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p. 604 («phony shortage»); Hinsley, British Intelligence, vol. 2, pp. 169–74 («narrowest of margins»); Frey and Ide, Petroleum Administration, p. 119 («shortage of surplus»); Ickes, Secret Diary, vol. 3, p. 617 («fill it up»), 630–33 (Ickes's complaints). Writz to Ickes, May 15, 1941, Ickes to Roosevelt, May 19, 1941, OF 4435; Lloyd to Ickes, November 24, 1941, OF 4226; Ickes to Roosevelt, January 17, 1942, PSF 75 (Ickes's new strategy), Roosevelt papers.7. Goralski and Freeburg, Oil & War,
pp. 108 («ample targets»), 114–15. Davies to Ickes, March 21, 1942, Ickes to Roosevelt, March 23, 1942, PSF 75; Ickes to Roosevelt, April 21, 1942, PSF 12 («desperate»), Roosevelt papers. Morison, Naval Operations, vol. 1, pp. 254, 200–1, 130; Bryant, Turn of the Tide, pp. 295–96.8. Ickes to Nelson, June 17, 1942, box 209, Hopkins papers; Nash, U.S. Oil Policy,
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(New York: Viking, 1989), p. 229 («Rescue no one»); Morison, Naval Operations, vol. 1, pp. 157, 198 («enemy tonnage»); Michael Howard, Grand Strategy, vol. 4, August 1942—September 1943 (London: HMSO, 1972), p. 54; Bryant, Turn of the Tide, p. 387; Goralski and Freeburg, Oil & War, pp. 113 («milk cows»), 116; Stanton Hope, Tanker Fleet: The War Story of the Shell Tankers and the Men Who Manned Them (London: Anglo-Saxon Petroleum, 1948), chap. 9.10. Wilkinson to Ickes, December 5, 1942, Ickes to Roosevelt, December 10, 1942, PSF 75, Roosevelt papers; Martin Gilbert, Winston S, Churchill,
vol. 7, Road to Victory, 1941–1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986), pp. 265, 289; S. W. Roskill, The War at Sea, 1939–1945, vol. 2 (London: HMSO, 1956), pp. 355, 217 («not look at all good»); Howard, Grand Strategy, vol. 4, pp. 244–245 («stranglehold»), 621; Liddell Hart, Second World War, pp. 387–90 («never came so near» and «heavy losses»); Larson, Standard Oil, vol. 3, p. 529.11. Ickes to Roosevelt, August 4, 1942, August 7, 1942, September 3, 1942, Smith to Roosevelt, October 1, 1942, OF 4435; Roosevelt to Land, November 6, 1941, OF 56; Nelson file memo, May 1, 1942, OF 12, Roosevelt papers, Ickes to Nelson, November 26, 1942, Box 209, Hopkins papers; Board of Petroleum Reserves Corporation, Record, April 25, 1944, pp. 88–91, RG 234, NA («any oil matter»); Petroleum Administration for War, Petroleum in War and Peace
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