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Hastings Ismay
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“On the Festival of Britain, "We are consciously and deliberately determined to make history.”
Hastings Ismay (1887–1965) first seen 1949 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Scope of 1951 Festival". The Times: p. 3a. 9 June 1949.
“On NATO "I am convinced that the present solution is only a partial one, aimed at guarding the heart. It must grow until the whole free world gets under one umbrella.”
Hastings Ismay (1887–1965) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As Secretary General of NATO (1952 - 1957). See Smith, Robert. The NATO International Staff/Secretariat, 1952-1957. London: Oxford University Press, 1967, p. 65
“Churchill owed more, and admitted that he owed more [to Ismay] than to anybody else, military or civilian, in the whole of the war.”
Hastings Ismay (1887–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Colville, John. Winston Churchill and His Inner Circle. New York: Wyndham Books, 1981. p. 161