The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (106 page)

Notes

Abbreviations
: BD – Gooch, G. P. and Temperley, H., eds.,
British Documents on the Origins of the War
; DDF – France. Ministère des Affaires Étrangères,
Documents diplomatiques français, 1871–1914
, 3rd series; RA – Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, available at
http://www.royal.gov.uk/
. Full entries for these and all other sources will be found in the Bibliography.

Introduction: War or Peace?

1
. Kramer,
Dynamic of Destruction
, 8–9.
2
.
New York Times
, 29 September 1914.
3
. Kramer,
Dynamic of Destruction
, 30.
4
. Lloyd George,
War Memoirs
, vol. I, 52.

1 Europe in 1900

1
. All references to Hachette’s guide to the Exposition,
Paris Exposition, 1900: guide pratique du visiteur de Paris et de l’exposition
, are taken from the online version at
http://archive.org/details/parisexpositionoopari
2
.
The Times
, 24 May 1900.
3
.
New York Observer and Chronicle
, 25 October 1900.
4
.
The Times
, 18 April 1900.
5
. Lieven,
The Aristocracy in Europe, 1815–1914
, 7.
6
. Zweig,
The World of Yesterday
, 215.
7
. Addison and O’Grady,
Diary of a European Tour, 1900
, 30.
8
. Zweig,
The World of Yesterday
, 26.
9
. Dowler,
Russia in 1913
, ch. 1, passim.
10
. Kennedy,
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
, ch. 4, passim.
11
. Tylor,
Primitive Culture
, 2.
12
. Blom,
The Vertigo Years
, 8.
13
.
New York Observer and Chronicle
, 27 December 1900.
14
.
New York Observer and Chronicle
, 11 October 1900.
15
. Herring,
From Colony to Superpower
, 345.
16
. Cronin,
Paris on the Eve
, 37.
17
. Zweig,
The World of Yesterday
, 216.
18
. Weber,
France: Fin de Siècle
, 230–31.
19
. Blom,
The Vertigo Years
, 265–8.
20
.
New York Observer and Chronicle
, 18 October 1900.
21
. Kessler,
Journey to the Abyss
, 81.
22
. Hewitson, ‘Germany and France’, 580.
23
. Weber,
France: Fin de Siècle
, 243–4.
24
. Cronin,
Paris on the Eve
, 36.
25
. Weber,
France: Fin de Siècle
, 243.
26
. Andrew,
Théophile Delcassé
, 136;
New York Observer and Chronicle
, 1 November 1900.
27
. Ridley,
Bertie
, 338.

2 Great Britain and Splendid Isolation

1
.
New York Times
, 24 June 1897;
Spectator
, 26 June 1897.
2
. RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ (W) 22 June 1897 (Princess Beatrice’s copies).
3
. Massie,
Dreadnought
, xviii.
4
. Rüger,
The
Great Naval Game
, 200, 74.
5
. Massie,
Dreadnought
, xx.
6
. Roberts,
Salisbury
, 664–5; Rüger,
The Great Naval Game
, 184–5; Massie,
Dreadnought
, xviii–xx.
7
. Kipling and Pinney,
The Letters of Rudyard Kipling
, vol. II, 303.
8
. Massie,
Dreadnought
, xxx; Rüger,
The Great Naval Game
, 191–2; Roberts,
Salisbury
, 661.
9
. Cannadine,
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
, 9–11; Lieven,
The Aristocracy in Europe, 1815–1914
, 205; Cecil,
Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury
, 159.
10
. Roberts,
Salisbury
, 8–12, 28.
11
. Tuchman,
The Proud Tower
, 9.
12
. Roberts,
Salisbury
, 714–15; Tuchman,
The Proud Tower
, 6.
13
. Cecil,
Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury
, 176.
14
. Roberts,
Salisbury
, 111.
15
. Cecil,
Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury
, 3–4, 6, 8.
16
. Gilmour,
Curzon
, 125.
17
. Massie,
Dreadnought
, 195.
18
. Roberts,
Salisbury
, 6.
19
. Ibid., 34.
20
. Bánffy,
They Were Divided
, Kindle version, loc. 6086.
21
. Cannadine,
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
, 36–9.
22
. Hamilton,
Parliamentary Reminiscences and Reflections, 1886–1906
, 253.
23
. Roberts,
Salisbury
, 624, 651.
24
. Ibid., 626.
25
. Ibid., 65.
26
. Ibid., 647; Gilmour,
Curzon
, 125.
27
. Cecil,
Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury
, 247.
28
. Roberts,
Salisbury
, 44.
29
. Ibid., 46–50.
30
. Ibid., 628.
31
. Howard, ‘The Policy of Isolation’, 82.
32
. Cecil,
Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury
, 90.
33
. Ibid.
34
. Howard, ‘The Policy of Isolation’, 81.
35
. Ibid., 79–80.
36
. Beesly,
Queen Elizabeth
, 107.
37
. Burrows,
The History of the Foreign Policy of Great Britain
, 34; Otte, ‘Almost a Law of Nature?’, 75–6.
38
. Rüger,
The Great Naval Game
, 179.
39
. Steiner and Neilson,
Britain and the Origins
, 19.
40
. Kennedy,
Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism
, 229.
41
. Roberts,
Salisbury
, 495–6.
42
. Ibid., 692.
43
. Ibid., 615–16; Herring,
From Colony to Superpower
, 307–8.
44
. Cecil,
Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury
, 3, 218.
45
. Gilmour,
Curzon
, 128.
46
. Mansergh,
The Commonwealth Experience
, vol. II, 27.
47
. Tuchman,
The Proud Tower
, 46–7.
48
. Ibid., 56.
49
. Spender,
The Public Life
, 81.
50
. Massie,
Dreadnought
, 233–9.
51
. Spender,
The Public Life
, 89.
52
. Kennedy,
Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism
, 230–32.
53
. Roberts,
Salisbury
, 748.
54
. Taylor,
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe
, 396.
55
. Neilson, ‘The Anglo-Japanese Alliance’, 52.
56
. Kennedy,
Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism
, 230–31; Roberts,
Salisbury
, 745.
57
. Bond,
The Victorian Army and the Staff College
, 191.
58
. Taylor,
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe
, 376.
59
. Ibid., 395.
60
. Massie,
Dreadnought
, 306.
61
. Neilson, ‘The Anglo-Japanese Alliance’, 49.
62
. Steiner and Neilson,
Britain and the Origins
, 29.
63
. Massie,
Dreadnought
, 308; Balfour,
The Kaiser and His Times
, 235–6; Eckardstein and Young,
Ten Years at the Court of St. James
, 227.
64
. Nish, ‘Origins of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance’, 12.
65
. Ibid., 13.
66
.
The Times
, 4 January 1902.
67
. Balfour,
The Kaiser and His Times
, 240.