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After the Victorians

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   9 Pope-Hennessy, p. 80.

  10 Ensor, p. 422.

  11 The Annual Register, 1909, p. 168.

  12 Jenkins (1954), p. 74.

  13 Spengler, vol. II, p. 464.

  14 Cannadine (1990), p. 308.

  15 ibid., p. 316.

  16 Belloc (1991), p. 219.

  17 Robert Rhodes James (1978), pp. 270–2.

  18 Cannadine, p. 334.

  19 Ensor, pp. 440–3.

  20 Rumbelow, p. 41.

  21 ibid., p. 75.

  22 The Annual Register, 1911, p. 3.

  23 Randolph S. Churchill, vol. II, p. 85.

  24 ibid., p. 410.

  25 ibid., p. 355.

  26 For developments of this theme see Howells (1999); Biel (1996); Heyer (1995).

  27 Walter Lord, p. 73.

  28 Howells, p. 141.

  29 Lord, p. 13.

  30 Howells, p. 92.

  31 ibid., p. 121.

  32 ibid., p. 150.

  33 Biel (1990), p. 108.

  34 ibid., p. 99.

  35 ibid., pp. 41–78.

  36 ibid., p. 69.

  37 ibid., p. 133.

  38 ibid., pp. 136–7.

  39 Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911), vol. XXIV, p. 885.

  40 Biel (1990), p. 134.

  41 Heyer, p. 162.

  9 An Asiatic Power

   1 Kenneth Rose, p. 133.

   2 ibid., p. 163.

   3 Pope-Hennessy, p. 448.

   4 ibid., p. 101.

   5 Kenneth Rose, p. 136.

   6 Smith, p. 777.

   7 ibid.

   8 ibid., p. 122.

   9 Brown & Louis, p. 122.

  10 Smith, p. 778.

  11 Brown & Louis, p. 428.

  12 Shaw & Shaw, vol. II, p. 262.

  13 ibid., p. 273.

  14 ibid., p. 316.

  15 Lang, p. 289.

  16 A. J. P. Taylor (1965), p. 25.

  17 Winston S. Churchill (1938), vol. I, pp. 101, 136.

  18 Jastrow, p. 97.

  19 ibid., p. 84.

  20 ibid., p. 120.

  21 Hansard, 4th Series, vol. CXX, p. 1371.

  22 13 July 1912, P2724 f193.

  23 The article is filed with ‘Political and Secret Papers’ in the India Office Records, so evidently the Foreign Office did not expect peacetime Telegraph readers to notice foreign news.

  24 Hansard, 5th series, vol. LXIV, p. 118.

  25 Jastrow, p. 89.

  26 ibid., pp. 114–15.

  27 Sir Llewellyn Woodward (1967), p. 65.

  28 Moorehead, p. 71.

  29 ibid., p. 362.

  30 ibid., p. 151.

  31 Winston S. Churchill (1938), vol. III, p. 845.

  32 Robert Rhodes James (1965), p. 348.

  33 Raymond (1922), p. 179.

  34 Michael Hastings, p. 210.

  35 ibid., p. 39.

  36 Moorehead, p. 112.

  37 Lawrence James (1990), p. 269.

  38 Lawrence James (1993), p. 154.

  39 ibid., p. 169.

  40 T. E. Lawrence (1964), p. 97.

  41 Lawrence James (1990), p. 141.

  42 ibid., p. 154.

  43 T. E. Lawrence (1935), p. 76.

  44 Lawrence James (1964), p. 162.

  45 T. E. Lawrence (1935), p. 434.

  46 ibid., p. 436.

  47 Kenner, p. 301.

  10 Barbarous Kings

   1 Lawrence James (2001), p. 401.

   2 Clark (1961), p. 11.

   3 Callwell, I, p. 102.

   4 ibid., p. 95.

   5 ibid., p. 159.

   6 Mann, p. 291.

   7 Woodward (1967), p. 7.

   8 Strachan, p. 11.

   9 ibid., p. 15.

  10 Mann, p. 295.

  11 Bülow’s Memoirs, quoted ibid., p. 295.

  12 Clark (1961), p. 17.

  13 Alastair Horne pointed out the statistics. He is quoted in Gilbert (1994), p. 123.

  14 A. J. P. Taylor (1965) p. 12.

  15 Gilbert (1994), p. 117.

  16 ibid., p. 118.

  17 Kenneth Rose, p. 317.

  18 Cork, p. 17.

  19 ibid., p. 21.

  20 ibid., pp. 467–87.

  21 Massie, p. 125.

  22 Cork, p. 251.

  23 Lawrence James (2001), p. 407.

  24 Charles Taylor, p. 130.

  25 Gilbert (1994), p. 265.

  26 Howard, p. 79.

  27 Massie, p. 530.

  28 Gilbert (1994), p. 300.

  29 Cork, p. 100.

  30 ibid.

  31 Pound (1916), p. 21.

  32 Kenner, p. 202.

  33 Ezra Pound, ‘Lament of the Frontier Guard’, Personae, p. 136.

  34 Guy Davenport, quoted Kenner, p. 249.

  11 Revolutions

   1 Seton-Watson, pp. 723–7.

   2 Edmund Wilson, p. 462.

   3 Hitler (2001), p. 13. The author presented a handsome leather-bound copy of this work to his old teacher; Dr Pötsch presented it to a monastery library.

   4 Monk (1990), p. 33.

   5 See, for example, Anthony Quinton, From Wodebouse to Wittgenstein, which questions the influence of the early (Tractatus) Wittgenstein on the Vienna Circle and the logical positivists; and which doubts the intelligibility or coherence of the later (Philosophical Investigations) Wittgenstein’s explorations into analytical or linguistic philosophy.

   6 Russell (1967), p. 56.

   7 ibid., p. 36.

   8 Monk (1990), pp. 39, 47.

   9 ibid., p. 56.

  10 Russell (1967), p. 148.

  11 ibid., p. 19.

  12 ibid., p. 80.

  13 Monk (1996), p. 528.

  14 Monk (2002), p. 459.

  15 Russell (1967), p. 18.

  16 ibid., p. 99.

  17 Kragh, p. 93, and Heilbron (ed.) (2003), passim.

  18 French (ed.) (1979), p. 6.

  12 Chief

   1 Pound & Harmsworth, p. 407.

   2 BL Add. MS 62201 f. 133.

   3 A. P. Ryan, p. 11.

   4 Tom Clarke, p. 51.

   5 BL Add. MS 62201 f. 81.

   6 ibid., f. 98.

   7 A. P. Ryan, p. 145.

   8 BL Add. MS 62201 f. 89.

   9 Tom Clarke, p. 105.

  10 S. J. Taylor, p. 178.

  11 A. P. Ryan, p. 21.

  12 S. J. Taylor, p. 30.

  13 Tom Clarke, p. 100.

  14 BL Dept. 3890. Northcliffe Papers, vol. 49, 19 May 1909.

  15 Tom Clarke, p. 65.

  16 Pound & Harmsworth, p. 253.

  17 ibid., p. 257.

  18 Clifford, p. 228.

  19 ibid., p. 229.

  20 ibid., p. 279.

  21 Tom Clarke, p. 74.

  22 ibid., p. 79.

  23 A. J. P. Taylor (1965), p. 69.

  24 A. J. P. Taylor (1972), p. 71.

  25 ibid., p. 81.

  26 ibid., p. 109.

  27 ibid., p. 101.

  28 ibid., p. 99.

  29 Tom Clarke, p. 102.

  30 Pound & Harmsworth, p. 479.

  31 Both views quoted Margaret MacMillan, p. 14.

  32 Gilbert (1994), p. 303.

  33 Woodward (1967), p. 241.

  34 Gilbert (1994), p. 318.

  35 David R. Woodward, ‘Trial By Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917–18’, p. 20, quoted Grigg (2002), p. 73.

  36 Pound & Harmsworth, p. 531.

  37 The phrase is that of The Times Washington correspondent.

  38 Arthur Willert, quoted Pound & Harmsworth, p. 532.

  39 Grigg (2002), p. 124.

  40 S. J. Taylor, p. 184.

  41 Pound & Harmsworth, p. 540.

  42 BL Add. MS 62164, f. 85.

  43 ibid., f. 96.

  44 ibid., f. 106.

  45 Grigg (2002), p. 256.

  46 Tom Clarke, p. 117.

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  48 S. J. Taylor, p. 219.

  49 ibid., p. 218.

  13 Peace

   1 Brittain, p. 186.

   2 Grigg (2002), p. 640.

   3 A. J. P. Taylor (1965), p. 97.

   4 Margaret MacMillan, p. 388.

   5 Robert Skidelsky, New Statesman, 26 January 2004, p. 20.

   6 Margaret MacMillan, p. 2 and passim, for all the information on the previous two pages.

   7 Edel (1972), p. 508.

   8 Henry James (1987), pp. 582–3.

   9 Henry James (1999), p. 497.

  10 Gilbert (1994), p. 522.

  11 Rohan Butler, ‘The Peace Settlement of Versailles’, in The New Cambridge Modern History, vol. XII, p. 445.

  12 ibid., p. 465.

  13 Gordon, p. 20.

  14 Richard Ellmann, ‘Thomas Stearns Eliot’, entry in Dictionary of National Biography 1961–1970.

  15 Betjeman (1960), p. 30.

  16 Gordon, p. 43.

  17 ibid., p. 55.

  18 ibid., p. 67.

  19 ibid., p. 68.

  14 Protons – Massacres – Bombs. Ireland and Iraq

   1 Heilbron (ed.), p. 703.

   2 Francis Robinson, ‘The British Empire and the Muslim World’, in Brown & Louis, p. 406.

   3 ibid., p. 408.

   4 Porter, p. 484.

   5 All the above in Draper.

   6 ibid., p. 216.

   7 Deirdre McMahon, ‘Ireland and the Empire-Commonwealth 1900–1948’, in Brown & Louis, p. 146.

   8 Richard Bennett, p. 57.

   9 Calwell, vol. II, p. 281.

  10 Jeffrey (1984), p. 82.

  11 Richard Bennett, p. 190.

  12 Wilson to Arnold Robertson, 30 March 1921, in Jeffrey (ed.) (1985), p. 250.

  13 Glubb (1959), p. 124.

  14 Lawrence James (1990), p. 377.

  15 W. H. Gallaher to Miss Marcelene Fisher, 2 August 1920, in Sir A. T. Wilson Papers. BL Add. MS 52459A, f. 113.

  16 Hoepli, p. 121.

  17 Sir A. T. Wilson Papers. BL Add. MS 52455A-B, f. 100.

  18 Omissi, p. 160.

  19 Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. IV, p. 557.

  20 Budiansky, p. 141.

  21 Liddell Hart (1932), p. 147.

  22 Martin Gilbert, vol. IV, p. 481.

  23 ibid., p. 802.

  24 ibid., p. 805.

  25 ibid., p. 810.

  26 J. A. Chamier, ‘The Use of Air Force for Replacing Military Garrisons’, Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, 66, 1921, pp. 205–16.

  27 Budiansky, p. 147.

  28 ibid., p. 143.

  29 Martin Gilbert, vol. IV, p. 812.

  30 ibid., p. 817.

  15 Communists and Fascism – The Allure of Violence

   1 Isabel Hull, p. 266.

   2 Rohl, p. 207.

   3 Victoria Louise, p. 127.

   4 Rohl, p. 213.

   5 Heinrich Mann, p. 146.

   6 Anne Applebaum, ‘Why the Red Flagged’, The Daily Telegraph, 28 June 2003, p. 4.

   7 Brogan, p. 154.

   8 ibid., p. 164.

   9 ibid., p. 173.

  10 ibid., p. 176.

  11 ibid., p. 188.

  12 Welch, p. 86.

  13 Figes, p. 640.

  14 ibid., pp. 641–2.

  15 ibid., p. 81.

  16 Robert Rhodes James (1998), p. 60.

  17 Van der Kiste, p. 199.

  18 ibid., p. 203.

  19 ibid.

  20 Royal Archives GV 0 2570/37, quoted Robert Rhodes James (1998), p. 50.

  21 Kenneth Rose, p. 238.

  22 ibid., p. 239.

  23 Belloc (1928), p. 164.

  24 Gilbert (1989), pp. 456–7.

  25 Collier, p. 92, from which all the examples are cited.

  16 The Silly Generation – From Oswald Spengler to Noël Coward

   1 Coward, p. 47.

   2 John Montgomery, pp. 279–81 (with a few additions of my own).

   3 ibid., p. 105.

   4 ibid., p. 111.

   5 Coward, p. 129.

   6 John Montgomery, p. 22.

   7 ibid., p. 281.

   8 Letter from Logan Pearsall Smith to Lytton Strachey, 1 December 1928, BL Strachey Papers Add. MS 60699 f. 30.

   9 Acton, p. 112.

  10 Green, p. 115.

  11 Acton, p. 113.

  12 Sitwell, p. 201.

  13 Horne, p. 31.

  14 John Pearson, p. 19.

  15 Powell (1978), p. 165.

  16 Glendinning, p. 9.

  17 Acton, p. 76.

  18 Glendinning, p. 81.

  19 Lesley, p. 88.

  20 ibid., p. 94.

  21 Coward, p. 99.

  22 ibid., p. 108.

  17 The Means of Grace and the Hope of Glory

   1 A. J. P. Taylor (1965), p. 73.

   2 A. J. P. Taylor (1972), p. 167.

   3 ibid., p. 252.

   4 ibid., p. 198.

   5 Gilmour, p. 583.

   6 Alan Clark (1998), p. 23.

   7 Gilmour, p. 464. It was of this popular novelist, author of Three Weeks, Halcyone (sic) and other sensationalist tales, that they spoke the lines: ‘Would you like to sin with Elinor Glyn on a tiger skin? Or would you prefer to err with her on some other fur?’

   8 A. J. P. Taylor (1965), p. 205.

   9 Muggeridge (1940), p. 47.

  10 Wedgwood, p. 238.

  11 Lloyd, vol. II, p. 117.

  12 ibid., p. 131.

  13 ibid., p. 115.

  14 Cole, p. 164.

  15 A. N. Wilson (2002), p. 508.

  16 A. J. P. Taylor (1965), p. 238.

  17 Skidelsky, p. 344.

  18 ibid., p. 351.

  19 A. J. P. Taylor (1965), p. 239.

  20 ibid., p. 245.

  21 Jenkins (2001), p. 409.

  22 A. J. P. Taylor (1965), p. 248.

  23 Kenneth Rose, p. 343.

  24 Cole, p. 193.

  25 A. N. Wilson (1984), p. 296.

  18 The Secrets of a Woman’s Heart – Marie Stopes, Radclyffe Hall

   1 Grigg (1980), p. 97, my source for the next two pages until note 2.

   2 Rowbotham, p. 61.

   3 Hall, p. 307.

   4 ibid., p. 12.

   5 Stopes Papers, BL Add. MS 59848.

   6 Ruth Hall, Observer Magazine, 15 July 1973.

   7 Stopes Papers, BL Add. MS 59848 f. 11.

   8 ibid., 58483, f. 49.

   9 June Rose, p. 141.

  10 ibid., p. 115.

  11 John Montgomery, p. 162.

  12 Good Housekeeping, March 1924.

  13 McKibbin, p. 314.

  14 ibid., p. 314.

  15 Rowbotham, p. 43.

  16 Galton, p. 43.

  17 Hall, p. 302.

  18 Rowbotham, p. 25.

  19 ibid., p. 48.

  20 ibid., p. 43.

  21 Stopes Papers, BL Add. MS 58638 f. 37.

  22 Hansard, Parliamentary Debates, Fifth series, vol. XC, 804.

  23 ibid, 826.

  24 Inge, p. 72.

  25 Hansard, Fifth Series, vol. XV, 818.

  26 Baker, p. 233.

  27 Hall, p. 285.

  28 Master, p. 168.

  19 For the Benefit of Empire

   1 John Montgomery, p. 117.

   2 Kenneth Rose, p. 393.

   3 Posters in British Library collection.

   4 John Montgomery, p. 119, Kenneth Rose, p. 392.

   5 John Montgomery, pp. 118–19.

   6 The Story of the Building of the Greatest Stadium in the World, Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons, 1923.

   7 Craig, pp. 35–6, quoting Nietzsche, ‘On the Utility and Disadvantage of History for Life’ (‘Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben’), the second of his Untimely Meditations (Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen).
r />    8 British Empire Exhibition 1925. Opening Ceremony by HM the King accompanied by HM the Queen, Wembley, 9 May 1925.

   9 John W. Chell, ‘Colonial Rule’, in Brown & Louis, pp. 233–43.

  10 Spectator, 26 April 1924.

  11 John M. Mackenzie, p. 111.

  12 John M. Mackenzie, ‘The Popular Culture of Empire in Britain’, in Brown Louis, p. 216.

  13 Judith Brown (2003), p. 117.

  14 Muggeridge (1940), p. 95.

  15 ibid.

  20 The ABC of Economics

   1 Eliot, p. 46.

   2 Pound (1953), p. 71.

   3 A. N. Wilson (1984), p. 295.

   4 DNB (1922–1930), p. 604.

   5 Micklethwait & Wooldridge, p. 84.

   6 ibid., pp. 163–6.

   7 ibid., p. 81.

   8 Cole, p. 231.

   9 ibid., p. 229.

  10 ibid., p. 235.

  11 Skidelsky, p. 268.

  12 ibid., p. 357.

  13 ibid., p. 359.

  21 Puzzles and Pastoral

   1 The Times, 18 January 1934.

   2 Woods & Bishop, pp. 243ff.

   3 Dawson had two phases of editorship, from 1912 to 1919 and then again from 1923, after the Astor purchase, until 1941.

   4 The Times, 31 July 1970.

   5 Millington, p. 19.

   6 ibid., p. 21.

   7 ibid.

   8 ibid., p. 61.

   9 The Times, 1 March 1934.

  10 ibid., 15 August 1934.

  11 ibid., 17 August 1934.

  12 ibid., 21 August 1934.

  13 Fitzgerald, p. 201.

  14 ibid., p. 202.

  15 ibid., p. 192.

  16 Waugh (1959), p. 189.

  17 ibid., p. 224.

  18 Christopher Hollis to the author.

  19 Knox & Lunn, p. 130.

  20 ibid., p. 220.

  21 Fitzgerald, p. 214.

  22 Christie (1934), p. 112.

  23 Symons, p. 122.

  24 Auden, p. 158, ‘The Guilty Vicarage’.

  25 Rahn (ed.), p. 29.

  26 Christie (1938), p. 220.

  27 Auden, p. 151.

  28 Jenkins & Spalding, p. 37.

  29 Betjeman (1979), p. 162.

  22 Two Thousand Whispered Voices

   1 Iremonger, p. 379.

   2 ibid., p. 525.

   3 ibid., p. 378.

   4 Hansard, 5th series, vol. 218, p. 1267.

   5 ibid., p. 1107.

   6 ibid., p. 1212.

   7 ibid., p. 1210.

   8 ibid., p. 1201.

   9 Lloyd, vol. I, p. 393.

  10 ibid., p. 402.

  11 ibid., p. 394.

  12 The Times obituary of 14 December 1974 is particularly unfair to Maufe.

  13 Bethge, p. 209.

  14 Dom Philip Jebb, OSB, Monk of Downside, to the author.

  15 Wykeham-George & Mathew, p. 72.

  16 Valentine, p. 48.

  17 Private information. The Mind and Heart of Love was d’Arcy’s most celebrated book.

  18 Adrian Hastings, p. 265.

  19 Blythe, p. 134; Cullen (1975), passim.

  23 Politics

   1 DNB (1931–1940), p. 822.

 

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