Winston S. Churchill by Martin Gilbert Volume VIII Never Despair 1945-1965 (1988)
Part Two: In Opposition 1945-1951
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Writing the Memoirs, 1948
...In a letter to Lord Ismay about the need to challenge various hostile opinions of the Greek and Western Desert policies in 1941, subjects on which Ismay had provided him with notes, Churchill wrote: ‘You must understand that it is no part of my plan to be needlessly unkind to the men we chose at the time, who no doubt did their best.’
...Speaking of the Anglo-American disputes over the question of a Second Front in the Cotentin in 1942, Winston said, ‘No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.’
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‘Hard, hard working wonderful Papa’
...The only political letter which Churchill wrote while at Aix was to James Byrnes, who had expressed his interest in Churchill’s eventual account of the Potsdam Agreement, and the Soviet advance into Germany. <...> ‘We are now confronted,’ Churchill ended, in a sentence which he did send, ‘with the designs and ambitions of despots as wicked as Hitler and even more absolute. How right you were to stand up firmly to them about Persia in 1945.’