Dinner With Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer

Search of Churchill , p. 209
    38 . Williams, Jane, conversations with author
    39 . Eden, The Reckoning , p. 494
    40 . Finest Hour 144, “The Churchill Quiz”, p. 63
    41 . Churchill, Randolph S., p .453
    42 . Langworth (ed.), Churchill by Himself , p. 37
    43 . Acheson, p. 64
    44 . Ray, Jonathan, “Winston Churchill drank Pol Roger by the Pint”, Telegraph , 30 September 2006
    45 . Telegraph , Odette Pol Roger, 30 December 2000
    46 . Roberts, Andrew, The Holy Fox: A Life of Lord Halifax , p. 186
    47 . Churchill, My Early Life , p. 178
    48 . McGowan, p. 90
    49 . Rose, Kenneth, The Elusive Rothschild, The Life of Victor, Third Baron , p. 58
    50 . Telegraph , Odette Pol Roger, 30 December 2000
    51 . Independent , Odette Pol Roger, 30 January 2001
    52 . www.polroger.co.uk
    53 . Ibid .
    54 . Ibid .
    55 . Dilks (ed.), Cadogan , p. 707
    56 . McGowan, p. 104
    57 . Kersaudy, Francois, Churchill et Monaco , p. 46
    58 . Rose, p. 73
    59 . McGowan, p. 55
    60 . Kimball, Warren, Finest Hour 134, p. 31
    61 . Bonham Carter, p. 135
    62 . Gilbert (ed.), Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence, 1937-1964 , pp. 376-377
    63 . Gilbert, Volume VIII, p 630
    64 . Rose, p. 53
    Chapter 12 Cigars
    1 . Acheson, Dean, Sketches From Life Of Men I Have Known , p. 63, after a working lunch with Churchill at the British Embassy in Washington in 1946
    2 . Welsh, Peter, “A Gentleman of History”, Cigar Aficionado , Autumn, 1995, p. 1
    3 . Hough, Richard, Winston & Clementine , p. 69
    4 . CHUR 1/351/50-52
    5 . Howells, p. 94
    6 . Wingfield-Stratford, Esmé, Churchill: The Making of a Hero , p. 95
    7 . Acheson, Dean, Present at the Creation , p. 596
    8 . McGowan, Norman, My Years With Churchill , p. 93. Howells contends that Churchill did indeed smoke his cigars to the very end. p.35
    9 . That is the estimate of his valet, who precedes the “nine a day” estimate with the word “only”. McGowan, p. 92
    10 . Photo of letter, preserved at J.J. Fox
    11 . Golding, Ronald E., “Did You Fly? Hmph!”, Finest Hour 34, p. 4
    12 . Gilbert, Churchill , Vol. IV, 1916-1922, p. 139
    13 . McGowan, p. 93
    14 . Welsh, p. 2
    15 . CHUR 1/351/50-52
    16 . Howells, p.37; McGowan, p. 92, reports that the matches were “specially imported from America”, not Canada
    17 . Howells, p. 36
    18 . Howells, p. 35. This ashtray traveled with Churchill.
    19 . Welsh, p. 1
    20 . Hirshson, Stanley P., General Patton: A Soldier’s Life , pp. 299-300
    21 . Packwood, Allen, “Cigars: Protecting the Premier,” Finest Hour 106, p. 1
    22 . Rose, Kenneth, London, 2003, p. 73
    23 . Hall, Douglas, The Book of Churchilliana , p. 50
    24 . Vines, C. M., A Little Nut Brown Man, My Three Years with Beaverbrook , p. 28
    25 . West, Bruce, The Man Who Flew Churchill , p. 105
    26 . Gilbert, Volume VII, p. 921
    27 . Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves , p. 504. Clementine Churchill described it in a letter to her daughter as “a small shadow on one lung, but he himself is well …” Soames, Clementine Churchill , p. 357
    28 . Colville, p. 507
    29 . Soames, Speaking For Themselves , p. 504
    30 . Soames, Clementine Churchill , Revised Edition, p. 502
    31 . Colville, John, pp. 215-216
    32 . CHUR 1/15/169
    33 . CHUR 1/15/167
    Chapter 13 Rationing
    1 . CAB 120/854
    2 . CAB 123/74
    3 . CAB 120/854
    4 . Gardiner, Juliet, Wartime London , 2004, p. 147
    5 . CAB 123/74
    6 . Gilbert, Volume VII, pp. 161 and Calder, Angus, The People’s War , p. 71
    7 . Calder, p. 405
    8 . NF 1/292 Home Intelligence Weekly Report, No. 90, 16-23 June 1942
    9 . Gilbert, Churchill War Papers , Volume III, p. 376
    10 . CHAR 1/379/40 and 1/379/39
    11 . CHAR 1/389/5
    12 . Nesbitt, p. 274
    13 . Hastings, Max, Finest Years: Churchill as War Lord 1940-1945 , p. 202
    14 . News Chronicle , 30 September 1941
    15 . CHAR 1/380/25 and CHAR 1/368/85
    16 . CHAR 2/441/61
    17 . CHAR 2/446A
    18 . Profumo, David, The Laxford Shows its True Colours, Country Life, 6 October 2010, p. 104
    19 . CHAR 20/53C/256
    20 . Char 2/442/51
    21 . Char