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42 Quoted in Guy Nicholas Esnouf, “British Government War Aims and Attitudes towards a Negotiated Peace, September 1939 to July 1940”, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, King’s College, London, 1988, p. 189.
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43 Angus Calder, The People’s War, London, 1969, p. 106.
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44 The Diplomatic Diaries of Oliver Harvey 1937—1940, ed. John Harvey, London, 1970, p. 362 (19.5.40).
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45 Quoted in The Earl of Avon, The Eden Memoirs. The Reckoning, London, 1965,p. 107; and see also Lukacs, Five Days in London, pp. 18—19.
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46 P. M. H. Bell, A Certain Eventualit, Britain and the Fall of France, London, 1974,p. 19.
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47 Paul Reynaud, In the Thick of the Fight 1930—1945, London, 1955, p. 320; The Memoirs of General the Lord Ismay, London, 1960, pp. 126—129; Bell, pp. 18, 32.
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48 丘吉尔在这些日子里对美国援助的悲观,或者说失望,反映为他在 5 月 27 日拒绝了洛锡安勋爵的建议,即英国应该把对美国安全有用的英国领地租借给美国,并由此给美国政府留下良好印象。丘吉尔说道:“美国在战争中没给我们任何帮助,现在看见危险的严重性,又想把能够帮助我们的设备留给自己用。” (PRO, Cab 65/7, Frame 00294, fol. 172; and extract printed in The Churchill War Papers, vol. 2: Never Surrender, May 1940—December 1940, ed. Martin Gilbert, London, 1995, p. 163.)
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49 法国战时内阁秘书保罗·博杜安记录,引自 William L. Langer and S. Everett Gleason,The Challenge to Isolation,1937—1940(New York,1952),第 453 页。
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50 The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, pp. 285 (17.5.40), 288 (21.5.40).
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51 英国公众在 5 月 13 日之前对敦刻尔克撤退的困难、危急情况和规模都一无所知,见 Juliet Gardiner,Wartime Britain 1939—1945(London,2004),第 172 页。
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52 Birmingham University Library, Neville Chamberlain Papers, NC18/1/1156. 伊斯梅从巴黎回到伦敦的时候,也对“这个人人看上去平静、情绪饱满而坚定的世界”感到惊奇不已(Memoirs,第 129 页)。
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53 Lukacs, Five Days in London,第 27—38 页,总结了各种意见和观点。
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54 但是伊斯梅将军回忆道,乐观主义是短暂的,很快焦虑情绪又抬头了(Memoirs,第 130 页)。
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55 Bell, p. 15; Lukacs, Five Days in London, p. 27.
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56 Christa Schroeder, Er war mein Chef. Aus dem Nachlaß der Sekretärin von Adolf Hitler, ed. Anton Joachimsthaler, Munich/Vienna, 1985, p. 105; Hitlers politisches Testament. Die Bormann Diktate vom Februar und April 1945, Hamburg, 1981,p. 113.
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57 See Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1936—1945. Nemesis, London, 2000, pp. 295—296 and p. 921 nn. 63 and 66; also Heinz Magenheimer, Hitler’s War. Germany’s Key Strategic Decisions 1940—1945, London, 1998, p. 24.
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58 Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 2, p. 67.
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59 Reynaud, pp. 379 . 英国内阁和丘吉尔一样,直到 5 月 26 日才相信法国的失败不可逆转,而当时英国远征军已经准备从敦刻尔克撤退了(Hill,第 152 页)。
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60 The Churchill War Papers, vol. 2, p. 133 (War Cabinet minutes, 24.5.40).
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61 The Ironside Diaries, 1937—1940, ed. Roderick Macleod and Denis Kelly, London, 1962, p. 331 (23.5.40).
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62 The Ironside Diaries, 1937—1940, p. 332 (25.5.40); and see Esnouf, p. 195.
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63 引自 Reynaud,第 379 页,出自 1940 年 5 月 25 日戈特的政府报告。
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64 Lukacs, Five Days in London, p. 137.
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65 希尔(Hill,第 181 页)认为,“如果英国远征军被歼灭,英国的军事地位就会变得无法挽救”——由此很可能会影响战时内阁对形势的看法。
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66 David Reynolds, “Churchill and the British ‘Decision’ to Fight on in 1940. Right Policy, Wrong Reasons”, in Richard Langhorne (ed.), Diplomacy and Intelligence during the Second World War, Cambridge, 1985, p. 148.
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