5. America First

1 Canberra Times, 24 October 1938, quoted in Peter Conradi, Hot Dogs and Cocktails: When FDR Met King George VI at Hyde Park on Hudson (London: Alma Books, 2013), p. 41.

2 Quoted in Conradi, Hot Dogs, pp. 41–2.

3 Ernest Hemingway, ‘Notes on the next war: a serious topical letter’, Esquire (September 1935).

4 Lynne Olson, Those Angry Days (New York: Random House, 2013 (trade paperback edition 2014)), p. 51.

5 Diaries of Mackenzie King, Library and Archives Canada, 10 June 1939, page 5 (item 20426). Available at http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/prime-ministers/william-lyon-mackenzie-king/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=20426&.

6 Ibid.

7 Olson, Those Angry Days, p. 217.

8 Ibid., p. 31.

9 Ibid., p. 349.

10 Ibid., p. 413.

11 Quoted in Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth (London: Pan Macmillan, 1996), p. 268.

12 Olson, Those Angry Days, p. 161.

13 Ibid., p. 162.

14 Ibid., p. 164.

15 Alistair Horne, A Bundle from Britain (London: Macmillan, 1993), p. 85.