Empire_ What Ruling the World Did to the British - Jeremy Paxman [156]
243 ‘many of the’: W. F. Airs and J. S. Streeter, eds., Sixty Years a Cadet, 1889–1949: A Short History of the 1st London Cadet Battalion, quoted in Springhall, Youth, Empire and Society, p. 77.
243 ‘the greater portion’: Cassell’s Illustrated History of England, vol. IX, pp. 195–6.
243 ‘it was on’: Fletcher and Kipling, A School History of England, p. 186.
243 ‘an all-wise and’: Lord Meath, address to the Empire Day Movement, 24 May 1904, quoted in MacKenzie, Propaganda and Empire, p. 232.
245 ‘in certain fundamentals’: Wodehouse, ‘The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy’, p. 161.
246 ‘We believe’, he said: Quoted in Wilson, After the Victorians, p. 273.
246 ‘Empire has happened’: ‘Will the Empire Live?’, in Wells, An Englishman Looks at the World, p. 41.
248 ‘The middle-class families’: Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, p. 36.
250 ‘at the Workers’’: Forward, 13 August 1938, quoted in Britton, ‘ “Come and See the Empire by the All Red Route!”: Anti-Imperialism and Exhibitions in Interwar Britain’, p. 78.
251 ‘the fate of’: Quoted in MacKenzie, Propaganda and Empire, p. 234.
251 ‘respect the right’: Louis, Imperialism at Bay, pp. 123–4.
251 ‘I have not’: Churchill, ‘The End of the Beginning’ speech, Mansion House, 10 November 1942, quoted in Sandbrook, Never Had It So Good, p. 281.
252 ‘sturdy British infantrymen’: The Times, 8 December 1941.
253 ‘the survival of’: Quoted in James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, p. 491.
253 ‘the possibility of’: Churchill, The Second World War, vol. IV: The Hinge of Fate, p. 43.
253 ‘I trust you’ll’: Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, p. 452.
254 ‘Thus’, Churchill proclaimed: Quoted in ibid., p. 451.
254 ‘until after protracted’: Quoted in Gilbert Churchill: A Life, p. 716.
255 ‘the end of’: Quoted in Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, p. 422.
256 ‘The British Empire’: Quoted in Judd, Empire, p. 310.
256 ‘We have always’: Attlee, quoted in the Daily Herald, 16 August 1941.
256 The Labour manifesto: Dale, ed., Labour Party General Election Manifestos, pp. 52, 59, 72.
257 ‘their cookery from Paris’: Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, p. 63.
258 ‘I hate Indians’: John Barnes and David Nicholson, eds., The Empire at Bay: The Leo Amery Diaries, 1929–1945, quoted in Louis, ‘Churchill and the Liquidation of the British Empire’.
258 ‘if Christ came’: Churchill, ‘Our Duty in India’, speech, 18 March 1931, printed in the Spectator, 6 June 1931, p. 533.
259 ‘the chatterboxes who’: Callahan, Churchill, p. 28.
259 ‘War has been’: Daily Mail, 16 November 1929, quoted in Herman, Gandhi & Churchill, p. 323.
259 ‘a monstrous monument’: Mansergh, The Commonwealth Experience, p. 267n.
259 a peevish telegram: Wavell, Wavell: The Viceroy’s Journal, p. 78.
259 ‘on the subject’: Barnes and Nicholson, eds., The Empire at Bay, pp. 988, 993.
260 ‘territory over which’: Hansard, 5th series, vol. 426, cols. 1256–7, 1 August 1946, quoted in Louis, ‘Churchill and the Liquidation of the British Empire’.
260 ‘men of straw’: Quoted in Louis, ‘Churchill and the Liquidation of the British Empire’.
260 ‘Britain’s desertion of’: Quoted in Sarvepalli Gopal, ‘Churchill and India’, in Blake and Louis, eds., Churchill, pp. 470–71.
261 ‘melancholy event’: Quoted in Herman, Gandhi & Churchill, p. 591.
261 ‘not aware of’: Churchill note of 6 July 1945, quoted in Sherman, Mandate Days, p. 171.
262 ‘it surely is’: W. G. Fitzgerald to Sir Harold MacMichael, 8 November 1947, quoted in Sherman, Mandate Days, p. 210.
263 ‘I suppose I’: Quoted in Sherman, Mandate Days, p. 241.
263 ‘an entirely new’: Quoted in Stewart, ‘The British Reaction to the Conquest of Everest’, p. 29.
263 ‘a group of’: Speech in Ghana, 1961, quoted in James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, p. 557.
264 ‘The lamps are’: Grey, Twenty-Five Years, vol. II, p. 20.
265 ‘altogether a most’: Lindsay, The Crawford Papers, p. 590.
265 ‘It was I’: Quoted in McDonald, A Man of The