God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.