December 1941 (116 page)
11
. John C. Henry, “Churchill Joins Roosevelt in Victory Prayer,”
Washington Evening Star
, December 25, 1941, A1.
12
. Associated Press, “President Too Busy to Open Presents,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 27, 1941, 2.
13
.
Washington Post
, “Traditional Dinner Awaits Churchill,” December 25, 1941, 5.
14
. Associated Press, “White House to Have Turkey and Trimmins,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 25, 1941, 10.
15
. Associated Press, “White House to Have Turkey and Trimmins,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 25, 1941, 10.
16
. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph P. Lash,
F.D.R.: His Personal Letters
(New York: Duell, Sloan, And Pearce, 1950), 1260.
17
. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, “Message from Clementine Churchill to Roosevelts 12/27/41,” December 27, 1941, Hyde Park NY.
18
. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, “Message from Lord Halifax to Franklin Delano Roosevelt 12/25/41,” December 25, 1941, Hyde Park, NY.
19
. Associated Press, “Philippines, Only Christian Nation in Orient, Swarms with Invading Hordes on Christmas Day,”
Washington Post
, December 25, 1941, 8.
20
. United Press, “Pilgrims Steam to Town of Bethlehem for Traditional Christmas Ceremonies,”
Washington Post
, December 25, 1941, 11.
21
. Associated Press, “War Goes on But Yuletide Touches All,”
Hartford Courant
, December 25, 1941, 23.
22
. Associated Press, “War Goes on But Yuletide Touches All,”
Hartford Courant
, December 25, 1941, 23.
23
. Associated Press, “Christmas a Memory in Many World Capitals, but Moscow Enjoys It at Nazis' Expense,”
Washington Evening Star
, December 25, 1941, 5.
24
. Associated Press, “War Goes on But Yuletide Touches All,”
Hartford Courant
, December 25, 1941, 23.
25
. Christine Sadler, “Justice Holmes' House Will Be Haven For Girls,”
Washington Post
, December 25, 1941, 17.
26
.
Washington Evening Star
, “Thousands of Christmas Gifts Distributed Among Needy Here,” 25, 1941, 6.
27
.
Washington Evening Star
, “Children Talk Over Radio With Army Officers in London,” December 25, 1941, B-1.
28
.
Baltimore Sun
, “65 Negro Children Patients Are Given Christmas Party,” December 25, 1941, 5.
29
.
Los Angeles Times
, “Navy Santa Doesn't Forget Children Who Lost Fathers,” December 25, 1941, 1.
30
.
Washington Evening Star
, “Party Honors 125 Soldiers Quartered at Treasury,” December 25, 1941, A-5.
31
. Associated Press, “1,500,000 Pounds of Turkey Destined for Army's Tables,”
Baltimore Sun
, December 20, 1941, 8.
32
. Associated Press, “1,500,000 Pounds of Turkey Destined for Army's Tables,”
Baltimore Sun
, December 20, 1941, 8.
33
. Associated Press, “1,500,000 Pounds of Turkey Destined for Army's Tables,”
Baltimore Sun
, December 20, 1941, 8.
34
.
Washington Post
, “Many Parties Arranged for Service Men,” December 24, 1941, 17.
35
. Associated Press, “Honolulu's Christmas Eve Dry as Army Bans All Hard Liquor,”
Washington Evening Star
, December 25, 1941, A1.
36
. Associated Press, “Japanese Took Pop, Candy on Hawaii Raid,”
Washington Evening Star
, December 25, 1941, A-2.
37
.
Baltimore Sun
, “Wounded and Evacuees Reach San Francisco From Hawaii,” December 24, 1941, 1.
38
.
Baltimore Sun
, “Wounded and Evacuees Reach San Francisco From Hawaii,” December 24, 1941, 1.
39
. Lawrence E. Davies, “Hawaii Wounded Home, Tell How Defenders Dared Death,”
New York Times
, December 26, 1941, 1.
40
.
Washington Evening Star
, “For His Christmas!,” December 20, 1941, 2.
41
.
Atlanta Constitution
, “Dickens Story of Christmas on Vallee Hour,” December 25, 1941, 31.
42
.
Birmingham
(AL)
News
, “Strongest Stars at the Box Office,” December 25, 1941, 15.
43
. Vincent Townsend, “âMen of Boys Town' Is Best Box office Picture,”
Birmingham
(AL)
News
, December 25, 1941, 15.
44
.
New York Times
, “Beware of Women Spies, Navy Men Are Warned,” December 25, 1941, 22.
45
.
New York Times
, “War Casts Shadow Over Christmas Joy Throughout Land,” December 25, 1941, 1.
46
.
Washington Post
, “Congressman Now Must Carry Identity Cards,” December 25, 1941, 24.
47
.
New York Times
, “Congress to Use Identity Cards,” December 25, 1941, 10.
48
. Associated Press, “U.S. Plane's Direct Hits Filled Air with Debris, Army Says,”
Washington Evening Star
, December 25, 1941, A1.
49
. John C. Henry, “Churchill Joins Roosevelt in Victory Prayer,”
Washington Evening Star
, December 25, 1941, A5.
50
.
Baltimore Sun
, “Eire to Stay Neutral, DeValera Declares, Unless Under Attack,” December 25, 1941, 2.
51
.
Los Angeles Times
, “Dawn of Another Christmas Hailed,” December 25, 1941, A1.
52
.
Washington Post
, “Christmas,” December 25, 1941, 10.
53
. Henrt Wadsworth Longfellow,
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(London: George Routledge & Sons, 1871), 544.
54
.
Evening Star
, “Christmas, 1941,” December 25, 1941, A8.
55
.
Washington Post
, “Christmas,” December 25, 1941, 10.
56
. John Meachan,
Franklin and Winston
(New York: Random House, 2004), 134.
CHAPTER 26: THE TWENTY-SIX OF DECEMBER
1
.
Washington Evening Star
, “Churchill Forecast Allies Will Take War Initiative in 1943,” December 26, 1941, A2.
2
.
Washington Evening Star
, “Churchill to Make Speech to Congress in Senate Chamber,” December 25, 1941, A1.
3
.
Baltimore Sun
, “Churchill Captures Capital With Speech,” December 27, 1941, 1.
4
.
Baltimore Sun
, “Churchill Captures Capital With Speech,” December 27, 1941, 1.
5
.
Washington Evening Star
, “War Tide to Turn by 1943, Churchill Says,” December 26, 1941, A2.
6
.
Baltimore Sun
, “Honor to Churchill Single Precedent Found,” December 27, 1941, 4.
7
.
Washington Evening Star
, “War Tide to Turn by 1943, Churchill Says,” December 26, 1941, A2.
8
.
Baltimore Sun
, “Churchill With Half an Hour of Oratory Captures Nation's Capital,” December 27, 1941, 5.
9
. The Churchill Center and Museum at the Churchill War Rooms, London, Speeches, Speeches of Winston Churchill, “Winston Churchill Addresses a Joint Session of Congress on December 26, 1941,”
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/1941-1945-war-leader/288-us-congress-1941
.
10
. The Churchill Center and Museum at the Churchill War Rooms, London, Speeches, Speeches of Winston Churchill, “Winston Churchill Addresses a Joint Session of Congress on December 26, 1941,”
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/1941-1945-war-leader/288-us-congress-1941
.
11
. The Churchill Center and Museum at the Churchill War Rooms, London, Speeches, Speeches of Winston Churchill, “Winston Churchill Addresses a Joint Session of Congress on December 26, 1941,”
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/1941-1945-war-leader/288-us-congress-1941
.
12
. The Churchill Center and Museum at the Churchill War Rooms, London, Speeches, Speeches of Winston Churchill, “Winston Churchill Addresses a Joint Session of Congress on December 26, 1941,”
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/1941-1945-war-leader/288-us-congress-1941
.
13
. Sydney J. Harris, “Thoughts at Large,”
Sarasota Harold-Tribune
, December 28, 1941, 4.
14
. Stuart Ball,
Winston Churchill
(New York: NYU Press, 2003), 63.
15
. The Churchill Center and Museum at the Churchill War Rooms, London, Learn, Speeches, Quotation, “Famous Quotations and Stories,”
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations
.
16
. Sir Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert,
The Churchill War Papers: The Ever Widening War, 1941
(New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2001), 1685.
17
. The Churchill Center and Museum at the Churchill War Rooms, London, Speeches, Speeches of Winston Churchill, “Winston Churchill Addresses a Joint Session of Congress on December 26, 1941,”
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/1941-1945-war-leader/288-us-congress-1941
.
18
. The Churchill Center and Museum at the Churchill War Rooms, London, Speeches, Speeches of Winston Churchill, “Winston Churchill Addresses a Joint Session of Congress on December 26, 1941,”
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/1941-1945-war-leader/288-us-congress-1941
.
19
. The Churchill Center and Museum at the Churchill War Rooms, London, Speeches, Speeches of Winston Churchill, “Winston Churchill Addresses a Joint Session of Congress on December 26, 1941,”
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/1941-1945-war-leader/288-us-congress-1941
.
20
. The Churchill Center and Museum at the Churchill War Rooms, London, Speeches, Speeches of Winston Churchill, “Winston Churchill Addresses a Joint Session of Congress on December 26, 1941,”
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/1941-1945-war-leader/288-us-congress-1941
.
21
. Associated Press, “Churchill Phones Senator's Wife Too Ill to See Him,”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, December 27, 1941, 6.
22
.
Baltimore Sun
, “Churchill Captures Capital With Speech,” December 27, 1941, 1.
23
.
New York Times
, “40 Billion Is '42 Arms Goal; Churchill Is Going to Canada,” December 27, 1941, 1.
24
.
New York Times
, “Fort Dix to Open 2 Target Ranges,” December 27, 1941, 9.
25
. Associated Press, “National Lottery Urged in New Senate Bill,”
Washington Evening Star
, December 27, 1941, A3.
26
. Associated Press, “National Lottery Urged in New Senate Bill,”
Washington Evening Star
, December 27, 1941, A3.
27
. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, “Memorandum for the President: Subject Victory Program,” December 26, 1941, Hyde Park, NY.
28
. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, “Memorandum for the President: Subject: North Africa,” December 26, 1941, Hyde Park, NY.
29
. Associated Press, “Plans to Curb Spending Hit,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 27, 1941, 2.
30
.
Hartford Daily Courant
, “New Red Cross By Flagg,” December 26, 1941, 13.
31
.
Atlanta Constitution
, “A Good Reminder,” December 26, 1941, 2.
32
. The Churchill Center and Museum at the Churchill War Rooms, London, Speeches, Speeches of Winston Churchill, “Winston Churchill Addresses a Joint Session of Congress on December 26, 1941,”
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/1941-1945-war-leader/288-us-congress-1941
.
33
.
Washington Evening Star
, “1,000 Civilians on Wake, Navy Announces,” December 26, 1941, A3.
34
. Associated Press, “Christmas Assaults Retake 100 Villages, Red Army Claims,”
Washington Evening Star
, December 26, 1941, A2.
35
. Walter B. Kerr, “Nazi Resistance Appears Stiffer,”
Baltimore Sun
, December 26, 1941, 1.
36
. Associated Press, “Bulletins,”
Baltimore Sun
, December 26, 1941, 1.