilbert, vol. vi, . ple,’ in Illustrated Sunday Herald, Lon- Letter, Aubrey Neil Morgan MP to don, Feb , . author, Dec , . WSC speech, Jan , (Public WSC to the Prof, Feb , Records Officer [hereafter: PRO] file (Cherwell papers). ./). WSC speech to the US Congress, Dec WSC to Clementine, Jan , , . (Gilbert, vol. v, ). WSC to Camrose, Aug ; and to Cited in Current Biography, ff. Clementine, Aug , (Gilbert, vol. WSC’s original typescript in Univ. of v, ). Oregon, with his MS corrections. C Murphy, memo on dinner party of WSC article, Mar , (Gilbert, Mar , (Eisenhower Library, C vol. v, f). D Jackson papers, box , ‘Churchill’). See WSC’s speech to the House on C Scribner to WSC, Mar , Nov , (House of Commons De- (Gilbert, vol. v, ). They sold , bates). copies of the final volume of Crisis. Letter, Thornton Butterworth to : Wuthering Depths WSC, Nov , (Gilbert, vol. v, ). Interview of Kay Halle, May . Jack Churchill to WSC, Sep , Beaverbrook to Sir Robert Borden, Jan (Gilbert, vol. v, ). , . Correspondence between Curtis Beaverbrook to Arthur Brisbane, Oct Brown and Chicago Tribune, Sep , , . to Feb , (Univ. of Ore- Beaverbrook to Sir Robert Borden, Jan gon, Eugene). And see Dr J Richard and Mar , . Heinzkill and Martin Schmitt, ‘Sir Beaverbrook to Theodor Fink, Nov , Winston’s Potboilers,’ in Imprint: Ore- . gon, Fall , ff, and note in The Pa- T E B Clarke, This is Where I Came In pers of the Bibliographic Society of America, (London, ), . vol. (), . Christopher Hassall, A Biography of Ed- Curtis Brown to Chicago Tribune, Feb ward Marsh (New York, ), f. , . The Times, reviewing The World Crisis, vol. ii, on Oct , . : Wild Man in the Wilderness Prof A J P Taylor in The Observer, May , ; cf. R Rhodes James, op. cit. C D Jackson, memo: Churchill speaking Letters, WSC to E Marsh, Aug , during cruise with Henry Luce (Eisen- ; June , ; Aug , hower Library, Jackson papers, Apr – (Berg Library, New York). , , box , ‘Churchill’). Gilbert, vol. v, ; M. Ashley, Lord Birkenhead, The Prof in Two Worlds Churchill as Historian (London, ). (London, ), f. Gilbert, vol. v, . Hoare to Willingdon, Apr , CHURCHILL’S WAR (Templewood papers). Liddell Hart related this to E Wingfield WSC to Lord Burnham, Apr , Stratford, letter, Apr , (Kings (Gilbert, vol. v, ). College: Liddell Hart papers). Hoare to Willingdon, Apr , D Longwell memo, Oct , (Templewood papers). (Longwell papers, box ). WSC to Cyril Asquith, Aug , Arthur Krock MS, May , (Gilbert, vol. v, ). (Princeton Univ.: Krock papers), Gilbert, vol. v, : WSC speech, Feb WSC to Clementine, Feb , Mar and , . Apr , (Gilbert, vol. v, ). Cabinet meeting, Mar , . Morton to Thompson, Aug , (in WSC speech at Devonshire Club, Nov R W Thompson, Churchill and Morton , (Gilbert, vol. v, ). [London, ], ). ‘His thirst for talking military strategy WSC to Hankey, Jan , (Gilbert, is unquenchable.’ (Colville diary, Sep vol. v, ). , .) In Dec WSC would appoint Mr Hore-Belisha to Liddell-Hart (diary, Justice Singleton to review the secret Mar , ). information. Air Intelligence at that Cecil King diary, May , , time estimated the enemy front line at quoting W J Brown, sec. of Civil Serv- , planes, while MEW put it at ice Clerical Association. ,. (WSC to Sinclair, Dec , , Tel., Masaryk to Prague, London, Mar Cherwell papers.) , (Berber, op. cit., No. ). WSC to Cherwell, May , (ibid.). Hitler’s first reply to Lord Rothermere WSC to Spaatz and reply, Jul , was on Dec , . See the photo- (Library of Congress: Spaatz papers). copies retained by Rothermere’s go- Spaatz supplied figures from British between, Princess Stephanie von Ho- ADI(K) report / on captured henlohe, in her papers, and the two GAF Equipment Branch files suggesting original Ribbentrop files in the Louis P. that in Sep Germany had a first Lochner collection, Hoover Library. line strength of , mobilised planes, WSC to Clementine, Aug , and , in Sep . (Gilbert, vol. v, ). Hinsley, vol. i, . This, says Prof Alexander Korda told Ladislas Farago Hinsley, remained the best source on (a reporter for News Review) over lunch the subject ‘when other sources were at the Korda home in Swiss Cottage. providing conflicting and only tentative (Interview of Farago, Jun ; letter assessments.’ Michael Korda to author Jun .) Erhard Milch diary, Aug , Letter, Bracken to Baruch, May , (author’s microfilm -). (Baruch papers). Milch diary, Feb . See for instance von Puttkamer’s tele- Bruce Lockhart diary, Sep , . gram to Raeder from the Berghof, May WSC to Clementine, Apr , . , (in German naval file /- Londonderry never deviated from his ): ‘The Führer must now assume view that WSC had grossly exaggerated that Britain and France will rank the German airforce and attributed amongst our enemies.’ Britain’s troubles to the attitude which developed after Simon returned from : Sixty Berlin. ‘Our first line strength at that date was machines, and as I calcu- From WSC, ‘My Life,’ MS first pub- lated at the time and verified from sub- lished in Chicago Tribune, Feb , sequent information which I received, (original MS at Univ. of Oregon). the first line strength of the German Air DAVID IRVING Force was machines.’ Winston’s ‘de- Eugen Spier, Focus – A Footnote to the lusion’ about the German airforce had History of the Thirties (London, ). ‘disastrous results’ on foreign policy. Credit is due to Dr Dietrich Aigner of (Letter to Halifax, Dec , , Ld Mannheim Univ. for his research into Halifax papers, ./.) the Focus in Das Ringen um England. Das Ld Rothermere to Hitler, Apr ; and deutsch–britische Verhaltnis (Munich,
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