1. The British Guarantee to Poland of March 1939

1 Simon Newman, March 1939: The British Guarantee to Poland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976).

2 Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1986), p. 311.

3 Ibid., pp. 311–12.

4 A. J. P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War (London: Penguin, 1991), p. 260.

5 Ibid., pp. 219–20.

6 Ibid., p. 20.

7 Quoted in Keith Kyle, Suez: Britain’s End of Empire in the Middle East (London: I.B.Tauris, 2003), p. 179.

8 Quoted ibid., p. 184.

9 Quoted in Newman, March 1939, p. 134. Newman quotes from David Dilks, The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, OM, 1938–45 (London: Cassell, 1971), p. 161.

10 Quoted ibid. The quote refers to Cooper’s letter to Halifax of 22 March 1939 (FO 800/315f.57).

11 Donald Cameron Watt, How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939 (New York: Pantheon, 1989), pp. 264–7.

12 Jean-Paul Sartre, Iron in the Soul, trans. Gerald Hopkins (London: Penguin, 1967), p. 93.

13 Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags (London: Chapman & Hall, 1942). The quote can be found in the 1969 Penguin edition of the novel on p. 27.

14 Newman, BGT, p. 193.

15 Quoted ibid., p. 194. Here Newman cites Cabinet papers of 30 March 1939, ref. CAB 23/98.

16 Ibid., p. 184.

17 Ibid., p. 136.

18 Ibid.

19 Ibid., p. 196.

20 Quoted ibid., p. 15.

21 Ibid., p. 48.

22 Ibid., p. 20.

23 Finlo Rohrer, ‘What’s a little debt between friends?’, BBC News magazine, 19 May 2006. Available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4757181.stm.