The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (46 page)

3.
R
OGUE
E
LEPHANT

‘I shan’t last long’
Winston Churchill, 13 May 1940; Norman Rose,
Churchill: The Unruly Giant
(London: 1995), p. 327.

‘sullen silence’
Lynne Olson,
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
(London: 2008),
p. 330.

‘WC they regard
 . . . feel about it’
Nancy Dugdale; Andrew Roberts,
Eminent Churchillians
(London: 2010), ebook edition.

‘glamour boys’
David Margesson coined the phrase. See Graham Stewart,
Burying Caesar: The Churchill-Chamberlain Rivalry
(London: 2003).

‘rogue elephant’
Lord Hankey to Samuel Hoare, 12 May 1940; HNKY 4/32, Hankey Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge.

‘oozes with port
 . . . cigar’
Lord Halifax; Julian Jackson,
The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940
(London: 2004), p. 210.

‘fat baby’
Lady Alexandra Metcalf; Roberts,
Eminent Churchillians
, Kindle edition.

‘Is there no poverty at home?’
Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 13 May 1901; Virginia Cowles,
Winston Churchill: The Era and the Man
(London: 1953), p. 86.

‘My prognostication
 . . . at the Election’
See Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p. 169.

‘Blenheim rat’
Rose,
Unruly Giant
, p. 66.

‘I am an English Liberal
 . . . methods’
Winston Churchill to Hugh Cecil, 24 October 1903 (letter not sent); R. C. Kemper, ed.,
Winston Churchill: Resolution, Defiance, Magnanimity, Good Will
(Columbia, Mo.: 1996), p. 145.

Oscar Wilde variety
Papers on WSC’s successful libel action against A. C. Bruce-Pryce, CHAR1/17, Churchill Papers.

‘I understand what the photographer
 . . . gentleman doing’
A. J. Balfour; Roy Jenkins,
Churchill: A Biography
(London: 2001), p. 145.

‘man enveloped in a cloak
 . . . looked satisfied’
Rose,
Unruly Giant
, p. 136.

‘unfit for the office he now holds’
Jenkins,
Churchill
, p. 251.

‘half-naked fakir’
Winston Churchill, ‘A Seditious Middle Temple Lawyer’ Speech at Winchester House, 23 Febuary 1931, Robert Rhodes James, ed.,
Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963
(New York: 1974), pp. 4982–6.

‘wonderfully pretty and very healthy’
Lord Randolph to Mrs Leonard Jerome, 30 November 1874, Randolph Churchill,
Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900
(London: 1966), p. 1.

‘pantherine’
Mary Lovell,
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History
(London: 2011), p. 65.

‘She shone for me
 . . .
at a distance’
Winston Churchill,
My Early Life
(London: 1996 edition), p. 28.

‘Papa’
 . . .
‘Father’ is better’
Lord Randolph Churchill to Winston Churchill, 13 June 1894; CHAR 1/2/83.

‘become a mere social wastrel
 . . . existence’
Lord Randolph Churchill to Winston Churchill, 9 August 1893; CHAR 1/2/66–68.

‘young stupid’
 . . .
‘not to be trusted’
Lord Randolph Churchill to Winston Churchill, 21 April 1894; CHAR 1/2/78.

Recent scholarship
See John H. Mather, ‘Lord Randolph Churchill: Maladies Et Mort’, The Churchill Centre, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/myths/myths/his-father-died-of-syphilis. Accessed 26 August 2014.

‘He is completely untrustworthy
 . . . before him’
Lord Derby to Lloyd George, August 1916; Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 365.

‘cheap fellows’
Teddy Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt Jr, 23 May 1908;
Theodore Roosevelt Papers,
Manuscripts division, Library of Congress. Martin Gilbert,
Churchill and America
(London: 2005), p. 50.

4.
T
HE
R
ANDOLPH
F
ACTOR

‘Of course you are too old.
 . . name for yourself’
Winston Churchill, ‘The Dream’; Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, vol. 8: ‘Never Despair’ 1945–1965
(London: 1988), pp. 364–72.

‘Stop that now
 . . . snub-nose radical!’
Lady Randolph to Lord Randolph Churchill, 15 February 1886; CHAR 28/100/12–14.

‘He has much smartened up
 . . . wonders for him’
Lord Randolph Churchill, 23 October 1893; Norman Rose,
Churchill: The Unruly Giant
(London: 1995), p.
29.

‘Since I have been in parliament
 . . . to do so’
Lord Randolph Churchill to Sir Stafford Northcote, 3 March 1883; Winston Churchill,
Lord Randolph Churchill
(New York: 1907), p. 192.

‘looking down on the Front Benches
 . . . sublime’
Sir Stafford Northcote, ibid., p. 177.

‘opportunism, mostly’
John Charmley,
A History of Conservative Politics Since 1830
(London: 2008), p. 59.

‘Little Randy’
 . . . they cried’
Mary Lovell,
The Churchills: In Love and War
(London: 2012), p. 88.

‘an old man in a hurry’
Lord Randolph Churchill, 1886; Winston Churchill,
Lord Randolph Churchill
, p. 860.

‘the forest laments
 . . . perspire’
Winston Churchill,
Lord Randolph Churchill
, p. 229.

‘I always believed
 . . . mantle of Elijah’
Winston Churchill, ‘The Dream’, Gilbert,
Churchill, vol.8
,
‘Never Despair’,
pp. 364–72.

‘I still have my father’s robes’
Rose,
Unruly Giant,
p. 287.

‘I had forgotten Goschen’
Anne Sebba
, American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill
(London: 2010), p. 158.

‘What Price Churchill?’
Rose,
Unruly Giant,
p. 287.

‘We must have a new Prime Minister
 . . . must be you”
Lynne Olson,
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
(London: 2008), p. 298.

‘I felt
 . . . this hour and this trial’
Winston Churchill, 10 May 1940; Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p. 645.

5.
N
O
A
CT
T
OO
D
ARING OR
T
OO
N
OBLE

‘She is out of control’
Winston Churchill, ‘In the Air’, CHAR 8/319.

‘This is very likely death’
Ibid.

‘We are in the Stephenson age
 . . . value to our country’
Winston Churchill said this to his pilot, Ivon Courtney; Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p. 248.

one flight in five thousand
See Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 248.

‘I do not suppose
 . . . wrong of you’
Sunny Marlborough to Winston Churchill, March 1913; Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 248.

‘foolish’
 . . .
‘unfair to his family’
F. E. Smith to Winston Churchill, 6 December 1913; Michael Sheldon,
Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill
(London: 2013), p. 294.

His cousin
 . . . ‘evil’
Lady Londonderry to Winston Churchill, July 1919; Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 414.

‘I have been very naughty
 . . . flying’
Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 29 November 1913; Mary Soames,
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
(London: 2003), p. 116.

‘I started Winston
 . . . practice’
Captain Gilbert Lushington to Miss Hynes, 30 November 1913; Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p.
252.

an eerie letter
 . . . doomed flight
For correspondence, see Martin Gilbert,
In Search of Churchill
(London: 1995 edition), pp. 28–84.

He was constantly nipping
 . . . presentiments of doom
See Winston Churchill,
Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future
(London: 1949), pp. 133–49.

‘within a foot of my head’
Douglas Russell,
Winston Churchill: Soldier—The Military Life of a Gentleman at War
(London: 2005), p. 121.

‘The bullets
 . . . our heads’
Winston Churchill,
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
(New York: 1930), p. 84.

‘I cannot be certain
 . . . they fell’
Norman Rose,
Churchill: The Unruly Giant
(London: 1995), p. 47.

‘I rode my grey pony
 . . . too noble’
Winston Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, 22 December 1897; Randolph Churchill,
Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900
(London: 1966), p. 350.