The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (114 page)

4
Daily Telegraph,
24 August 1956.

5
Hansard,
5th Series, 478, 2766.

6
Daily Telegraph,
17 July 1956.

7
Oliver, ‘The Two Miss Perhams &c.’,
JICH,
19, 26.

8
Navias, ‘Terminating National Conscription &c.’,
JCont.H,
24, 202.

9
Times,
2 April 1964.

10
I am indebted to Professor Fred Crawford for these details of the Lawrence-Aldington affair.

11
PRO, CO 1027/177, 1–3, 14–16.

12
Listener,
30 October 1969.

13
Daily Telegraph,
23 November 1967.

14
H. Thomas,
The Establishment,
10–11, 19.

15
Ibid.,
187.

16
Daily Telegraph,
5 July 1956.

17
Richards and Aldgate, 158.

6: Uhuru: Tying up Loose Ends, 1959–80

1
New Statesman,
10 May 1963.

2
Hansard,
5th Series (House of Lords), 229, 305, 431.

3
New Statesman,
10 May 1952.

4
Mboya, 64.

5
PRO, CO 822/474, 20.

6
PRO, CO 1015/463 (Report April 1953).

7
Southern Rhodesia: Facts and Figures &c.,
1, 13.

8
Listener,
31 July 1969.

9
New Statesman,
30 January 1956.

10
Darwin, ‘The Central African Emergency &c.’,
JICH,
21, 223–4.

11
Hansard,
5th Series, 602, 1506.

12
Ibid.,
1509–10.

13
Horne,
Macmillan, 1957–1986,
181.

14
Hansard,
5th Series, 610, 237.

15
Ibid.,
422–3.

16
Ibid.,
426.

17
Horne,
Macmillan, 1957–1986,
181–2.

18
McCracken, ‘Coercion and Control &c.’,
JAH,
27,141.

19
Fisher,
Iain Macleod,
160, 163.

20
Horne,
Macmillan, 1957–1986,
187–8.

21
Ibid.

22
Sunday Times Magazine,
3 June 1962.

23
Caute, 88.

24
Hansard,
5th Series, 229, (House of Lords), 401, 409–10.

25
Pimlott, 270.

26
Listener,
5 December 1968.

27
Pimlott, 451.

28
Caute, 90.

29
Sun,
15 November 1965.

Index

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Abadie, Captain George

Abbas II, Khedive

Abdullah, King of Transjordan

Abdullah bin Muhammad, Khalifah

Abercromby, General Lord

Aberdeen Chronicle

aborigines

Abu Klea, battle of (1885)

Abukir Bay, battle of (1798)

Abyssinia (Ethiopia): 19th-century campaigns; Italian ambitions; Mussolini invades; liberation

Accra

Achée, Comte D’

Acheson, Dean

Adams, John

Addison, Richard

Aden

Admiralty

advertising

Afghanistan

Africa; slave trade; ‘new imperialism’; ‘scrambles’ for; missionaries; British methods of control; newspaper accounts of; First World War; ‘backwardness’; Second World War; post-war expectations; proposed African army; Communist subversion; independence;
see also
East Africa; North Africa; West Africa
and individual countries

African National Congress

African National Council

Afrikaner Nationalist party

Afrikaners

Aga Khan

Agra

Air Ministry

air travel

Aix-la-Chapelle, Peace of (1748)

Ajax, Operation

Albania

Albermarle, Lord

Albert, Prince Consort

Alcock and Brown

Aldington, Richard

Alexander, A.V.

Alexandria

Algeria

Ali, Rashid

Ali Dinar, Sultan of Darfur

All-African Peoples Conference

Allenby, Field-Marshal Viscount

Amboina Island

American Intercourse Bill (1781)

American Union Pacific Railroad

American War of Independence

Amery, Julian

Amery, Leo; and idea of imperial federation; supporter of Milner; First World War; and the Middle East; support for Zionism; and Lend Lease

Amherst, Lord

Amherst, Major-General Jeffrey

Amin, General Idi

Amoy

Amritsar

Andaman Islands

Anderson, Lindsay

Anglo-American War (1812)

Anglo-Egyptian Treaty (1936)

Anglo-Egyptian War (1882)

Anglo-Iranian (Persian) Oil Company

Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (1930)

Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921)

Anglo-Japanese alliance (1902)

Anglo-Russian Convention (1907)

Anglo-Saxon character

Angola

Anne, Queen

Anson, Admiral Sir George

Antarctica

Anti-Jacobin

anti-semitism

Anti-Smoking League

Antigua

Anzac Day

ANZACs

ANZUS pact (1950)

apartheid

appeasement

Arab Legion

Arab Revolts

Arabs: nationalism; independence movements; and Zionism; and Jewish immigration to Palestine; Second World War; and the creation of Israel; small-scale wars

Arden, John

Argentine

Aristotle

Arkwright, Richard

Armitage, Sir Robert

Arnold, Benedict

Arnold, Dr Thomas

Arrow

Asante

Ascension Island

Asquith, Herbert

Atatürk, Kamal

Atiyah, Edward

Atlantic, Battle of the

Atlantic Charter

atomic bombs

Attenborough, Richard

Attlee, Clement; and the Atlantic Charter; Yalta and Potsdam conferences; and the atomic bomb; wants to withdraw from Mediterranean and Middle East; proposed African army; Cold War; and Indian independence; Iranian crisis

Auchinleck, Field-Marshal

Aung San, Thain

Australia: Cook claims for Britain; aborigines; convicts transported to; trade with Britain; independence movement; and imperial unity; self-government; expansionists; emigration to; distinctive identity; defences; and the Boer War; emotional kinship with Britain; First World War; air travel; cricket; and the League of Nations; and defence of Singapore; rearmament; anti-war sentinent; prelude to Second World War; war declared; Lend Lease; Second World War; and the Cold War

Australian Labour party

Austria

Austria-Hungary

Azikwe, Benjamin

Aztecs

Bacon, Sir Francis

Bacon, Nathaniel

Badahur Shah

Baden-Powell, Major-General Sir Robert

Baggal

Baghdad Pact

Bahamas

Bahrain

Baker, Sir Stanley

Balcon, Michael

Baldwin, Stanley

Balfour, Arthur

Balfour Declaration (1917)

Balkans

Ballantyne, R.M.

Baltimore, Lord

Baluchi tribesmen

Banda, Dr Hastings

Bangalore

Bankes, Thomas

Banks, Sir Joseph

Barbados

Barbados Company

Barcelona

Baring, Sir Evelyn
see
Cromer, Lord

Barker, Lieutenant George

Barnett, Correlli

Barrow, General Sir Edmund

Bart, Jean

al-Barzani, Sheik Mahmud

Basutoland

Batavia

Battle of Britain (1940)

BBC

BBC World Service

‘Beaconsfieldism’

Beale, Anthony

Bean, Charles

Beatty, Admiral Lord

Beatty, Lady

beaver pelts

Beaverbrook, Lord

Bechuanaland

Beckford, Sir William

Bedford, Duke of

Beduin

Bee Hive

Beirut

Belgium

Belize

Bell, Gertrude

Belloc, Hilaire

Ben Gurion, David

Benbow, Vice-Admiral John

Bengal

Bengal Gazette

Bennett, Major-General Gordon

Bentinck, Lord William

Berkeley, Sir William

Berlin-Constantinople-Baghdad railway

Bermuda

Bevan, Aneurin

Beveridge, Senator A.J.

Beveridge report

Bevin, Ernest

Bharatpur

Bida

Birley, Thomas, Bishop of Zanzibar

Birmingham

Bismarck, Prince Otto von

Bismarck Archipelago

Black and Tans

blacks: slavery; ‘noble savage’; in First World War; ‘backwardness’; desire for self-government; stereotypes; colour bar; race riots; in Second World War; proposed African army;
see also
racism

Blackstone, Chief Justice

Blake, Admiral

Blakiston, Lieutenant Robert

Blamey, General Sir Thomas

Blatchford, Robert

Blathwayt, William

Bligh, William

‘Blimp, Colonel’

Blücher, Marshal

‘Blue Water’ school of foreign policy

Blundell, Sir Michael

Blunt, Wilfred Scawen

Boer War

Boers

Boleyne, Anne

Bombay

Bonaparte, Joseph

Boot, Operation

Borden, Sir Robert

Borgu

Borneo;
see also
North Borneo

Boscawen, Edward

Bose, Chandra Subhas

Boston

‘Boston Massacre’ (1770)

Botany Bay

Botha, Louis

Bougainville, Louis-Anthoine de

Boulton, Matthew

Bounty

Bourne, Colonel

Boutros-Ghali, Boutros

Bowrey, Thomas

Bowring, John

Boxer Rebellion

Boy Scouts

Boys Brigade

Boys’ Own Paper

Braddock, Bessie

Braddock, General Edward

Bradford Exchange

Brazil

Brazza, Savorgnan de

Brereton, Captain F.S.

Brereton, Major-General Lewis

Bright, John

Bristol

British Board of Film Censors

British Columbia

British Communist party

British Council

British East Africa;
see also
Kenya

British Empire Exhibition (1924–5)

British Expeditionary Force

British Guiana

British Honduras (Belize)

British Imperial East Africa Company

British Nationality Act (1948)

British South Africa Company

Brockway, Fenner

Brooke, Charles

Brooke, Sir James

Brown, George

Brown, John

Brown, William

Browning, Robert

Bruce, H.A.

Bruce, Stanley

Brunei

buccaneers

Buchan, John

Buenos Aires

Bulfin, General Sir Edward

Buller, General Sir Redvers

Bülow, Prince von

Burgoyne, General

Burke, Edmund

Burma

Burma National Army

Burma Road

Burma War (1824)

Burnaby, Colonel Frederick

Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury

Burton, Sir Richard

Bute, Marquess of

Butler, R.A.

Byng, Admiral John

Cabot, John

Cadbury’s

Cadogan, Sir Alexander

Caetano, President

Cairo Conference (1921)

Calcutta

Caledon, Lord

Callaghan, James

Cambridge Union

Cameroons

Campbell, Colin

Campbell, General Sir Colin

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry

Canada; conflicts between Britain and France in; Catholicism; and American War of Independence; North-West Passage; trade with Britain; independence movement; self-government; emigration to; French population; and the Boer War; defences; First World War; anti-war sentinent; Second World War; trade with America

Canal Zone
see
Suez Canal

Canary Islands

Canton

Cape Breton Island

Cape Colony

Cape Finisterre

Cape Florida

Cape of Good Hope

Cape Horn

Cape Town

capital, overseas investment

Capra, Frank

Cardiff

Cardwell, Edward

Carib Indians

Caribbean
see
West Indies

Carleton, General Guy

Carlyle, Thomas

Carnarvon, Lord

Carnatic

Carolina

Caroline Islands

Carrington, Lord

Carron ironworks

Carson, Sir Edward

Cartagena

Cary, Joyce

Castle, Barbara

Castlereagh, Viscount

Catherine, Tsaritsa

Catherine of Weymouth

Catholic Church

Cavendish College, Cambridge

Cawnpore

Cayman Islands

Cecil, Lord Robert

Central Africa

Central African Federation

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Cetshwayo

Ceylon

Chamberlain, Austen

Chamberlain, Joseph; background; imperialism; Royal Navy loses control of Mediterranean; and the Matabele Wars; and the Jameson Raid; East African railway; and West Africa; Irish Home Rule; tariff reform campaign

Chamberlain, Neville; and Indian independence; Munich agreement; rearmament; Abyssinian crisis; becomes prime minister; appeasement; and Hitler’s claim to Sudetenland; supports Poland; declares war