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1706358121 许多年后,丘吉尔告诉维奥莉特·博纳姆·卡特,当时的财政大臣哈罗德·麦克米伦是“一个奇怪的家伙。在某些方面你不能依靠他”[78]。那不是真的,维奥莉特夫人反驳道。在反对绥靖政策的斗争中,麦克米伦一直是他“最勇敢、最可靠的追随者”之一。丘吉尔说:“是的,但是他在1940年做了一件非常奇怪的事,那是在我就职之后。他和利奥·埃默里提议建立一个由劳合·乔治领导的三头政府。”
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1706358123 与此同时,负责给丘吉尔灌输这种想法的人,却没有多少时间从首相对他的坚定忠诚中获益。1940年7月底,内维尔·张伯伦被诊断出患有肠癌,并接受了手术。经过艰难的恢复期后,他于1940年9月22日辞去了枢密院议长的职务。不到两个月,在闪电战最激烈的时候,张伯伦在他位于汉普郡的乡间别墅中去世。在下议院,丘吉尔向他的前任表达了朴素的敬意,称他是一个热爱和平的人,曾试图把世界从灾难中拯救出来。丘吉尔说:“就所谓的历史裁决而言,单凭这一点就让他处于优势。”[79]
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1706358125 [1] Roy Jenkins,Churchill:A Biography,New York:Farrar,Straus & Giroux,2001,p.611.
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1706358127 [2] Andrew Roberts,Eminent Churchillians,New York:Simon and Schuster,1994,p.153.
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1706358129 [3] Simon Ball,The Guardsmen:Harold Macmillan,Three Friends,and the World They Made,London:HarperCollins,2004,p.213.
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1706358131 [4] L.S. Amery,My Political Life,Vol. 3,The Unforgiving Years 1929-1940,London:Hutchinson,1955,p.374.
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1706358133 [5] John Barnes and David Nicholson,The Empire at Bay:The Leo Amery Diaries 1929-1945,London:Hutchinson,1980,p.614.
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1706358135 [6] Angus Calder,The People’s War,Britain 1939-1945,New York:Pantheon,1969,p.86.
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1706358137 [7] M.Andrew Roberts,“The Holy Fox”:The Life of Lord Halifax,London:Phoenix,1997,p.140.
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1706358139 [8] Ronald Tree,When the Moon Was High,London:Macmillan,1975,p.116.
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1706358141 [9] Exchange of letters between David Margesson and Clementine Churchill,June 1940,Margesson Papers.
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1706358143 [10] Ronald Tree,When the Moon Was High,London:Macmillan,1975,pp.116-117.
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1706358145 [11] Lord Moran,Churchill:The Struggle for Survival:Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran,Boston:Houghton Mifflin,1966,p.793.
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1706358147 [12] William Manchester,The Last Lion:Winston Spencer Churchill:Alone,1932-1940,New York:Dell,1988,p.677.
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1706358149 [13] Andrew Roberts,Eminent Churchillians,New York:Simon and Schuster,1994,p.144.
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1706358151 [14] Mark Pottle,Champion Redoubtable:The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1914-1941,London:Weidenfeld & Nicolson,1998,pp.212-213.
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1706358153 [15] “National Inquest,” The Economist,May 18,1940.
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1706358155 [16]Sunday Pictorial,July 7,1940.
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1706358157 [17] Cecil H. King,With Malice Toward None:A War Diary,London:Sidgwick & Jackson,1970,p.48.
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1706358159 [18] H. Boardman,“Conservatism,Its Future and Mr. Churchill,” Nineteenth Century and After,August 1940.
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1706358161 [19] John Barnes and David Nicholson,ed.,The Empire at Bay:The Leo Amery Diaries 1929-1945,London:Hutchinson,1980,p.602.
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1706358163 [20] Alistair Horne,Harold Macmillan,Vol. 1,1894-1956,London:Penguin,1989,p.165.
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1706358165 [21] John Lukacs,Five Days in London:May 1940,New Haven:Yale University Press,1999,p.121.
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1706358167 [22] John Charmley,Duff Cooper,London:Weidenfeld & Nicolson,1986,p.143.
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1706358169 [23] John Barnes and David Nicholson,Amery Diaries 1929-1945,p.616.
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