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CABINET WAR ROOMS MOVE TO EXPAND
PHIL REED
Mr. Reed (preed@iwm.org.uk) is curator of London's Cabinet
War Rooms. His article is reprinted by permission from
the Imperial War Room Despatches, August 2000.
For the past few years I have been in severe danger of sounding
like a squeaking door, the proverbial broken record and
a clamorous news vendor combined. I cannot count the
number of occasions on which I have said, in one form or another,
"Watch This Space," as I promise news of plans to extend the
Cabinet War Rooms. Now, like Churchill in his Mansion House
speech after victory at El Alamein (something I hear repeated on
the CWR sound system several times each day—forgive me if I
sink into his rhetoric), I can announce: "We have a victory!"
After six years of negotiations with the Treasury and its
private sector partners, after the collapse of one PFI* scheme and
its transformation into another, after a period which has seen a
change of Director-Generals, the realisation of the American >»
CASSANDRA TO HERO...
Footnotes
1 Time, 4 September 1939, p. 24.
2 CBS broadcast, 10 May 1940, on Edward R. Murrow, A Reporter
Remembers: The War Yean, Vol. 1 (New York: Columbia Masterworks,
1966), 33 1/3 rpm sound recording, In Search of Light: The
Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961, edited by Edward Bliss
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), p. 24.
3 New York Times Magazine, 2 March 1941, p. 6.
4 Collier's, 17 June 1939, p. 58; 2 November 1940, p. 17.
' CBS broadcast, 10 May 1940, A Reporter Remembers. In
Search of Light, p. 24.
" D. F. Wenden, "Churchill, Radio, and Camera," in Churchill,
edited by Robert Blake and William Roger Louis (Oxford University
Press, 1993), p. 222.
7 Saturday Review of Literature, 19 April 1941, p. 5.
" CBS broadcast, 24 February 1946, A Reporter Remembers.
9 CBS broadcast, 4 September 1939, A Reporter Remembers.
10 CBS broadcast, 15 September 1940, in Edward R. Murrow,
This is London (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941), p. 175.
11 CBS broadcast, 1 October 1940, This is London, p. 196.
12 CBS broadcast, 29 December 1940, This is London, p. 226.
13 CBS broadcast, 9 March 1941, In Search of Light, p. 46.
14 For characterizations of Churchill during the first two years
of the war see Time, 30 September 1940, p. 22; 26 January 1941, p.
23; 25 August 1941, p. 76; Life, 27 January 1941, p. 68; 21 April
1941, p. 79; Saturday Evening Post, 21 October 1939, p. 5; Readers'
Digest, January 1941, p. 119; June 1941, p. 79; New York Times Magazine,
19 May 1940, p. 4; 8 September 1940, p. 7; 14 September
1941, p. 3; 28 December 1941, p. 3; New Republic, 10 June 1940. p.
787. During the war, the New Republic and The Nation were the most
widely circulated journals that generally subscribed to a leftist ideological
viewpoint. Both praised Churchill's defiance of Hitler, but regularly
criticized his support of British imperial interests and handling of
relations with the Soviet Union.
15 CBS broadcast, 3 December 1940, This is London, pp. 216-7.
16 Time, 6 January 1941, p. 23.
17 Life, 26 January 1941, p.70.
18 Robert T. Elson, Time Inc.: The Intimate History of a Publishing
Enterprise, 1923-1941, edited by Duncan Norton-Taylor, Vol. 1
(New York: Athenaeum, 1968), p. 409.
19 Ibid., p. 429.
20 Time, 23 June 1941, p. 59.
21 See especially Life, 25 August 1941, pp. 26-29.
22 The New York Times, 23 December 1941, p. 5.
23 Complete Presidential Press Conferences of Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Vol. 18, no. 794, 23 December 1941 (New York: Da Capo Press,
1972), pp. 382-92.
24 Newsweek, 5 January 1942, p. 23.
2 5 Ibid., p. 5.
26 Life, 5 January 1942, p. 28.
27 Time, 5 January 1942, p. 12.
28 Newsweek, 5 January 1942, p. 19.
29 The New York Times, 27 December 1941, p. 1.
30 Time, 5 January 1942, p. 11.
31 Life, 5 January 1942, p. 28.
32 Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948), pp. 442-43.
33 Walter Henry Thompson, Assignment Churchill (New York:
Farrar, Straus and Young, 1955), p. 248.
34 The New York Times Magazine, 17 October 1943, p. 33.
35 The New York Times, 17 November 1942, p. 1.
3< > The New York Times Magazine, 22 August 1943, p. 11.
37 Wenden, "Churchill, Radio, and Cinema," p. 236. Martin
Gilbert, The Complete Churchill. 4 Vols. Produced by BBC-TV in association
with Arts and Entertainment Network, 1992. VHS video
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3. The New York Times, 4 September 1943, p. 1.
39 Radio Yesteryear. December 1940-1945. 8mm films
40 Life, 6 August 1945, p. 26.
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