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221 ‘We are, above’: Quoted in Ferguson, Empire, pp. 305–6.
221 ‘Our consuls in’: Marginal note by the Kaiser on a telegram from the German Ambassador in St Petersburg, quoted in Manjapra, ‘The Illusions of Encounter: Muslim “Minds” and Hindu Revolutionaries in First World War Germany and After’, p. 364.
223 ‘Israelite, Assyrian, Greek’: Wavell, Allenby, p. 230.
224 ‘This is because’: Daily Mirror, 11 December 1917, quoted in Bar-Yosef, The Holy Land in English Culture, p. 264.
224 ‘these events in’: Hansard, 5th Series, vol. 100, cols. 2212, 2211, 20 December 1917, quoted in Bar-Yosef, The Holy Land in English Culture, p. 292.
226 ‘him of the’: Mansfield, The Arabs, p. 165.
227 ‘England will understand’: Rose, Chaim Weizmann, p. 137.
228 ‘would develop the’: Ibid., p. 144.
228 ‘bridge between Europe’: Quoted in Ronald Hyam, ‘Churchill and the British Empire’, in Blake and Louis, eds., Churchill, p. 171.
228 ‘Mr Balfour’s whole’: Quoted in Brendon, Eminent Victorians, p. 89.
229 ‘Were any of’: Quoted in ibid., p. 79.
229 ‘about as intelligible’: Quoted in ibid., p. xv.
229 ‘His Majesty’s Government’: Quoted in Karsh and Karsh, eds., Empires of the Sand, p. 254.
230 ‘I do not’: ‘A Defence of the Mandate. Speech delivered by the Earl of Balfour, as the Lord President of the Council, on June 21st, 1922, in the House of Lords on a motion introduced by Lord Islington, proposing that Great Britain should not accept the Mandate for Palestine’, in Balfour, Speeches on Zionism, pp. 59–64.
230 ‘they will not’: ‘Speech delivered at a public demonstration held by the English Zionist Federation under the Chairmanship of Lord Rothschild, on July 12th, 1920, at the Royal Albert Hall, for the purpose of celebrating the conferment of the Mandate for Palestine upon Great Britain and the incorporation of the Balfour Declaration in the Treaty of Peace with Turkey’, in Balfour, Speeches on Zionism, pp. 23–5.
230 ‘I had a well-spent’: Bell, The Letters of Gertrude Bell, vol. II, p. 149.
230 ‘the maker of Iraq’: Philby, ‘Gertrude Bell’, p. 804.
231 ‘The British flag’: Quoted in James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, p. 355.
233 ‘to convert the’: Robinson, ‘The Moral Disarmament of African Empire, 1919–1947’, p. 88.
234 ‘I venture to’: Speech by Madan Mohan Malaviya in the Imperial Legislative Council, 23 March 1917, in Malaviya, Speeches and Writings of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, p. 129.
235 ‘if Britain withdrew’: Lloyd George to the House of Commons, 2 August 1922, quoted in Rumbold, Watershed in India, p. 314.
235 ‘The people are’: Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, p. 278.
235 ‘send an officer’: Quoted in Collett, The Butcher of Amritsar, p. 240.
236 ‘unexpected gift of’: Quoted in ibid., p. 255.
237 ‘then they would’: Quoted in ibid., p. 336.
237 ‘every white man’s’: ‘Shooting an Elephant’, in Orwell, The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays and Reportage, p. 7.
237 ‘When a handful’: Carlyon Bellairs, letter to The Times, 8 July 1920.
238 ‘an episode which’: Sayer, ‘British Reaction to the Amritsar Massacre, 1919–1920’, p. 131.
238 ‘We do not’: Quoted in ibid., p. 133.
239 ‘plunge his knife’: Quoted in Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, p. 295.
239 ‘the Irish wound’: Quoted in Keith Jeffery, ‘Introduction’, in Jeffery, ed., ‘An Irish Empire?’, pp. 6–7.
239 ‘My world-wide Empire’: Quoted in ibid., p. 7.
240 ‘if today India’: O’Hegarty, A History of Ireland under the Union, p. 774.
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241 ‘You young worms!’: Brabazon, Memories of the Nineteenth Century, p. 19.
242 ‘slackness, indifference and’: The Duty and Discipline Movement and the War, leaflet (London, 1917).
242 ‘Britons have ruled’: Meath, ‘Duty and Discipline in the Training of Children’, p. 9.
242 ‘subordination of selfish’: Lord Meath, letter to The Times, 24 May 1921.
242 ‘Every time one’: Arnold-Forster, The Citizen Reader, pp. 22–3. Arnold-Forster was a grandson of the great headmaster of Rugby, Thomas Arnold, and a future secretary of state for war.
243 ‘free discipline,