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694 “The president’s great talents”: Ibid., 374.

694 “There would come days”: Wilson, 116.

694 “There was one mistake”: Grey, II, 160.

695 “If Wilson wins”: Bernstorff, 244.

695 “The whole situation”: Ibid., 246.

695 “Demand for unrestricted”: Ibid., 254–55.

695 “Desirable to know”: Ibid., 260.

695 “We are thoroughly”: Ibid., 266.

695 “Urge no change”: Ibid., 260.

696 “The German people wish”: Tuchman,
Zimmermann Telegram,
126.

696 “a man broken”: Ibid., 121.

696 “Boiled Crow”: Curtain, 152.

696 “We are all gaunt”: Blücher, 158.

697 “To propose to make peace”: Cecil, II, 242.

697 “Intensified submarine war”: Jarausch, 297.

697 “was threatened by a peace move”: Tuchman,
Zimmermann Telegram,
127.

697 “In a deep moral”: Gerard,
Four Years,
353–54.

698 “Soldiers!”: Ibid., 354.

698 “it was not unknown”: Chamberlain, 111.

698 “visibly flabbier”: Lloyd George, II, 411.

698 “to enter into a conference”: Cowles, 375.

698 “Since I do not believe”: Jarausch, 297.

699 “diplomatic and military preparations”: Ludendorff,
General Staff,
294.

699 “It may be”: Charles Seymour,
House Papers,
II, 404.

699 “we do not want”: Bernstorff, 275.

699 “I go to no conference”: Balfour, 371.

699 “butt in”: Lloyd George, II, 280.

699 “There had been”: Ibid.

700 “There will be no war”: Charles Seymour,
House Papers,
II, 412.

700
“Ich pfeife”:
Herwig,
Politics of Frustration,
121.

700 “If it were not for”: Curtain, 120.

700 “30,000 killed”: Ibid., 121.

700 “An ambassador is supposed”: Gerard,
Four Years,
219.

701 “to tell the kaiser”: Ibid.

701 “I have nothing”: Ibid.

701 “Your Excellency”: Ibid., 250.

701 “I said that”: Ibid., 366.

701 “While you might invent”: Ibid.

701 “Do you come”: Ibid., 339.

701 “charged Germany”: Ibid., 340.

701 “If two men”: Ibid., 341.

701 “If the chancellor”: Ibid., 342–43.

702 “Wilson and his press”: Ibid., 313.

702 “ ‘You are the American’ ”: Ibid., 226–27.

702 “We are fighting”: Balfour, 375.

702 “We must resume”: Ludendorff,
General Staff,
293–94.

703 “for which I alone”: Ibid., 295–96.

703 “Unfortunately, our military situation”: Ibid., 298–99.

703 “A decision must be reached”: Scheer, 248.

703 “The backbone of England”: Ibid.

704 “We may reckon”: Ibid., 249–50.

704 “After our peace feelers”: Görlitz, 229.

704 “Oh, I am most unhappy”: Daisy of Pless, 256.

704 Buzzie: Ibid., 31.

705 “even if the chancellor”: Görlitz, 299.

705 “agitated and depressed”: Ibid.

705 “For two years”: Ibid.

705 “If the military authorities”: Ludendorff,
General Staff,
340.

705 “in the course”: Tuchman,
Zimmermann Telegram,
139.

705 “I pledge on my word”: Reischach, 261.

705 “We are in a position”: Ludendorff,
General Staff,
305.

705 “Of course, if”: Ibid., 306.

705 “I command”: Ibid.

706 “Have we lost”: Reischach, 260.

706 “American intervention”: Bernstorff, 281.

706 “This government”: Ibid., 280.

707 “war inevitable”: Ibid., 306.

707 “I do not care”: Görlitz, 232.

707 “Remarkable as this may sound”: Bernstorff, 302.

707 “Victory would mean”: Ibid., 310–14.

707 “Peace without victory”: Knock, 113.

707 “House suddenly”: Bernstorff, 319–20.

707 “Please thank the president”: Ibid.,7320–22.

708 “Agreed, reject”: Charles Seymour,
American Neutrality,
24.

708 “striped like a barber’s pole: Tuchman,
Practicing History,
168.

708 Handing the note: The Lansing-Bernstorff conversation is reported in Lansing, 211–12.

708 “the German people”: Bernstorff, 344.

708 “In America you wanted”: Ibid., 352.

708 “He looked up”: Tumulty, 254–55.

709 “You will see”: Gerard,
Four Years,
376.

709 “contempt and hatred”: Herwig,
Politics of Frustration,
124.

709 “a fat, rich, race”: Trask, 44.

709 “gruesome”: Görlitz, 237.

709 “I refuse to believe”: Charles Seymour,
House Papers,
II, 442.

709 “The main point”: Spring-Rice, 377–78.

710 “He is endeavoring”: Tuchman,
Zimmermann Telegram,
162.

710 “leaking like a basket”: Wesley Frost, 88–91.

710 “a very jolly”: Charles Seymour,
House Papers,
I, 186.

711 “is filled with the best of intentions”: Bülow, III, 178.

711 “The United States does not dare”: Gerard,
Four Years,
237.

711 “I told him”: Ibid.

711 “Gentlemen, there is”: Tuchman,
Zimmermann Telegram,
113.

711 “relations between”: Gerard,
Four Years,
363.

711 “so long as such men”: Bülow, III, 301.

712 “We intend”: The text of the Zimmermann telegram appears in Hendrick, III, 333.

713 “Good Lord”: Lansing, 228.

713 “Germany Seeks Alliance”:
New York Times,
March 1, 1917.

713 “If he does not go to war”: Heckscher, 435.

713 “a communication”: Ibid., 437.

713 “fanatical pro-German”: Lansing, 239.

713 “I shall never forget it”: Spring-Rice, 389.

713 “The present German”: Baker, VI, 510–14.

CHAPTER 36: THE DEFEAT OF THE U-BOATS

715 “a veritable cemetery”: Churchill, IV, 362.

717 “The shipping situation”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 125.

717 “The world’s ports”: Fayle, quoted by Marder, IV, 65.

717 “The position is exceedingly grave”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 146.

718 “dirty trick”: Kemp, 13.

719 “barbarous” and “contrary to the rules”: Sims, 144.

720 “Stand by”: Ibid., 185.

722 “vermin”: Chatterton,
Gallant Gentlemen,
175.

722 “some of the most admirable”: Sims, 170.

722 “a record of gallantry”: Jellicoe,
The Crisis of the Naval War,
73.

722 “A tramp steamer”: Campbell, 108.

722 “should the Officer”: Chatterton,
Q-Ships,
193–94.

722 “Don’t speak”: Campbell, 187.

724 “a terrific explosion”: Ibid., 271.

726 “Mr. S. W. Davidson”: Sims, 4.

726 “rely upon the last ship”: Ibid., 79.

726 “Don’t let the British”: Klachko and Trask, 58.

726 “a small man”: Sims, 7–8.

726 Greeting his visitor: The Sims-Jellicoe conversation is reported in ibid., 9.

727 “a big, exuberant boy”: Ibid., 15–16.

728 “long and distant service”: Taffrail, 327.

728 “Wherever possible”: Marder, IV, 121.

728 “A submarine could remain”: Terraine, 53.

728 controlled sailings: Marder, IV, 138.

729 “totally insufficient”: Ibid., 122.

729 “Absolutely impossible”: Sims, 107.

730 “palsied and muddle-headed Admiralty”: Lloyd George, III, 95.

730 “atmosphere of crouching”: Ibid., 83.

730 “condition of utter despair”: Ibid., 81.

730 “paralytic documents”: Ibid., 80.

730 “fear-dimmed eyes”: Ibid., 85.

730 “stunned pessimism”: Ibid., 86.

730 “High Admirals”: Ibid., 108.

730 “men whose caution”: Ibid., 81, 95.

730 “announced his intent”: Ibid., 106.

730 “and spent”: Hankey, II, 650.

731 “On the 30th”: Beaverbrook, 155.

731 “Apparently the prospect”: Lloyd George, III, 107.

731 “a travesty”: Patterson,
Jellicoe,
174.

731 “virtually preclude”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 114.

731 “My impression”: Marder, IV, 162.

731 “was the result”: Jellicoe,
The Submarine Peril,
130–31.

731 “The little popinjay”: Bacon,
Jellicoe,
388.

731 “something between”: Dangerfield, 22.

731 “My father”: Richard Lloyd George’s remarks are on pages 42 and 63 of his book,
My Father, Lloyd George.

732 “had enjoyed more sleep”: Marder, IV, 186.

732 “too many eggs”: Ibid., 131.

733 “establish a square mile”: Sims, 111.

733 “The size of the sea”: Churchill, IV, 364.

733 “The oceans at once”: Doenitz, 4.

734 “the British nation”: Sims, 55.

734 “Dine in undress”: Ibid., 56.

734 “When will you be ready”: Ibid., 58.

735 “He watched over”: Ibid., 65.

735 Uncle Lewis: Ibid., 75.

735 “attributed his success”: Marder, II, 12–13.

735 “a peculiarly difficult man”:
Anglo-American Naval Relations,
213.

735 “I do not consider”: Ibid., 219.

735 “I have a suggestion”: Ibid., 225.

736 “To command you”: Bayly, 249.

736 “First, the depth charge”: Sims, 153–54.

737 “Then a propeller”: Ibid., 225.

737 “There was a lumbering noise”: Ibid., 226.

737 “All night long”: Ibid., 227.

737 “a sharp, piercing noise”: Ibid.

737 “In all, twenty-five shots”: Ibid.

737 “We have thirty-seven destroyers”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 163.

CHAPTER 37: JELLICOE LEAVES,BEATTY ARRIVES, AND THE AMERICANSCROSS THE ATLANTIC

739 “uncrowned King”: Marder, IV, 54.

739 “My only qualification”: Ibid., 55.

739 “As long as I am”: Beaverbrook, 151.

739 “I am overwhelmed”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 123.

739 “I spent from 10.30 a.m.”: Ibid., 127.

739 “The Imperial War Cabinet meets”: Ibid., 154.

739 “seedy but indomitable”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 139.

740 “You will remember”: Ibid., 156.

740 “I have got myself”: Ibid., 173.

740 “Wherever you read”: Beaverbrook, 162.

740 “the PM is hot”: Roskill,
Hankey,
406.

740 “had his knife”: Marder, IV, 327.

740 “At one point”: The Carson-Jellicoe conversation is reported in Bacon,
Jellicoe,
390.

740 “reptile press”: Marder, IV, 110.

740 “You kill him”: Ibid., 327.

740 “No one can feel”: Ibid., 323.

741 “The British Admiralty has done”:
Anglo-American Naval Relations,
71.

741 “extraordinary folly”: Ibid., 107.

741 “It fell to me”: Marder, IV, 110.

741 “One can gather”: Jellicoe,
Submarine Peril,
36.

741 “ambivalent”: Marder, IV, 327.

741 “what the intriguers set”:
Beatty Papers,
II, 174.

741 “J. J. was always”: Ibid., I, 426.

741 “I telephoned Mr. Pollen”: Ibid., 422.

741 “I talked to Pollen”: Ibid., 429.

742 “unless I were present”: Lloyd George, III, 113.

742 “a giant figure”: Sims, 258.

742 “masquerading”: Marder, IV, 213.

742 “a general today”: Ibid., 176.

742 “We have been upside down”: James,
A Great Seaman,
159–60.

742 “used to bother me”: Ibid., 159.

742 “I said that the organisation”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 240–41.

743 “for his services”: Ibid., 243.

743 “After very careful”: Ibid., 246.

743 “I have received”: Ibid., 246–47.

743 “It’s a good thing”: Marder, IV, 341.

743 “Dear Sir”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 247.

743 “a title usually reserved”: Bacon,
Jellicoe,
386.

743 “in the way I thought”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 246.

744 “the change was not”: Ibid., 245.

744 “We had full confidence”: Ibid., 248.

744 “was the only man”: Ibid., 249.

744 “I would remind you”: Ibid., 250.

744 “we have realised”: Ibid., 254.

744 “disgraceful”: Ibid.

744 “mutinous”: Ibid., 255.

744 “scandalous”: Ibid.

744 “I cannot find words”: Ibid., 256.

744 “Never a man”: Ibid., 257.

744 “No one knows better”: Ibid., 260.

744 “I look upon”: Ibid.

744 “We want you back”: Ibid., 263.

744 “Sack the lot!”: Bacon,
Jellicoe,
389.

745 “The whole time”: Beaverbrook, 181–82.

745 “At sea, a figure”: Gordon, 523.

745 “There was too much”: Roskill,
Beatty,
206.

746 “One of my difficulties”: Jellicoe,
Submarine Peril,
159.

746 “Only by keeping”:
Beatty Papers,
I, 462.

746 “The torpedo menace”: Ibid., 460.

747 “the correct strategy of the Grand Fleet”: Marder, V, 134.

747 “Luck was against us”: Ibid., IV, 298.

748 “We do have”: Ibid., 314.

748 “out of control”: Ibid., V, 151.

749 “because it is exercise”: Hunter, 17.

749 “Here, we can’t let it stand”: Ibid., 21.

749 “utterly unpredictable”: Marder, IV, 26.

749 “worse than Jutland”: Ibid.

750 “Darling Tata”: Roskill,
Beatty,
203.

750 “You accuse me”: Chalmers, 216–17.

750 “You must give me”: Ibid.

750 His reply: These letters from Beatty to Eugenie appear on pages 204, 205, 209, 211, 217, 221, 223, 226, 230, and 231 of Stephen Roskill’s biography,
Earl Beatty: The Last Naval Hero.
Roskill, a former Royal Navy captain, was the official historian of the Royal Navy in World War II.

751 “You must know”:
Beatty Papers,
I, 449.

751 Eugenie asked Beatty: The letters that follow (including Beatty’s verse) appear on pages 235, 254, 255, 263, and 266 of Roskill,
Beatty.

752 “dirty dog”:
Beatty Papers,
I, 386.

752 “a demagogue”: Ibid., 431.

752 Geddes a “dirty dog” and “weak as ditch water”: Ibid., 452.