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752 “The Jew Montagu”: Ibid., 451.

752 Churchill “a dead dog” and “a disappointed blackguard”: Ibid., 445.

752 “a selfish beast”: Roskill,
Beatty,
281.

752 “I am truly devoted”: Ibid., 265.

752 “Heaps of love”:
Beatty Papers,
II, 35.

752 “perpetual black despair” and “present dog’s life”: Roskill,
Beatty,
304.

752 “quite impossible” and “an interesting young man”: Ibid., 341.

753 “The future position of the United States”: Jones, 6.

753 “The U.S. believes”:
Anglo-American Naval Relations,
331.

754 “I cannot see”: Ibid., 332.

754 “a dear old cup of tea”: Roskill,
Beatty,
230.

754 “I am determined”: Herwig,
The Politics of Frustration,
25.

755 “Why, I shall stop”: Ibid., 31.

755 “Unsparing, merciless assaults”: Ibid., 52.

755 “2 to 3 battalions”: Herwig and Trask, 44.

756 “a glorious golden dawn”: Hunter, 13–14.

756 “climbed to the crest”: Ibid., 94.

757 “I came on deck”: Ibid., 95.

757 “distinctly poor”: Jones, 44.

757 “desperately keen”: Roskill,
Beatty,
243.

757 “It is not that it blows”:
Anglo-American Naval Relations,
342.

757 “I have seen”: Rodman, 283–84.

757 “this greatest”: Jones, 58.

758 “too cold for men”:
Anglo-American Naval Relations,
361.

758 “I am sending”:
Beatty Papers,
I, 508.

758 “lavender, snow-powdered hills”: Hunter, 99.

758 “the atmosphere was crystal”: Ibid., 103.

758 “the north burst”: Ibid.

758 “the coast of Norway”: Ibid.

758 “she was not ready”: Jones, 43.

759 “exceptionally fine”: Ibid., 55.

759 “rather as an incubus”:
Anglo-American Naval Relations,
327.

759 “where they were least likely”: Jones, 44.

760 “United States is prepared”:
Anglo-American Naval Relations,
374.

760 “It is physically”: Ibid., 376–77.

761 “U.S. naval authorities”: Ibid., 391.

CHAPTER 38: FINIS GERMANIAE

764 “If an English delegation”: Görlitz, 245.

765 “A force of about”: Vandiver, II, 728.

765 “naked so to speak”: Herwig,
First World War,
422.

766
Kaiserschlacht:
Görlitz, 346.

766 “There was no surprise”: Churchill, IV, 411–13.

766 the Paris Gun: Moyer, 245.

766 “to coordinate the action”: Vandiver, II, 875.

767 “Infantry, artillery, aviation”: Ibid., 876.

767 “obstinate” and “stupid”: Herwig,
First World War,
407.

767 “There would be”: Vandiver, II, 849.

767 “the roads . . . began”: Churchill, IV, 454.

768 “The moral effect”: Vandiver, II, 898.

768 “You’re prolonging”: Ludendorff, II, 683.

768 “August 8”: Ibid., 679.

768 “The war must be ended”: Ibid., 684.

769 “You don’t know Ludendorff”: Görlitz, 406.

769 “Then, all of a sudden”: Barnett, 340.

770 “overworked” and “drive”: Goodspeed, 260.

770 “We are absolutely finished”: Fischer, 630.

770 “gradually paralyzing”: Ibid., 627.

770 “almost incomprehensible”: Ibid.

770 “I hope that”: Ibid., 628.

770 “By the mistaken operation”: Geis, 255.

770 “like lightning”: Fischer, 630.

771 “at once”: Ibid., 634.

771 “ten, eight”: Goodspeed, 268.

771 “I want to save my army”: Ibid.

771 “I am not a magician”: Cecil, II, 278.

771 “will consent to consider”: Max of Baden, II, 88.

772 “Brutes they were”: Gibson and Prendergast, 323.

772 “The navy does not need”: Herwig,
German Naval Officer Corps,
240.

772 “To allow ourselves to be”: Ludendorff, II, 748.

772 “concession to Wilson”: Ibid., 756.

772 “must deal with”: Balfour, 397.

772 “The hypocritical Wilson”: Ibid., 398.

772 “the audacity”: Ibid.

773 “a demand”: Ludendorff, II, 761.

773 “You stay”: Cecil, II, 285.

773 “Siamese twins”: Ibid.

773 “I refuse”: Görlitz, 413.

773 “an honorable battle”: Marder, V, 173.

773 “The High Seas Fleet is directed”: David Woodward, 114.

774 “complete freedom of action”: Scheer, 353.

774 “I did not regard it”: Horn, 209–10.

774 “I specifically reiterate”: Ibid., 210.

775 “a tactical success”: Marder, V, 173.

775 “suicide mission”: Philbin, 160.

775 “an honorable death”: Horn, 221.

777 “My dear admiral”: Herwig,
German Naval Officer Corps,
261.

777 “Now you must let me”: Bülow, III, 329–30.

778 “The German people” and
“Très bien”:
Moyer, 297.

778 “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”: Ralph Seymour, 118.

779 At seven o’clock on the evening: Beatty’s two meetings with Admiral Meurer are related in Beatty’s letter to Eugenie,
Beatty Papers,
I, 572–74, and in Ralph Seymour, 120–21.

780 “I saw a leg of mutton”: Chatfield, 175.

780 “the low-lying, sinister forms”: King-Hall, 231.

781 “In nearly every case”: Ibid., 232.

781 “as the sun sank”: Ibid., 236.

782 “My heart is breaking”: Herwig,
German Naval Officer Corps,
266.

782 “We cannot do better”: Hunter, 177.

783 “The German flag”: Marder, V, 191.

783 “I took the fleet flagship”: Chatfield, 176–77.

785 “madhouse”: Van Der Vat,
The Grand Scuttle,
147.

785 “all internal watertight doors”: Marder, V, 279.

786 “Paragraph Eleven”: Ibid.

787 “with a dreadful”: Van Der Vat,
The Grand Scuttle,
173.

787 “a drifter towing”: Ibid., 176.

788 “German battleship sinking”: Marder, V, 281.

788 “violated common honor”: Ibid., 283–84.

788 “I look upon the sinking”: Wemyss,
Life and Letters,
432.

788 “I rejoice”: Woodward, 184–85.

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