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40 “Like a second footman”: Dugdale, II, 49.
41 Blatchford predicted: q. The Times, Jan. 19, 1906.
42 “Never saying anything clever!”: Marsh, 150.
43 Categories of new M.P.’s: Jenkins, 7.
44 Few in “unconventional dress”: Newton, Retrospection, 149; Irish members’ bad manners: ibid., 99.
45 C.-B. impervious to Balfour’s charm: Birrell, 243.
46 “England is based on commerce”: q. Gardiner, Prophets, 136.
47 “Bring the sledgehammer”: Gardiner, Prophets, 54.
48 Took his own wife into dinner: Blunt, II, 300.
49 “No egotism, no vanity”: q. Gardiner, Pillars, 122.
50 Churchill motivated by Mrs. Everest: Roving Commission, 73. All subsequent statements by Churchill, unless otherwise noted, are from Mendelssohn.
51 F. E. Smith: Gardiner, Pillars, 95–103; Portraits, 122–28.
52 Salisbury on coming clash of Lords and Commons: Margot Asquith, 157; H. H. Asquith, Fifty Years, I, 174.
53 Conservatives “should still control”: The Times, Jan. 16, 1906.
54 Balfour warns Lansdowne: Newton, Lansdowne, 354.
55 “Something will happen”: at Llanelly, Sept. 29, 1906, Lee, II, 456.
56 Curzon “so infinitely superior”: Newton, Retrospection, 161.
57 Loreburn: Willoughby de Broke, 260; Curzon, Subjects of the Day, 228.
58 Rosebery, “eye like a fish”: F. Ponsonby, 382.
59 Churchill, in the Nation: Mar. 9, 1907.
60 Balfour on “hereditary qualification”: q. Young, 266.
61 “Portcullis” and “poodle”: These phrases graced the debate on the Lords’ rejection of the Licensing Bill, June 24, 1907.
62 Morley recalled Gladstone saying: q. Esher, II, 303.
63 “Backwoodsmen” meet at Lansdowne House: Willoughby de Broke, 246–47.
64 Churchill “perfectly furious”: Lucy Masterman, 114.
65 Victor Grayson: Brockway, 24–25; Halévy, VI, 105.
66 Kaiser’s proposal to save England: Blunt, II, 210.
67 King Edward on “hard times”: q. Magnus, 417.
68 Invasion psychosis: I. F. Clark, “The Shape of Wars to Come,” History Today, Feb., 1965.
69 Henry James, chimney pots: Jan. 8, 1909, Letters, ed. Percy Lubbock, New York, 1920, II, 121.
70 Suffragettes: In addition to Pankhurst and Fulford, the list of Suffragette assaults is most conveniently found in successive volumes of the Annual Register. The Albert Hall meeting is quoted from Nevinson, More Changes, 321–25, as is also “Those bipeds!”: 306.
71 A gathering pessimism: Masterman, 84, 120, 289; Bryce, 15, 39, 228; Hobson and Hobhouse, q. C. H. Driver, “Political Ideas,” in Hearnshaw; Trotter described: DNB; quoted: 47; Wallas described: Wells, 509, 511; Cole, 222; quoted: 284–85.
72 “Cantankerous and uncomfortable”: DNB, Lowther.
73 “We all thought Papa would die”: Cooper, 11.
74 The Limehouse speech: July 30, 1909. The King’s displeasure was expressed in a letter to Lord Crewe, q. in full, Pope-Hennessy, 72–73. Other reactions and comments chiefly from the Annual Register. Rosebery’s Glasgow speech in Crewe, 511–12; Kipling’s poem appeared in the Morning Post, June 28, 1909, and only once since, in the Definitive Edition of his Verse, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1940. “Foolish and mean speeches”: q. Magnus, 431.
75 “Now King, you have won the Derby”: Fitzroy, I, 379.
76 Balfour and Salisbury on Finance Bill: Dugdale, II, 56; Annual Register, 1909, 118.
77 ff. Lords debate the Budget, et seq.: As the English love nothing so much as a political crisis, the literature on the Budget-Parliament Bill crisis is so extensive that it cannot be missed, or even avoided. In the recent publication of Churchill As I Knew Him, by Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, Asquith’s daughter, it is still going on. Every biography or autobiography of the principal figures involved and every political memoir of the period discuss it, the major sources being: Newton’s Lansdowne, Young’s Balfour, Spender’s Asquith, Lee’s Edward VII, Nicolson’s George V, Wilson-Fox’s Halsbury, Pope-Hennessy’s Crewe, Ronaldshay’s Curzon, Crewe’s Rosebery, Willoughby de Broke’s Memoirs and Roy Jenkins’ book on the whole affair, Mr. Balfour’s Poodle. The major parliamentary debates were quoted fully in The Times as well as verbatim