5.
Chamberlain Papers, 1/27/72.
6.
Jones Papers, 25 Nov. 1943.
7.
There was no authentic text. This is from the notes for the speech quoted in Middlemas and Barnes,
op. cit.,
p. 229, and written at 3 Elliot Terrace (the Astor house), Plymouth Hoe.
8.
The Leo Amery Diaries,
p. 351.
9.
Quoted in Middlemas and Barnes,
op. cit.,
pp. 240-1.
10.
Thomas Jones,
op. cit.,
vol. 1, p. 257.
11.
Quoted in Robert Rhodes James,
op. cit.,
p. 192.
12.
Thomas Jones,
op. cit.,
vol. 1, p. 265.
13.
Quoted in G. M. Young,
op. cit., p.
71.
14.
Letter to Hilda Chamberlain, 9 Feb. 1924.
15.
Thomas Jones,
op. cit.,
vol. 1, pp. 275-6.
16.
ibid, p. 301.
17.
ibid, p. 303.
4. The Perplexity of Power18.
idem.
1.
Letter of 10 Oct. 1928 quoted in Birkenhead,
F.E.,
p. 545.
2.
Quoted in Middlemas and Barnes,
op. cit.,
p. 343.
3.
Hansard, vol. 181, col. 840
4.
G. M. Young,
op. cit.,
p. 99.
5.
ibid, p. 103.
6.
Thomas Jones,
op. cit.,
vol. 1, p. 330.
7.
ibid, vol. 2, p. 19.
8.
ibid, pp. 21-3.
9.
ibid, p. 23.
10.
ibid, pp. 28-9.
11.
Thomas Jones,
op. cit.,
vol. 2, p. 38.
12.
Keith Feiling,
The Life of Neville Chamberlain, p.
162.
13.
Thomas Jones,
op. cit.,
vol. 2, p. 86.
5. The Defeat of ‘Safety First’14.
ibid, vol. 2, p. 88.
1.
Thomas Jones,
op. cit.,
vol. 2, p. 143
2.
ibid, p. 186.
3.
Letter to Sir William Wyndham, 1716.
4.
Papers of Sir John Elliot (son of
Daily Express
editor, R. D. Blumfeld), quoted in Middlemas and Barnes,
op. cit.,
p. 579.
5.
Hansard, vol. 231, col. 1306, 7 Nov. 1929.
6.
Robert Rhodes James,
op. cit.,
p. 357
etseq.
7.
Hansard, vol. 249, col. 1426, 12 March 1930.
6. The National Government8.
Quoted in Young,
op. cit.,
p. 92.
1.
Keith Feiling,
op. cit.,
p. 189.
2.
Iain Macleod,
Neville Chamberlain,
p. 149.
3.
Quoted in Middlemas and Barnes,
op. cit.,
p. 621.
4.
Robert Rhodes James,
op cit.,
p. 367.
5.
ibid, p. 368.
6.
Templewood,
Nine Troubled Years,
p. 18.
7.
Harold Nicolson,
King George V,
p. 462.
8.
Robert Rhodes James,
op. cit.,
p. 370.
9.
Quoted in Middlemas and Barnes,
op. cit.,
p. 640.
10.
Herbert Samuel,
Memoirs,
p. 214.
11.
Templewood,
op. cit.,
p. 178.
12.
Thomas Jones,
A Diary with Letters,
p. 155.
13.
Quoted in Middlemas and Barnes, op. cit., p. 640.
14.
Hansard, vol. 307, col. 856, 10 Dec. 1935.
15.
Templewood,
op. cit.,
p. 185.
16.
H. Montgomery Hyde,
op. cit.,
p. 412.
17.
Idem.
18.
Quoted in Middlemas and Barnes,
op. cit.,
p. 894.
19.
Quoted in H. Montgomery Hyde,
op. cit.,
p. 412.
20.
Robert Rhodes James,
op.cit.,
p. 411.
7. Abdication and Retirement21.
ibid.
1.
Thomas Jones,
A Diary with Letters,
p. 162.
2.
Quoted in Middlemas and Barnes,
op. cit.,
p. 978.
3.
Anthony Eden,
Facing the Dictators,
p. 410.
4.
Quoted in Frances Donaldson,
Edward VIII,
p. 238.
5.
G. M. Young,
op. cit.,
p. 243.
6.
Idem.
7.
Quoted in Middlemas and Barnes,
op. cit., p.
1013.
8.
Harold Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters
, 1930-9, p. 286.
9.
Thomas Jones,
A Diary with Letters,
p. 297.
10.
Quoted in H. Montgomery Hyde,
op. cit.,
p. 568.
11.
ibid, p. 446.
12.
Hansard, vol. 317, col. 1144, 12 Nov. 1936.
13.
Letter from Baldwin to J. P. L. Thomas, quoted in Montgomery Hyde,
op. cit.,
p. 537.
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