To End All Wars_ A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild [211]
"An army tries to": n.p., quoted in Ellis 1, p. 105.
[>] "Play the game": Farwell 1, p. 134.
[>] "I took a ticket": "In the Days of My Youth," Charlotte Despard Papers, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast, p. 4.
[>] "That hymn was": Linklater, p. 23.
"How bitterly ashamed": "In the Days of My Youth," pp. 11–12.
[>] "She does not find them": Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People of London, vol. 5 (London: Macmillan, 1902), p. 153.
[>] "I determined to study": Mulvihill, p. 58.
[>] "those who slave": Linklater, p. 89.
[>] "It certainly was amusing": Gerald French, pp. 44–45.
"Only nervous people": Despard 2, p. 17.
2. A MAN OF NO ILLUSIONS
[>] "The whole side of the hill": Churchill 2, p. 87.
"standing at a table": Churchill 2, p. 98.
"jams, tinned fruits": Haig to Henrietta Jameson, 17 February 1898, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 56.
"I am not one": Haig 2, p. 4.
18 "The enemy went down": Ellis 1, p. 86.
[>] "the rapture-giving delight": Farwell 1, p. 117.
"It is a weapon": Ellis 1, p. 102.
[>] "It is the British race": Farwell 2, p. 27.
[>] "the man of no illusions": Winston Churchill, London to Ladysmith and Ian Hamilton's March (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962), p. 123. Churchill first used the phrase in writing of Milner in the Morning Post during the Boer War.
"as lucid as a page of print": Buchan 3, p. 98.
"a civilian soldier": Marlowe, pp. 38–39.
"to Brixton ... to see C": 23 January 1898, quoted in Pakenham 1, p. 34.
[>] "a frock-coated Neanderthal": Gilmour, p. 140.
"great day of reckoning": Gollin, p. 33.
"great game between ourselves": Johannes S. Marais, The Fall of Kruger's Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), p. 330.
"Will not the arrival": Milner to Selborne, 24 May 1899, quoted in Marlowe, p. 68.
"no civilizing experiment": Gilmour, p. 78.
[>] "that an empire is": "Rudyard Kipling," in George Orwell, A Collection of Essays (New York: Doubleday, 1954), p. 126.
"Accept my felicitations": Lansdowne to Chamberlain, 10 October 1899, quoted in Pakenham 2, p. 567.
[>] "just like a good fox hunt": James 1, p. 434.
"Strain everything": Judd and Surridge, p. 147.
borrowed a hefty £2,000: Haig claimed it was £2,500. See De Groot 4, p. 50n12.
Biographers disagree over whether the loan was ever repaid.
[>] "The feeling was": Anonymous officer, quoted in German General Staff, p. 147.
"An epoch in the history": L. S. Amery, ed., The Times History of the War in South Africa, 1899–1902, vol. 3 (London: St. Dunstan's House, 1905), pp. 394–395.
"The Cavalry—the despised Cavalry": Haig to Lonsdale Hale, 2 March 1900, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 80.
[>] "The charge of French's": German General Staff, p. 147.
"who has taught the British": Rice, p. xvi.
"a first-class dress-parade": "The Captive," in Traffics and Discoveries (New York: Scribner's, 1904), p. 30.
3. A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER
[>] "without evening dress": Cecil, pp. 152–153.
"to have a clever wife": Georgina, Marchioness of Salisbury, to Eleanor, Viscountess Cecil, quoted in Cecil, p. 69.
[>] "one, so to speak": Cecil, p. 80.
"I wish Milner had": Cecil, p. 116.
"One day I know": Cecil, p. 126.
"the solidarity of the British": Violet Milner, p. 138.
30 "Sir Alfred is very": Annie Hanbury-Williams to Violet Cecil, in Cecil, p. 160.
"Was it a declaration": Cecil, p. 159.
[>] "the wicked war of this": Linklater, p. 96.
"three a penny": Farwell 2, p. 315.
[>] "very low indeed": Cecil, p. 175.
[>] "the mad men at home": Milner to Bagot, 21 November 1900, quoted in Jacqueline Beaumont, "The Times at War, 1899–1902," in Lowry, p. 83n39.
[>] as a "screamer": Milner to Haldane, 1 July 1901, quoted in Kaminski, p. 99.
"He struck me as": Emily Hobhouse to Mary Hobhouse, 8 January 1901, Van Reenen, p. 37.
[>] "My heart wept": Emily Hobhouse, The Brunt of the War and Where It Fell (London: Methuen, 1902), p. 72.
27,927 Boers: Figures compiled by Transvaal government archivist P.L.A. Goldman, cited in Roberts, p. 252, and Morgan, p. 68.
"a little six months' baby": Emily Hobhouse