1. Amery, My Political Life, Vol. 2, p. 98; Hankey, Supreme Command, p. 578.
2. Cabinet memo, 30 April 1917, CP 112/125.
3. Barnes and Nicholson, Leo Amery Diaries, p. 150.
4. Hankey to C (copy), 4 Sept. 1917, Magnus Papers; Hankey, op.cit., pp. 587–8.
5. Minutes of Imperial War Cabinet, CP 112/137.
6. C memo, 21 Sept. 1917, CP 112/125.
7. C memo, Dec. 1917, CP 112/124.
8. C memo, Oct. 1918, CP 112/183.
9. C memo, 25 July 1918, CP 112/183.
10. Roskill, Hankey, p. 393.
11. C to Cromer, 22 April 1915, Cromer Papers FO 633/24.
12. Minutes of War Policy Com., 3 Oct. 1917, CP 112/136.
13. C to Cromer, 19 March 1915, Cromer Papers FO 633/24.
14. Minutes of Dardanelles Com., 14 and 21 Oct. 1915, CP 112/161.
15. C to Townshend (copy), 8 Jan. 1916, Magnus Papers.
16. Repington, First World War, p. 90.
17. Chirol to C, 10 March 1916, CP 112/163.
18. Ibid., 15 April 1916.
19. Midleton to C, 19 July 1916, CP 112/117.
20. Barrow to C, 11 July 1915, CP 112/114.
21. Copy of the report in CP 112/164.
22. C memo, 4 June 1917, CP 112/164.
23. Chelmsford to C, 17 Nov. 1917, CP 111/438; King, The Viceroy’s Fall, p. 250.
24. C to Grace, 27 June 1917, CP 112/791.
25. Debate on 12–13 July 1917; Midleton to C, 13 July 1917, CP 111/408.
26. Chamberlain to C, 15 July 1917, CP 112/112; C to Chamberlain, 12 July 1917, Chamberlain Papers AC 13/3.
27. Crawford diaries, 4–9 April 1919, Balcarres Papers; Hardinge, Old Diplomacy, p. 216.
28. Crawford, ibid., 18 July 1917.
29. Egremont, Balfour, p. 263.
30. Montagu memo, 23 Aug. 1917, CP 112/267.
31. C to Montagu, 8 Sept. 1917, Montagu Papers AS 3/2/9.
32. PRO CAB 23/4; C memo, 26 Oct. 1917, CP 112/266.
33. PRO CAB 23/4.
34. Drafts in CP 112/266.
35. Churchill, Great Contemporaries, p. 281.
36. Vansittart, The Mist Procession, p. 232.
37. Balfour memo to C, 11 Aug. 1919, PRO FO 371/4183.
38. Crawford diaries, 6 Aug. 1918, Balcarres Papers.
39. C to Lloyd George, undated, Lloyd George Papers F/11/8.
40. C memos to Imperial War Cabinet, 17 June 1917, and War Cabinet, 2 July 1917, CP 112/164.
41. PRO CAB 23/3.
42. Ibid.; C to Montagu, 13 Aug. 1917, Montagu Papers AS 3/2/15; C to Chamberlain, 25 Aug. 1917, Chamberlain Papers AC 14/1.
43. C note for Cabinet, 3 June 1918, CP 111/124.
44. Chamberlain to Montagu, 12 July 1918, Chamberlain Papers AC 8/6/2.
45. C to Montagu, 25 July 1918, Montagu Papers AS 3/2/15.
46. Montagu to Chamberlain, 27 July 1918, Chamberlain to Montagu, 29 July 1918, Chamberlain Papers AC 8/6/2 and 21/5/57.
47. Hansard, 12 Dec. 1919.
1. Crawford diaries, 15 Dec. 1916, Balcarres Papers.
2. Ibid., 19 June 1918.
3. C to Law, 8 Dec. 1916, Bonar Law Papers 81/1.
4. Crawford diaries, op.cit., 12 Dec. 1916.
5. C to Lloyd George, 1 Aug. 1918, Lloyd George Papers F/11/9.
6. Crawford diaries, op.cit., 17 April 1917.
7. Sandhurst to C, 28 Aug. 1917, CP 112/120; Crawford to C, 8 Aug. 1918, CP 112/121.
8. Milner to C, 7 June 1917, CP 112/113.
9. R. Churchill, Lord Derby, pp. 260–4.
10. Ibid., p. 336
11. Crawford diaries, op.cit., 23 May 1918.
12. C memo, Nov. 1924, CP 112/319.
13. Wilson, C.P. Scott, p. 325.
14. C to Balfour, 10 Feb. 1918, Balfour Papers Add.mss.49733.
15. Hankey, Supreme Command, p. 578.
16. C to Lloyd George, Jan. 1918, Lloyd George Papers F/11/9.
17. Barnes and Nicholson, Leo Amery Diaries, p. 161.
18. Minutes of War Policy Com., 20 June 1917, CP 112/136.
19. C to Grace, 21 June 1917, CP 112/791.
20. Robertson to C, 6 and 4 July 1917, CP 112/119; minutes of War Policy Com., 6 July 1917, CP 112/136.
21. Woodward, Lloyd George and the Generals, p. 167; Crawford diaries, op.cit., 18 June 1918.
22. Milner to C at Cabinet, June 1918, CP 112/122; Milner to C, 17 Oct. 1917, CP 112/113.
23. Fraser to C, 25 Oct., 18 and 23 Nov. and 10 Dec. 1917, CP 112/536.
24. Winter, Haig’s Command, p. 158.
25. Unpublished minutes of War Cabinet, 7 Jan. 1918, CP 112/137.
26. Minutes of Imperial War Cabinet, 15 Aug. 1918, CP 112/137.
27. Minutes of Cabinet Com., 5 July 1923, CP 112/266.
28. Minutes of Imperial War Cabinet, 25 June and 15 Aug. 1918, CP 112/124; Busch, Britain, India and the Arabs, p. 277.
29. Cabinet note, 15 Oct. 1918, CP 112/124.
30. C to Lloyd George, 13 Nov. 1918, Lloyd George Papers F/11/9.
31. Cabinet minutes, 20 Nov. 1918, CP 112/137.
32. Ronaldshay, Curzon, Vol. 3, p. 200.
33. C to Law, 25 Feb. 1918, Bonar Law Papers 82/9; ibid., p. 196.
34. Lansdowne to C, 15 Jan. 1918, CP 112/122.
35. C’s papers on women’s suffrage are in CP 112/37.
36. CP 112/192; C to Lansdowne, 22 Feb. 1925, Lansdowne Papers.
37. Cannadine, Aspects of Aristocracy, pp. 102–7.
1. Roskill, Hankey, p. 506.
2. Nicolson, Curzon, p. 45.
3. Gregory, On the Edge, pp. 245–9.
4. Balfour to C, 1 July 1919, Balfour Papers Add.mss.49733; C to Law, 10 July 1919, Bonar Law Papers.
5. C note, Nov. 1922, CP 112/319.
6. Ibid.
7. Crawford diary, 3 Aug. 1918, Balcarres Papers.
8. Letters from C to Grace, Aug.-Sept. 1919, CP 112/793.
9. Ibid.; Marcella Rice to the author.
10. C to Grace, 9 Sept. 1919, CP 112/793.
11. Kerr to Lloyd George, 18 July 1919, Lloyd George Papers F/89/3/6.
12. C to Grace, 11 Sept. 1919, CP 112/793.
13. C to Balfour, 13 Oct. 1919, Balfour Papers Add.mss.49733; Balfour to C, 16 Oct. 1919, CP 112/208.
14. Wilson to C, 24 Oct. 1919, CP 112/214.
15. Crawford diary, 24 Oct. 1919, Balcarres Papers.
16. Vansittart, Mist Procession, p. 232.
17. Gregory, op.cit., pp. 251, 254.
18. Vansittart, op.cit., p. 244.
19. C note, op.cit.
20. C to Hardinge, 27 May and 5 June 1921, Hardinge Papers 44.
21. Cooper, Old Men Forget, p. 115.
22. C to Grace, 26 Sept. 1921, CP 112/795.
23. C minute, 6 Oct. 1919, PRO FO 371/3864.
24. Gregory, op.cit., p. 254.
25. Jones, ‘Lord C’, International Affairs, July 1961.
26. Information from Nicolson to K. Rose, Rose Papers.
27. Holmes, Self and Partners, p. 324.
28. Lees-Milne, Prophesying Peace, p. 33.
29. See, for example, Gregory, op.cit., p. 251, and Young, The Independent Arab, p. 284.
30. Nicolson, Vita and Harold, p. 123.
31. Rose, Vansittart, p. 55; Vansittart, op.cit., p. 254.
32. C to Lloyd George, 9 Dec. 1919, Lloyd George Papers F/12/2/10.
33. Hardinge, Old Diplomacy, pp. 262, 269; Medlicott and Dakin, Documents, p. 980.
34. C to Wigram, 12 March 1922, RA/GV/01390/26.
35. Howard to C, 26 Feb. 1921, CP 112/220.
36. C to Stamfordham, 10 July 1921, with minute by George V, CP 112/221.
37. Birkenhead, F.E., p. 388.
38. Vincent, Crawford Papers, p. 414.
39. Clark, A Good Innings, p. 151.
40. Gorell, One Man, p. 221.
41. Nicolson, Curzon, p. 193.
42. Information from Amery to K. Rose, Rose Papers.
43. Information from Samuel to K. Rose, Rose Papers.
44. Vincent, op.cit., p. 400.
1. C to de Robeck, 19 Sept. 1920, FO 800/157.
2. Information from Swinton to K. Rose, Rose Papers.
3. C to Montagu, 25 and 28 Oct. 1918, Montagu Papers AS 3/2/100–1; C to Hardinge, 26 Feb. 1919, FO 800/153.
4. Beaverbrook, Politicians and the War, p. 167; Mackay, Balfour, pp. 321–2.
5. Gilbert, World in Torment, p. 318.
6. Cox to C, 11 April 1919, PRO FO 371/3860.
7. Ibid.; C minute, 27 July 1919, PRO FO 371/3862; see also Wright, ‘Curzon’, Encyclopaedia Iranica, p. 468, and The Persians, pp. 193–4.
8. C memo, Aug. 1919, CP 112/253.
9. 16 Aug. 1919.
10. C to Grey, 18 Nov. 1919, CP 112/211.
11. C to Grace, 17 Aug. 1919, CP 112/793.
12. Jones, Banking and Empire, p. 191.
13. Loraine quoted in Waterfield, Professional Diplomat, p. 64.
14. Ibid.
15. C to Hardinge, 17 Jan. 1921, Hardinge Papers 44; Waterfield, op.cit., p. 62.
16. Norman to C, 11 Feb. 1921, C to Norman, 16 Feb. 1921, and C minutes, 15 and 17 Feb. 1921, PRO FO 371/6401.
17. C minute, 1 March 1921, PRO FO 371/6401.
18. C minute, 26 Oct. 1922, PRO FO 371/7810; Waterfield, op.cit., p. 62.
19. Ibid., pp. 62–3.
20. Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, pp. 589–91.
21. C to Balfour, 25 March 1919, CP 112/208.
22. The report is reproduced in Antonius, The Arab Awakening, pp. 443–58.
23. Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, p. 26.
24. Balfour to C, 20 Jan. 1919, C to Balfour, 26 Jan. 1919, PRO FO 800/215.
25. Meinertzhagen, op.cit., p. 9; Gilbert, op.cit., p. 621.
26. C to Balfour, 20 Aug. 1919, CP 112/208.
27. Varè, Laughing Diplomat, pp. 163–4.
28. C to Grace, 25 April 1920, CP 112/799.
29. Riddell, Intimate Diary, p. 183.
30. C to Grace, 20, 24 and 25 April 1920, CP 112/794; Varè, op. cit., pp. 163–4.
31. Monroe, Britain’s Moment, p. 66.
32. C to Allenby, 16 July 1920, CP 112/215.
33. Ingrams, Palestine Papers, pp. 94–104; Wilson, C.P. Scott, p. 376; C to Law, 14 Dec. 1922, Bonar Law Papers 111/12/46.
34. Wingate to C, 25 March 1919, CP 112/259.
35. C statement to Imperial Conference, 6 July 1921, CP 112/307.
36. C memo to Cabinet, June 1920, CP 112/281.
37. C to Hardinge, 24 April 1921, Hardinge Papers 44; C to Grace, 14 Feb. 1921, CP 112/795.
38. Churchill to C, 20 May 1921, CP 112/219.
39. C to Grace, 24 Oct. 1921, CP 112/795.
40. C to Churchill, 13 June 1921, CP 112/232; Churchill to C, 13 June 1921, CP 112/219; Lloyd George to C, 14 June 1921, CP 112/220; Churchill to C, 16 June 1921, CP 112/219.
41. These notes are in CP 112/317.
42. C to Hardinge, 21 Oct. 1921, Hardinge Papers 44.
43. C to Grace, 21 Oct. 1921, CP 112/795.
44. Churchill to C at Cabinet, 26 Jan. 1922, CP 112/317.
1. D’Abernon, An Ambassador, Vol. 1, p. 50.
2. C to Grace, 16 May 1922, CP 112/796.
3. Nicolson, Curzon, p. 58.
4. C speech at Imperial Conference, 5 Oct. 1923, CP 112/307; C to D’Abernon, 29 Oct. 1921, D’Abernon Papers Add.mss.48924a.
5. C to Grace, 3 Sept. 1921, CP 112/795.
6. C to Hardinge, 30 Dec. 1920, Hardinge Papers 44.
7. Ibid., 19 Dec. 1920.
8. Ibid., 21 Oct. 1921.
9. Ibid., 28 Dec. 1921.
10. C to D’Abernon, 22 April 1921, D’Abernon Papers Add.mss.48924a.
11. Cabinet memo, Jan. 1919, CP 112/124.
12. D’Abernon, op.cit., p. 38.
13. PRO CAB 23/37; Montagu to Lloyd George, 22 June and 8 Sept. 1919, Lloyd George Papers F/40/2/55 and 60.
14. Nicolson, op.cit., pp. 113–15.
15. Kinross, Atatürk, p. 231.
16. C to Lloyd George, 9 April 1920, Lloyd George Papers F/12/3/24.
17. C to Montagu, 26 April 1921, Montagu Papers AS 3/3/143.
18. C to Lloyd George, 20 April 1921, Lloyd George Papers F/13/2/15; C note, Oct. 1922, CP 112/319.
19. C to Stamfordham, 15 Nov. 1921, RA GV M 1731/7; C to Hardinge, 2 Nov. 1921, Hardinge Papers 33.
20. Crawford diary, 3 Nov. 1921, Balcarres Papers.
21. The Times, 13 July 1921; Fraser to C, 24 July 1921, CP 112/219.
22. Vincent, Crawford Papers, p. 420.
23. C to Grace, 10 Sept. 1921, CP 112/799.
24. C to Montagu, 1 April and 21 Nov. 1921, and 2 Jan. 1922, Montagu Papers AS 1/12/21, 125 and 72.
25. C to Lloyd George, 20 July 1920, Lloyd George Papers F/13/1/1.
26. Hardinge to C, 21 Feb. 1922, CP 112/200; C note, Nov. 1922, CP 112/319.
27. Chamberlain to Law, 6 Jan. 1921, Bonar Law Papers 100/1/8.
28. C to Grace, 22 April 1921, CP 112/795.
30. Lansdowne to C, 14 Aug. 1920, CP 112/217.
31. Vansittart to C, 30 March 1921, CP 112/221; C to Lloyd George, 20 July 1920, Lloyd George Papers F/13/1/1.
33. C memo, Nov. 1924, CP 112/319.
34. Vansittart, The Mist Procession, p. 244.
35. Letters from C to Grace, Sept.–Nov. 1921, CP 112/795.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. C to Hardinge, 24 Dec. 1921, Hardinge Papers 44.
39. C to Montagu, 6 March 1922, Montagu Papers AS 1/12/101.
40. C to Chamberlain, 9 March 1922, Chamberlain Papers 23/7.
41. C to Hardinge, 9 March 1922, Hardinge Papers 45.
42. Ibid.
43. McCurdy to Lloyd George, undated but 14 March 1922, Lloyd George Papers F/35/1/33.
44. The Times, 13 March 1922.
45. C to Chamberlain, 13 March 1922, Chamberlain Papers.
46. Chamberlain to Lloyd George, 15 March 1922, Lloyd George Papers F/7/5/8; Grigg to Lloyd George, 14 March 1922, Lloyd George Papers F/86/1/24; Scotsman, 16 March 1922; Crawford diary, 15 March 1922, Balcarres Papers.
47. Grigg to Lloyd George, 20 March 1922, Lloyd George Papers F/86/1/31.
48. C to Lloyd George, 8 May 1922, Lloyd George Papers F/13/3/22; C to Hardinge, 2 May 1922, Hardinge Papers 45.
49. C to Grace, 18 and 20 May 1922, CP 112/796.
50. Ibid., 22 May 1922.
51. Vincent, op.cit., pp. 414, 426; C to Grace, 17 May, 4 and 19 July, CP 112/796.
52. C to Grigg, 6 July 1922, Grigg Papers.
53. C note, Nov. 1922, CP 112/319; Hardinge to Lloyd George, 12 May 1922, Lloyd George Papers F/53/1/67; Blake, Unknown Prime Minister, p. 437; Beaverbrook, Decline and Fall, pp. 132, 172.
54. Wilson, C.P. Scott, p. 416.
55. Letters from C to Grace, July 1922, CP 112/796.
56. Morning Post, 10 Nov. 1922.
57. Tyrell to C, 27 Oct. 1922, CP 112/227.
58. Hardinge, Old Diplomacy, p. 272; Busch, Hardinge, pp. 307–8; Nicolson, op.cit, p. 274.
59. Hardinge, op.cit., p. 273; Vincent, op.cit., p. 437.
60. C to Stamfordham, 5 Oct. 1920, RA GV M 1811/55.
61. Lloyd George at Cabinet, 30 Sept. 1922, CAB 23/31.
62. Gilbert, World in Torment, p. 841.
63. Ronaldshay, Curzon, Vol. 3, p. 305.
64. C note, Nov. 1922, CP 112/319.
65. Conference of ministers, 29 Sept. 1922, CAB 23/31.
66. Vincent, op.cit., p. 439.
67. C to Hardinge, 1 Oct. 1922, Hardinge Papers 45.
68. Vincent, op.cit., p. 439.
69. C to Grace, 1 Oct. 1922, CP 112/796; C to Hardinge, 1 Oct. 1922, Hardinge Papers 45.
70. Cooper, Old Men Forget, p. 114.
71. Vincent, op.cit., p. 439.
72. 1 Oct. 1922.
73. Hardinge to C, 2 Oct. 1922, CP 112/200.
74. C note, Nov. 1922, CP 112/319.
75. Minutes and telegrams of meetings are in CP 112/292 and CAB 23/31; Hardinge, op.cit., p. 274.
1. Vincent, Crawford Papers, p. 449; Mrs Baldwin’s diary account, Baldwin Papers 42.
2. For discussions of the dinner, see W. Churchill, Great Contemporaries, p. 282, Ronaldshay, Curzon, Vol. 3, pp. 312–13, and Nicolson, Curzon, pp. 277–9.
3. Draft letter, 5 Oct. 1922, CP 112/224.
4. The notes are in CP 112/319.
5. C note, Oct. 1922, CP 112/319.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.; Vincent, op.cit., pp. 450–1; draft letter in CP 112/319.
8. Clark, ‘A Good Innings’, pp. 230–1.
9. D’Abernon, Ambassador of Peace, Vol. 2, p. 145.
10. C note, op.cit.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Gilbert, World in Torment, p. 868; Morning Post, 10 Nov. 1922.
14. Morning Post, 10 Nov. 1922.
15. C to Hardinge, 24 Oct. 1922, Hardinge Papers 45.
16. C to D’Abernon, 20 Dec. 1922, D’Abernon Papers Add.mss.48924a.
17. C to Stamfordham, 9 Nov. 1922, RA GV M 1811/107.
18. C to Grace, 19 Nov. 1922, CP 112/796.
19. Ibid., 20 Nov. 1922; C telegram to FO, 20 Nov. 1922, CP 112/231; Nicolson, op cit., pp. 289–90; Mack Smith, Mussolini, pp. 59–60.
20. C to Stamfordham, 5 Oct. 1920, RA GV M 1632/7.
21. C to Grace, 22 and 23 Nov. 1922, CP 112/796.
22. C to Grace, 28 Nov. 1922, CP 112/796.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., 14 Dec. 1922.
25. C to Barrère, 21 Jan. 1923, CP 112/283.
26. Nicolson, op.cit., p. 319; C to Grace, 21 Dec. 1922, CP 112/796.
27. C to Law, 4 Dec. 1922, Bonar Law Papers 111/12/39; Nicolson, op.cit., pp. 303–4.
28. C to Law, 14 Dec. 1922, Bonar Law Papers 112/12/46.
29. Ronaldshay, op. cit., p. 330.
30. C to Law, 9 Dec. 1922, Bonar Law Papers 111/12/43; Campbell, F.E., pp. 621–2; the Gounaris-Curzon letters are in CP 112/246.
31. Vansittart to C, 8 Dec. 1922, CP 112/228.
32. Grace to C, 20 Dec. 1922, CP 112/693.
33. Grace to C, 22 Dec. 1922, CP 112/693, and 1 Jan. 1923, quoted in Grace Curzon, Reminiscences, pp. 172–3; C to Grace, 1 Jan. 1923, CP 112/797.
34. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 1, p. 190.
35. Nicolson, op.cit., p. 319.
36. Lees-Milne, op.cit., p. 190; Nicolson, Some People, p. 213.
37. C to Grace, 1 Jan. 1923, CP 112/797.
38. Nicolson, Curzon, p. 324.
39. C to Grace, 1 Feb. 1923, CP 112/797; C to Law, 1 Feb. 1923, Bonar Law Papers 111/12/62.
40. Nicolson, op.cit., p. 334.
41. Ibid., p. 336; Ronaldshay, op.cit., pp. 333–7.
42. Nicolson, Harold and Vita, p. 120.
43. Nicolson, Curzon, p. 346.
44. Information from Sforza to K. Rose, Rose Papers.
45. Kinross, Atatürk, p. 359.
46. The British secretary’s minutes are in CP 112/293.
47. Amery, My Political Life, Vol. 2, p. 248.
48. Fitzroy, Memoirs, Vol. 2, p. 795.
49. Archbishop to C, 4 Feb. 1923, CP 112/284.
50. Information from Lord Ravensdale to the author.
1. Geddes to Lloyd George, 4 June 1920, Lloyd George Papers F/60/4/1.
2. C to Grace, 9 Nov. 1923, CP 112/797.
3. For press comments on speech see CP 112/587.
4. Riddell, Intimate Diary, p. 310.
5. Chandos, From Peace to War, p. 64.
6. Balsan, The Glitter and the Gold, p. 138.
7. Vincent, Crawford Papers, pp. 507, 414.
8. Evidence of E.A. Stone, 20 Oct. 1960, Rose Papers.
9. Marcella Rice to the author.
10. Nicolson, Curzon, pp. 322–3.
11. Chandos, op.cit.
12. Mosley, My Life, p. 113.
13. Lady Alexandra Metcalfe to the author.
14. C to Grace, 20 Nov. 1923, CP 112/797.
15. Lady Alexandra Metcalfe to the author.
16. C to Grace, 10 Nov. 1923, CP 112/794.
17. C to E. Desborough, 17 Jan. 1923, Lady Desborough Papers.
18. C to Grace, 21 March 1920, CP 112/794.
19. Information from Halifax to K. Rose, Rose Papers.
20. Most of the documents on the dispute are in the Ravensdale Papers. But see CP 112/696 and letters from C to Grace, Sept.–Oct. 1921, CP 112/795.
21. Grace to C, 23 March 1922, CP 112/693.
22. C to Grace, 17 Dec. 1923, CP 112/797.
23. C to Grace, 10 and 16 May 1919, CP 112/793 and 799.
24. D’Abernon, Ambassador of Peace, Vol. 2, p. 222.
25. Grace Curzon, Reminiscences, p. 97.
26. Cooper, A Durable Fire, p. 132; Lady Alexandra Metcalfe to the author.
27. Grace to C, 15 Aug. 1920, CP 112/691; C to Grace, 14 Aug. 1920, CP 112/794.
28. Grace to C, 30 Sept. and 3 Oct. 1923, CP 112/695.
29. C to Grace, 3 Jan. 1923, CP 112/796.
30. C to Grace, 31 Dec. 1924, CP 112/798.
1. D’Abernon, Ambassador of Peace, Vol. 2, p. 185.
2. Lloyd George to Chamberlain, 16 March 1922, Chamberlain to Lloyd George, 16 and 17 March 1922, Lloyd George Papers F/7/5.
3. C to Law, 2 April 1923, CP 112/320; Law to C, 5 April 1923, CP 112/230.
4. C to Law, 25 April 1923, Bonar Law Papers 112/15.
5. Blake, Unknown Prime Minister, p. 511.
6. C to Grace, 9 May 1923, CP 112/797.
7. Ronaldshay, Curzon, Vol. 3, p. 351.
8. Law to C, 20 May 1923, CP 112/230.
9. Blake, op.cit., pp. 520–1; James, Memoirs of a Conservative, p. 151.
10. Middlemas and Barnes, Baldwin, p. 162; Blake, op.cit., p. 519.
11. Middlemas and Barnes, ibid., p. 165.
12. Barnes and Nicholson, Leo Amery Diaries, p. 329.
13. Egremont, Balfour, pp. 326–7.
14. Rose, King George V, p. 269.
15. Waterfield, Professional Diplomat, p. 56.
16. Information from Amery to K. Rose, Rose Papers; Amery, My Political Life, Vol. 2, p. 260.
17. Blake, The Conservative Party, p. 213.
18. Note by C, CP 112/319.
19. Ibid.
20. Worthington-Evans to Chamberlain, 22 May 1923, Chamberlain Papers AC 35/2.
21. Note by C, op.cit.
22. Note by Chamberlain, 27 May 1923, Chamberlain Papers AC 35/2.
23. CP 112/320.
24. C to Baldwin, 23 May 1923, Baldwin Papers 42.
25. Daily Telegraph, 21 March 1925.
26. Hopkirk, Setting the East Ablaze, pp. 141–2, 171–5; Nicolson, Curzon, pp. 359–60.
27. C to Crewe, 28 April 1923, Crewe Papers C/12.
28. Ibid., 11 May 1923.
29. Cecil, All the Way, p. 178.
30. D’Abernon, op.cit., p. 8.
31. Nicolson, Curzon, p. 378.
32. Lloyd George to Rothermere, 15 Aug. 1923, Lloyd George Papers G/17/1/4.
33. Mack Smith, Mussolini, p. 94.
34. C to Grace, 8 Sept. 1923, CP 112/797; Medlicott and Dakin, Documents, p. 944.
35. Mack Smith, op.cit., p. 72.
36. C to Graham, 9 Oct. 1923, CP 112/232.
37. C to Crewe, 16 and 17 Sept. 1923, Crewe Papers C/12; C to Cecil, 27 Sept. 1923, Cecil of Chelwood Papers; Medlicott and Dakin, op. cit., pp. 974–80 passim, p. 996.
38. C to Crewe, 13 Oct., 12 Nov. and 11 Dec. 1923, Crewe Papers C/12; Baldwin to C, 12 Nov. 1923, CP 112/320.
39. Hannon to Chamberlain and Chamberlain to Hannon, 31 Oct. 1923, Chamberlain Papers AG 35/3.
40. Grace Curzon, Reminiscences, p. 201.
41. C to Salisbury, 19 Feb. 1923, Salisbury Papers.
42. Middlemas and Barnes, op.cit., p. 179.
43. C to Law, 8 Dec. 1922, Law Papers 111/12.
44. C to Grace, 18 Nov. 1923, CP 112/797.
45. C to Baldwin, 8 Aug. 1923. CP 112/229.
46. C to Crewe, 20 June 1923, Crewe Papers C/12.
47. C to Grace, 5 Nov. 1923, CP 112/797.
48. Ibid., 24 Nov. 1923.
49. Ibid., 10, 18 and 13 Nov. 1923.
50. Ibid., 18 Nov. 1923.
51. Ibid., 1 Jan. 1924, CP 112/798.
52. Ibid., 6 Dec. 1923, CP 112/797.
53. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, Vol. 1, p. 214.
54. C to Crewe, 25 Jan. 1924, Crewe Papers C/12.
55. Barnes and Nicholson, op.cit., pp. 353, 563.
56. Sunday Times, 23 March 1925.
57. C to Baldwin, 31 Oct. 1924, Baldwin Papers 42.
58. 7 Nov. 1924.
59. Baldwin to C, 5 Nov. 1924, CP 112/319.
60. Vincent, Crawford Papers, p. 501.
61. C to Grace, 6, 7 and 10 Nov. 1924, CP 112/798.
62. C. Balsan, The Glitter and the Gold, pp. 210–11.
63. Ibid., p. 213; Daily Telegraph, 27 March 1925.
64. See Ronaldshay, op.cit., pp. 393–4.
65. A copy of this memo is in the Salisbury Papers.
66. Jenkins, Asquith, p. 509.
67. United Methodist, 16 April 1925.
68. Grace Curzon, op.cit., p. 227.
69. C to Stamfordham, 7 March 1925, RA GV 01979/1.
70. Vansittart, The Mist Procession, p. 308.
71. C to George V, 18 March 1925, RA GV AA49/82.
72. Grace Curzon, op.cit., p. 228.
73. Sunday Times, 22 March 1925.
74. Ibid., The Times of India, 21 March 1925.
75. Spectator, 4 April 1925.
76. 23 March 1925.
77. Ibid.