Max Beloff and Alec Campbell offered genuinely helpful and constructive
advice at an early stage. My colleagues Professor Christine Bolt and Dr. R. J.
Crampton read drafts of several chapters with great insight, as did, in Indiana,
Professor George Juergens. For incidental, particular acts of kindness and
assistance I am deeply grateful to Professors Henry Blumenthal, Wayne Cole,
Francis Haber, John McVickar Haight, Jr., and Douglas Johnson. Janet
Rabinowitch provided some indispensable counsel. Only the very great au-
thority of these friends, colleagues, and teachers tempts me toward the other-
wise rash admission that any residual errors can only be my own. Dr. Graham
Clarke, working in an adjacent discipline and thus exempted from reading
drafts, was, nonetheless, an unfailing source of wisdom.

I am also grateful, for their patience and toleration, to the librarians and
archivists of the following institutions: in England, the British Library and the
Public Record Office, London, and Rhodes House, Oxford; in France, the
Bibliothéque Nationale and what was once the Comité d'histoire de la deu-
xiéme guerre mondiale; in the United States, the George Arendts Research
Library at Syracuse University, the Chicago Historical Society, the Houghton
Library at Harvard University, the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, the
Library of Congress and, within it, the Manuscripts Division, the Lilly Library
at Indiana University, the National Archives in Washington, D.C., Princeton
University Library, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, and the Sterling Library
at Yale University. Wherever I went I met only the warmest generosity. Neither
my broken French nor my British accent proved an obstacle to a form of
collaboration so much happier than that recounted in this book.

Essential financial assistance was provided, at different times, by the De-
partment of Education and Science, the British Academy, and the Faculty of
Humanities at the University of Kent, to all of whom I am most obliged.

The manuscript was prepared, in several stages and drafts, by a number of
gifted typists, including Susan Davies, Pam Duesbury, and Sheila Hawkins.
Eve Hurste was, by a pleasing coincidence, chiefly responsible for both the
first and final drafts, and I thank her for her lavish care. The index was
prepared with the expert technical assistance of Dotty Esher. The entire manu-
script benefited appreciably from the editorial scrutiny of Gwen Duffey at the
University of North Carolina Press.

All the time the work was moving toward completion, Geraldine Mary
Hurstfield supported, encouraged, inspired.

J. G. H.
Whitstable, Kent, England
St. David's Day, 1985

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