7. In Peril on the Sea

1 Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931 (London: Allen Lane, 2014), p. vii. Here Tooze quotes Woodrow Wilson’s papers.

2 Quoted ibid., p. 240.

3 Ibid., p. 269.

4 Ibid.

5 Ibid., p. 395.

6 Quoted ibid.

7 Ibid.

8 Ibid., p. 365.

9 Quoted in Stephen Roskill, Naval Policy Between the Wars, Vol. 1 (London: Collins, 1968).

10 ‘Cruisers and parity’, Cabinet memorandum, 20 July 1927. Quoted in Martin Gilbert, Churchill and America (London and New York: Free Press (Simon & Schuster), 2005), p. 104.

11 Colville Papers, 19 May 1940. Quoted in Gilbert, Churchill and America, p. 186.

12 Quoted in Keith Kyle, Suez: Britain’s End of Empire in the Middle East (London: I.B.Tauris, 2003), p. 211.

13 Quoted ibid.

14 Clifford Makins (author) and Frank Bellamy (illustrator), The Happy Warrior: The Life Story in Picture-Strip of Sir Winston Churchill (London: Hulton Press, 1958).

15 A. J. P. Taylor, The Second World War and Its Aftermath (London: Folio Society, 1998), p. 72.

16 Ibid.

17 Ibid.

18 Ibid.

19 Ibid., p. 73.

20 Ibid., pp. 73–4.

21 Clifford Kinvig, Scapegoat: General Percival of Singapore (London: Brassey’s, 1996), p. 135.

22 Ibid., pp. 134–5.

23 Prime Minister Churchill to Wavell, 10 February 1942, PRP.WO 259/63. Quoted in the notes to Adrian Fort, Archibald Wavell: The Life and Times of an Imperial Servant (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009).

24 Sir Michael Howard, Sunday Times, 27 June 1971.

25 Taylor, The Second World War and Its Aftermath, p. 73.

26 Ibid., pp. 73–4.

27 Ibid., pp. 75–6.

28 Ibid., p. 80.

29 H. V. Morton, Atlantic Meeting (London: Methuen, 1943), p. 98.

30 Churchill’s broadcast on the BBC, 24 August 1941. A transcript of the full speech can be found at https://www.ibiblio.org/pha/timeline/410824awp.html.

31 Morton, Atlantic Meeting, p. 95.

32 Ibid., p. 127.

33 Ibid.

34 The full charter can be found at https://unchronicle.un.org/article/atlantic-charter-revitalizing-spirit-founding-united-nations-over-seventy-years-past.

35 Morton, Atlantic Meeting, p. 134.

36 Bernard Ash, Someone Had Blundered: The Story of the ‘Repulse’ and the ‘Prince of Wales’ (London: Michael Joseph, 1960).

37 Ibid., p. 9.

38 Ibid., p. 118.

39 Ibid., p. 119.

40 Ibid., p. 123.

41 Jonathan Bailey, Great Power Strategy in Asia (London and New York: Routledge), p. 104.

42 Ash, Someone Had Blundered, p. 126.