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To End All Wars_ A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild [223]

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no": B.E.B., "Report on the Russian Revolution Conference at Leeds," CAB 24/16, G. T. 1049.

"the thousand men now": Russell 3, p. 182.

"The control of events": Tribunal, 7 June 1917.

18. DROWNING ON LAND

[>] "Revolution is never": Haig to Derby, June 1917, quoted in Reid, p. 391.

"breakingpoint may be": Gilbert, p. 336.

[>] "The argument seems to be": Marlowe, p. 282.

"Their brains were cluttered": Ferguson 1, p. 303.

"He spread on a table": David Lloyd George, War Memoirs, vol. 4 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1934), p. 359.

"Everybody in my hotel": Robertson to Kiggell, 27 July 1917.

"How proud you must feel": Haig to Lady Haig, 24 July 1917, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 328.

[>] "I should like the words": Linklater, p. 195.

"I consider the Pacifists": Britannia, 3 August 1917, quoted in Angela K. Smith, p. 109.

"Could you listen to": Britannia, 7 December 1917.

"turn into a pacifist": Milner to Cave, 31 August 1917, quoted in Millman, p. 212.

280 "did the government prohibit": Millman, p. 305.

"Shaw will make the most": Samuel to Asquith, 5 October 1916, quoted in Millman, p. 78.

Several hundred hostile: Times, 30 July 1917.

"The mob is a terrible": Russell to Ottoline Morrell, 28 July 1917, quoted in Vellacott, p. 170.

[>] "explain to the Russian": Times, 2 June 1917.

"I came to Petrograd": Britannia, 13 July 1917, quoted in Purvis 1, p. 295.

[>] "a big peasant woman": Rheta Childe Dorr, A Woman of Fifty (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1924), p. 360, quoted in Purvis 1, p. 409n17.

Its recruits shaved: See Stoff, p. 69f, and Joshua S. Goldstein, War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 72–75.

"The creation of the Women's": Stoff, p. 88.

[>] "Down with capitalism!": Purvis 1, p. 297.

"I am making this statement": Workers' Dreadnought, 28 July 1917.

[>] "I was driven out": French to Esher, 7 September 1918, quoted in John French, p. 300.

[>] "I do so want to": French to Bennett, 1 and 6 January 1916, quoted in Holmes, p. 314.

"Haig's plans required": De Groot 1, p. 336.

[>] "I cannot attempt": Sphere, 24 November 1917, quoted in Denis Winter, p. 109.

"The moment you set off': Trevor Wilson, p. 473.

"From the darkness": Edwin Campion Vaughan, Some Desperate Glory: The Diary of a Young Officer, 1917 ([London:] Warne, 1981), pp. 228–229 (27 August 1917).

[>] "A party of 'A' Company": Trevor Wilson, p. 473.

19. PLEASE DON'T DIE

[>] "There's an east wind": Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes (New York: Review of Reviews, 1917), pp. 307–308.

The total of British dead: Sheffield, p. 180, citing Richard Holmes. See Denis Winter, p. 110, for comments on this bitterly debated figure.

"When I look at": In Paris, 12 November 1917. Trevor Wilson, p. 547.

[>] "For the first time": Gibbs, p. 485.

"Reinforcements ... shambled up": Aubrey Wade, The War of the Guns (London: Batsford, 1936), pp. 57–58, quoted in Trevor Wilson, p. 482.

"Col. Rawlins, leave the room": Travers, p. 105.

[>] "Glorious News from Russia!": Socialist, December 1917.

"May they open the door": Workers' Dreadnought, 17 November 1917.

"our prison doors": Brockway, p. 98.

"A breach of discipline": Times, 31 July 1917.

295 "I am only here": Samuel Hynes, A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture (London: Bodley Head, 1990), p. 186.

[>] "The probabilities are": G 173, 13 November 1917, CAB 24/4, quoted in Andrew, p. 201.

"I feel certain that": Thomson 3, p. 392, 22 October 1917.

"safely lodged in gaol": FO 371/2828/202398, quoted in Catherine Cline, E. D. Morel, 1873–1924: The Strategies of Protest (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1980), p. 111.

"In no country but this": Milner to Lloyd George, 26 May 1917, quoted in Williams thesis, p. 14.

"a piece of bread": E. D. Morel, Thoughts on the War: The Peace—and Prison (London, 1920), pp. 60–62.

[>] "I saw E. D. Morel": Russell to Murray, 27 March 1918, quoted in Vellacott, p. 231.

"My first experience of": Brockway, p. 92.

"The place was deadly silent": Brockway, p. 103.

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