 | Alfred F. Havighurst - 1985 - 707 pages
...letter to President Roosevelt after becoming prime minister, Churchill wrote, " I trust you realize... that the voice and force of the United States may...swiftness, and the weight may be more than we can bear." On June 10 President Roosevelt, addressing the graduating class of the University of Virginia,... | |
 | Winston Churchill - 1948 - 724 pages
...shall continue the war alone, and we are not afraid of that. But I trust you realise, Mr. President, that the voice and force of the United States may...swiftness, and the weight may be more than we can bear. All I ask now is that you should proclaim non-belligerency, which would mean that you would help... | |
 | Martin Gilbert - 1992 - 1184 pages
...shall continue the war alone, and we are not afraid of that. But I trust you realise, Mr President, that the voice and force of the United States may...swiftness, and the weight may be more than we can bear.' On the morning of May 16, as German troops broke through the Maginot Line, news reached London... | |
 | Tim Clayton, Philip R. Craig - 2002 - 356 pages
...immediate loan of fifty mothballed old destroyers and for other military assistance. He warned starkly that "the voice and force of the United States may...Nazified Europe established with astonishing swiftness." Thus was established the main political dynamic of 1940: Churchill pleading for help and warning Roosevelt... | |
 | Alex Kershaw - 2006 - 358 pages
...it was time to appeal directly to President Roosevelt for help: "I trust you realize, Mr. President, that the voice and force of the United States may...swiftness, and the weight may be more than we can bear. All I ask now is that you should proclaim non-belligerency, which would mean that you could help... | |
 | Ian Kershaw - 2007 - 682 pages
...he said, would fight on alone, if necessary. 'But I trust you realise, Mr. President,' he continued, 'that the voice and force of the United States may...swiftness, and the weight may be more than we can bear.' He then came to the point of his letter: his shopping list. 'All I ask now is that you should... | |
 | Alex Kershaw - 2007 - 330 pages
...Reynaud: "The way to Paris lies open. Send all the troops and planes you can."29 ize, Mr. President, that the voice and force of the United States may...swiftness, and the weight may be more than we can bear. All I ask now is that you should proclaim non-belligerency, which would mean that you could help... | |
 | William Stevenson - 2007 - 414 pages
...Hitler. Winston made Colville a secretary, and overnight a Churchillian.' Churchill warned Roosevelt, "You may have a completely subjugated Nazified Europe...swiftness, and the weight may be more than we can bear." Such messages went through the US embassy and were leaking to Berlin. On May 17, 1940, a Mutual... | |
 | Carl L. Steinhouse - 2007 - 449 pages
...don't, we'll be facing that madman by ourselves. Winston has already warned me that the voice and forces of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long, and I agree. Well, I figured out a way — by lend-lease." Hopkins looked blankly at the president.... | |
| |
Mr President, that the voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long. You may have a completely subjugated, Nazified Europe established with astonishing swiftness, and the weight may be more than we can bear. 