54. A.J.P. Taylor, English History 1914–1945, p. 27, footnote 2.
55. Chancellor Bethmann, speech to the Reichstag on 4 August, at http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/bethmannspeech1914.htm.
56. Quigley, Anglo-American Establishment, p. 177.
57. Ibid.
58. Taylor, English History 1914–1945, p. 28.
59. William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, First Commissioner of Works, a man who is more remembered for his public exile following revelations of his sexual preferences than his involvement in witnessing the declaration of war. His reward was to be appointed lord president of the Council to replace Lord Morley, who had resigned from Asquith’s Cabinet in protest over the war.
CONCLUSION – LIES, MYTHS AND STOLEN HISTORY
1. Anthony Arnoux, The European War, vol. 1, p. 270.
2. J.A. White, Transition to Global Rivalry, p. 181.
3. Alexander Fuehr, The Neutrality of Belgium, pp. 73–5.
4. Albert J. Knock, The Myth of a Guilty Nation, p. 37, ebook at http://library.mises.org/books/Albert%20Jay%20Nock/The%20Myth%20of%20a%20Guilty%20Nation.pdf
5. Fay, Origins of the World War, vol. I, p. 5.
6. George Buchanan, My Mission to Russia, vol. 1, p. 100.
7. Fay, Origins of the World War, vol. I, p. 29.
8. Ibid., p. 5.
9. Barnes, Genesis of the World War, p. 40.
10. Fay, Origins of the World War, p. 6.
11. The German White Book was titled Preliminary Memoir and Documents Concerning the Outbreak of the War.
12. Fay, Origins of the World War, vol. I, p. 4.
13. Ibid., vol. I, pp. 8–10.
14. Alfred von Wegerer, ‘A Refutation of the Versailles War Guilt Thesis’, p. 146.
15. Ibid., p. 354.
16. Peace Treaty of Versailles, Part VIII, Reparation, Section 1, Article 231.
17. Barnes, Genesis of the World War, p. 35.
18. Quigley, Anglo-American Establishment, p. 197.
19. Gollin, Proconsul in Politics, p. 551, noted in a footnote.
20. Milner Papers, Milner to Selborne, 5 April 1899, Bodleian Library, Ms.Eng.Hist. c.688.
21. Fisher, Memories and Records, vol. 1, p. 21.
22. Ferguson, House of Rothschild, vol. II, p. 319.
23. Cabinet Papers, CAB 37/120/ 69, 81, 90.
24. List of Cabinet Papers, 1880–1914. PRO booklet.
25. D’Ombrain, War Machinery and High Policy, preface, p. xiii.
26. Ibid.
27. Lloyd George, War Memoirs, p. 70.
28. Meriel Buchanan, The Dissolution of an Empire, pp. 192–207.
29. Quigley, Anglo-American Establishment, p. 98.
30. Ibid., p. 99.
31. Barnes, In Quest of Truth and Justice, p. x.
32. New York Times Current History Magazine, July 1928, pp. 619–40.
33. Quigley, Anglo-American Establishment, p. 314.
34. M.H. Cochran, Germany Not Guilty in 1914, p. xix.
35. Times Literary Supplement, 4 May 1962.
36. Marc Trachtenberg, ‘The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method’ at http://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=303
37. Stone, World War One, p. 19.
38. Strachan, First World War, p. 16.
39. Ibid., p. 36.
40. See Chapter 13.
41. A.J.P. Taylor, The First World War: An Illustrated History, p. 20.
42. Michael Howard, The First World War: A Very Short Introduction, p. 24.
43. Walter W. Ligget, The Rise of Herbert Hoover, p. 51.
44. Ibid., p. 55.
45. Ibid., p. 120.
46. Hamill, Strange Career of Mr. Hoover, p. 150.
47. See Chapter 2.
48. Hamill, Strange Career of Mr. Hoover, pp. 156–7.
49. Cissie Dore Hill, Collecting the Twentieth Century, p. 1 at http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/8041
50. Charles G. Palm and Dale Reed, Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives, p. 5.
51. Whittaker Chambers, Hoover Library http://whittakerchambers.org/articles/time-a/hoover-library/
52. New York Times, 5 February 1921.
53. Hill, Collecting the Twentieth Century, p. 1 at http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/8041
54. Whittaker Chambers, Hoover Library at http://whittakerchambers.org/articles/time-a/hoover-library/
55. Ibid.
56. New York Times, 5 February 1921.
57. Whittaker Chambers, Hoover Library, as above.
58. New York Times, 5 February 1921.
59. Hoover Institution, Stanford University at http://www.hoover.org/about/herbert-hoover
60. Ibid.
61. Ian Bell, Sunday Herald, 16 December 2012.
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