by Simon Heffer
207. The Times, 20 May 1915, p. 9.
208. Repington, I, p. 35.
209. The Times, 14 May 1915, p. 9.
210. Repington, I, p. 36.
211. The Times, 17 May 1915, pp. 9–10.
212. Gilbert III(C), II, p. 864.
213. Stevenson F., p. 49.
214. Petrie, II, p. 20.
215. Asquith, Diary, p. 110.
216. Ibid., p. 111.
217. Gilbert III(C), II, p. 887.
218. Stevenson F., p. 50.
219. Gilbert III(C), II, p. 888.
220. Ibid., p. 889.
221. Riddell, p. 93.
222. Esher Papers: ESHR 2/14, diary entry for 17 May 1915.
223. Asquith, Diary, p. 153.
224. Riddell, p. 94.
225. Hankey, I, p. 318.
226. VBC, p. 53.
227. Davidson, p. 25.
228. Hamilton, p. 253.
229. Asquith, MR, II, p. 95.
230. Esher Papers: ESHR 2/14, diary entry for 17 May 1915.
231. Beaverbrook I, I, p. 102.
232. Hankey, I, p. 315.
233. The Times, 18 May 1915, p. 9.
234. RRJ, p. 79.
235. DeGroot II, p. 120.
236. Petrie, II, p. 27.
237. Bell, p. 177.
238. Rose II, p. 189; RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1915: 22 May.
239. Gilbert III(C), I, p. 191.
240. RRJ, p. 77.
241. Esher Papers: ESHR 2/14, diary entry for 18 May 1915.
242. O’Brien, p. 262.
243. Asquith, Diary, p. 154.
244. The Times, 19 May 1915, p. 9.
245. Hankey, I, p. 316.
246. Asquith, MR, II, p. 93.
247. Roskill, I, p. 174.
248. Esher Papers: ESHR 2/14, diary entry for 19 May 1915.
249. Nicolson, p. 263.
250. Gilbert III(C), II, p. 911.
251. Asquith, Diary, p. 122.
252. Hansard, Vol. 71 col. 2392.
253. Ibid., col. 2393.
254. Asquith C., p. 25.
255. Asquith, Diary, p. 123.
256. The Times, 20 May 1915, p. 9.
257. Asquith, Diary, p. 124.
258. Gilbert, III(C), II, p. 919.
259. VBC, p. 53.
260. Gilbert, III(C), II, p. 921.
261. Asquith, Diary, p. 133.
262. VBC, p. 57.
263. Asquith, Diary, p. 107.
264. Stevenson F., p. 52.
265. Riddell, p. 89.
266. Gilbert, III(C), II, p. 924.
267. Asquith, Diary, p. 113.
268. Bell, p. 185.
269. Gilbert, III(C), II, p. 927.
270. Riddell, p. 90.
271. Scott, p. 244.
272. Davidson, p. 25.
273. LG, I, p. 147.
274. Adams I, p. 39.
275. Wells, JP, p. 579.
276. Searle, p. 275.
277. Haig, p. 125.
278. Hansard, Vol. 72 col. 162.
279. Asquith, Diary, p. 109.
280. Stevenson I, p. 382.
281. Haste, p. 157.
282. Asquith, Diary, p. 145.
283. Hankey, I, p. 319.
284. Wilson, p. 92.
285. Samuel, p. 109.
286. Asquith, Diary, p. 137.
287. Crewe Papers: Crewe to Asquith, 4 July 1915.
288. Haldane, p. 282.
289. Ibid., p. 283.
290. Grey, II, p. 237.
291. Ibid., p. 238.
292. Trevelyan, p. 278.
293. Hansard (Lords), Vol. 18 col. 1017.
294. Ibid., col. 1021.
295. Ibid., col. 1019.
296. The Times, 24 May 1915, p. 7.
297. Thompson I, p. 240.
298. Beaverbrook I, I, pp. 116–118.
299. The Times, 4 November 1915, p. 3.
300. Esher Papers: ESHR 2/14, diary entry for 21 May 1915.
301. Repington, I, p. 41.
302. Steed, II, p. 73.
303. Thompson I, p. 245.
304. Haig, p. 35.
305. The Times, 22 May 1915, p. 9.
306. Hankey Papers: HNKY 5/1/1.
307. Riddell, p. 84.
308. Taylor I, p. 27.
309. Hankey, I, p. 317.
310. The Times, 26 May 1915, p. 5.
311. RA PS/PSO/GV/C/R/225.
312. The Times, 27 May 1915, p. 9.
313. Hankey, I, p. 337.
314. Scott, p. 125.
315. Ibid., p. 126.
316. Hansard, Vol. 72 col. 557.
317. Ibid., col. 559.
318. Ibid., col. 560.
319. Asquith, Diary, p. 157.
320. Ibid., p. 158.
321. Asquith Papers: MS.Eng.lett.c.542/1/108.
322. Ibid.: MS.Eng.lett.c.542/1/118.
323. Ibid.: MS.Eng.lett.c.542/1/195.
324. Ibid.: MS.Eng.lett.c.542/1/198.
325. I am indebted to Hon. William Strutt for this information. Asquith’s letters to Miss Strutt are in the Rayleigh Archive.
326. The Times, 18 June 1915, p. 5.
327. Grigg I, p. 264.
328. Barnett, p. 113.
329. The Times, 5 June 1915, p. 10.
330. Ibid., 9 June 1915, p. 8.
331. Ibid., 11 June 1915, p. 11.
332. Ibid., 14 June 1915, p. 8.
333. Webb, III, p. 235.
334. Adams I, p. 53.
335. The Times, 3 July 1915, p. 9.
336. Callwell, I, p. 236.
337. Asquith, Diary, p. 163.
338. Ibid, pp. 146–47.
339. The Times, 16 January 1915, p. 9.
Chapter 4: Conscription
1. The Times, 10 July 1915, p. 8.
2. Ibid., 7 July 1915, p. 3.
3. Ibid., 25 June 1915, p. 3.
4. Ibid., 15 February 1916, p. 8.
5. Boothby, p. 16.
6. The Times, 23 October 1915, p. 7.
7. Ibid., 18 October 1915, p. 5.
8. Haste, p. 90.
9. The Times, 23 October 1915, p. 7.
10. Ibid., 19 October 1915, p. 9.
11. Hansard (Lords), Vol. 19 col. 1103.
12. The Times, 22 October 1915, p. 9.
13. Ibid., 26 October 1915, p. 8.
14. Pope-Hennessy, p. 501.
15. Clark A., p. 90.
16. Asquith, Diary, p. 94.
17. Asquith, VS, p. 569.
18. The Times, 26 April 1915, p. 5.
19. Wells, JP, p. 582.
20. Brooke, 1914, p. 11.
21. Ibid., p. 15.
22. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57324/i-saw-a-man-this-morning.
23. Hynes, p. 10.
24. The Times, 5 May 1916, p. 9.
25. D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, Chapter 12.
26. Morrell II, p. 74.
27. The Times, 23 May 1916, p. 5.
28. Parry Papers: Parry, diary entry for 10 March 1916.
29. Haste, p. 27.
30. For Mrs Fawcett see Heffer, HM, pp. 619–24, and Heffer, AD, pp. 709ff.
31. Riddell, p. 99.
32. Esher Papers: ESHR 2/14, diary entry for 24 June 1915.
33. The Times, 7 June 1915, p. 5.
34. Scott, p. 126.
35. The Times, 14 July 1915, p. 9.
36. Ibid., 16 July 1915, p. 10.
37. Ibid., 20 July 1915, p. 7.
38. Ibid., 22 July 1915, p. 7.
39. Ibid., 21 May 1915, p. 9.
40. Hansard, Vol. 72 cols 81–82.
41. Ibid., col. 349.
42. The Times, 7 June 1915, p. 9.
43. Crewe Papers: Asquith to Crewe, 4 July 1915.
44. Churchill R., p. 185.
45. Ibid., p. 186.
46. Adams I, p. 116.
47. The Times, 19 July 1915, p. 9.
48. Taylor I, p. 38.
49. The Times, 9 July 1915, p. 3.
50. Ibid., 3 August 1915, p. 2.
51. Clark A., p. 83.
52. The Times, 29 November 1915, p. 3.
53. Amery, p. 123.
54. Hansard, Vol. 73 col. 2395.
55. Ibid., col. 2397.
56. Ibid., col. 2398.
57. Ibid., col. 2425.
58. Ronaldshay, III, p. 135.
59. Amery, p. 124.
60. The Times, 18 August 1915, p. 7.
61. Gilbert III(C), II, p. 1139.
62. The Times, 25 August 1915, p. 7.
63. Asquith, Diary, p. 185.
64. Ibid., p. 187.
65. Wilson, p. 121 (n).
66. Riddell, p. 117.
67. Thompson II, p. 66.
68. Wilson, p. 119.
69. Scott, p. 132.
70. Ibid., p. 134.
71. Ibid., p. 135.
72. Esher Papers: ESHR 2/15, diary entry for 3 September 1915.
73. Gilbert III(C), II, p. 1170.
74. Webb, III, p. 238.
75. The Times, 10 September 1915, p. 9.
76. Grigg I, p. 291.
77. Bullock, I, p. 51.
78. Grigg I, p. 298.
79. Ibid.
80. Stevenson F., p. 87.
81. Grigg I, p. 300.
82. Hansard, Vol. 77 col. 802.
83. Ibid., col. 803.
84. The Times, 22 May 1916, p. 5.
85. Ibid., 2 November 1915, p. 5.
86. Taylor I, p. 41.
87. The Times, 30 September 1915, p. 7.
88. Ibid., 4 October 1915, p. 9.
89. Hansard, Vol. 74 col. 34.
90. Roskill, I, p. 217.
91. Stevenson F., p. 59.
92. Hansard, Vol. 74 cols 733–34.
93. Kerry, p. 254.
94. The Times, 4 October 1915, p. 5.
95. Ibid., 27 September 1915, p. 10.
96. Churchill R., p. 192.
97. Quoted in Martin Farr, ‘Winter and Discontent: The December Crises of the Asquith Coalition, 1915–1916’, Britain and the World, Vol. 4 No. 1, p. 118.
98. The Times, 6 October 1915, p. 4.
99. Thompson II, p. 78.
100. The Times, 11 October 1915, p. 9.
101. VBC, p. 81.
102. Ibid., p. 83.
103. Asquith, Diary, p. 198.
104. Scott, p. 144.
105. Riddell, p. 126.
106. Gilbert III(C), II, p. 1219.
107. Asquith, Diary, p. 199.
108. Roskill, I, p. 227.
109. Stevenson F., p. 70.
110. The Times, 20 October 1915, p. 8.
111. Repington, I, p. 53.
112. Thompson II, p. 77.
113. Hankey, I, p. 434.
114. Hankey, II, p. 444.
115. Lloyd Papers: GLLD 28/6, diary entry for 27 November 1915.
116. Hankey, II, p. 441.
117. Lloyd Papers: GLLD 28/6, diary entry for 27 November 1915.
118. Haig, p. 97.
119. Ibid., p. 109.
120. See Heffer, AD, pp. 811–16; and DeGroot I, pp. 144–45.
121. Esher Papers: ESHR 2/15, diary entry for 13 November 1915.
122. Haig, p. 109.
123. Esher Papers: ESHR 2/15, diary entry for 23 November 1915.
124. Ibid: ESHR 2/15, diary entry for 25 November 1915.
125. Holmes, p. 292.
126. Haig, p. 36.
127. See Heffer, AD, p. 258.
128. Asquith, Diary, p. 218.
129. DeGroot, p. 213.
130. Repington, I, p. 88.
131. DeGroot, p. 214.
132. Robertson, I, pp. 165–66.
133. Gilbert III(C), II, p. 1250.
134. Scott, p. 158.
135. Ibid., p. 165.
136. Grigg I, p. 321.
137. Hankey, I, p. 424; Wilson, p. 127.
138. Hansard, Vol. 75 col. 367.
139. Hankey, I, p. 426.
140. The Times, 19 October 1915, p. 5.
141. Ibid., 23 October 1915, p. 7.
142. Ibid., 19 October 1915, p. 9.
143. Ibid., 23 October 1915, p. 3.
144. Hankey, I, p. 427.
145. The Times, 3 November 1915, p. 14.
146. Ibid., p. 11.
147. Ibid., p. 12.
148. Ibid., p. 14.
149. Scott, p. 154.
150. AP, p. 128.
151. Ibid., p. 155.
152. Ibid.
153. Asquith, Diary, p. 180.
154. See Heffer, AD, pp. 483–84.
155. The Times, 25 November 1915, p. 9.
156. Ibid., 8 December 1915, p. 7.
157. Gilbert III(C), II, p. 1341.
158. The Times, 17 December 1915, p. 7.
159. Charman, p. 54.
160. Hansard, Vol. 77 col. 217.
161. AP, p. 134.
162. Ibid., p. 135.
163. The Times, 28 December 1915, p. 9.
164. RA PS/PSO/GV/C/R/260.
165. Stevenson F., p. 89.
166. Martin Farr, op. cit., p. 121.
167. Stevenson F., p. 90.
168. Trevelyan, p. 327.
169. Lloyd Papers: GLLD 28/6, diary entry for 3 December 1915.
170. VBC, p. 90.
171. Nicolson II, p. 271.
172. RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1915: 30 December.
173. Hammond, pp. 190–91.
174. Robertson, I, pp. 294–95.
175. Hansard, Vol. 77 col. 936.
176. Ibid., col. 950.
177. The Times, 5 January 1916, p. 4.
178. Hansard, Vol. 77 col. 951.
179. Ibid., Vol. 104 col. 1366.
180. Ibid., Vol. 77 col. 954.
181. Ibid., col. 957.
182. Ibid., col. 953.
183. Ibid., col. 963.
184. Ibid., col. 978.
185. Asquith, Diary, p. 236.
186. Scott, p. 172.
187. Ibid., p. 169.
188. Stevenson F., p. 96.
189. Ibid., p. 98.
190. Simon, p. 107.
191. Taylor I, p. 55.
192. AP, p. 148.
193. E&H, p. 251.
194. Wells, JP, p. 579.
195. Scott, p. 161.
196. Gilbert III(C), II, p. 751.
197. Sommer, p. 333.
198. The Times, 1 December 1915, p. 9.
199. Ibid., 21 December 1915, p. 11.
200. Hansard, Vol. 77 col. 96.
201. Ibid., col. 122.
202. Ibid., col. 117.
203. Ibid., col. 118.
204. Ibid., col. 121.
205. The Times, 21 December 1915, p. 11.
206. Ibid., 24 January 1916, p. 5.
207. Clark A., p. 106.
208. Thompson I, p. 251.
209. Hansard (Lords), Vol. 22 col. 107.
210. Ibid., col. 126.
211. The Times, 24 January 1916, p. 10.
212. Hansard (Lords), Vol. 21 col. 87.
213. Ibid., col. 90.
214. Scott, p. 182.
215. Haig, p. 129.
216. Hansard, Vol. 80 col. 1430.
217. Gilbert III(C), II, p. 1083.
218. Scott, p. 183.
219. Hammond, p. 193.
220. Hansard, Vol. 80 col. 1563.
221. Ibid., col. 1570.
222. Ibid., cols 1571–72.
223. Ibid., col. 1575.
224. Scott, p. 191.
225. Asquith, Diary, p. 243.
226. Heffer, AD, p. 316.
227. Scott, p. 193.
228. Gilbert III(C), II, p. 1450.
229. Stevenson F., p. 102.
230. Hankey, II, p. 481.
231. Roskill, I, p. 256.
232. The Times, 1 April 1916, p. 3.
233. Thompson I, p. 252.
234. The Times, 30 March 1916, p. 9.
235. Thompson I, p. 253.
236. The Times, 13 April 1916, p. 6.
238. Repington, I, p. 185.
239. Scott, p. 197.
240. Steed, II, p. 131.
241. Lee, p. 148.
242. Riddell, pp. 170–71.
243. Scott, p. 197.
244. Ibid., p. 198.
245. Stevenson F., p. 107.
246. Scott, p. 199.
247. Ibid., p. 200.
248. Stevenson F., p. 107.
249. RA PS/PSO/GV/C/R/285.
250. Hansard, Vol. 82 col. 44; Roskill, I, p. 266.
251. Hansard, Vol. 82 col. 181.
252. Churchill R., p. 207.
253. The Times, 26 May 1916, p. 9.
254. Ibid., 15 September 1916, p. 9.
255. Hansard, Vol. 82 cols 1853–55.
256. The Times, 12 February 1916, p. 3.
257. Hansard, Vol. 82 col. 1856.
258. The Times, 14 February 1916, p. 4.
259. Hankey, II, p. 477.
260. Morrell II, p. 104.
261. Hynes, p. 146.
262. Hansard, Vol. 82 col. 646.
263. Ibid., col. 647.
264. Ibid., col. 648.
265. Ibid., col. 650.
266. The Times, 11 April 1916, p. 5.
267. Hansard, Vol. 86 col. 1256.
268. Ibid., Vol. 83 col. 126.
269. The Times, 16 March 1916, p. 5; ibid., 17 March 1916, p. 5.
270. Russell, II, p. 24.
271. Charman, pp. 61–62.
272. Esher Papers: ESHR 2/15, letter to H. H. Asquith, 17 March 1916.
273. Repington, I, p. 333.
274. Grigg I, p. 338.
275. Wilson, p. 171.
276. Stevenson F., p. 105.
277. The Times, 29 March 1916, p. 10.
278. BL Add MS 62161 ff.100–101.
279. The Times, 24 May 1916, p. 5.
Chapter 5: Rising
1. Scott, p. 114.
2. Ibid.
3. Hardinge, p. 6.
4. The Times, 31 October 1914, p. 9.
5. Meleady, p. 314.
6. The Times, 31 October 1914, p. 9. For James Larkin and his followers, see Heffer, AD, pp. 794–98.
7. Wilson, p. 58.
8. Ibid., p. 59.
9. The Times, 31 October 1914, p. 9.
10. Townshend I, p. 71.
11. The Times, 21 January 1915, p. 6.
12. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/ 57313/on-being-asked-for-a-war-poem
13. Meleady, p. 320.
14. The Times, 3 July 1915, p. 6.
15. Wilson, p. 59.
16. Retrieved from http://www.easter1916.net/oration.htm.
17. Townshend I, p. 115.
18. Ibid., pp. 83–84.
19. Dangerfield, p. 147.
20. Hardinge, p. 7.
21. Townshend I, p. 106.
22. Ibid., p. 78.
23. Ibid., p. 79.
24. The Times, 4 March 1916, p. 8.
25. Midleton, p. 229.
26. Townshend I, p. 124.
27. Hansard (Lords), Vol. 21 col. 964.
28. Hardinge, p. 11.
29. Andrew, p. 87.
30. Townshend I, p. 135.