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`through a gap between coneertinas. No guide was necessary, of
`course; the once and present first lord went straight to a concealed entrance
`Where Kathleen Hill, summoned earlier by telephone, and Captain Guy
`Grantham, who would be his aide, awaited him. Inside, Churchill raced up
`the stairway, with Mrs. Hill and the captain panting at his heels, and burst
`into his old lair, the first lord’s office, known to those who had served under
`Winston between 1981 i and 1 91 5 as “the private office. ” Swiftly crossing the
`room, he “flung open a hidden. panel,” as Mrs, Hill put it, revealing “a
`secret situation map” on which he had last plotted the locations of Allied and
`enemy ships onthat long—ago day when he had last worked here. “The ships,”
`Mrs. Hill remembers, “were still there“ ~exactly as he had left them on
`May 22, I 91 5 , when his daring Dardaoelles strategy was, as he later wrote,
`“ruined irretrievably” by incompetent subordinates, and he himself was
`generally regarded as a ruined politic'an. Now, he reflected, “a quarter of
`a century had passed, and still mortal peril threatened us at the hands of the
`same nation. Once again defence of the rights of a weak state, outraged'and
`invaded by unprovoked aggression, fo ‘eed us to draw the sword Once again
`we must fight for life and honour againstthe might and fury of the valiant,
`disciplined, and ruthless German race. Once again! So be it.”I
`Churchill’s early start at the Aemirelty accomplished little; he was
`adrift in memories of the past —— “filled with emotion,” in the words of
`Rear Admiral Bruce Fraser, the third sea lord, That evening the first see
`lord, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, imrodueed him to the senior men with
`whom hewould be working, and in the boardroom Winston took the first
`lord’s chair, as of old. Pouhd formal y welcomed him; Churchill, accord-
`ing to one of the admirals, “replied by saying what a privilege and honour
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`turn and then, adding that he would see us all oersonally later on, he
`adjourned the meeting. ‘Gentlemen,’ he said, ‘to your tasks and duties.’ ”
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`you want me to know about," sending “sealed letters through your pouch
`or my pouch.” The president ended gracefully. “I am glad you did the
`Marlborough volumes before this thing started—- and I much enioyed
`reading them.”ll
`To Winston, who had looked westward when the appeasers Were
`looking to Berlin, this letter bore enormous implications. Laying it before
`the War Cabinet, he pointed out that the president. as commander in chief,
`controlled the movements ofall nmerican naval vessels and could “relieve
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`the Americas, which would make it
`impossible for the Germans to attack His Majesty’s merchantmen “ap-
`proaching, say, Jamaica or Trinidad, without risking hostilities with the
`United States." The War Cabinet approved his reply, the first of 1 ,683
`exchanges between the two men. It' opened, “The foilowing from Naval
`Person," and that would continue to be his salumtion until he tool: over the
`government of Great Britain, when he altered it
`to “former Naval
`Person.”12
`Now that he was first lord, Churchill saw no reason to alter his daily
`regimen. He knew that his late hours, a consequence of his siestas, were a
`trial for his subordinates. B
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`had been forty then; now, at sixty-five, he found the nap on absolute
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`one.” Mary remembers that after an hour‘s rest he “awoke a giant re-.
`fleshed.” If he could work sixteen or seventeen hours a day, he reasoned,
`they could adjust to his eccentric hours. At one time or another all those
`officers directly under him tried
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`prewar informants had kept him apprised of urgent naval issues, and as a
`critic of Anglo-German naval treaties, he had undertaken a detailed study
`of Racder’s new Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine (navy high command).
`But now he had to explore the whole of his new realm, launch pmyects,
`devise strategies, propose offensive operations, assign priorities, prepare
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`deeply involved in plans for the expansion of the army.
`Nevertheless, if the Admiralty did not have his undivided attention, he
`gave it far more than any of Chamberlain’s other ministers could have
`done. “His energy and stamina were prodigious,” the historian Arthur
`Marcher writes. “A stream of memorands, virtually ultimate, isrued from
`the Private Office covering every aspect of the war at sea and leaving the
`recipient in no doubt as to what the First Lord wanted. " These memoranda
`became irreverently knowu as the First Lord’s Prayers because they fre-
`quently opened with “Pray inform me .
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`been done.” Captain G- R. G. Allen recalls that
`the “one thing that
`remains firmly in my mind about Winston’s arrival in the Admiralty was
`the immediate impact which his personality made on the staff at all levels,
`both service and civilian.” Allen was among those who “began to receive
`little notes signed ‘WSC’ from the private office demanding weekly reports
`of progress direct to him. If the required report was a good one .
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`might get a reply in red ink: ‘v.g. press on.’ it was like the stone thrown
`in the pond, the ripples got out in all directions, galvanising people at all
`levels to ‘press on“ — and they did. " He adds: “The same stimulation was
`at once felt in the fleet.”19
`The most fundamental source of conflict between Churchill and his
`staff would arise from polar opposites —— his instincts and their traditional
`discipline. In peacetime the gravest sin a captain can commit is to lose his
`ship. if the vessel lost is a British or American warship, a court-martial is
`mandatory. Naval officers know that some ships must
`but their early training makes them cautious strategis
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`risky plans and daring maneuvers. The battle of jutland, in 1916, wasn’t
`really a battle. On both sides the officers making the decisions were intent
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`succeeded -—- historians called Jlutlamd a draw—— because neither put up a
`meal fight. if the man on the bridge believes, even on a subliminal level,
`that sinking is, for him, the ultimate disaster, he will remain secure in his
`dommand. He will also remain a Cypher. jellicoe and von Hipper, the
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`first lord would start dictating speeches.
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`hfivzrid gingihviftilfiécliurchill retired. Before bed Winston wolpld 1:3:
`the’operational rooms in the basement— “terribly ‘goodfi {if is; 2) the
`staff ” a private secretary recalls — and end 1115 day With a n . y the Ad;
`war 1room. Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare,_parhamentury secre.;£:tc'iy312:“thy
`miralty, writes that once, well after midnight, Winston as
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`tempted; Winston, being Winston, had critics among naval officers of flag
`rank. '04
`Chamberlain did visit the upper war room frequently, but was always
`cordial and left expressing gratitude — if he knew that Sinclair and Bea-
`verbrook were also shown the Admiralty maps {though neither was a
`member of the government), he kept it to hi mself. In the House Winston
`loyally supported the government‘s policies— was indeed their most force—
`ful advocate—and praised the RM. from time to time. In one of his
`broadcasts he said: “You know I have not always agreed with Mr. Cham-
`berlain, though we have always been personal friends. But he is a man of
`very tough fiber, and I can tell you that he is going to fight as obstinately
`for victory as he did for peace.” The war had,
`in fact, brought out an
`unexpected streak of belligerence in the prime minister. "Winston, for his
`part,” Colville noted, “professes absolute loyalty to the RM. (and indeed
`they get along ad mirably),“ while Chamberlain wrote: “To me personally
`Winston is absolutely loyal, and 1 am continually hearing from others of
`the admiration he expressed for the P.M.”m
`It “as the same in Churchill‘s private life. Virginia Cowles, lunching
`at Admiralty House, was startled by Winston’s reaction when one of the
`Children attempted a mild jest at Chamberlain’s expense. In the past, she
`remembered, jokes at the prime minister’s expense had been Featured at
`almost every meal, but this time she saw “a scowl appear on the father‘s
`face. With enormous solemnity he said: ‘If you are going to make offensive
`remarks about my chief you will have to leave the table. We are united in
`a great and common cause and 1 am not prepared to tolerate such language
`about the Prime Minister.’ " Similarly, when he received Lady Bonham
`Carter, nee Violet Asquith —— “Well, here we are back in the old premises
`after a short
`interval of twenty-five years,” he said in greeting—her
`criticism of “the old appeasers” still in the government sparked a Churchill-
`ian rebuke. In a vehement defense of Chamberlain, he said: “No man is
`more inflexible, more single-minded. He has a will of steel.”’°‘
`On Friday the thirteenth of October, Churchill recorded, “my rela-
`tions with Mr. Chamberlain had so far ripened that he and Mrs. Cham-
`berlain came to dine with us at Admiralty House, where we had a
`comfortable flat in the attics. We were a party of four." During Stanley
`Baldwin’s first prime ministry the two men had been colleagues for five
`yet
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`socially. Churchill,
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`chance” — one doubts that luck had anything to do with it— mentioned
`the Bahamas, knowing Chamberlain had spent several years there. Win—
`ston was “delighted to find my guest expand .
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`noticed before.” Out came the long, sad story; Neville’s father was con—
`vinced that the family fortune could be enriched, and an Empire industry
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`developed, if his younger son grew sisal on a barren island near Nassau.
`Nettille spent six years trying. Buffeted by hurricanes, struggling with
`inadequate labor, “living nearly naked,” as Churchill paraphrased him he
`built a'srnall harbor, wharf, and a short railroad. But them were ancilltirv-
`his objective was to produce sisal, and although he tried every knowti
`fertilizer he found it could not be done, or at any rate not by him “I
`gather
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`in one of his wonderfully wry curtain lines
`that in the family the feeling was that although they loved him clearly the};
`were sorry to have lost fifty thousand pounds.” And then a thought flashed
`across his mind: “What a pity Hitler did not know when he met this sober
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`Found, Admiralty House was an absolute defense against creditors. Clem-
`entine felt like a young woman again. She hadn’t christened a ship in over
`twenW-stx years, but she remembered the drill when invited to launch the
`aircraft (earner Indmitobk at Barrow-in—Furness. Winston was there and
`a photograph _ taken at
`the instant she was gaily waving the )ship
`away — became his favorite picture of her; years later, when he returned
`to his easel, he sketched an enchanting portrait from it. Lord Fraser
`watching him during the launching, observed first “his cheers” as the ion )
`vessel slid free of the ways. "and then the grave salute,” perhaps prom tetgl
`by thoughts ofthe ordeals Indmimér’e “would have to face in the funnel: l “9
`Once the first lord and his lady had settled in topside at Admiralty
`House, C_lementine’s friends --— and some acquaintances who weren't ——
`came calling, wide-eyed ladies who could scarcely wait to see how she had
`done over the attics. Unwilling to offend them, she took them on tour
`though she felt martyred; she had good taste, knew it, and didn’t need
`confirmation. The only one qualified to judge was Diana Cooper and she
`confined her criticisms to her diary. Even there she added that sheiwas glad
`that the Churchills were in Admiralty House: “Winston’s spirit, strength
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`gieaglrdiicriogfishaerspectgled intellectuals” in Leicester Square'sEBierkgilgr
`“remain firmly seated while God Save the King was played.
`vet y ad:
`looked but nobody did anything, which shows that the war has :30;yet1m m-
`us lose our sense of proportion or become nOiStly ngtnstic.
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`classes were less tolerant, and the newspapers {Cd‘fhcll' wrath. _ urfbi t
`had found the rescued men “in good health" and hearty conditlotzi,
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`Fleet Street rechristened Abroad “The Hell-Ship ; those rte-sage . WEE:
`encouraged to exaggerate their ordeal, and their stories game [11:1va
`retelling. Public opinion was developing genuine hostility tofwar
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`Germany. People wanted to believe in atrocities. Even after‘ our call fed
`men saved had appeared on a platform in the East End.
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`Churchill wanted to squeeze every last drop out of it. The war lfiadnlt
`been much of'a war thus far. The Germans, he knew, were refitting it); an
`offensive somewhere, and the Allies — who should have been giving . em
`no rest — remained passive. He had no authority over theother SEWtCCS,
`but he could make the navy fight. The battle off Montewdeo ha
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`England its first real news to cheer about. and on February 1 5, just oned a};
`before the Airmail-k triumph, he had greeted Enter as she afi'IVIEI a
`Plymouth. Now, on February 23, he gathered the heroes of t e we:-
`Plate in the great hall of the Guildhall, the focal pomt for the gpyeipimfint
`of London for over a thousand years. There, beneath the Got
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`beneath the four fantastic pinnacles, the exuberant coat—of—arms, an
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`31:51::il—Szlnt‘l) the nation beyond — that the brunt of the war thus far had
`been borne by sailors, nearly three thousand of whom had already been lost
`in the “hard, unrelenting struggle which goes on night and day. He sat
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`monument looks down upon us now, without any Feeling that the island race has
`lost its daring or that the examples they set in bygone centuries have faded as the
`generations have succeeded one another.
`It was not for nothing that Admiral
`l—Ianvood, as he instantly at full speed attacked an enemy which might have sunk
`any one of his ships by a single salvo from its fair heavier guns, flew Nelson’s
`immortal signal. '5 5
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`He was gathering himself For the final flourish, shoulders hunched,
`brow lowered, swaying slightly, holding them all in his stern gaze. It
`Wasn’t a Bore War when Churchill spoke of it;
`it wasn’t squalid or
`demeaning; it wasn’t, in fact, like modern war at all. Destroying the Nazis
`and their fuhrer became a noble mission, and by investing it with the aura
`of heroes like Nelson, men Englishmen had honored since childhood, he
`made the Union jack ripple and St. George’s sword gleam. To the action
`off the Plate, he said, there had recently been added an epilogue, the feat
`of “the Carmel and her Flotilla,” a gallant rescue, “under the nose of the
`enemy and amid the tangles of one-sided neutrality, of the British captives
`taken from the sunken German raider.
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`years ago, ‘England expects that every man will do his duty,’ there may
`now be added last week’s no less proud reply: “The Now it here.” ””6
`The Guildhall exploded in a roaring, standing ovation.
`In his diary Hoar-e grumbled about “Winston overbidding the market
`in his speeches," but it was a popular speech. No one had fewer illusions
`about combat than Siegfried Sassoon, who had been court-martialedfor
`publishing his powerful antiwar poems while serving as a junior officer in
`the first war. Now he wrote Eddie Marsh: “What an apotheosis Winston
`is enjoying! I suppose he is the most popular —as well as being the
`ablest— political figu re in England. He must be glorying in the deeds of
`the Navy, who are indeed superb. And W himself has certainly put up a
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`Thompson, “gripped the public mind. It was Felt that, dull and unenter—
`prising though the conduct of the war might be on land and sea, the navy
`was eternally there; and so it heroically was, hearing with the Merchant Navy
`the heaviest burden of the war. ” England had gone to war no more eagerly
`than the French, and as a people the British were less vulnerable to slogans
`and political melodrama. But as divisions deepened in Paris and the rent of
`France, Britons grew more united. If they had to fight they would. And
`though it seemed on that Friday that the Royal Navy had preempted the
`national consciousness, British soldiers were about to take the field against
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`comes to power and assumes leadership of the struggle to crush the monster
`in central Europe— while he is still, so to speak, Drake bowling when
`informed that the Armada has been sighted — it is useful to glimpse the
`entirely mortal Winston. The vision is less than inspiring; unlike some
`earlier heroes, Winston is engaged in no mundane but memorable act when
`the news arrives.
`Instead, wearing his blue dressing gown and carpet
`slippers, he stumbles down to the upper war room and is told that thus far
`the attaclr. is “on Holland alone.” Assuming, like everyone else in His
`Majesty's Government,
`that the main Nazi
`thrust will come here, he
`phones Charles Corbin, the French ambassador. He asks: Will the Allied
`armies move into Belgium on the strength of the little now known?
`At 6:20 Corbin called back. German troops were now across the
`Belgian border, he said, and Brussels had “asked for help." Therefore,
`Gamclin had been told to invoke Plan D—the advance of the French
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`Seventh Army and the British Expeditionary Force to the line of the Dyle
`River, there to join the Belgian and Dutch forces. Randolph Churchill,
`breakfasting in his camp, had heard a radio bulletin. He phoned his father,
`asking: “Vt’hat‘s happening?" Winston replied: "Well, the German hordes
`are pouring into the Low Countries.” He told him of the Allied counter-
`rnove, adding, "In a day or two there will be a head-on collision.” His son
`asked him about his reference the previous evening to "you becoming
`Prime Minister today." Churchill said, “Oh,
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`could not be worse, yet there he was, smoking his large cigar and eating
`fried eggs and bacon, as if he had just returned from an early morning
`ride.” He was surrounded by yesterday’s newspapers. The Time: leader
`that morning rebuked Labour for dividing the House, since it had been
`obvious that Chamberlain intended to rebuild his cabinet when “the La-
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`bour Part}r ran up its flag,” throwing the prime minister’s plans “into
`eonfiision.” The New: Cfirosidc — which had championed Lloyd
`George — more accurately reported that since neither Liberal nor Labour
`leaders were willing to serve under Chamberlain, “a new Premier will thus
`have to be found.
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`The first casualty of the Nazi offensive was the Feud between Reynaud
`and Gamelin. The premier sent Vincennes a message: “The battle has
`begun. Only one thing counts:
`to win it." Gamelin agreed, replying!
`“Se-ale to Frame comptc”——“Only France counts." His Majesty’s Gov-
`ernment, preoccupied with its own political crisis, had known nothing of
`the impasse in Paris. It had little meaning now anyway; what mattered was
`news of the enemfs penetration. Minute by minute information was
`accumulating. German paratroopers had landed in Belgium, the Luftwaffe
`was bombing airfields in France and the Low Countries, and the British
`and French were marching into Belgium -— the last thing, we now know,
`that
`they should have done. The Filbrer’s Army Group B had their
`undivided attention. Nothing much was happening to Army Group C.
`holding the frontier opposite the Maginot Line, and nothing was known of
`Rundstedt's Army Group A. Allied intelligence wasn’t even aware that it
`was by far the largest, dwarfing the other two.260
`During the night the first of Rundstcdt’s tanks had negotiated the
`mi nefields near the German—Belgian border, and at daybreak three panzer
`corps were driving hard, intent upon maneuvering through the wooded
`ravines of the Ardennes and crossing the Meuse near Sedan in forty-eight
`hours. Even the few French officers who doubted that the Ardennes were
`impéuérmeia believed the enemy could not possibly reach the river in less
`than ten days, by which time reinforcements could be brought up to dig in
`along the Mouse, swift and narrow, running between steep banks and
`therefore easy to defend. Yet already Rundstedt’s armor had easily thrown
`aside the defense behind the mines—a thin screen of French cavalry,
`backed by light motorized forces. Thus, while the Allied right wing
`remained idle in the bowels of the troglodytic Maginot Line, and the left
`advanced toward what was expected to be the decisive encounter, the center
`was already gravely threatened. In the confusion of their rout the officers
`there neglected to send the bad news winging to Vincennes, La Ferté, or
`Montry. The fox was among the chickens, but the farmer, out in the
`pasture, didn’t even know he had a problem.
`At No. 10 the first of the War Cabinet’s three meetings that day began
`with the Chiefs of Staff present. They were dazed, in the state of confusion
`which was the first reaction to blitzkriegs. Reports were accumulating
`faster than they could be skimmed. H.M.S. Kefly had been torpedoed off
`the Belgian coast. The Wehrmacht was in Luxembourg. Nazi paratroops
`had been dropped at three strategic locations,
`in the area between The
`Hague and Leiden, and near Rotterdam; Nancy had been bombed; the
`Luftwaffe was dropping magnetic mines in the Scheldt to disrupt Dutch
`and Belgian shipping. Churchill, the ministers were relieved to hear, had
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`with their eyes open, they sought accommodation with a
`turned a blind eye to its iniquities, ignored its
`resort to murder and torture, submitted to extortion, humiliation, and
`sold out all who had sought to stand shoulder to
`abuse until,
`shoulder with
`the new
`they
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`the
`herself into the cold damp
`of the gallows,
`led
`save for the demoralized republic across the Channel. Their end came
`when the House of Commons, in a revolt of conscience, wrenched power
`from them and summoned to the colors the one man who had foretold all
`that had
`who had tried, year after year, alone and mocked, to
`urging the only policy which would have done the job.
`now, in the
`spring of 1
`with the reins of power at last
`firm in his grasp, he resolved to lead
`and her fading
`in one
`last great struggle worthy of all they had been and meant, to arm the
`in
`nation, not only with weapons but also with the mace of honor,
`breast a soul beneath the ribs of death.
`every
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