22. Esnouf, “British Government War Aims and Attitudes,” 90.

23. Chamberlain Diary, NC 1/20, cited also in Lawlor, Churchill and the Politics of War, 54-55.

24. Colville Diary, 21 May: “But I think Betts was typical of the whole country when she said ‘we shall not be beaten, even if Paris and London fall we shall win.’” As late as 23 May Colville still misspelled “Dunkirque.”

25. In Roberts, Eminent Churchillians, 159.