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Roosevelt’s intention to enter war, 198; on army attitudes, 263
    Prague: popular revolt (May 1945), 472; British barred from, 581
    Pravda (Soviet newspaper), 293, 305–6, 397, 424, 556, 570
    Priestley, J.B., 280
    Punch (magazine), 308
    Purvis, Arthur, 366
    Quadrant conference, 355, 376, 386, 402
    Quebec: conference (August 1943), 355, 386–91; second conference (September 1944), 503, 510–13
    Queen Mary , RMS, 375, 387, 510, 513
    Raiding Forces’ Levant Schooner Flotilla, 406
    Raleigh News & Observer (North Carolina), 528
    Ramsay, Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram, 30, 366
    Rangoon: Japanese capture, 244; see also Burma
    Rayner, Lt.Col. Ralph Herbert, 280
    Regulation 18B, 209
    Reid, Whitelaw, 108
    Reinhardt, Gen. Georg-Hans, 5
    Renewal Bill (USA, 1941), 191
    Resistance movements (and partisans): activities, 451–8, 472–3; and political dissensions, 469, 473; British influence on, 470; effects, 473–5
    Reynaud, Paul, 14–16, 24–6, 37–8, 42–4, 46–50, 54–5
    Reynolds, David, 2, 349, 475, 508; In Command of History , xv
    Rhine, river, 550, 564
    Rhodes, 386, 401–3, 406, 411, 418, 420–1
    Rhodes-James, Robert, 9
    Ritchie, Gen. Sir Neil, 210, 267
    Robbins, Lionel ( later Baron), 275
    Roberts, Andrew, xvi, 37
    Robinson, Edward G., 83
    Rochester University, New York: awards honorary doctorate to WSC, 190
    Roma (Italian battleship): sunk, 391
    Romania: Russian disputes with British over, 480, 493, 515, 545
    Rome: captured, 442, 481–2; Portal advocates bombing, 561
    Rommel, Gen. Erwin: posted to Africa, 124; successes in Libya, 130; logistics problems, 149; withstands Auchinleck’s offensive, 209–10, 226, 242; abilities, 262; WSC praises, 271; attacks Alam Halfa, 335, 337; Alamein defeat, 338, 339; retreats before Eighth Army, 353
    Roosevelt, Eleanor, 203, 224, 338
    Roosevelt, Elliott, 433
    Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: and Anglo-American relations, xviii, 483; WSC cables on 1940 land battle in France, 15; Chamberlain snubs, 18; WSC requests destroyers from, 21; desire to help Britain, 32, 171; WSC urges Reynaud to appeal to, 49–50; and British bombardment of French fleet, 69; and Irish neutrality, 72; delays entry into war, 112, 187, 198, 200; and Western aid to Russia, 150, 161, 226, 332; on Russian involvement in war, 160–1; and British payment for aid, 172–3; WSC cultivates relations with, 177, 183, 190, 193, 196, 229–31, 329, 435–6, 597; dependence on US public opinion, 183–4; meets WSC at Placentia Bay, 191–9; offers interim support to Britain, 191; personal qualities and character, 194, 199, 224; issues ‘shoot first’ order to US ships in Atlantic, 204; and Pearl Harbor, 213–14; WSC visits in Washington (December 1941), 216–17, 219–22, 227, 229; working methods, 224–6; ambitions to reorganise post-war world, 230–1, 292; attitude to Britain and Empire, 230; advocates Indian independence, 255–6; urges opening of second front, 283, 292, 312; Molotov meets, 290–1; WSC visits (June 1942), 296–7; supports North African landings, 314, 335; misjudges relations with Russia, 330; contempt for France, 347–9; WSC urges to build up US forces in Europe, 350; attends Casablanca conference (1943), 352–4, 356, 358–9; relations with chiefs of staff, 354; Dill criticises, 359; insists on unconditional surrender, 360; visits Marrakesh with WSC, 361; disability, 361; relationship with WSC declines, 361; health decline, 377, 450, 547; seeks bilateral meeting with Stalin, 377–8; WSC visits in USA (May 1943), 377, 380; WSC stays with Clementine and Mary, 387; and Churchill’s Aegean operation, 410; proposed meeting with WSC and Stalin, 426; WSC meets in Cairo before Tehran conference, 428–31; requests transfer of Hong Kong to Chiang Kai-shek, 429; first meets and negotiates with Stalin at Tehran conference, 431–4; needles WSC, 433; praises Stalin, 433; Stalin