The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (48 page)

To the front
 . . . ‘ordinary people’
Norman Rose,
Churchill: An Unruly Life
(London: 1994), pp. 203–4.

‘Winston, like all really self-centred
 . . . boring people’
Margot Asquith, 23 January 1915; Michael and Eleanor Brock, eds
., Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 1914–1916: The View from Downing Street
(London: 2014), p. 74.

‘I wonder
 . . . speaking terms with me’
Winston Churchill, June 1941, Martin Gilbert, ed.,
The Churchill War Papers, vol. 3: The Ever-Widening War 1941
(London: 1993), p. xxxvii.

‘When you first meet Winston
 . . . virtues’
See http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/finest-hour/issues-109-to-144/no-138/863-action-this-day-fh-138. Accessed 29 August 2014.

‘without a large cigar
 . . . Col Churchill.’
A. Dewar-Gibb, ‘Captain X’,
With Winston Churchill at the Front
(London: 1925), chapter 8.

‘After a very brief
 . . . sheer personality’
Douglas Russell,
Winston Churchill, Soldier: The Military Life of a Gentleman at War
(London: 2005), p. 377.

‘practices of the Oscar Wilde variety’
CHAR 1/17.

Ralph Wigram
For the Wigram story, see Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, pp. 542–60.

worrying about
 . . . Noah’s ark animals
Mary Soames,
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
(London: 2003), p. 95.

‘Colonel Churchill
 . . . greatest admiration’
A. Dewar-Gibb,
With Winston Churchill at the Front
, chapter 8.

Churchill was always
 . . . a girlfriend
Soames,
Clementine Churchill
, p. cxix.

‘flying buttress’
Mary Soames, Crosby Kemper Lecture, 1991; John Perry,
Winston Churchill
(New York: 2010), p. 157.

‘My nurse
 . . . my many troubles.’
Winston Churchill,
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
(New York: 1930)
,
p. 5.

‘cruel and mean’
Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, 29 October 1893; CHAR 28/19/24–27.

‘Take plenty
 . . . good for my sake’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, pp. 42–43.

‘The jacket
 . . . calm again’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 53.

‘We saw a snake
 . . . Everest would not let me’
Winston Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill, 10 April 1882; CHAR 28/13/8.

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M
Y
D
ARLING
C
LEMENTINE

‘I want so much
 . . . talk about’
Winston Churchill to Clementine [Hozier] Churchill, 7 August 1908; Mary Soames, ed.,
Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill
(London: 1999), p. 11.

‘those strange mysterious
 . . . arrive at loneliness’
Winston Churchill to Clementine [Hozier] Churchill, 8 August 1908; ibid, p. 12.

‘If that beetle reaches
 . . . not going to’
Norman Rose,
Churchill: An Unruly Life
(London: 1994), p. 61.

‘I always hear
 . . . I doubt it’
Rose,
Unruly Life,
p. 60. The lady friend of Lloyd George has been only identified as Miss G- G-, ‘whose family was quite well-known in Liberal circles.’ See Rose,
Unruly Life,
p. 356.

‘You brute!
 . . . properly’
Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p. 210.

Nor do most historians
See Paul Addison, ‘Churchill and Women’, http://www.churchillarchive.com/education-resources/higher-education?id=Addison. Accessed 30 August 2014.

‘the beautiful Polly Hacket’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 42.

‘the most beautiful girl I have ever seen’
Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, 4 November 1896; CHAR 28/22/18–23.

Muriel Wilson
See Michael Sheldon,
The Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill
(London: 2014), pp. 181–92.

‘our days of hansom cabs’
Pamela Plowden to Winston Churchill, May 1940; Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life,
p. 645.

‘lived happily ever after’
Winston Churchill,
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
(New York: 1930), p. 370.

‘His wife could never
 . . . both
Jenkins,
Churchill: A Biography,
p. 138.

‘without an office
 . . . without an appendix’
Winston Churchill,
Thoughts and Adventures
(London: 1949), p. 213.

‘A lot of people
 . . . peace-making’
Gilbert,
Churchill:
A Life
, p. 459.

‘It always makes me unhappy
 . . . prevail’
Roy Jenkins,
Churchill: A Biography
(New York: 2001), p. 362.

‘My Darling
 . . . here it is now’
Clementine Churchill to Winston Churchill, 27 June 1940; Soames,
Speaking for Themselves
, p. 454.

‘If the country
 . . . lost the war’
Andrew Roberts,
Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership
(London: 2010), p. 68.

‘Here lies a woman
 . . . required’
Mary Soames,
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
(London: 2003), p. 284.

‘first, second and third’
Mary Soames, ‘Father Always Came First, Second and Third’,
Daily
Telegraph,
16 August 2002.

‘We are still young
 . . . warming’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 357.

‘a figure of panache
 . . . little child’
See Christopher Wilson, ‘The Most Wicked Woman in High Society’,
Daily Mail,
29 March 2014.

‘It’s an enchanted island
 . . . isn’t it?’
Soames,
Clementine Churchill
, p. 298.

‘He lived in a beautiful wicker
 . . . people he liked’
Ibid., pp. 269–70.

‘Oh my darling
 . . . folded in your arms’
Clementine Churchill to Winston Churchill, 20 April 1935; Soames,
Speaking for Themselves
, p. 399.

‘I think a lot
 . . . want you back’
Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 13 April 1935; ibid, p. 398.

10.
T
HE
M
AKING OF
J
OHN
B
ULL

‘Young lady
 . . . had a choice’
Dominique Enright
, The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
(London: 2011), Kindle edition.

‘I want every box
 . . . master race’
Susan Elia MacNeal,
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary
(London: 2012).

‘Winston
 . . . I would drink it’
Martin Gilbert,
In Search of Churchill: A Historian’s Journey
(London: 1994), p. 232.

‘This is the kind of English
 . . . will not put’
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/famous-quotations-and-stories. Accessed 31 August 2014.

‘In the future
 . . . anti-fascists’
See http://standuptohate.blogspot.co.uk/p/winston-churchill-and-anti-fascist.html. Accessed 31 August 2014.

‘The hardest cross
 . . . Cross of Lorraine’
See http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/quotes-falsely-attributed. Accessed 31 August 2014.

‘bring a friend, if you have one’
Derek Tatham to Winston Churchill, 19 September 1949; G. B. Shaw to Derek Tatham, 16 September 1949. See CHUR 2/165/72–82.

‘mouthwash’
Michael Richards, ‘Alcohol Abuser’. See http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/myths/myths/he-was-an-alcohol-abuser. Accessed 31 August 2014.

‘Never forget your trademark’
Andrew Roberts,
Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership
(London: 2010), p. 137.

‘Winston
 . . . sober in the morning’
See ‘Drunk and Ugly: The Rumour Mill’, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/support/the-churchill-centre/publications/chartwell-bulletin/2011/31-jan/1052-drunk-and-ugly-the-rumor-mill. Accessed 31 August 2014.

‘Churchill has spent
 . . . impromptu remarks’
Clayton Fritchley,
‘A Politician Must Watch His Wit’,
New York Times Magazine
(3 July 1960), p. 31.

‘Tell the Lord Privy Seal
 . . . shit at a time’
Andrew Marr,
A History of Modern Britain
(London: 2009), p. 19.

‘beginning of the end
 . . . beginning’
Winston Churchill, 10 November 1942, Richard Toye,
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Winston Churchill’s World War Two Speeches
(London: 2013), p. 148.

‘I am ready
 . . . another question’
Winston Churchill on his seventy-fifth birthday. Celia Sandys,
From Winston with Love and Kisses: The Young Churchill
(College Station, Tex.: 2013), p. 12.