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201 ‘Beware and take’: Quoted in Walvin, Black Ivory, p. 26.
201 ‘Bankrupts, divorcees, cashiered’: Pakenham, Out in the Noonday Sun, p. 48.
201 ‘Mr Rowland called’: Robert V. Kubicek, The Administration of Imperialism, quoted in ibid., p. 48.
202 ‘We had often’: Furse, Aucuparius, p. 189.
202 ‘Don’t turn round’: Ibid., p. 148. This last wasn’t necessarily a trick question. When another candidate was asked what he planned to do that afternoon and replied that he was planning to go to Lord’s, he was met with the disarming ‘Splendid. I’ll just get my hat and come along with you.’ (W. A. Dodd, manuscript contribution to Oxford Development Records Project, ‘The Development of Education in Tanzania’ (1982), Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House, Oxford, MSS Afr. s. 1755, quoted in Baker and Mangan, eds., Sport in Africa, p. 94.
203 ‘A man’s face’: Furse, Aucuparius, p. 67.
203 the handshake: Ibid., pp. 230–31.
203 ‘YOU HAVE BEEN’: This was the title of Alan Forward’s recollections of his time there as a district officer, although he did not receive his telegram until 1954.
203 ‘that admirable class’: Furse, Aucuparius, p. 9.
203 ‘a service of’: Bradley, Once a District Officer, p. 29.
203 ‘I was head’: Allen, Plain Tales from the British Empire, p. 313.
204 ‘spent three months’: Ibid., p. 28.
205 ‘What shall it’: Furse, Aucuparius, p. 145.
205 ‘The abolition of’: Ibid., p. 309.
205 ‘An occasional lick’: Brendon, Eminent Edwardians, p. 220.
205 ‘a tussle with’: Ibid., p. 223.
207 ‘They are bad’: Jeal, Baden-Powell, p. 220.
208 ‘burrowed into the’: Maj. H. de Montmorency diary, quoted in Jeal, Baden-Powell, p. 222.
208 ‘A second shell’: Quoted in ibid., p. 247.
210 ‘I suppose every’: Quoted in ibid., p. 391.
210 ‘ “Country first, self’: Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys, p. 28.
210 ‘to be very clever’: Ibid., pp. 173–4.
210 ‘It is very necessary’: Ibid., p. 156.
210 ‘because he may’: Ibid., p. 142.
211 ‘and if he’: Jeal, Baden-Powell, p. 107.
211 ‘Scouts breathe through’: Ibid., pp. 25–6.
211 ‘one of the first’: Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys, p. 215.
212 ‘trained in the’: Brendon, Eminent Edwardians, p. 243.
212 ‘The Boy Scout’: Evening Standard, 24 January 1911.
212 ‘Such small things’: Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys, p. 221.
213 ‘happiness doesn’t come’: http://scout.org/en/about_scouting/facts_figures/baden_powell/b_p_gallery/b_p_s_last_message.
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215 ‘His Majesty rules’: St James’s Gazette, undated press cutting, presumably January 1901, quoted in Adams, Edwardian Heritage, p. 18.
216 ‘no economic, no’: ‘Will the Empire Live’, in Wells, An Englishman Looks at the World, pp. 37–40.
216 ‘Empire first and’: Kaul, Reporting the Raj, p. 73.
216 ‘projects for general’: The Times, 4 February 1862, quoted in Schuyler, ‘The Climax of Anti-Imperialism in England’, pp. 540–41.
216 ‘We can no’: Imperialism: Its Meanings and its Tendencies, published by the city branch of the ILP, May 1900, quoted in Porter, Critics of Empire, p. 136.
216 ‘England for the’: Clarion, 4 March 1893, quoted in Claeys, Imperial Sceptics, p. 173.
216 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: Blunt, My Diaries, vol. I, pp. 375–6.
216 Lord Curzon shuddered: Lord Curzon, ‘The True Imperialism’, Nineteenth Century 63 (1908), quoted in Bernard Porter, ‘The Edwardians and their Empire’, in Read, ed., Edwardian England, p. 136.
217 ‘the weary Titan’: Quoted in Amery, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain, vol. IV, p. 421.
217 ‘Far-called our navies’: Rudyard Kipling, ‘Recessional’, The Times, 17 July 1897, reprinted in Kipling, Poems, Ballads and Other Verses, p. 55.
218 ‘sunk, burned or’: Quoted in Ransford, Livingston’s Lake, p. 238.
219 ‘Gott for damn’: Ibid., p. 241.
219 ‘Thanks to your’: From the Imperial War Museum