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D-Day, 438; postpones D-Day to June, 439; WSC dislikes, 479, 596; poor relations with Americans, 481; army strength in north-west Europe, 484; WSC visits in Normandy, 489; criticised for slowness, 497, 507; US attitudes to, 542–3; behaviour towards Eisenhower, 547, 558; instructed to stockpile German weapons for possible use against Russia, 572; WSC’s opinion of, 596
    Montmouchet, France, 459
    Moore, Sir Thomas, 208
    Moore-Brabazon, Col. John ( later 1st Baron Brabazon), 154
    Moorehead, Alan, 262, 270, 317–18, 491
    Moran, Charles Wilson, 1st Baron: records, xxii; on WSC’s indifference to women, 90; on WSC’s wit and conversation, 92; publishes diaries, 147; and WSC’s speech to US Congress, 223; on WSC’s visit to Washington, 228, 234; at Casablanca conference, 356; on Brooke’s manner, 356; on Roosevelt’s disability, 361; on WSC’s self-containment, 374; and Roosevelt’s health decline, 377; on Mackenzie King, 387; on WSC at Malta, 427; on US scepticism of WSC, 431; and WSC’s pneumonia in Tunisia, 437; opposes further long flights for WSC, 450; writes account of WSC, 498; with WSC at second Quebec conference, 510, 513; and WSC’s acceptance of Russian triumph over Poland, 517; on WSC’s declining relations with Roosevelt, 568; on WSC’s 1945 election defeat, 590; on WSC’s view of war, 596
    Morgan, Lt.Gen. Sir Frederick, 379, 385–6, 389–90, 478, 482, 500
    Morgenthau, Henry, 31, 173, 194, 203, 229, 321, 512
    Morocco, 220
    Morris-Jones, Henry, 8
    Morrison, Herbert ( later Baron), 140, 275, 490
    Morton, Major Desmond, 104, 147, 248
    Morton, H.V., 196
    Moscow: WSC visits, 315, 320–9, 514–18
    Moulin, Jean, 458
    Mountbatten, Admiral Lord Louis ( later Earl): as
    chief adviser to Combined Operations, 207; WSC favours, 319; Soviet knowledge of activities, 321–2; reports on Dieppe raid, 332–3; demands excessive forces for Burma, 436, 511; WSC praises for Burma campaign, 514
    Moyne, Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron, 162, 524
    Murmansk, 331
    Murrow, Ed, 181
    Mussolini, Benito: rejects call for Italian neutrality, 19; and proposed British peace overtures, 26, 28, 32; declares war, 45, 117; and African campaigns, 117–18, 121; military ambitions, 124; resigns, 386; rescued by Skorzeny, 407; compared with WSC, 594
    Naples, 395
    Narvik (Norway), 13, 21
    Nazis: death camps and persecution of Jews, 307–8, 501–2, 560; see also Germany; Hitler, Adolf
    Nellie (Downing Street parlourmaid), 204
    New Guinea, 369
    New Statesman , 249, 252–3, 286, 311
    New York Herald Tribune , 32
    New York Times , 32, 248
    New Zealand: forces in Crete, 134, 136; WSC values staunchness, 235
    News Chronicle , 237
    newspapers: WSC scrutinises, 91, 120, 334; reporting of events and people, 307
    Nicholson, Brig. Claude, 25
    Nicolson, (Sir) Harold: on WSC’s qualities, 4; joins government, 16; on upper class mistrust of WSC, 27; pessimism at fall of France, 57; Vita writes to on effect of WSC’s speeches, 76; on WSC’s isolation, 88; and Lothian’s hopes for negotiated peace, 105; on national morale, 112, 132; on US entry into war, 214; on US dismissal of British resolve, 258; and WSC’s delight at Alamein victory, 339; on Katyn massacre, 373; on WSC’s Commons welcome on return from Tehran, 439–40; on post-war political prospects, 520; on WSC in later years, 520; on anti-WSC sentiments, 521; on Commons’ perplexity over WSC, 529; meets WSC after Yalta, 555
    Norman, Montagu ( later Baron), 105, 173
    Normandy landings see D-Day; Overlord , Operation
    North Africa: campaign in, 117–18, 189; Wavell’s offensive in, 120–3; German intervention in, 124–5; Auchinleck’s offensive in, 209–10, 215; Allied landings (1942), 232, 296–7, 312, 324, 330, 335, 337, 339–40; aims to expel Germans from, 345, 352; Allied campaign falters, 351; Allied strength in, 368; delayed victory, 370; campaign ends,