1 ‘The whole of Europe’: David Lloyd George, ‘The Fontainebleau Memorandum of 25 March 1919’, in Breakdown and Rebirth: 1914 to the Present, ed. Thomas G. Barnes and Gerald D. Feldman (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1982), 43.
2 ‘makes no secret’: Quoted in Richard H. Ullman, The Anglo-Soviet Relations 1917–1921 (London: Oxford University Press, 1972), 412.
3 ‘somewhat on Masonic lines’: Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm (London: Penguin, 2010), 123.
4 ‘If you talk’: John Baker White, True Blue (London: Frederick Muller, 1970), 130.
5 ‘unique feature’: Baker White, It’s Gone for Good, 119.