5 “The Cabinet finally resolved”: ibid., 121
6 “there was no time to fight”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 258
7 “Corn is in a greater degree”: ibid., 260
8 “You can burn your leaflets”: Jenkins, 136
9 “party weapons”: Amery, V, 184
10 “a great speech by a great man”: Asquith, Fifty Years, II, 11
11 “From that point on”: ibid., 10
12 “Chamberlain’s views”: ibid., 14
13 “for the present”: ibid.
14 “I should consider”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, I, 102
15 “I’m not for Free Trade”: Young, 124
16 “This reckless, criminal escapade”: Amery, V, 193
17 “On the morning of May 16”: Jenkins, 137
18 “Tariff Reform has united”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 263
19 “Ritchie... did not really resign”: Ensor, 374
20 “I never heard anything”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 270
21 “The Duke, whose mental processes”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, II, 114
22 “The Duke never read it”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 271
23 “dying British industry”: Ensor, 375
24 “gladly defer”: Jenkins, 139
25 “a Free Trader who sympathized”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, II, 140
26 “Blenheim Rat,” “Blackleg Blueblood”: Manchester, Winston Churchill, 361
27 “Some of us were born”: ibid., 357
28 “To keep in office”: ibid., 359
29 “It is not, on the whole”: ibid., 360
Chapter 20
Lord Lansdowne and the Anglo-French Entente
1 “possibly the greatest gentleman”: Barker, 140
2 “The longer I live”: ibid., 159
3 “Roberts’ appointment”: ibid., 153
4 “he must often have seemed”: ibid., 154
5 “a dagger”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 19
6 “would certainly fight”: Newton, 220
7 “I congratulate you”: Lee, II, 144
8 “At last the noodles”: BD, III, 435
9 “I do not think”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 23
10 “naive”: Eckardstein, 108
11 “I do not wish to leave this desk”: Lee, I, 711
12 “The feeling of all classes”: Mansergh, 88
13 “very agreeable and well-informed”: Queen Victoria, III, 317
14 “I have the greatest confidence”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 105
15 “exercises relentlessly”: Amery, IV, 194
16 “Delcassé seems to me”: ibid., 206
17 “a visit from the King”: Spender, Fifty Years, 213
18 “quite an informal affair”: Lee, II, 223
19 “as officially as possible”: ibid.
20 “Vivent les Boers!”: ibid., 237
21 “The French don’t like us”: ibid.
22 “A Divine Providence”: ibid.
23 “Oh, Mademoiselle”: ibid., 238
24 “where I am treated”: ibid., 239
25 “Vive le roi”: ibid., 240
26 “The visit of King Edward”: ibid., 242
27 “So, although the Paris visit”: ibid., 243
28 “Zukunftsmusik”: Woodward, 72
29 “I am in despair”: Gwendolyn Cecil, IV, 356
30 “Throughout our conversation”: Newton, 281
31 “admit that it was the business”: Nicolson, 109
32 “The question comes down”: Newton, 281
33 “The Government of the French Republic”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 43
34 “You expect us to recognize”: ibid., 149
35 “The French negotiations”: ibid., 47
36 “agreed to afford one another”: Spender, Fifty Years, 216
37 “If we let ourselves be trampled”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 221; DGP, XX, 208
38 “If I conclude my agreements”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 153
Chapter 21
The Morocco Crisis of 1905
1 “Pedicaris alive”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 272
2 “grooms, gardeners, electricians”: Nicolson, 106
3 “this loose agglomeration”: ibid., 83
4 “I do not believe”: ibid., 95
5 “in order to secure”: Marder, Anatomy, 475
6 “when this danger was clear”: Woodward, 83
7 “platonic”: Nicolson, 116
8 “That is just exactly”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 224; DGP, XX, 301
9 “a world-wide dominion”: Lee, II. 338
10 “if the necessity of a war”: Woodward, 82
11 “the earliest possible”: Spender, Fifty Years, 241
12 “In the face of this chain”: Bülow, II, 121
13 “when, as Prince of Prussia”: Eckardstein, 126
14 “it was in Germany’s interest”: Bülow, II, 117
15 “a good thing that France”: ibid.
16 “I have been to Asia”: ibid., 119
17 “Your Majesty’s visit”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 223; DGP, XX, 262
18 “Tant mieux!”: ibid.; ibid.
19 “When the Minister tried to argue”: Balfour, 255
20 “all were to be exterminated”: Spender, Fifty Years, 242
21 “I landed because”: Bülow, II, 162
22 “The British generals and admirals”: Spender, Fifty Years, 243
23 “It is wonderful to think”: Balfour, 256
24 “trembling with emotion”: Spender, Fifty Years, 243
25 “When the news reached me”: ibid.
26 “I emphasized again”: Bülow, II, 127
27 “could not recognize”: Bülow, II,
28 “about the purpose”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 249; Mansergh, 94
29 “the most mischievous”: Lee, II, 340
30 “This seems a golden opportunity”: FGDN, II, 55
31 “We have not, and never had”: BD, III, 68
32 “in a friendly manner”: Bülow, II, 133
33 “If the Germans find out”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 176
34 “The Chancellor of the German Empire”: Spender, Fifty Years, 245
35 “That would mean war”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 178
36 “the British Navy”: Mansergh, 73
37 “Are we in a condition”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 179
38 “telling me that he had just”: Bülow, II, 137
39 “You can’t escape me”: ibid., 135
40 “absolutely insisted”: Spender, Fifty Years, 245
41 “The fall of Delcassé”: ibid.
42 “Delcassé’s dismissal”: Lee, II, 344
43 “You have seen”: Spender, Fifty Years, 245
44 “Peaceful, good-humored”: Bülow, II, 141
45 “not to linger”: Gooch, History of Modern Europe, 358
46 “If the Berlin people”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 261
47 “had a great future behind him”: Bülow, II, 221
48 “the most violent”: Nicolson, 127
49 “Tell us what you wish”: ibid., 128
50 “to securing full guarantees for an open door”: ibid., 133
51 “it was not for me”: ibid., 134
52 “I felt really insulted”: ibid.
53 “He who has the police”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 262
54 “We are close to a rupture”: Nicolson, 137
55 “changeable”: ibid.
56 “Tattenbach is again”: ibid., 142
57 “This is the third time”: ibid., 141
58 “epoch-making success”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 248; DGP, XXI, 312
59 “His Majesty’s policy”: ibid.; ibid.
60 “did not appear to agree”: ibid.; ibid.
61 “The Moroccan Question”: ibid., I, 237; ibid., 52
62 “The Entente Cordiale has stood”: Mansergh, 100
63 “The treaty may not have given”: Bülow, II, 231
64 “I got th
rough a whole series”: ibid., 235
65 “was too emotional”: ibid., 236
66 “in the most cold-blooded manner”: ibid., 237
PART 3: THE NAVY
Chapter 22
From Sail to Steam
1 “feeling the tropical heat”: Bacon, A Naval Scrapbook, 21
2 “he had had a headache”: ibid., 18
3 “You’re a bloomin’ Portuguese army”: ibid., 80
4 “Now do you ’ear there”: Scott, 69
5 “Fanny Adams”: ibid., 26
6 “brutes who rejoiced”: Humble, 5
7 “Report number of killed”: Winton, 25
8 “Many a time”: Beresford, I, 25
9 “I am doubtful”: ibid. 82
10 “satisfactory knowledge”: ibid., 6
11 “Only sometimes, sir”: ibid., 5
12 “comparatively lucky”: Dewar, 15
13 “suppress independence”: ibid., 14
14 “Masthead for the midshipmen”: Scott, 27
15 “on a dark night”: ibid., 51
16 “those old sailing days”: ibid., 25
17 “in the evening”: ibid.
18 “Although we are living”: Humble, 108
19 “I don’t feel any water”: Beresford, I, 62
20 “Bless me, I forgot”: ibid., 49
21 “I did not like the Defence”: ibid., 41
22 “The retention of masts and sails”: Padfield, The Battleship Era, 127
23 “Cardinal policy of this country”: Marder, Anatomy, 105
24 “No doubt the present fleet”: Beresford, I, 25
25 “self-perpetuating”: Winton, 13
26 “I call the whole system”: ibid., 23
27 “On what authority”: FGDN, I, 150
28 “As a midshipman”: Dewar, 22
29 “I thought we had taken it”: Winton, 46
30 “Second division alter course”: ibid.
31 “Now we shall see something”: ibid.
32 “We shall be very close”: ibid.
33 “May I go astern”: ibid., 48
34 “It’s all my fault”: Padfield, The Battleship Era, 131
35 “It would be fatal”: ibid., 132
36 “The Swell of the Ocean”: Bacon, Scrapbook, 49
37 “It was customary”: Scott, 73
38 “When I went to sea”: Dewar, 19
39 “Had anyone suggested”: Padfield, The Battleship Era, 128
40 “It was no wonder”: Scott, 73
41 “No one except the Gunnery Lieutenant”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 8
42 “Spread for target practice”: Scott, 85
43 “it was considered”: Beresford, I, 20
44 “We used to practice”: ibid.
45 “Gunners looked along the barrels”: ibid.
46 “He gave us midshipmen”: Scott, 29
47 “absolutely transformed”: ibid.
48 “had forty-two modern heavy guns”: ibid., 62
49 “But the innovation was not liked”: ibid., 72
50 “Ship’s company of good physique”: ibid., 45
51 “contained no reference”: ibid.
Chapter 23
Jacky Fisher
1 “the son of a Cingalese princess”: Fisher, Memories, 20
2 “Oriental cunning and duplicity”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 14
3 “an unscrupulous half-Asiatic”: ibid.
4 “I entered the Navy”: Fisher, Records, 25
5 “I have had to fight like hell”: FGDN, II, 35
6 “I remember the intense enthusiasm”: Mackay, 23
7 The complimentary closes of Fisher’s letters are from FGDN, II, 18
8 “I can’t bear to read them”: FGDN, I, 39
9 “Would you kindly leave off”: Fisher, Memories, 40
10 “spiritual indigestion”: FGDN, II, 16
11 “Pretty dull, Sir, this”: Fisher, Memories, 26
12 “Wouldn’t you, Sir, have loved”: Bacon, Fisher, I, 94
13 “The efficiency of the Fleet”: FGDN, I, 150
14 “favoritism”: Bacon, Fisher, I, 130
15 “if I haul a man up”: FGDN, II, 38
16 “pre-historic admirals”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 46
17 “mandarins”: FGDN, I, 359
18 “fossils”: ibid., 267
19 “Anyone who opposes me, I crush”: Marder, Anatomy, 394
20 “The Malay”: Fisher, Memories, 20
21 “The Yellow Peril”: Marder, Anatomy, 395
22 “that hobgoblin”: Mackay, 194
23 “A silly ass”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 17
24 “frightened rabbits”: Bacon, Fisher, II, 73
25 “deepened his faith in Providence”: Marder, Scapa Flow, I, 17
26 “My God, Fisher, you must be mad!”: FGDN, II, 20
27 “Personally, I hope”: ibid., 19
28 “All nations want peace”: ibid., I, 125
29 “The French, no doubt”: ibid.
30 “On the British Fleet”: Fisher, Records, 89
31 “Only a congenital idiot”: FGDN, I, 166
32 “the suddenness... and finality”: ibid., 310
33 “The generals may be asses”: ibid., 311
34 “We must reconsider”: ibid., 179
35 “a wonderful man”: ibid., 183
36 “I admire Fisher”: Fisher, Memories, 182
37 “The German Empire”: Lee, II, 333
38 “Jellicoe to be Admiralissimo”: FGDN, II, 424
39 “a most magnificent”: ibid., I, 17
40 “My dear Jack”: ibid., 24
41 “A simple-minded man”: Mackay, 3
42 “I heard from my mother”: ibid., 73
43 “none of the feelings”: FGDN, I, 77
44 “I had happy days”: ibid., 18
45 “strange to say”: ibid.
46 “I wrote out”: ibid., 19
47 “free from defect of speech”: ibid.
48 “but I told him I thought”: ibid.
49 “The day I joined”: Fisher, Records, 25
50 “Whenever you took a bit”: ibid., 23
51 “about the greatest saint”: ibid., 27
52 “He was always teaching me”: Mackay, 13
53 “our captain stood on the river bank”: Fisher, Records, 28
54 “You sank up to your knees”: FGDN, I, 28
55 “I never smelt”: ibid., 27
56 “and hauled what fellows they could find”: ibid., 29
57 “They had not time”: ibid., 33
58 “We are all very, very sorry”: ibid.
59 “Loyal au mort”: Fisher, Records, 28
60 “Take care of that boy!”: ibid., 29
61 “She is such a horrid old tub”: FGDN, I, 57
62 “Satanic”: Fisher, Records, 29
63 “I believe I was the only officer”: ibid.
64 “As a sailor, an officer”: ibid., 31
65 “The Lords of the Admiralty”: FGDN, I, 60
66 “She had a picked crew”: Fisher, Memories, 149
67 “I never went ashore”: ibid., 150
68 “A First Sea Lord told me”: Fisher, Records, 172
69 “I never can make out why”: Fisher, Memories, 227
70 “Jack would certainly”: Mackay, 40
71 “Splendid”: FGDN, II, 365
72 “The mere fact”: Mackay, 75
73 “My own most darling Kitty”: FGDN, I, 77
74 “I really do not think”: ibid., 76
75 “In 17 days”: Mackay, 70
76 “Jack would certainly”: Mackay, 40
77 “Splendid”: FGDN, II, 365
78 “The mere fact”: Mackay, 75
79 “My own most darling Kitty”: FGDN, I, 77
80 “I really do not think”: ibid., 76
81 “In 17 days”: Mackay, 70
82 “Dorothy requires cod-liver oil”: FGDN, I, 106
83 “Mind, my own darling??
?: ibid., 77
84 “I so often hope”: ibid., 81
85 “but, my darling”: ibid., 69
86 “I feel my want of French”: ibid., 78
87 “Now, my darling, I must say good night”: ibid., 72
88 “Every man was provided”: Mackay, 94
89 “when we got into heavy weather”: Fisher, Memories, 156
90 “his ship is a perfect yacht”: Mackay, 108
91 “If you are a gunnery man”: FGDN, I, 64
92 “in order to keep”: Bacon, Fisher, I, 61
93 “a little man”: FGDN, I, 92
94 “were very proud of their captain”: Mackay, 135
95 “he attended”: ibid., 136
96 “my boy”... “the best boy”: FGDN, I, 94
97 “As each name was discussed”: Fisher, Memories, 158
98 “a wonder”: ibid.
99 “A man could crawl”: ibid.
100 “took so long to load”: Padfield, Rule Britannia, 173
101 “endless inventions”: Fisher, Memories, 158
102 “knew not what deck”: Parkes, 257
103 “the best ship in the Fleet”: Fisher, Records, 204
104 “You need not have”: FGDN, I, 106
105 “They’ve found the range, sir”: Beresford, I, 198
106 “the sickness was simply indescribable”: FGDN, I, 109
107 “the Admiralty could build”: Fisher, Memories, 159
108 “He’ll never reach Gibraltar”: ibid.
109 “Sir... it is our whole wish”: Bacon, Fisher, I, 92
110 “I am all right”: Mackay, 173
111 “but I was let off with trousers”: FGDN, I, 114
112 “I want to introduce Captain Fisher”: Bacon, Fisher, I, 91
113 “When all the doctors failed”: ibid., 98
114 “beloved Marienbad”: ibid.
115 “I got breakfast”: Fisher, Records, 47
116 “Every day is happy”: FGDN, I, 98
117 “If you are restricted”: Fisher, Records, 42
118 “fresh as a daisy”: FGDN, I, 129
119 “were husbandeering”: ibid.
120 “over-rated”... “a fraud”: ibid., I, 131
121 “the flood of Americans”: ibid.
122 “The Americans swarm”: ibid., 133
123 “what the world had to fear”: ibid., 189
124 “The Yankees are dead set against us”: ibid., 190
125 “about 70 multi-millionaires”: Bacon, Fisher, II, 125
126 “Their language... English”: ibid., 124
127 “that wooden boarding pikes”: Fisher, Records, 204
128 “like a hive of bees”: ibid., 66