by A. N. Wilson
Mooney, James D
Moore, G.E.
Moore, George
Moral Rearmament
Moran, Charles Wilson, Baron
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr
Morgenthau, Henry, Sr
Morley, John
Morning Post (newspaper)
Morrell, Lady Ottoline
at Garsington, 127n
John portrait of
Russell and
Morrell, Philip, 127n
Morris Motors Ltd
Morton, J.B. (‘Beachcomber’)
Moseley, General George Van Horn
Moser, Claus
Mosley, Sir Oswald
admires Orwell’s Road to Wigan Tier
adultery
Bevan attracted to
and British Union of Fascists
economic/social ideas
Esher on
forms New Party
friendship with Windsors
in Labour Party
leadership
opposes parliamentary democracy
and William Joyce
motor cars
Mountbatten, Edwina, Countess (née Ashley)
Mountbatten, Louis, 1st Earl
Muggeridge, Malcolm
Müller, Hermann
Muller, Bishop Ludwig
Munich agreement (1938)
Munnings, Sir Alfred
Munstead, Surrey
murder stories see mystery stories
Murray, Gilbert
music
modernism
revival of English interest in
in wartime
music hall
musical shows
Mussolini, Benito
and Church
Churchill meets
and Fascism
G.B. Shaw visits
invades Abyssinia
killed
Pound admires
praised
and threat of Second World War
tyranny
Welles meets
mystery stories (whodunnits)
Nagasaki
Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
Natal: Chinese labour in
Nathan, Sir Matthew
National Chemical Laboratory, Teddington
National Government (1931)
National Health Service
National Insurance Act (1911)
National Socialist League
National Union of Mineworkers
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
navies: arms race
Nazism
appeal
Churchill’s view of
concentration camps
conflict with Christianity
Duke of Windsor and
and economic prosperity
ends unemployment
and persecution of Jews
revenge against
rise to power
totalitarianism
Neagle, Dame Anna
Negrín, Juan
Nehru, Jawaharlal (Pandit)
acknowledges Curzon’s achievements
on Indian independence
and Indian nationalism
as modernizer
and Mountbattens
panegyric at Gandhi’s funeral
Neurach, Eva
Neville, Edith
Neville, George
Nevinson, C.R.W.
New Deal (USA)
New English Art Club
New Party
New Statesman, The (journal)
New York Times
New York World
Newall, Sir Cyril
Newman, Cardinal John Henry
Newnes, George
Newnham College, Cambridge
newspapers
political influence
newspapers (cont.)
popular
Nicholas II, Tsar
abdicates
autocratic rule
murdered
and outbreak of First World War
Nicholls, B.E.
Nicholson, Ben
Nicholson, Sir William
Nicolson, (Sir) Harold
Nicolson, Nigel
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Beyond Good and Evil
Nigeria
Nijinsky, Vaslav
1922 Committee
Nineteenth Century (magazine)
Noble, Sir Andrew
Nonconformism: in Wales
Norman, Montagu (later Baron)
Normandy: invasion (1944; Operation Overlord)
North Africa: in Second World War
Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William
Harmsworth, 1st Viscount
Norton, Mary: The Borrowers
Norway: campaign in (1940)
nouveaux riches (New Rich)
Novello (music publishers)
nuclear physics (and atomic theory)
nuclear weapons
development
used against Japan
Nuffield Foundation
Nuffield, William Morris, Viscount
Nuremberg war crimes tribunal
Nuri es-Said, General
occult: belief in
ocean liners: and national rivalry
O’Connor, Lieutenant-General Richard
O’Dwyer, Sir Michael
Oedipus
Ogier, Major
O’Hanrahan, Michael
O’Hegarty, P.S.
oil
British dependence on foreign
reserves and supply
see also petroleum
O’Laoi, Father Padraic
Old Age Pension Act (1908)
Old Age Pensions
Oliver, Roland
Olympic Games, Berlin (1936)
Olympic, RMS
O’Neill, Eugene
Oppenheimer, Robert
Orpen, Sir William
Orwell, George
Animal Farm
Osborne House, Isle of Wight
Oster, General
Ottoman Empire
and Armenian massacres
and Bosnian Muslims
decline
Oxford Group
Oxford University
admits women to degrees
Church of England mission to
Paderewski, Ignace
Pakistan: created
Palestine
Balfour Declaration on
campaign in First World War
as Jewish homeland
Jewish immigration to
Palmer, Charles
Palmer, Samuel
Pan-Germanism
Pankhurst, Christabel
Pankhurst, Emmeline
Papen, Franz von
Paris Peace Conference (1919)
Parker-Bowles, Camilla
Parkes, Bessie
Parliament
and female suffrage
see also Commons, House of
Parliament Act (1911)
Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings
Parsons, Deke
Partridge, Bernard
Pascendi Dominici Gregis (papal encyclical)
Passchendaele, Battle of (1917)
Passport to Pimlico (film)
Patti, Adelina
Pavlova, Anna
Pavolini, Alessandro
Payne, Jack
Pre-Raphaelites
Pearl Harbor (1941)
Pearse, Patrick
Pearse, William
Pedersen, Mikael
Peel, Sir Robert
peerage: admission to
Peierls, Rudolf
Pershing, General John Joseph
Petacci, Clara
Pétain, Marshal Philippe
petroleum
see also oil
Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus
Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh
philosophy
Eliot and
on logic and mathematics
Wittgenstein’s
physics
see also nuclear physics
Piatkov, Peter (‘Peter the Painter’)
Picasso, Picasso
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Guernica
Pickles, Wilfred
Pierce, Group Captain F.L.
Piper, John
Pitt, William, the Younger
Pius X, Pope
Pius XI, Pope
Pius XII, Pope
Planck, Max
Plomer, R.
Plücker, Julius
Plunkett, Joseph, in
poetry
Poincaré, Raymond
Poland
and 1918 peace settlement
Franco-British guarantees to
German threat to
Hitler invades (1939)
post-Second World War settlement
Pollitt, Harry
Pollitzer, Adolf
Pollock, Bertram, Bishop of Norwich
Ponsonby, Arthur (later 1st Baron)
Ponsonby, Sir Frederick (later Baron
Sysonby)
Poole, R.L.
Poor Law
poor, the: disparity with rich
Popper, Karl
popular songs
population
Porch, Montague
Port Sunlight
Portal, Sir Charles (later 1st Viscount)
Pötsch, Leopold
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Potter, Richard
Pound, Ezra Loomis
on Churchill’s defeat
economic ideas
and Eliot
imprisoned
introduces revolution in poetry
wartime broadcasts
The ABC of Economics
Cantos
Pisan Cantos
Powell, Lieutenant Commander A.C.
Powell, Anthony
A Dance to the Music of Time
Powys, John Cowper
Porius
Preece, Patricia
press
censorship
power of
see also newspapers
Price, Philip
Priestley, J.B.
on industrial capitalism
wartime broadcasts
The Ed ward tans
English Journey
Prince of Wales, HMS
Princip, Gavrilo
Protestantism
Proust, Marcel
The Captive (La Prisonnière)
Prussia
psychoanalysis
public schools
Punch (magazine)
Punjab
Qualification of Women Act (1907)
quantum theory
Queen, Ellery (F. Dannay and M.B. Lee)
Quennell, Sir Peter
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur
race: and nationality
racism
radar: developed
Radcliffe, Sir Cyril (later Viscount)
radio
popular spread of
in wartime
ragtime
railways
in Britain
in Middle East
nationalized
Ramsey, Michael, Bishop of Durham (later
Archbishop of Canterbury)
Randall, John
Ransome, Arthur
Rasch, Otto
Rasputin, Grigori
Rational Dress Society
Rattigan, (Sir) Terence
Raven, Jessie
Raverat, Gwen
Ray, Phil
Raymond, Ernest: Tell England
Reading, 1st Marquess of see Isaacs, Sir
Rufus
Reck-Malleczewen, Friedrich
Redmond, John
Reed, Henry: ‘Naming of Parts’
Regulation 18B
Reith, John (later Baron)
Reizenstein, Franz
relativity theories
religion
and disbelief
Eliot embraces
and Nazism
revival
varieties of experience
Remondino, Dr
Renan, Ernest
Rendel, Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron
Renishaw (house), Derbyshire
Repington, Colonel Charles à Court
Representation of the People Act (1918)
Repulse, HMS
Revelstoke, John Baring, 2nd Baron
Reynaud, Paul
Rhineland
Hitler reoccupies
occupied by France
Rhodes, Cecil
Rhodes, Ellis
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
rich, the: disparity with poor
Richter, Hans
Ridley, Jane
Riefenstahl, Leni
Roberts, Cecil
Roberts, Mary
Robertson, Field Marshal Sir William
Rodgers, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein
Rodin, Auguste
Roe, Harry (Marie Stopes’s son)
Roe, Humphrey
Rommel, General Erwin
Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
antipathy to British Empire
aspires to US world power
attends Bankhead’s funeral
cooperates with British on technology
covers Welles’ scandal
demands unconditional surrender
denounces Kristallnacht
and development of nuclear weapons
and English bankruptcy
favours Second Front
Fireside Chats
first elected president (1932)
health decline and death
Isaiah Berlin on
meets Stalin at Tehran
New Deal
opposes appeasement
and outbreak of Second World War
Pound attacks
powers
re-elected (1940)
relations with Churchill
supports Britain against Nazism
supports Indian independence
and US entry into Second World War
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rotblat, Joseph
Rothermere, Harold Harmsworth, 1st
Viscount
Rothschild family
Rothschild, Alfred de
Rothschild, Baron Ferdinand de
Rotterdam: bombed
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rowntree, Benjamin Seebohm
Roy, Harry
Royal Air Force
bombing campaign against Germany
losses and casualties
in Middle East and Africa
wins Battle of Britain
Royal Commission on the Poor Law (1909)
Royal Navy
in First World War
inter-war strength
Royal School of Church Music
Royden, Maude
Rozhdestvensky, Admiral Zinovy P.
Ruhr: occupation of
Rumkowski, Chaim
Rumsfeld, Donald
Runciman, Walter, 1st Viscount
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria
Ruskin, John
Unto This Last
Russell, Alys (née Pearsall Smith)
Russell, Bertrand
praises Eliot
proposed as Labour candidate
public campaigning
qualities
rejects Idealism
scepticism
and Wittgenstein
Principia Mathematica
Which Way Peace
Russell, Dora: The Right to Be Happy
Russia (and Soviet Union)
aspires to capture Constantinople
Bolshevik revolution (1917)
Britain recognizes and offers loans to
(Soviet Union)
and British expedition to Tibe
t (1904)
and British India
casualties in war with Germany
civil war
in Cold War with West
dominates eastern Europe
in First World War
five-year plan
German invasion (1941)
Gulag (prison camps)
invades Manchuria (1945)
March 1917 revolution
oil reserves
pact with Nazi Germany (1939)
post-1945 empire
royal family murdered
in Spanish Civil War
and US development of atom bomb
war with Japan (1904–5)
wartime debt to Britain
Rutherford, Ernest, Baron
Rutherford, Margaret
Saar
Sachs, Alexander
Sack (German lawyer)
Sackville-West, Vita (Lady Nicolson)
Saddam Hussein
St Paneras Housing Improvement Society
Saklatvala, Shapurji
Salisbury, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil,
4th Marquess of
Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil,
3rd Marquess of
Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th
Marquess of
Salmond, Sir John
Salvation Army
Sampson, Anthony: Anatomy of Britain
Samuel, Herbert, 1st Viscount
Sandringham estate, Norfolk
Sanger, Margaret
Sanger, William
Sarajevo
Sardinera, Dolores la
Sargent, John Singer
Sargent, Sir Malcolm
Sassoon, Sir Edward
Saudi Arabia
Saulnier, Raymond
Save the Children Fund
Sayers, Dorothy L.
Scanlon, John: The Rise and Fall of the
Labour Party
Scheer, Admiral Reinhard
Schilling, Klaus
Schlick, Moritz
Schlieffen, General Alfred, Count von
Schludecker, Willy
Schoenberg, Arnold
school leaving age
raised to fifteen (1931)
see also education
Schuman, Robert
Schuschnigg, Kurt
Schuyler, Mrs (of USA)
Schwitters, Kurt
Scotland: baronial castles
Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert
Scott, Joy
Scott, Sir Percy
sculpture
Second Front
Second World War (1939–45)
aims
bombing raids
conduct of
consequences
ends (August 1945)
and ideology
killings in
outbreak
poetry
proposed negotiated peace
opportunities
technology in
and unconditional surrender
USA enters (1941)
Serbia
nationalism
and outbreak of First World War
servants: diminish after war
sex
and deviancy
ignorance of
Marie Stopes on
and marriage
revolution in
and social morality
Sforza, Count Carlo: The Makers of
Modern Europe
Sharp, Cecil
Shaw, Bobbie (Nancy Astor’s son)
Shaw, George Bernard
advocates eugenics
belief in state socialism
Chesterton opposes
dress
favours Mussolini and Soviet Union
on performance of Elgar’s Apostles