To End All Wars_ A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild [226]
in the hundreds of thousands: Paice, p. 288.
[>] 50 million: Barry, p. 397; Jeffery K. Taubenberger and David M. Morens, "1918 Influenza: The Mother of All Pandemics," Emerging Infectious Diseases 12:1 (January 2006), p. 15.
[>] "Mrs. Wheeldon was": Derby Daily Express, 26 February 1919.
[>] "it was a misnomer": CAB 23 WC 523.
[>] "A majority of these men": Adam Smith, p. 215.
[>] He also proposed: French to Long, 1 July 1920, quoted in Holmes, p. 352.
"The pore lady": Mrs. Philip Snowden, A Political Pilgrim in Europe (London: Cassell, 1921), p. 263.
[>] "With her I was able": Gonne to Quinn, 21 February 1921, quoted in Nancy Cardozo, Lucky Eyes and a High Heart: The Life of Maud Gonne (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1978), p. 343.
[>] "Everywhere lies the ordinary": Wilfrid Ewart, Scots Guard, quoted in Cecil, pp. 294–295.
"the tragedies of the future": American Diplomacy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), p. 69.
358 "'We will have arms again!'": Quoted in Winter and Baggett, p. 341.
war to end all wars: Several of Wilson's biographers contend that he never actually said the phrase. John Milton Cooper Jr. ascribes it to Lloyd George, J. W. Schulte Nordholt to H. G. Wells.
"a Peace to end Peace": O'Brien, p. 335. The phrase has also been attributed to several other people.
"our conversations were": Russell 1, pp. 141–142.
"for believing in Soviets": Diary, 19 May 1920, quoted in Ronald W. Clark, pp. 378–379.
"more vividly vital": E. Sylvia Pankhurst 2, p. 109.
"the Russian people": E. Sylvia Pankhurst 3, p. 184.
[>] "inflicted by a court": Russia Diary, Despard Papers 7/CFD, Women's Library, London.
Thousands of them vanished: See Hochschild, pp. 153–185, for accounts of some American-born victims.
Willie Wheeldon: My thanks to Julian Hendy for sharing with me Willie Wheeldon's Comintern personnel file, from which some of these details come.
23. AN IMAGINARY CEMETERY
[>] "The difficulty is": Milner to Lloyd George, 28 December 1919, quoted in Gollin, p. 591.
[>] "Here the ladies tend us": Omissi, p. 38.
"attend to our wants": Anjamuddin Khan to Muhammad Suraj-ud-Din Khan, 20 December 1915, Omissi, pp. 126–127.
"Nothing we can do": Morrow, p. 312.
"The participation of West Indian": 22 October 1919, CO 123/296/65767.
"in connection with the preservation": CO 318/350/8426.
[>] "she-edited magazine": Kipling to Crewe, 27 September 1932, Pinney, vol. 6, p. 131.
"I hate your generation": Gilmour, p. 310.
[>] military historians argue: The Holts argue this at length, backed by several other historians.
[>] not allowed to see him: Despard to French, 19 May 1925, French Papers, Imperial War Museum.
"I've only got to send": Cicely Hamilton, as quoted by Harold Frederick Bing, interview, Imperial War Museum #000358/11, p. 46.
"I have to go to Ireland": Linklater, p. 220.
[>] "an act in violation": Time, 18 January 1926.
[>] "to follow up certain information": Times, 6 January 1926.
"the crowds of spectators": Time, 18 January 1926.
"that I was to be": Haig 1, 30 November 1918, p. 489.
"Some enthusiasts to-day": B. H. Liddell Hart, The Tanks: The History of the Royal Tank Regiment and Its Predecessors, Heavy Branch Machine-Gun Corps, Tank Corps and Royal Tank Corps, 1914–1945, vol. 1 (New York: Praeger, 1959), p. 234.
"very lazy on the question": Ian F. W. Beckett, "Haig and French," in Bond and Cave, p. 60.
368 "I found him most pleasant": Haig to J. P. Allison, 27 February 1926, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 405.
[>] "I shall never be able": Purvis 1, p. 350.
[>] "In those irresistible": Anthony Mockler, Haile Selassie's War: The Italian-Ethiopian Campaign, 1935–1941 (New York: Random House, 1984), p. 150.
[>] a number of British military: See, for example, the books in the Bibliography by Bond and Cave, Sheffield, Terraine, and Todman.
"the worst thing the people": Ferguson 1, p. xxi.
[>] only a single memorial: On November 11, 2008, some time after my own travels on the Western Front, a small plaque about the Christmas Truce was dedicated