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  64 “a poisonous woman”: FGDN, II, 151

  65 “As long as they are”: Mackay, 399

  66 “She is a terrible looking woman”: ibid., 394

  67 “The influence of Lady C.”: ibid.

  68 “that Beresford had the whole Navy”: ibid.

  69 “the Admiralty fear no inquiry”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 101

  70 “There is not a man”: Mackay, 394

  71 “I am at a loss”: Lee, II, 605

  72 “My dear William”: ibid., 606

  73 “about 15 young, unmarried nieces”: Magnus, 375

  74 “seriously unhinged”: ibid., 376

  75 “This is very sad”: ibid.

  76 “youngish man”: Mackay, 398

  77 “pleasant in manner”: ibid.

  78 “When I agreed”: Magnus, 375

  79 “Beresford... can do more”: FGDN, II, 210

  80 “Like a rhinoceros”: ibid., 41

  81 “Hell”: ibid.

  82 “In a country like ours”: Barker, 69

  83 “Keep your hair on”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 100

  84 “that I was Jekyll and Hyde”: Fisher, Memories, 184

  85 “was bad for me”: FGDN, II, 174

  86 “When Your Majesty backed up”: Lee, II, 599

  87 “Do you know”: Fisher, Memories, 223

  88 “a pack of cowards”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 103

  89 “What really amounts”: FGDN, II, 177

  90 “Either the quarterdeck and silence”: ibid., 173

  91 “strong objection”: FGDN, II, 43

  92 “They are all ‘blue funkers’”: ibid.

  93 “If... the Rear Admiral thought”: Padfield, Aim Straight, 185

  94 “A STRANGE OCCURRENCE”: ibid.

  95 “a gross scandal”: ibid.

  96 “a sickening tale”: ibid.

  97 “It can no longer be denied”: The Times, July 6, 1908

  98 “We say frankly”: ibid.

  99 “alleged dissensions”... “unverified rumours”: Padfield, Aim Straight, 186

  100 “Personally... I shall never forget”: Magnus, 371

  101 “My dear Lord Charles Beresford”: Lee, II, 600

  102 “Make a disturbance”: Magnus, 371

  103 “Knollys... dead on”: FGDN, II, 43

  104 “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 188

  105 “During the whole of my tenure”: Bacon, Fisher, II, 49

  106 “even under pressure”: FGDN, II, 247

  107 “I shall of course obey”: ibid.

  108 “I always look”: Bacon, From 1900 Onward, 124

  109 “the King pointed out”: Bacon, Fisher, II, 113

  110 “Lord Charles and Admiral Lambton”: Bacon, From 1900 Onward, 127

  111 “The King has spoken to me”: Bacon, Fisher, II, 114

  112 “the cleverest officer in the Navy”: Mackay, 297

  113 “Fisher, of course, had no right”: Bacon, ibid.

  114 “quite violent”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 192

  115 “Is the House”: FGDN, II, 212

  116 “lead to the harmony”: Bacon, Fisher, II, 53

  117 “It was dramatic”: Mackay, 413

  118 “did not consider it”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 198

  119 “We have... roped him in”: FGDN, II, 249

  120 “satisfies in substance”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 198

  121 “satisfied... there is no such deficiency”: ibid., 199

  122 “[The committee] feel bound”: Bacon, Fisher, II, 55

  123 “The Committee, by not squashing”: FGDN, II, 262

  124 “I thought they were great men”: ibid., 260

  125 “Disgusted”: ibid., 267

  126 “Asquith ‘watered it down’”: ibid.

  127 “Will consider most seriously”: ibid., 276

  128 “a system of espionage”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 203

  129 “the mulatto”: ibid.

  130 “Fear God and Dread Nought”: FGDN, II, 278

  131 Fisher’s decision on his motto: ibid.

  132 “SO REALLY SORRY”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 186

  133 “had no personal objections”: McKenna, 90

  134 “Sir Arthur Wilson stands out”: ibid.

  135 “I do not say”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 186

  PART 4: BRITAIN AND GERMANY: POLITICS AND GROWING TENSION, 1906–1910

  Chapter 29

  Campbell-Bannerman: The Liberals Return to Power

  1 “We will refer it”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, II, 290

  2 “I see you are already tired”: ibid., I, 62

  3 “I sat down timidly”: ibid., 100

  4 “As to the censure”: ibid., 156

  5 “Rosebery was one of the ablest”: Wilson, 236

  6 “in apparent difference”: Asquith, Fifty Years, I, 278

  7 “well-suited to a position”: Thomas Pakenham, 534

  8 “Campbell-Bannerman’s great advantage”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, II, 83

  9 “The door has always been open”: Asquith, Fifty Years, II, 3

  10 “a small people”: Spender, Asquith, I, 135

  11 “We... held that the war”: Jenkins, 114

  12 “We are in the right”: Wilson, 301

  13 “The Boers have committed an aggression”: Jenkins, 115

  14 “Anti-Joe, but never pro-Kruger”: Asquith, Fifty Years, I, 303

  15 “Master Haldane”... “Master Grey”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, I, 342

  16 “A vote for the Liberals”: ibid., 291

  17 “Madame’s health”: ibid., II, 48

  18 “who deserved”: ibid.

  19 “wholesale burning of farms”: Wilson, 348

  20 “A phrase often used”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, I, 336

  21 “I never said a word”: ibid., 337

  22 “We have not changed our view”: Jenkins, 125

  23 “war to the knife—and fork”: Asquith, Fifty Years, II, 4

  24 “I must plough my furrow”: ibid., 128

  25 “so straight, so good-tempered”: Lee, II, 442

  26 “quite sound on foreign politics”: ibid.

  27 “I lunched with the King”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, II, 174

  28 “about half my meals”: ibid., 176

  29 “The effective management of Irish affairs”: Asquith, Fifty Years, II, 33

  30 “Emphatically and explicitly”: ibid., 35

  31 “Campbell-Bannerman... was genial”: Haldane, Autobiography, 156

  32 “that ingenious person”: Margot Asquith, III, 95

  33 “a place for which”: ibid., 96.

  34 “The more robust and stronger”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 60

  35 “all buttoned-up”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, II, 194

  36 “I wanted him to know”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 61

  37 “No surrender!”: Haldane, Autobiography, 169

  38 “I am sure that those”: Jenkins, 153

  39 “The conditions are in one respect”: ibid., 151

  40 “with the air of one”: Haldane, Autobiography, 171

  41 “What about the War Office?”: ibid., 173

  42 “My thoughts have often gone back”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, II, 198

  43 “Haldane is always climbing”: ibid., 39

  44 “We shall see”: Haldane, Autobiography, 182

  45 “Myself he did not like”: ibid.

  46 “I congratulate you, Sir Henry”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 365

  47 “Feeling among the horses’ heads”: Haldane, Autobiography, 183

  48 “Certainly, sir”: ibid.

  49 “as a young and blushing virgin”: ibid.

  50 “The Right Honorable gentleman”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, II, 273

  51 “In the case of Germany”: ibid., 208

  52 “The growth of armaments”: ibid.

  53 “My greatest regret”: Asquith, Memories, I, 233

  54 “
Three words made peace”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, I, 351

  55 “Henry is a good man”: ibid., II, 397

  56 “How strange to have spent”: ibid., 287

  57 “a blazing summer afternoon... horses’ hooves”: Arthur Ponsonby in ibid., 293

  58 “I know how great”: ibid., 294

  59 “seemed to have recovered”: ibid., 377

  60 “Don’t telegraph to ‘the King’”: ibid., 384

  61 “You are a wonderful colleague”: Margot Asquith, III, 136

  62 “This is not the last of me”: Spender, Asquith, I, 196

  Chapter 30

  The Asquiths, Henry and Margot

  1 “simply... put the ladder before him”: Spender, Asquith, I, 22

  2 “the best intellectual apparatus”: Maurice, 164

  3 “Asquith did not originate much”: ibid.

  4 “We were both rising”: Haldane, Autobiography, 103

  5 “too forensic”: Escott, 362

  6 “An intelligent, rather good-looking man”: Spender, Asquith, I, 78

  7 “had a conversation with Mr. Asquith”: ibid.

  8 “A beautiful and simple spirit”: Haldane, Autobiography, 103

  9 “No one would have called her”: Jenkins, 30

  10 “When I discovered”: ibid., 54

  11 “She was so different from me”: Spender, Asquith, I, 98

  12 “I was anxious”: ibid.

  13 “The dinner where I was introduced”: Margot Asquith, II, 195

  14 “Asquith is the only kind of man”: Jenkins, 75

  15 “You tell me not to stop”: ibid.

  16 “Small, rapid, nervous”: Margot Asquith, II, 77

  17 “I ride better than most people”: ibid., 270

  18 “I have broken both collarbones”: ibid.

  19 “I am afraid you resigned”: ibid., I, 127

  20 “Do look at Miss Tennant!”: ibid., 128

  21 “I am afraid you have not read”: ibid., II, 40

  22 “I hear you are going to marry”: ibid., I, 251

  23 “I will marry you, Peter”: ibid., 178

  24 “This afternoon as I sat”: Jenkins, 81

  25 “I was filled with profound misgivings”: Spender, Asquith, I, 99

  26 “wastes her time”: Margot Asquith, II, 80

  27 “It is not possible”: Spender, Asquith, I, 96

  28 “I fired two shots”: Asquith, Memories, 309

  29 “Supposing I were to give”: Spender, Asquith, I, 126

  30 “An adventure more childishly conceived”: Jenkins, 101

  31 “Having done by their blundering folly”: ibid.

  32 “Dr. Jim”: Margot Asquith, III, 26

  33 “My husband and I”: ibid.

  34 “No man can lead”: Young, 170

  35 “war to the knife—and fork”: Asquith, Fifty Years, II, 4

  36 “There is nothing in the world”: Spender, Asquith, I, 139

  37 “to which I can fairly say”: ibid., 82

  38 “Go and bring the sledgehammer”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 371

  39 “an inconvenient and dangerous”: Lee, II, 582

  40 “Asquith was a man who knew”: Churchill, Great Contemporaries, 113

  41 “The first essential”: ibid., 117

  42 “The Right Honorable Gentleman must wait”: Churchill, Great Contemporaries, 120

  43 “What we have heard today”: ibid., 124

  44 “In Cabinet, he was”: ibid., 116

  45 “In his earlier days”: Haldane, Autobiography, 103

  46 “He disliked ‘talking shop’”: Churchill, Great Contemporaries, 116

  47 “For many years”: Jenkins, 94

  48 “No one who has not experienced”: ibid.

  49 “when my husband became Prime Minister”: Margot Asquith, III, 33

  50 “I am horribly impatient”: LVS, 9

  51 “Margot I find rather trying”: ibid.

  52 “leaving a wake”: ibid.

  53 “I have sometimes walked up and down”: ibid.

  54 “It is a grief to me”: ibid., 10

  55 “a slight weakness”: ibid., 471

  56 “little harem”: ibid., II

  57 “a splendid, virginal, comradely”: ibid., 5

  58 “talking and laughing”: ibid., 532

  59 “You have given me”: ibid., 553

  60 “Your lover—for all time”: ibid., 588

  61 “Darling—shall I tell you”: ibid., 589

  62 “No woman should expect”: ibid., 12

  63 “a woman without refinement”: ibid., 13

  64 “I’m far too fond”: ibid.

  65 “Oh... if only Venetia would marry”: ibid.

  66 “Why can’t I marry you”: ibid., 551

  67 “I know quite well”: ibid., 557

  Chapter 31

  Sir Edward Grey and Liberal Foreign Policy

  1 “of pure pleasure”: Trevelyan, 17

  2 “Sir Edward Grey”: ibid., 20

  3 “In the clear, cold light”: ibid., 37

  4 “I believe, however busy”: ibid., 32

  5 “I cannot think it possible”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 19

  6 “the fullest and clearest statement”: Trevelyan, 62

  7 “There was no pleasure for me”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 31

  8 “I understand at last”: Trevelyan, 57

  9 “I... said that if we went on”: ibid.

  10 “The one blow”: ibid.

  11 “Intensely distasteful”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 26

  12 “The cottage became dearer”: Trevelyan, 49

  13 “that of having everything”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 29

  14 “an earthly paradise”: Grey, Fallodon Papers, 128

  15 “The angler is by the river”: ibid., 132

  16 “And now what”: ibid., 4

  17 “If you will lie on your back”: ibid., 28

  18 “The greatest of all sport”: ibid., 139

  19 “one of the great moments”: ibid.

  20 “in his few intervals indoors”: Trevelyan, 41

  21 “The memories he amassed”: ibid., 40

  22 “the luxuriance of water meadows”: ibid., 42

  23 “I am alone here”: ibid., 46

  24 “unfriendly act”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 19

  25 “a feeling of simple pleasure”: ibid., 49

  26 “Suddenly... there came”: ibid., 9

  27 “The abrupt and rough peremptoriness”: ibid., 10

  28 “like a noose”: ibid., 11

  29 “The French were being humiliated”: ibid., 51

  30 “what the British Government”: Wilson, 524

  31 “Indications keep trickling in”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 115

  32 “He put the question”: Wilson, 525

  33 “I could read French easily”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 86

  34 “In the event of an attack”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, II, 254

  35 “did not attribute”: Nicolson, 130

  36 “Early in 1906”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 91

  37 “Conversations such as that”: ibid., 92

  38 “My dear Asquith”: ibid., 93

  39 “What really determines”: BD, VI, 784

  40 “the most unbending determination”: ibid., III, Appendix A, 419

  Chapter 32

  The Anglo-Russian Entente and the Bosnian Crisis

  1 “barbaric, Asiatic, and tyrannical”: Empress Frederick, 209

  2 “My own opinion”: Nicolson, 153

  3 “The alternate hectoring and cajolery”: ibid.

  4 “on little lacquered feet”: ibid., 158

  5 “Every day... I regret it”: Bülow, II, 325

  6 “great pleasure... In him you have a man”: Lee, II, 289. The account of Isvolsky’s code is taken from ibid., 326

  7 “nothing but good feelings”: Gooch, History of Modern Europe, 363

  8 “New institutions”: Lee, II, 567r />
  9 “Isvolsky’s former eagerness”: Nicolson, 163

  10 “He fears, I think”: ibid., 185

  11 “I do not wish”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 156

  12 “beaming with pleasure”: BD, IV, 283

  13 “the methods of a humane and highly skilled dentist”: Nicolson, 175

  14 “outside the Russian sphere”: ibid.

  15 The provisions of the Anglo-Russian Convention are taken from ibid., 325–27

  16 “We watch the end of the negotiations”: Gooch, History of Modern Europe, 396

  17 “No one will reproach England”: Nicolson, 188

  18 “Yes, when taken all round”: ibid.

  19 “There was no question”: ibid., 172

  20 “You may call it ‘encirclement’”: ibid., 174

  21 “An Insult to Our Country”: Lee, II, 587

  22 “a common murderer”: ibid.

  23 “hobnobbing”: ibid.

  24 “The Queen lay on deck”: FGDN, II, 180

  25 “wasn’t actually sick”: ibid.

  26 “he was more likely to meet”: Magnus, 409

  27 “is simply like a child”: FGDN, II, 181

  28 “It’s a jolly good thing”: Lee, II, 594

  29 “What a very nice time”: FGDN, II, 183

  30 “amiable and chatty”: Nicolson, 155

  31 “Brazen impudence”: Bing, 234

  32 “The Whig Statesman”: Mansergh, 128

  33 “it mattered not to us”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 169

  34 “it is an essential principle”: Churchill, World Crisis, I, 35

  35 “inopportune”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 172

  36 “Isvolsky went on to say”: ibid., 178

  37 “a piece of brigandage”: Mansergh, 127

  38 “only at the same time”: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, I, 185

  39 “Our relations with Austria”: Woodward, 182

  40 “Austria-Hungary behaved”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 305; DGP, XXVI, 110

  41 “The conference won’t come off”: DGP, XXVI, 169

  42 “duplicitous”... “no gentleman”: Mansergh, 132

  43 “Asquith asked me”: Newton, 371

  44 “Your Sir Edward Grey”: Gooch, History of Modern Europe, 418

  45 “unless Russia agreed”: Spender, Asquith, I, 248

  46 “We expect a precise answer”: DGP, XXVI, 693

  47 “with God’s help”: Spender, Asquith, I, 248

  48 “Russia’s recent conduct”: Gooch, History of Modern Europe, 423

  49 “I solved the Bosnian crisis”: Bülow, I, 174

  50 “managed the affair excellently”: ibid.

 

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