223 ‘Israelite, Assyrian, Greek’: Wavell, Allenby, p. 230.
224 ‘This is because’: Daily Mirror, 11 December 1917, quoted in Bar-Yosef, The Holy Land in English Culture, p. 264.
224 ‘these events in’: Hansard, 5th Series, vol. 100, cols. 2212, 2211, 20 December 1917, quoted in Bar-Yosef, The Holy Land in English Culture, p. 292.
226 ‘him of the’: Mansfield, The Arabs, p. 165.
227 ‘England will understand’: Rose, Chaim Weizmann, p. 137.
228 ‘would develop the’: Ibid., p. 144.
228 ‘bridge between Europe’: Quoted in Ronald Hyam, ‘Churchill and the British Empire’, in Blake and Louis, eds., Churchill, p. 171.
228 ‘Mr Balfour’s whole’: Quoted in Brendon, Eminent Victorians, p. 89.
229 ‘Were any of’: Quoted in ibid., p. 79.
229 ‘about as intelligible’: Quoted in ibid., p. xv.
229 ‘His Majesty’s Government’: Quoted in Karsh and Karsh, eds., Empires of the Sand, p. 254.
230 ‘I do not’: ‘A Defence of the Mandate. Speech delivered by the Earl of Balfour, as the Lord President of the Council, on June 21st, 1922, in the House of Lords on a motion introduced by Lord Islington, proposing that Great Britain should not accept the Mandate for Palestine’, in Balfour, Speeches on Zionism, pp. 59–64.
230 ‘they will not’: ‘Speech delivered at a public demonstration held by the English Zionist Federation under the Chairmanship of Lord Rothschild, on July 12th, 1920, at the Royal Albert Hall, for the purpose of celebrating the conferment of the Mandate for Palestine upon Great Britain and the incorporation of the Balfour Declaration in the Treaty of Peace with Turkey’, in Balfour, Speeches on Zionism, pp. 23–5.
230 ‘I had a well-spent’: Bell, The Letters of Gertrude Bell, vol. II, p. 149.
230 ‘the maker of Iraq’: Philby, ‘Gertrude Bell’, p. 804.
231 ‘The British flag’: Quoted in James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, p. 355.
233 ‘to convert the’: Robinson, ‘The Moral Disarmament of African Empire, 1919–1947’, p. 88.
234 ‘I venture to’: Speech by Madan Mohan Malaviya in the Imperial Legislative Council, 23 March 1917, in Malaviya, Speeches and Writings of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, p. 129.
235 ‘if Britain withdrew’: Lloyd George to the House of Commons, 2 August 1922, quoted in Rumbold, Watershed in India, p. 314.
235 ‘The people are’: Morris, Farewell the Trumpets, p. 278.
235 ‘send an officer’: Quoted in Collett, The Butcher of Amritsar, p. 240.
236 ‘unexpected gift of’: Quoted in ibid., p. 255.
237 ‘then they would’: Quoted in ibid., p. 336.
237 ‘every white man’s’: ‘Shooting an Elephant’, in Orwell, The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays and Reportage, p. 7.
237 ‘When a handful’: Carlyon Bellairs, letter to The Times, 8 July 1920.
238 ‘an episode which’: Sayer, ‘British Reaction to the Amritsar Massacre, 1919–1920’, p. 131.
238 ‘We do not’: Quoted in ibid., p. 133.
239 ‘plunge his knife’: Quoted in Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, p. 295.
239 ‘the Irish wound’: Quoted in Keith Jeffery, ‘Introduction’, in Jeffery, ed., ‘An Irish Empire?’, pp. 6–7.
239 ‘My world-wide Empire’: Quoted in ibid., p. 7.
240 ‘if today India’: O’Hegarty, A History of Ireland under the Union, p. 774.
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241 ‘You young worms!’: Brabazon, Memories of the Nineteenth Century, p. 19.
242 ‘slackness, indifference and’: The Duty and Discipline Movement and the War, leaflet (London, 1917).
242 ‘Britons have ruled’: Meath, ‘Duty and Discipline in the Training of Children’, p. 9.
242 ‘subordination of selfish’: Lord Meath, letter to The Times, 24 May 1921.
242 ‘Every time one’: Arnold-Forster, The Citizen Reader, pp. 22–3. Arnold-Forster was a grandson of the great headmaster of Rugby, Thomas Arnold, and a future secretary of state for war.
243 ‘free discipline, manly’: ‘General Objects’, Church Lads’ Brigade, Fifth Annual Report, 1896–1897, quoted in Springhall, Youth, Empire and Society, p. 123.
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.
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sp; 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 Times, p. 149.
265 ‘Politicians don’t know’: New Statesman, 15 December 1956, quoted in James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, p. 580.
265 ‘The seizure is’: The Times and the Daily Mail, 28 July 1956, quoted in Pearson, Sir Anthony Eden and the Suez Crisis, p. 29.
266 ‘The United States’: Dulles press conference, quoted in ibid., p . 115.
267 ‘I want him murdered’: Quoted in Kyle, Suez, p. 99.
267 ‘Britain and the’: Daily Herald, 28 July 1956; quoted in Parmentier, ‘The British Press in the Suez Crisis’, p. 437, n. 12.
268 ‘I’m finished. I’: Quoted in Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, p. 496.
268 ‘Your return is’: Quoted in Rhodes James, Anthony Eden, pp. 588–9.
268 ‘the same very’: Quoted in ibid., p. 592.
268 ‘For a moment’: Quoted in ibid., p. 594.
268 ‘The doctors have’: Quoted in ibid., p. 597.
270 ‘the Mecca of’: Quoted in Berman, Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya, pp. 372–3.
271 ‘All government, all’: Quoted in Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, p. 564.
272 ‘Are these people’: Quoted in Horne, Macmillan, vol. II: 1957–86, p. 190.
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277 ‘as with so’: Daily Telegraph, 5 April 2011.
282 at schools intended: Indeed, Richard Ingrams, Paul Foot, Willie Rushton and Christopher Booker of Private Eye had all been at Shrewsbury School together.
283 In one sketch: Quoted in Ward, British Culture and the End of Empire, pp. 104–5.
284 ‘if our ancestors’: Quoted in Ferguson, Empire, p. 239.
284 ‘free aspirins and’: Quoted in Ashton and Louis, eds., East of Suez and the Commonwealth, p. xlii.
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