* Ironically, Churchill may have been the first public figure to use appeasement in a modern political context. As a foreign policy proposal it first appeared on May 9, 1934, in a letter to The Times from Lord Lothian, who suggested “a limitation of armaments by political appeasement.”
* It remained in effect until 1932, “by which time,” Telford Taylor dryly observes, “it was a very bad forecast indeed” (in Munich: The Price of Peace [New York, 1979], page 201).
* City Lights (1931).
* In 1934 he would become Lord Halifax, and is best remembered by that title.
* Originally she was to have been christened the Queen Victoria. A Cunard executive told George V that the company wanted to name her after “the greatest of all English queens.” The King was delighted. “Oh,” he said, “my wife will be pleased.”
* The cages are for display purposes. They are there, not to lock the girls in, but to lock the customers out—until rupees have changed hands.
* During the early 1950s, when this writer was living in Delhi as a foreign correspondent, social scientists began a comprehensive poll of Indian villages to determine how many natives knew British rule had ended in 1947. The survey was aborted when it was discovered that a majority didn’t know the British had even arrived. England’s East India Company was chartered in 1600.
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Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Preamble: THE LION AT BAY
Prologue: LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY
Part One: HEADWATERS, 1874–1895
Part Two: STREAM, 1895–1901
Part Three: RIVER, 1901–1914
Part Four: CATARACT, 1914–1918
Part Five: OXBOW, 1918–1932
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Books by William Manchester
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Chronology
Newsletters
Source Notes
Select Bibliography
Copyright Acknowledgments
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