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517 “he wished to sound”: Görlitz, 51.

518 “eminent financiers”: Bell, 211.

518 “The waters surrounding”: Ibid., 217.

519 “It was disloyal”: Tirpitz, II, 146–47.

519 “Pohl, by his vanity”: Görlitz, 296.

519 “Instead of which”: Ibid.

519 “We are not in a position”: Bell, 208.

520 “England would be forced”: Tirpitz, II, 150.

520 “a silly question”: Ibid.

520 “For urgent political reasons”: Scheer, 230.

520 “This order makes success impossible”: Ibid.

520 “H.M. the Emperor has commanded”: Ibid.

521 “if, in spite of the exercise”: Tarrant,
U-boat Offensive,
14.

521 “a handful of naval officers”: Bell, 219.

521 “The question that really troubles me”: Simpson, 31.

521 “war has no amenities”: Bacon,
Fisher,
I, 121.

521 “one flag”: Simpson, 31.

521 “There were a few points”: Churchill, II, 280.

521 “losses will no doubt”: Bell, 221.

522 “an indefensible violation”: Charles Seymour,
Neutrality,
33.

522
“une chose énorme”:
Bell, 217.

523 “in the interest”: Görlitz, 68.

523 “absolutely crazy”: Ibid., 65.

523 “when they are recognizable”: Jarausch, 274.

526 “with the avowed object”: Bell, 233.

526 “I think we may say”: Ibid., 241.

527 “an atrocious act of lawlessness”: Dos Passos, 123.

527 “wanton and indiscriminate”: Simpson, 120.

527 “the growing number”: Jarausch, 275.

527 “could not be responsible”: Bell, 424.

CHAPTER 29:
LUSITANIA
AND THE AMERICAN REACTION

528 “Just now”: Preston, 49.

529 “
NOTICE
”: Ibid., 91.

529 “Madam, your secret is safe”: Ibid., 96. This story and many others describing the passengers and the last voyage of the doomed ship are presented by Diana Preston in her recent, detailed book
Lusitania
.

530 “The American people”: Simpson, 83.

530 “This afternoon”: Charles Seymour,
House Papers,
I, 361.

530 “bloody monkeys”: Preston, 108.

531 “Royal Navy Reserved Merchant Cruiser”: Preston, 386.

531 “Either the
Lusitania
”: Simpson, 151.

532 “Yes, by God”: Preston, 216.

532 “trying to put life jackets”: Ibid., 233.

532 “soon gave it away”: Ibid., 204.

534 “faces registered”: Frost, 235–36.

534 “and the Emperor and Government”: Preston, 294.

534 “My highest appreciation”: Ibid., 308.

534 “With joyful pride”: Simpson, 9.

535 “My life would not”: Heckscher, 23.

535 “stern, absolute”: Ibid., 24.

536 “I shall not aid”: Dos Passos, 10.

536 “political suicide”: Heckscher, 269.

536 “talking to Mr. Bryan”: Spring-Rice, II, 202.

536 “by self-inflicted degrees”: Heckscher, 295.

536 “Everything that I love”: Bell, 48.

537 “the example of America”: Ibid., 425.

537 “I do not know”: Heckscher, 365.

537 “The government of the United States”: Bell, 428.

538 “a strict accountability”: Charles Seymour,
Neutrality,
16.

538 “has permitted in silence”: Bell, 247.

538 “Are you sure the American”: Gerard, 258.

538 “as safe as if”: Bell, 425.

538 “traveling on a volcano”: Ibid.

538 “for the immediate future”: Ibid., 426.

538 “the most definite instructions”: Ibid.

539 “In a comparatively short”: Ibid., 423.

539 “I am myself positive”: Ibid., 431.

540 “stubbornly repeated that”: Ibid., 433.

540 “Whatever may be the facts”: Ibid., 435.

540 “The United States cannot admit”: Ibid., 436.

541 “You people are not neutral”: Preston, 341.

541 “steely glitter”: Charles Seymour,
House Papers,
II, 6.

541 “Mr. Bryan, you are not warranted”: Ibid.

541 “it must be taken”: Bell, 438.

541 “there would appear”: Ibid.

541 “arrogant”: This and the following are from ibid., 439.

542 “The events of the past”: Ibid., 441.

542 “ghastly”: Tirpitz, II, 233.

542 “servile”: Ibid., 282.

542 “a contemptible little man”: Ibid., 339.

542 “kowtowing”: Ibid., 172.

542 “America is so shamelessly”: Ibid., 351.

542 “as I had been shot at”: Bell, 442.

543 “I cannot continue to walk”: Jarausch, 278.

546 “ineffective, illegal and indefensible”: Bell, 545.

546 “There is no parallel”: Ibid., 446.

547 “if all restrictions were removed”: Tirpitz, II, 172.

548 “His Majesty took”: Görlitz, 126.

548 “mad dog”: Ibid.

548 “A desperate situation”: Ibid., 136.

549 “smoked cigarette after cigarette”: Ibid., 140.

549 “His Majesty’s nerves”: Ibid., 145.

549 “The grave anxiety”: Ibid., 146.

549 “indescribable”: Blücher, 120.

551 “utterly incompatible”: Bell, 594.

551 “If it is still”: Ibid.

551 “impertinence:” Heckscher, 386.

551 “until further orders”: Tarrant,
U-boat Offensive,
30.

552 “to escape”: Ibid.

552 “the cessation”: Ibid.

CHAPTER 30: THE EVE OF JUTLAND

554 “We knew that Scheer”: Weizsäcker, 30.

555 “was of cheerful disposition”: Ibid., 31.

555 “One could not find”: Marder, III, 42.

557 “terrible pain”: Philbin, 123.

557 “You know I am very fond”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 192–93.

558 “Vice Admiral Hipper no longer possesses”: Philbin, 124.

558 “coming forward”: Ibid.

558 “I agree”: Ibid.

559 “another raid”: Marder, II, 433.

563 “hammer and tongs”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 203.

565 “covering the sea”: Hase, 69.

566 “I heard rumors”:
Beatty Papers,
I, 274.

566 “The horrid Forth”: Chalmers, 207.

566 “I wish we could entice them”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 184.

566 “Until the High Seas Fleet”: Ibid., 203.

567 “a horrible crunching”: Tarrant,
Battleship Warspite,
20.

567 “the stronger I make Beatty”: Ibid., 225.

567 “terrible disappointment”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 188.

567 “collectively and separately”: Gordon, 46.

568 “This is a great mistake”: Marder, III, 41.

568 “shockingly unprofessional”: Gordon, 56–57.

569 “I’m glad to say”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 175.

571 “coaling, sleeping”: Gordon, 30.

571 “I should not select it”: King-Hall, 36–37.

571 “as smooth”: Ibid., 36.

571 “it was, I suppose”: Copplestone,
Silent Watchers,
2.

572 “Jellicoe . . . worked”: Marder, II, 443.

572 “Every night”: Dreyer, 96.

572 “It’s splendid”: Winton, 160–61.

572 “Look here, Jack”: Bacon,
Jellicoe,
235.

573 “of a particularly lurid description”: Bacon,
Jellicoe,
245.

573 “five French” and “United States press”: Jellicoe,
Grand Fleet,
245.

573 “I am not at all well”: Winton, 161.

573 “You must take”: Ibid.

573 “I am laid”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 132.

573 “My beloved Jellicoe”: Bacon,
Jellicoe,
228.

573 “feeling really fit”: Ibid., 146.

573 “Please don’t overdo”:
Beatty Papers,
I, 281.

574 “a totally different being”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 185.

574 “I expect you will know”: Bacon,
Jellicoe,
239.

574 “At ease”: Gordon, 18.

574 “smiling, clapped his hands”: Winton, 167.

574 “I am being pressed”:
Beatty Papers,
I, 301–2.

574 “You ask me”: Ibid., 303.

575 “Germans intend”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 254.

576 “After a thoroughly”: Bingham, 133.

576 “blazing red”: Brown and Meehan, 95.

576 “Inside the ships”: Gibson and Harper, 102.

578 “If there is no news”:
Jellicoe Papers,
259.

CHAPTER 31: JUTLAND: BEATTY VS. HIPPER

579 “about a thousand bare-headed sailors”: Gordon, 71.

579 “We did not appear”: Ibid., 73.

580 “In the Jade”: Irving, 36.

580 “No definite news”: Gordon, 73.

580 “a party of very clever fellows”: Marder, III, 47.

580 “Those chaps”: Ibid.

582 “Ridiculous,” “angry”: Gordon, 72–73.

582 “buffoon”: Ibid., 416.

583 “Ship ahead blowing off steam”: Oakeshott, 36.

583 “Green two five”: Ibid., 37.

583 “Enemy in sight”:
Official Despatches,
443.

583 “Two cruisers, probably hostile”: Ibid.

584 “Nearly everyone agreed”: Hase, 73.

584 “Clear for action”: Ibid., 77.

584 “When we turn north”:
Official Despatches,
443.

585 “The only way”: Bacon,
Jutland Scandal,
178.

586 “putting on as many clothes”: King-Hall, 130.

586 “All the cups”: Gordon, 105.

586 “urinal buckets”: Costello and Hughes, 127.

587 “Have sighted”:
Official Despatches,
444.

587 “Smoke seems to be”: Ibid., 445.

587 “Sea suitable for getting off”: Ibid., 433.

589 “it was one”: Chalmers, 229.

589 “Suddenly my periscope”: Hase, 80.

589 “how splendid”: Oakeshott, 42.

590 “The enemy battle cruisers”: Chatfield, 140–41.

590 “a moment of supreme tension”: Raeder, 66.

590 “The six ships”: Hase, 81.

590 “dense masses of smoke”: Ibid., 83–84.

591 “The Zeiss lenses”: Ibid., 86.

591 “His unruffled calm”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 204.

591 “could not be separated”: Ibid., 205.

591 “Hipper left his telescope”: Ibid.

591 “from this time on”: Fawcett and Hooper, 62.

592 “With each salvo fired”: Hase, 85.

592 “His curiosity”: Ibid.

593 “Q turret has gone”: Chatfield, 143.

593 “No further confirmation”: Chalmers, 231–32.

593 “We were altering course”: Fawcett and Hooper, 17.

594 “with their huge bow waves”: Chalmers, 233.

593 “It happened so suddenly”: Fawcett and Hooper, 18.

594 “Behind the battle cruiser line”: Hase, 93.

594 “Although out in the open sea”: Tarrant,
Warspite,
23.

595 “quivered and reverberated”: Gibson and Harper, 133.

595 “The
Queen Mary
was firing less rapidly”: Hase, 89.

595 “I saw one salvo”: Fawcett and Hooper, 19–20.

596 “We disappeared”: Ibid., 18–19.

596 “
Princess Royal
blown up, sir”: Churchill, III, 129.

596 “There seems to be something wrong”: Chatfield, 143.

598 “Those of us”: Goodenough, 95.

598 “We saw ahead of us”: Ibid.

598 “If you’re going to make”: Ibid.

598 “URGENT”:
Official Despatches,
453.

599 “the weather was extremely clear”: Scheer, 147.

599 “Course of enemy’s battle fleet”:
Official Despatches,
453.

599 “I can truthfully say”: Marder, III, 71.

599 “Simply by steering”: Chalmers, 243.

599 “Alter course”:
Official Despatches,
453.

600 “I suddenly saw”: Fawcett and Hooper, 67–68.

601 “The turning point”: Ibid., 60–61.

601 “the securing of arteries”: Ibid., 49.

601 “a lull in the action”: Ibid., 14–15.

602 “When we turned”: Ibid., 61.

602 “until swelling from burns”: Gordon, 410.

602 “did his best”: Ibid.

602 “Six, eight, nine salvos”: Ibid., 411.

602 “Everything was dark chaos”: Fawcett and Hooper, 64.

602 “The effect was agonizing”: Tarrant,
Warspite,
35–36.

602 “restless agony”: Ibid., 36.

603 “On its way”: Fawcett and Hooper, 72.

603 “three stokers dead”: Gordon, 413.

604 “Give chase”: Scheer, 149.

604 “Prepare to renew”:
Official Despatches,
455.

CHAPTER 32: JUTLAND: JELLICOE VS. SCHEER

606 “large amount of smoke”:
Official Despatches,
444.

606 “Smoke seems to be”: Ibid., 445.

607 “several ships were flying”: Fawcett and Hooper, 98.

607 “Am engaging enemy”:
Official Despatches,
450.

607 “Proceed immediately”: Ibid., 451.

608 “under fire from enemy battleships”: Tarrant,
Jutland,
281.

608 “a great cloud”: Bennett,
Jutland,
103.

608 “Look after yourself”: Ibid., 104.

609 “a shell took off”: Ibid.

609 “Yes, I am engaging”:
Official Despatches,
451.

609 “Have sighted enemy”: Ibid., 452.

609 “Enemy’s battle fleet”: Ibid., 453.

609 “every face radiant”: Schoultz, 118.

609 “Urgent. Fleet action”:
Official Despatches,
453.

609 “in a state of very great excitement”: Marder, III, 94.

609 “Balfour stayed”: James,
A Great Seaman,
155.

610 “You must steer”:
Official Despatches,
450.

610 “Keep just clear”: Ibid., 452.

610 “Can you pass”: Ibid., 454.

610 “What can you see”: Ibid., 457.

610 “our battle cruisers”: Ibid.

610 “I wish somebody”: Bacon,
Jellicoe,
265.

611 “suddenly burst”: Gordon, 433.

611 “Where is enemy’s battle fleet”:
Official Despatches,
457.

611 “Enemy’s battle cruisers bearing southeast”: Ibid., 458.

611 “Enemy battle fleet in sight”: Ibid., 459.

612 “I therefore decided”: Jellicoe,
Grand Fleet,
350.

612 “One must agree”: Tarrant,
Jutland,
123.

612 “I heard the signalman”: Dreyer, 146–47.

613 “Dreyer, commence”: Ibid., 147.

613 “the supreme moment”: Corbett, III, 361.