Franklin And Winston Part 37

a call from Washington The New York Times, April 14, 1945.

"I felt as if" Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, 471.

"I have just heard" WSC, VII, 1291.

added to the cable Ibid.

He had been writing Mary Author interview with Lady Soames.

"You know how this will" Ibid.

"Get me the palace" Asbell, When FDR Died, 95.

Churchill cabled Lord Halifax WSC, VII, 1291.

Halifax put in calls Ibid.

At five forty-five P.M. in New York Donald Porter Geddes, ed., Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Memorial (New York, 1945), 1.

Richard Strout of The New Republic Strout, TRB: Views and Perspectives on the Presidency, 24.

CBS cut to Douglas Edwards Geddes, ed., Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Memorial, 6.

From the State Department Bohlen, Witness to History, 209.

Clementine was aboard a train CCTBOM, 489.

"At Warm Springs" Author interview with Trude Lash.

in a sudden outburst, Polly Delano Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 722.

"The one thing" Author interview with Trude Lash.

"E.R. sent us off to bed" CC, 420.

"Poor E.R." Ibid.

"Jesus it was a shock" Kathleen Harriman to Pamela Churchill, April 12, 1945, PHP.

Of Truman, Kathleen noted Kathleen Harriman to Pamela Churchill, April 12, 1945, PHP.

Readers of the London News Chronicle Geddes, ed., Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Memorial, 25.

At midnight in New York Ibid., 39.

"Now the Day Is Over" Ibid.

Churchill received Halifax's answer WSC, VII, 1291.

Churchill ordered that a plane Dilks, ed., The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 727.

He dictated a message to Eleanor Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, 472.

"I understand how deep" Ibid.

Writing Truman C & R, III, 632.

in a hushed voice Geddes, ed., Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Memorial, 48.

"The House will have learned" Ibid.

George VI sent Churchill WSC, VII, 1293.

scheduled for eight-thirty Dilks, ed., The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 727.

Everything in him would have pressed him Roy Jenkins, as noted below, is interesting in this question. See Jenkins, Churchill, 783.

"It would have been" WSC, VII, 1294.

decided to do what he wanted Ibid., 11551156, is an example of Churchill's independent-mindedness in these months.

"I am touched" Ibid., 1294.

Some have argued Jenkins's Churchill, 783786, is an eloquent example of this view, and he was kind to discuss the subject with me. "It is more probable," Jenkins wrote, "that the emotional link between Churchill and Roosevelt was never as close as was commonly thought. It was more a partnership of circ.u.mstance and convenience than a friendship of individuals, each of whom, as was noted previously, was a star of brightness which needed its own unimpeded orbit" (785). Jenkins's argument about the funeral is thoughtful.

"At no time in our respective histories" WSC, VII, 12941295.

"Moreover I think that it would be" Ibid., 1294.

"England has lost" Geddes, ed., Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Memorial, 25.

"Prime Minister Churchill" Ibid., 111.

"In the after-light" Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, 479.

Angus Dun, the Episcopal bishop Geddes, ed., Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Memorial, 111112.

clop-clop-clop Author interview with Trude Lash.

In the rose garden The New York Times, April 15, 1945.

"I was so terribly sad" Pamela Churchill to Kathleen Harriman, April 20, 1945, PHP.

"We who represent" The Times (London), April 18, 1945.

walked Churchill, who was crying WSC, VII, 1301.

Churchill lunched at the Annexe TFOP, 589.

"My friendship with the great man" Winston S. Churchill, ed., The Great Republic, 364368. The ensuing quotations are all from these pages of The Great Republic.

"Winston rose and spoke" Nigel Nicolson, ed., Harold Nicolson: The War Years, 19391945 (New York, 1967), 449.

On April 12, Eisenhower visited a Gilbert, The Holocaust, 790. Also see Eric Joseph Epstein and Philip Rosen, eds., Dictionary of the Holocaust (Westport, Conn., 1997), 217.

"There is no doubt" Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, 693.

Ed Murrow of CBS walked through Edward J. Bliss, ed., In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow (New York, 1967), 9495.

Hitler shot himself Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1133.

"All my thoughts" WAC, 531.

Thinking of the ma.s.ses WSC, VII, 1341.

"After gallant France" Ibid., 1344.

Late that evening Ibid., 1347.

"My dear friends" Ibid., 1348.

"The lights went out" Ibid.

hung in Eleanor's living room at Val-Kill Author observation. That the print hung there during Mrs. Roosevelt's lifetime is confirmed by photographs from the era and to the author by officials of the Eleanor Roosevelt Historic Site.

"Dear Eleanor" Lucy Rutherfurd to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 2, 1945; File: Russey-Ruz; General Correspondence, 19451952; Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Part II: April 12, 19451964, FDRL. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. also reprints the letter in his A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 19171950, 431, and I am grateful to him for drawing my attention to it.

"ans," shorthand for "answered" "It was an unbreakable rule that engagements must be kept, equally so that letters must be answered," Joseph Lash wrote of Mrs. Roosevelt. See Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (New York, 1972), 170.

there is no copy of Eleanor's reply At least there is no copy at FDRL, and if the original exists, it has never, to my knowledge, come to public light.

"I have looked at them long" Lucy Rutherfurd to Daisy Suckley, May 9, 1945, Margaret Suckley Papers, Wilderstein Collection.

"Your note with the enclosure was a v. great pleasure" Lucy Rutherfurd to Daisy Suckley, May 20, 1945, Margaret Suckley Papers, Wilderstein Collection.

a diary FDR had kept of his trip to Europe in 1918 The diary was indeed ultimately located. See Folder: Diary, 1918; Subject; Personal Files; Franklin D. Roosevelt Papers as a.s.sistant Secretary of the Navy, Box 33, FDRL.

The diary might be in Eleanor's or Franklin's papers Lucy Rutherfurd to Daisy Suckley, May 20, 1945, Margaret Suckley Papers, Wilderstein Collection.

from memory Lucy was most likely drawing on both her recollections of Roosevelt's trip from those distant days and from his later reminiscences about it.

inside a folded notecard imprinted AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA Ibid.

"He called on King George V" Ibid.

"Let me know" Ibid.

Anna arranged for Lucy and friend to visit Hyde Park "Day Book 1945," Sat.u.r.day, June 9, 1945, Margaret Suckley Papers, Wilderstein Collection. According to the "Day Book," Lucy traveled with a Mrs. Kittredge.

a time when the home and grave were not yet open to the public James P. Horracks, "The Establishment of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Home as a National Historic Site" (Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites, Hyde Park, New York, December 20, 1962), 7. Also see Kristen Baker, "Cultural Landscape Report for the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt," 2001, 179. "After FDR's death people could visit the library grounds," Baker wrote, "but the military police prohibited the public from the gravesite or the house grounds except for important officials, relatives, or business a.s.sociates of the President."

a day that Eleanor spent in New York City Eleanor's engagement book for June 9, 1945, shows she caught a 10:00 A.M. train to New York and had several appointments during the day; the 6:30 P.M. entry says "arrive home." Engagement Book, June 9, 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Part II, Box 4719. It is unclear from the doc.u.ments available to me whether Eleanor knew of Lucy's visit. Given that, as will be seen below, Anna had signed the papers she thought sufficient to allow Lucy into the largely closed grounds, and that Daisy appears to have taken care of things on the scene, it seems likely that Eleanor did not know beforehand and may or may not have learned about the visit afterward. Since Daisy and presumably Anna knew that Eleanor had had the Shoumatoff picture sent to Lucy, they may have felt somewhat secure in arranging a discreet visit for Lucy on a day when Eleanor was not in Hyde Park. (The day before, on June 8, 1945, Anna had left the East for Seattle with her family. See Asbell, Mother and Daughter: The Letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt, 191.) It was fair, mild, and partly cloudy The New York Times, June 9, 1945, and June 10, 1945.

"The memory will be with me always" Lucy Rutherfurd to Daisy Suckley, June 19, 1945, Margaret Suckley Papers, Wilderstein Collection.

"And now about your very great thoughtfulness in asking me to stay" Ibid.

there was "much excitement a half hour after they left" "Day Book 1945," Sat.u.r.day, June 9, 1945, Margaret Suckley Papers, Wilderstein Collection.

the 1235 Military Police Battalion Horracks, "The Establishment of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Home as a National Historic Site," 7. Also see Baker, "Cultural Landscape Report for the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt," 179.

Presumably hearing of the bureaucratic flap later in a letter from Daisy Lucy Rutherfurd to Daisy Suckley, June 19, 1945, Margaret Suckley Papers, Wilderstein Collection. The visit had been June 9, and Lucy's letter of June 19 thanks Daisy for sending her a letter, so there seems to have been a note from Daisy to Lucy in the intervening ten days. Given Daisy's use of the past tense in her "Day Book" for the day of the stop, it seems likely that Lucy did not know of the stir her visit had caused until Daisy told her about it afterward.

Mary, who went with Churchill WSC, VIII, 61.

there was evidence at Potsdam Averell Harriman COH, 257.

"The atomic bomb" Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, 637.

returned to England on July 25 Ibid., 674.

Churchill went to bed thinking Ibid.

"What is there to say" Pamela Churchill to Averell and Kathleen Harriman, July 27, 1945, PHP.

"Come to the Cabinet Room" Author interview with Patrick Kinna.

"I know that you" Schlup and Whisenhut, eds., "It Seems to Me," 62.

Churchill's motorcade drove up New York Herald-Tribune, March 13, 1946.

Playing poker on the train WSC, VIII, 196197.

Eleanor met Churchill and Clementine New York Herald-Tribune, March 13, 1946.

Eleanor "felt sure" Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, March 14, 1946, FDRL.

For three minutes Churchill said nothing New York Herald-Tribune, March 13, 1946.

Walter Annenberg, the American publishing magnate Kay Halle Papers, Folder 2, Box 5.

"the largest human being" Berlin, Mr. Churchill in 1940, 39.

A letter from America Montague Browne, Long Sunset, 318.

"I am prepared" Newsweek, February 1, 1965.

"I look forward to dying" Walter Graebner, My Dear Mister Churchill (London, 1965), 128.