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  753 “The U.S. believes”: Anglo-American Naval Relations, 331.

  754 “I cannot see”: Ibid., 332.

  754 “a dear old cup of tea”: Roskill, Beatty, 230.

  754 “I am determined”: Herwig, The Politics of Frustration, 25.

  755 “Why, I shall stop”: Ibid., 31.

  755 “Unsparing, merciless assaults”: Ibid., 52.

  755 “2 to 3 battalions”: Herwig and Trask, 44.

  756 “a glorious golden dawn”: Hunter, 13–14.

  756 “climbed to the crest”: Ibid., 94.

  757 “I came on deck”: Ibid., 95.

  757 “distinctly poor”: Jones, 44.

  757 “desperately keen”: Roskill, Beatty, 243.

  757 “It is not that it blows”: Anglo-American Naval Relations, 342.

  757 “I have seen”: Rodman, 283–84.

  757 “this greatest”: Jones, 58.

  758 “too cold for men”: Anglo-American Naval Relations, 361.

  758 “I am sending”: Beatty Papers, I, 508.

  758 “lavender, snow-powdered hills”: Hunter, 99.

  758 “the atmosphere was crystal”: Ibid., 103.

  758 “the north burst”: Ibid.

  758 “the coast of Norway”: Ibid.

  758 “she was not ready”: Jones, 43.

  759 “exceptionally fine”: Ibid., 55.

  759 “rather as an incubus”: Anglo-American Naval Relations, 327.

  759 “where they were least likely”: Jones, 44.

  760 “United States is prepared”: Anglo-American Naval Relations, 374.

  760 “It is physically”: Ibid., 376–77.

  761 “U.S. naval authorities”: Ibid., 391.

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  764 “If an English delegation”: Görlitz, 245.

  765 “A force of about”: Vandiver, II, 728.

  765 “naked so to speak”: Herwig, First World War, 422.

  766 Kaiserschlacht: Görlitz, 346.

  766 “There was no surprise”: Churchill, IV, 411–13.

  766 the Paris Gun: Moyer, 245.

  766 “to coordinate the action”: Vandiver, II, 875.

  767 “Infantry, artillery, aviation”: Ibid., 876.

  767 “obstinate” and “stupid”: Herwig, First World War, 407.

  767 “There would be”: Vandiver, II, 849.

  767 “the roads . . . began”: Churchill, IV, 454.

  768 “The moral effect”: Vandiver, II, 898.

  768 “You’re prolonging”: Ludendorff, II, 683.

  768 “August 8”: Ibid., 679.

  768 “The war must be ended”: Ibid., 684.

  769 “You don’t know Ludendorff”: Görlitz, 406.

  769 “Then, all of a sudden”: Barnett, 340.

  770 “overworked” and “drive”: Goodspeed, 260.

  770 “We are absolutely finished”: Fischer, 630.

  770 “gradually paralyzing”: Ibid., 627.

  770 “almost incomprehensible”: Ibid.

  770 “I hope that”: Ibid., 628.

  770 “By the mistaken operation”: Geis, 255.

  770 “like lightning”: Fischer, 630.

  771 “at once”: Ibid., 634.

  771 “ten, eight”: Goodspeed, 268.

  771 “I want to save my army”: Ibid.

  771 “I am not a magician”: Cecil, II, 278.

  771 “will consent to consider”: Max of Baden, II, 88.

  772 “Brutes they were”: Gibson and Prendergast, 323.

  772 “The navy does not need”: Herwig, German Naval Officer Corps, 240.

  772 “To allow ourselves to be”: Ludendorff, II, 748.

  772 “concession to Wilson”: Ibid., 756.

  772 “must deal with”: Balfour, 397.

  772 “The hypocritical Wilson”: Ibid., 398.

  772 “the audacity”: Ibid.

  773 “a demand”: Ludendorff, II, 761.

  773 “You stay”: Cecil, II, 285.

  773 “Siamese twins”: Ibid.

  773 “I refuse”: Görlitz, 413.

  773 “an honorable battle”: Marder, V, 173.

  773 “The High Seas Fleet is directed”: David Woodward, 114.

  774 “complete freedom of action”: Scheer, 353.

  774 “I did not regard it”: Horn, 209–10.

  774 “I specifically reiterate”: Ibid., 210.

  775 “a tactical success”: Marder, V, 173.

  775 “suicide mission”: Philbin, 160.

  775 “an honorable death”: Horn, 221.

  777 “My dear admiral”: Herwig, German Naval Officer Corps, 261.

  777 “Now you must let me”: Bülow, III, 329–30.

  778 “The German people” and “Très bien”: Moyer, 297.

  778 “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”: Ralph Seymour, 118.

  779 At seven o’clock on the evening: Beatty’s two meetings with Admiral Meurer are related in Beatty’s letter to Eugenie, Beatty Papers, I, 572–74, and in Ralph Seymour, 120–21.

  780 “I saw a leg of mutton”: Chatfield, 175.

  780 “the low-lying, sinister forms”: King-Hall, 231.

  781 “In nearly every case”: Ibid., 232.

  781 “as the sun sank”: Ibid., 236.

  782 “My heart is breaking”: Herwig, German Naval Officer Corps, 266.

  782 “We cannot do better”: Hunter, 177.

  783 “The German flag”: Marder, V, 191.

  783 “I took the fleet flagship”: Chatfield, 176–77.

  785 “madhouse”: Van Der Vat, The Grand Scuttle, 147.

  785 “all internal watertight doors”: Marder, V, 279.

  786 “Paragraph Eleven”: Ibid.

  787 “with a dreadful”: Van Der Vat, The Grand Scuttle, 173.

  787 “a drifter towing”: Ibid., 176.

  788 “German battleship sinking”: Marder, V, 281.

  788 “violated common honor”: Ibid., 283–84.

  788 “I look upon the sinking”: Wemyss, Life and Letters, 432.

  788 “I rejoice”: Woodward, 184–85.

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