61 “said to me at Homburg”: ibid., 276
62 “Mr. Chamberlain...”: ibid., 275
63 “Impossible!”: ibid.
64 “I quite agree with you”: ibid., 279
65 “Since the Crimean War”: ibid., 282
Chapter 13
Fashoda
1 “His temperature was high”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 276
2 “Africa was created”: Garvin, III, 203
3 “Up to ten years ago”: Gwendolyn Cecil, IV, 225
4 “The question of going forward”: Queen Victoria, III, 85
5 “My father was much impressed”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 280
6 “the French Embassy in London”: Newton, 283
7 “The advance of a French expedition”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 278
8 “an emissary of civilization”: BD, I, 163
9 “I note your intention”: Gooch, History of Modern Europe, 289
10 “I have come to resume”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 286
11 “We are the stronger”: ibid., 287
12 “Here is Marchand”: Queen Victoria, III, 287
13 “no title of occupation”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 290
14 “so long as the French flag flew”: Queen Victoria, III, 299
15 “Great Britain has been treated”: A. L. Kennedy, Old Diplomacy, 82
16 “Fashoda is the last straw”: Marder, Anatomy, 331
17 “It seems a deadlock”: Queen Victoria, III, 289
18 “I deeply sympathize”: ibid., 290
19 “Received your cypher”: ibid.
20 “We have only arguments”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 96
21 “Not a stone”: Queen Victoria, III, 298
22 “there would be no humiliation”: ibid., 304
23 “a French explorer”: BD, I, 170
24 “I think a war”: Queen Victoria, III, 305
25 “very agreeable”: ibid., 308
26 “I have received from the French ambassador”: A. L. Kennedy, Old Diplomacy, 83
27 “keeps the French entirely out”: Queen Victoria, III, 351
28 “I have received news”: DGP, XIV, ii, 383
29 “had no knowledge”: ibid., 385
30 “Poor France”: ibid., 409
Chapter 14
Samoa and William’s Visit to Windsor
1 “You ask me”: Garvin, III, 246
2 “Last year we offered”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 62; DGP, XIV, ii, 612
3 “Instead of compliance”: Spender, Fifty Years, 184
4 “I suspect”: Queen Victoria, III, 359
5 “said that it was not”: ibid.
6 “Dearest Grandmama”: ibid., 376
7 “He entirely agrees”: ibid., 379
8 “Dear William”: ibid., 381
9 “wouldn’t be dictated to”: Eckardstein, 106
10 “I am waiting daily”: ibid.
11 “a document of frothy flummery”: ibid., III
12 “whether Samoa was the name”: ibid., 112
13 “What has happened in Samoa”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 57; DGP, XIV, 592
14 “What I have preached”: ibid. 61
15 “stood alone”: Garvin, III, 282
16 “Your government in England”: ibid., 341
17 “abolishes every colonial antagonism”: ibid., 342
18 “I AM EQUALLY PLEASED”: Queen Victoria, III, 416
19 “BRAVO!”: Bülow, I, 331
20 “Yes, the last few years”: Eckardstein, 117
21 “Let him come”: ibid.
22 “I AM DÉSOLÉ”: Queen Victoria, III, 389
23 “YOUR HANDICAPS”: Eckardstein, 120
24 “It really is enough”: ibid.
25 “I don’t envy”: ibid.
26 “the Kaiser could not”: ibid., 121
27 “If I go”: ibid., 122
28 “I should be awfully glad”: ibid., 123
29 “It was not until”: ibid., 124
30 “I hoped”: Bülow, I, 355
31 “Beyond any question”: ibid., 364
32 “The entire service”: Garvin, III, 500
33 “ruler of the world empire”: Bülow, I, 361
34 “From this Tower”: ibid., 360
35 “William came to me after tea”: Queen Victoria, III, 421
36 “Lord Salisbury has heard”: ibid., 399
37 “but if he was blamed too much”: Bülow, I, 377
38 “the immense harm”: Queen Victoria, III, 423
39 “Joseph Chamberlain was”: Bülow, I, 367
40 “an able, energetic, shrewd businessman”: ibid., 368
41 “I am the sole master”: ibid., 370
42 “with its magnificent park”: ibid., 395
44 “a fat, malicious tom-cat”: ibid., 399
45 “British politicians”: ibid., 391
46 “The visit... has gone off”: ibid., 401
47 “Any far-seeing English statesman”: Garvin, III, 507
48 “an incomprehensible blunder”: Eckardstein, 146
49 “a gaucherie”: Bülow, I, 385
50 “Count Bülow, whose acquaintance”: Eckardstein, 130
51 “Without power”: Bülow, I, 415
52 “I will say no more”: Eckardstein, 151
53 “the extreme difficulty”: ibid., 144
54 “Chamberlain and Arthur Balfour”: Bülow, I, 392
55 “to show a spirit”: ibid., 394
Chapter 15
The Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion
1 “moral and intellectual damages”: Thomas Pakenham, 63
2 “A war with the Transvaal”: Garvin, III, 141
3 “Kruger has never”: Spender, Asquith, 132
4 “the sands are running low”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 309
5 “I will tell you one thing”: Gwendolyn Cecil, III, 191
6 “The vast majority”: Garvin, III, 513
7 “The South African question”: Eckardstein, 137
8 “the infamous language”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 313
9 “phenomenal”: ibid.
10 “What days of sad news”: Lee, I, 754
11 “Last year”: Queen Victoria, III, 484
12 “I am afraid I am unable”: Lee, I, 759
13 “My last paragraph”: ibid.
14 “the Kaiser is considering”: Eckardstein, 153
15 “Lord Salisbury”: ibid., 152
16 the Swiss cheese ultimatum: ibid., 157
17 “Yet whosoever believes”: Garvin, III, 516
18 “You have no idea”: Lee, I, 770
19 “My armies have driven”: Asquith. Fifty Years, I, 305
20 “THE DISTURBANCES IN CHINA”: The Times, June 6, 1900
21 “As to Su Shun”: Fleming, 57
22 “Fish in a stewpan”: O’Connor, 142
23 “awful sights”: Fleming, 94
24 “Veuillez agréer”: ibid., 118
25 “The face”: ibid., 114
26 “Situation desperate”: ibid., 132
27 “put to the sword”: ibid., 135
28 “impossible to exaggerate”: ibid., 137
29 “Lady MacDonald”: O’Connor, 296
30 “Peking must be stormed”: ibid., 181
31 “Now it is a pleasure”: Bülow, I, 417
32 “I never saw him so excited”: ibid.
33 “unprecedented in its impudence”: ibid.
34 “no business”: O’Connor, 181
35 Bülow’s description of the “Hun” speech: Bülow, I, 418
36 “I cannot possibly answer”: ibid., 419
37 “You struck out the best parts”: ibid.
38 “I know you are concerned”: ibid., 420
39 “not to endure”: DGP, XVI, 76
40 “The strongest corps”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 130; ibid., 82
41 “I fully agree”: ibid.; ibid., 83
42 “How wonder
fully”: Waldersee, 144
43 “He is extraordinarily restless”: ibid., 167
44 “tried to make excuses”: ibid., 168
45 “traitor”: Bülow, I, 423
46 “It became obvious to me”: Waldersee, 209
47 “Naturally, this was”: ibid.
48 “betrayed him”: Bülow, I, 527
49 “as big a war indemnity”: Waldersee, 210
50 “were extraordinarily polite”: ibid., 213
51 “farcical” and “absurd”: O’Connor, 298
52 “Different staff officers”: Waldersee, 249
53 “I rejoice that the French”: ibid., 230
54 “They say that the Kaiser”: O’Connor, 298
55 “to shoot all the headmen”: ibid., 299
56 “exerting a moral influence”: Fleming, 253
57 “This is no time”: Manchester, The Arms of Krupp, 217
58 “It was not a proper position”: Eckardstein, 180
59 “seems to desire”: O’Connor, 325
60 “At all costs”: Eckardstein, 175
Chapter 16
The “Khaki Election” and the Death of Queen Victoria
1 “the Parliament is in its sixth year”: Queen Victoria, III, 586
2 “We all know very well”: Asquith, Fifty Years, I, 305
3 “A vote for the Liberals”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, I, 291
4 “The elections are wonderfully good”: Queen Victoria, III, 603
5 “while marking their ballots”: Garvin, III, 605
6 “The stable remains the same”: Asquith, Fifty Years, II, 3
7 “makes one despair”: Amery, IV, 138
8 “his doctors had advocated”: Queen Victoria, III, 604
9 “I do very earnestly”: ibid., 606
10 “Lord Salisbury thought”: ibid., 611
11 “At the time”: Churchill, Great Contemporaries, 57
12 “Double Duchess”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 39
13 “Pray come without fail”: Eckardstein, 184
14 “The Colonial Minister”: ibid., 185
15 “It is particularly noteworthy”: ibid., 186
16 “You and I”: Amery, IV, 146
17 “Better wait”: ibid., 147
18 “I was wheeled up to the bed”: Queen Victoria, III, 516
19 “an accomplice of Chamberlain”: Lee, I, 777
20 “It was entirely my own idea”: Longford, 555
21 “Again my old birthday”: ibid., 556
22 “I now rest daily”: ibid., 558
23 “The malady appears incurable”: Queen Victoria, III, 576
24 “having been with us,” ibid., 580
25 “Oh God!”: ibid., 579
26 “He has now been”: ibid., 588
27 “The Queen feels”: ibid., 592
28 “Your Majesty speaks pathetically”: ibid., 594
29 “In May the Queen”: Askwith, 261
30 “gloomy and dark”: Longford, 558
31 “very poorly and wretched”: Queen Victoria, III, 616
32 Queen Victoria’s diary entries: ibid., 618–34
33 “She was thinner”: Amery, IV, 7
34 “I am not anxious,” ibid., 6
35 “Had a fair night”: Queen Victoria, III, 642
36 “as mighty an instrument”: Amery, IV, 147
37 “I have duly informed”: Newton, 197
38 “prompt recovery”: Longford, 561
39 “The last moments”: Ponsonby, 82
40 “She was so little”: Balfour, 231
41 “William was kindness itself”: Magnus, 272
42 “William’s touching and simple demeanour”: ibid.
43 “Let us rather remember”: Lee, II, 526
44 “She was the greatest”: Amery, IV, 8
45 “The Queen is dead, Sir”: Lee, II, 8
46 “see what you can do”: Balfour, 231
47 “I hope”: Bülow, I, 580
48 “My aunts”: ibid., 581
49 “The Kaiser is very tired”: ibid.
50 “To crown everything else”: ibid., 582
51 “I am anxious”: ibid., 583
52 “Accordingly, I told the Kaiser”: Eckardstein, 189
53 “Baron von Eckardstein tells me”: Amery, IV, 148
54 “Chamberlain’s threatened understanding”: ibid., 149
55 “Your Majesty is quite right”: ibid.
56 “the Russian Emperor”: Newton, 199
57 “Russian Grand Duke”: ibid.
58 “It is not the British Fleet”: Eckardstein, 192
59 “I cannot wobble forever”: Amery, IV, 150; DGP, XVI, 295
60 “The military ranks”: ibid., 151
61 “I believe there is a Providence”: Cowles
62 “completely under the spell”: Bülow, I, 585
Chapter 17
The End of Anglo-German Alliance Negotiations
1 “Everything from London”: Eckardstein, 202
2 “no desire to burn”: Amery, IV, 153
3 “The alliance is moving”: Eckardstein, 219
4 “out of the hands of Eckardstein”: Bülow, I, 591
5 “that person”: Amery, IV, 156
6 “unmitigated noodles”: Eckardstein, 217
7 “There, what do you”: ibid.
8 “hopeless sloppiness”: ibid., 202
9 “cleverly managed”: ibid., 220
10 “since the liability”: BD, II, 68
11 “Nobody here in England”: Amery, IV, 157
12 “We ought not”: ibid., 160
13 “nations who now criticize”: ibid., 167
14 “the bloodhound of the Transvaal”: Spender, Fifty Years, 187
15 “butchers”: Amery, IV, 168
16 “for a speech”: ibid., 169
17 “there had been no warmer advocate”: ibid.
18 “The German Army”: Bülow, I, 637
19 “What I have said”: Amery, IV, 173
20 “Mr. Chamberlain is”: ibid., 175
21 “You would be interested”: ibid., 176
22 “the temper of the two countries”: Newton, 207
23 “I hear in the strictest confidence”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 171; DGP, XVII, 342
24 “It is not the first time”: Eckardstein, 288
25 “For a long time at least”: ibid., 230
Chapter 18
Arthur Balfour
1 “One might as well”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 354
2 “the King’s face”: Amery, IV, 448
3 “Joe Chamberlain was”: ibid., 453
4 “that I was to understand”: ibid., V, 67
5 “The country is full”: ibid., 71
6 “Arthur hates difficulties”: ibid., IV, 464
7 “The difference between Joe and me”: ibid.
8 “the finest brain”: Chamberlain, 206
9 “the most extraordinary objet d’art”: Young, xv
10 “To know her slightly”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 16
11 “Can you tell me”: ibid.
12 “a beautiful purity of mind”: ibid., 21
13 “if he was laughed at”: ibid., 20
14 “Pretty Fanny”: Young, 13
15 “In these conditions”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 36
16 “A very good bill”: ibid., 37
17 “Ah, when we were young”: Young, 38
18 “The member for Hertford”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 45
19 “that very pretty, quaint boy”: Young, 32
20 “I really delight in him”: ibid.
21 “with ill-timed punctuality”: ibid.
22 “I saw with intense thankfulness”: ibid.
23 “Comatose”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 31
24 “Nearly all the young men”: Margot Asquith, II, 12
25 “The fact is, Mr. Balfour”: ibid., I, 259
26 “You all sit around”: Young, 143
27 “Oh, dear”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 46
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sp; 28 “exquisite attention”: Margot Asquith, I, 257
29 “to know intimately”: ibid.
30 “I think I should mind”: Jenkins, 79
31 “After an evening”: Chamberlain, 217
32 “If he had”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 52
33 “Who did you say”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 150
34 “If you think”: ibid., 94
35 “drifting with lazy grace”: Young, 101
36 “a silk-skinned sybarite”: ibid.
37 “accidents have occurred”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 98
38 “failed because he relied”: Young, 105
39 “If necessary, do not hesitate”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 101
40 “best calculated”: ibid.
41 “It is impossible to say”: ibid., 110
42 “What I have done”: ibid., 137
43 “Bloody Balfour”: ibid., 113
44 “There are those who talk”: ibid., 103
45 “jaded palate”: ibid., 120
46 “My object is not to bribe”: ibid., 130
47 “with rather a wry face”: Young, 125
48 “formerly as ready”: ibid., 130
49 “he had never loved”: ibid.
50 “I am very glad”: ibid.
51 “I ran up from the station”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 166
52 “There is a difference”: Margot Asquith, I, 236
53 “My dear Uncle Robert”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 187
54 “You ask me about South Africa”: Young, 185
55 “Every night I go down to the War Office”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 222
56 “Hotel Cecil”: ibid., 237
57 “this unhappy and persecuted family”: ibid., 239
58 “It is better, perhaps”: Young, xvii
59 “When I’m at work in politics”: ibid., 163
60 “Quite a good fellow”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 49
61 “ridiculous,” “grotesque”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 114
62 “really believe”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 51
63 “Imperishable monuments”: Margot Asquith, I, 265
64 “having cooked for him a sparrow”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 143
65 “this damned Scottish croquet”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 53
66 “making a raft with his sponge”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 144
Chapter 19
Joseph Chamberlain and Imperial Preference
1 “Colonies are like fruits”: Amery, V, 39
2 “either by exemption”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 255
3 “It was suggested”: ibid., 256
4 “Let us first be quite clear”: Amery, V, 119