CHAPTER 1
1New York Times, 9th June 1939.
2Ibid.
3RWD, p. 148.
4RR, p. 36.
CHAPTER 2
1Sarah Bradford, The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of King George VI 1895–1952 (London: St Martin’s Press, 1990), p. 18.
2Quoted ibid., p. 22.
3John Pudney, His Majesty King George VI: A Study (London: Hutchinson, 1952), p. 23.
4AKS, p. 49.
5Quoted in KS, p. 55.
6Quoted ibid., p. 56.
7Quoted in Robert Rhodes James, A Spirit Undaunted: The Political Role of George VI (London: Little Brown, 1998), p. 92.
8COB, p. 88.
9Quoted in GVI:HLR, p. 207.
10Quoted ibid., p. 208.
11Taylor Darbyshire, The Duke of York (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1929), p. 90.
12Quoted in KS, p. 67.
13Quoted in GVI:HLR, p. 230.
14Quoted in KS, p. 131.
CHAPTER 3
1TIR, p. 184.
2FDR:CF, p. 522.
3Quoted in RR, p. 71.
4‘Vade Mecum 1939’ (PRO FO A3880/27/45).
5Quoted in Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1965), p. 451.
6Quoted in Martyn Cornick, ‘War, Culture and the British Royal Visit to Paris, July 1938’, Synergies Royaume-Uni et Irlande, No. 4 (2011), p. 152.
7The Daily Express editorial was quoted in, among others, the Pittsburgh Press, 9th February 1938.
8New York Times, 24th July 1938.
9President Roosevelt to King George VI, 17th September 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum [docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/INVITAT. HTML].
10Quoted in GVI:HLR, p. 373.
11Ronald Lindsay to Alexander Hardinge, 25th October 1938 (PRO FO A8061).
12Lady Reading to Lord Halifax, 16th February 1939 (PRO FO A1406/27/45).
13Quoted in the Canberra Times, 24th October 1938.
14PRO FO 371/22799/174.
15Milwaukee Journal, 4th November 1938.
16Associated Press in Lewiston Morning Tribune, 26th February 1939.
17Associated Press in News and Courier, 11th December 1938.
18‘Selling George VI to the US’, Scribner’s Magazine (February 1939), p. 16.
19PRO FO 371/22799/213.
20Sir Eric Mieville to Charles Peake, 1st February 1939 (PRO FO A 1665/27/45).
21Milwaukee Journal, 18th February 1939.
22President Roosevelt to King George VI, 18th January 1939 (PRO FO 371/22799/223).
23Helen Woods to Lady Reading, 6th February 1939 (PRO FO 371/22799/233).
24Frederick Hoyer Millar to J. Balfour, 17th February 1939 (PRO FO 371/22799/243).
25A. Beckett to J. Balfour, 6th January 1939 (PRO FO 371/22799/152).
26GVI:HLR, p. 375.
27Ibid.
28James Roosevelt, My Parents: A Different View (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1976), p. 209.
29Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys, An American Dream (New York, NY: Summit Books, 1984), p. 80.
30FDR:CF, p. 439.
31Quoted in Michael Beschloss, Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance (New York, NY: Norton, 1980), p. 187.
CHAPTER 4
1RR, p 11.
2FDR:CF, p. 145.
3Quoted in Joseph Alsop, FDR: A Centenary Remembrance (New York, NY: Random House, 1985), p. 41.
4FAL, p. 22.
5Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1985), p. 26.
6FAL, p. 55.
7Quoted in FAL, p. 71.
8FAL, p. 11.
9Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1985), p. 72.
10FAL, p. 129.
11Ralph G. Martin, Cissy: The Extraordinary Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1979), p. 360.
12Rodger Streitmatter, ed., Empty without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998), p. xix.
13FAL, p. 205.
14Arthur Schlesinger Jr and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr were quoted in People, 12th November 1979.
CHAPTER 5
1CC, p. xi.
2Ibid., p. xiii.
3Ibid., p. xvii.
4The quotations from Daisy Suckley’s diary in this and the following paragraph are found in CC, pp. 4–5.
5Ibid., p. 34.
6Ibid., p. 35.
7Ibid., p. 61.
8Ibid., p. 65.
9Ibid., p. 67.
10Ibid., p. 99.
11Ibid., p. 101.
12John Lloyd Wright and the Middletown architect were quoted in the New York Times, 14th June 2001.
13Ibid.
14Ibid.
15FAL, p. 252.
16Ibid., p. 145.
17RWD, p. 45.
18Quoted in FAL, p. 240.
19Quoted in the New York Times, 27th May 1976.
20Quoted ibid., 31st August 1989.
21FAL, p. 215.
CHAPTER 6
1NAS, p. 4.
2The quotations from Lionel Logue in this and the following paragraph are found in KS, pp. 151–52.
3COB, p. 263.
4Ibid.
5Ibid., p. 161.
6VOS, p. 41.
7Quoted ibid., p. 54.
8COB, p. 264.
9VOS, p. 55.
10Quoted in GVI:HLR, p. 378.
11Quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9th May 1939 (and many other papers).
12Quoted in Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII (London: Collins, 1990), p. 399.
1NAS, p. 30.
2Ibid., p. 47.
3‘America and the King’, The Spectator, 19th May 1939
4J.V Perowne, 19th May 1939 (PRO FO A3670/27/45).
5COB, p. 269.
6Quoted in NAS, p. 68.
7COB, p. 268.
8Quoted in Maclean’s, 26th January 2011.
9Quoted in the Ottawa Citizen, 25th May 1939 (and many other papers).
10Quoted in Maclean’s, 26th January 2011.
11Quoted in KS, p. 153.
12NAS, p. 89.
13Ibid., p. 92.
CHAPTER 8
1DMK, p. 633.
2Ibid.
3VOS, p. 202.
4DMK, p. 642.
5NAS, p. 131.
6VOS, p. 211.
7DMK, p. 643.
8VOS, p. 214.
9Ibid., p. 216.
10Ibid.
11DMK, p. 656.
12New York Times, 8th June 1939.
13The Northern Miner, 8th June 1939
CHAPTER 9
1EAC, p. 4.
2Ibid., p. 45.
3Christopher Hibbert, Edward VII: A Portrait (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), p. 31.
4Quoted in Jane Ridley, Bertie: A Life of Edward VII (London: Chatto & Windus, 2012), p. 49.
5Quoted ibid., p. 48.
6Harper’s Weekly, 18th August 1860.
7Los Angeles Times, 24th January 1901.
8New York Times, 19th July 1914.
9EAC, p. 129.
10Quoted ibid., p. 131.
11AKS, p. 187.
12Quoted in Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII (London: Collins, 1990), p. 150.
13AKS, p. 188.
14Morning Leader, 13th October 1924.
15AKS, p. 190.
16Washington Post, 13th December 1936.
17Meriden Daily Journal, 12th December 1936.
18San Jose News, 18th May 1939.
CHAPTER 10
1Quoted in VOS, p. 220.
2Ibid., p. 222.
3AER, p. 200.
4Ibid., p. 199.
5TIR, p. 183.
6AER, p. 200.
7RWD, p. 231.
8Ibid., p. 232.
9Ibid., pp. 149, 232.
10All of the quotations from Eleanor Roosevelt in this and the following paragraphs are from AER, pp. 200–201.
11All of Eleanor Roosevelt’s ‘My Day’ columns can be read on the website of the George Washington University’s Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project [www. gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/].
12Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Private Papers (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1971), p. 753.
13Quoted in William Turner Levy and Cynthia Eagle Russett, The Extraordinary Mrs R: A Friend Remembers Eleanor Roosevelt (New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1999), p. 168.
CHAPTER 11
1Independent St Petersburg, 31st May 1939.
2DMK, p. 665.
3Grace Tully, FDR: My Boss (New York, NY: Scribner, 1949), p. 317
4TIR, p. 188.
5The quotations in this and the following two paragraphs are ibid., pp. 190–91.
6VOS, p. 227.
7RWD, p. 235.
8Ibid., p. 235.
9Quoted in the New York Times, 9th June 1939 (and many other papers).
10Ronald Lindsay to Scott, 9th May 1939 (PRO FO A3524).
11DMK, p. 667.
12RR, p. 119.
13Quoted in VOS, p. 233.
14New York Times, 9th June 1939.
15Quoted in VOS, p. 235.
16Quoted ibid.
17NAS, p. 197.
18VOS, p. 234.
19Quoted in NAS, pp. 197–98.
1The various newspapers were quoted in Sydney Morning Herald, 10th June 1939.
2NAS, p. 202.
3Ibid., p. 208.
4NAS, p. 211.
5Ibid., p. 211.
6Quoted in VOS, p. 247.
7Much of the information in this section is found in David J. Hope, ‘King George and Queen Elizabeth’s Visit to the Fair’ [www.1939nyworldsfair.com/worlds_fair/wf_tour/zone-1/King_Queen.htm].
8New York Times, 11th June 1939.
CHAPTER 13
1GVI:HLR, p. 386.
2AER, p. 206.
3CC, p. 131.
4DMK, p. 677.
5CC, p. 131.
6AER, p. 206.
7CC, p. 132.
8‘Vade Mecum 1939’ (PRO FO A3880/27/45).
9DMK, p. 678.
10‘Transcript of King George VI’s Handwritten Notes for a Memorandum on His Conversations with President Roosevelt on June 10 and 11, 1939’, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (docs. fdrlibrary.marist.edu/memorand.html).
11DMK, p. 679.
12Ibid.
13AER, p. 207.
14Quoted in RWD, p. 235.
15DMK, p. 680.
16All of the quotations from Daisy Suckley in this and the following paragraphs are from CC, p. 130.
17VOS, p. 255.
18COB, p. 271.
19DMK, p. 681.
20Quoted in FDR:CF, p. 524.
21COB, p. 271.
22Daily Express, 12th June 1939.
23CC, p. 131.
24AER, p. 207.
25CC, p. 132.
26‘Transcript of King George VI’s Handwritten Notes for a Memorandum on His Conversations with President Roosevelt on June 10 and 11, 1939’, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (docs. fdrlibrary.marist.edu/memorand.html).
27AER, p. 207.
28William Turner Levy and Cynthia Eagle Russett, The Extraordinary Mrs R: A Friend Remembers Eleanor Roosevelt (New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1999), p. 168.
1Quoted in VOS, p. 260.
2Mackenzie King’s account of this conversation can be found in DMK, pp. 687–89.
3‘Telegram from the King Expressing Thanks for Their Hospitality while in the United States’, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum [docs. fdrlibrary.marist.edu/telegram.html].
4Quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald, 17th June 1939.
5‘Letter from FDR to the Royal Couple Showing His Appreciation for Their Visit’, President Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/bonvoyag.html).
6Quoted in VOS, p. 308.
7Quoted ibid., p. 309.
8Ibid., p. 310.
9Much of the following discussion of the King’s Guildhall speech is derived from KS, pp. 155–56.
10Ronald Lindsay to Lord Halifax, 20th June 1939 (PRO FO A4441/27/45).
11New York Times, 10th June 1939; New York Times, 12th June 1939; Washington Post, 12th June 1939; Christian Science Monitor, 12th June 1939.
12Washington Star, 8th June 1939.
13Ronald Lindsay to Lord Halifax, 12th June 1939 (PRO FO A4139/2745).
14Sir Godfrey Haggard to Ronald Lindsay, 14th June 1939, quoted in Fred M. Leventhal, ‘Essential Democracy: The 1939Visit to the United States’, in George K. Behlmer and Fred M. Leventhal, eds., Singular Continuities: Tradition, Nostalgia and Identity in Modern British Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), p. 173.
15Time, 19th June 1939.
16GVI:HLR, p. 392.
CHAPTER 15
1Quoted in Jean Edward Smith, FDR (New York, NY: Random House, 2007), p. 435.
2GVI:HLR, p. 503.
3Quoted in GVI:HLR, p. 510.
4Quoted ibid., p. 511.
5Quoted ibid., p. 513.
6Quoted ibid., p. 525.
7Quoted ibid., p. 533.
8Quoted ibid., p. 550.
9King George VI to President Roosevelt, 25th October 1942 (PRO FO 954/29B/11555).
10AER, p. 240.
11Quoted in GVI:HLR, p. 619.
12Quoted in Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 568.
13Quoted in RR, p. 263.
14Quoted in the New York Times, 23rd October 1957.
15EAC, p. 176.
16Time, 18th November 1985; New York Times, 10th November 1985.