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(a) Foreign Office (1914-18) 00 FOREIGN SECRETARY Private Secretary Edward Grey (until Dec 1916) }-Eric Drummond ..~i ... Arthur Balfour (after Dec 1916) (1915-19) oil tD a. I "tS 0 I l ~ =:s PERMANENT UNDER SECRETARY PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY Arthur Nicolson (1910- June 1916) F. D. Acland (1911- Feb 1915) Private Secretary i=tD c. Neil Primrose (Feb-May 1915)-- Cecil (May 1915-Jan 1919) Guy Locock a~ Lord Hardinge (June 1916 -1920) Robert 0 tD ....-o ;! I I I I S.s > LEGAL ADVISERS 'AMERICAN DEPARTMENT' 'NEWS DEPARTMENT' PRISONERS AND ALIENS t!. ~ I I DEPARTMENT a ~ a. ~ Herbert Malkin Superintending Under Secretary Superintending Under Secretary Newton g.:= and Sir Maurice de BUnsen Lord Superintending Under Secretary tD (1915-16) =:s ro Charles B. Hurst (1914-18) Lord Newton ~ -tD (1914-18) I I (1915-16) =:s < ~ Senior Clerk and usually Senior Clerk and acting c.= a:: ... 0.. acting head head ... Cll ,.... Sperling Hubert Montgomery Rowland ...=:s I')tD (1914-18) (1914-17) X I I ---~ ~§ Lord Colum Crichton Stuart I 0 fll (1916-17) Liaison with Other American Section .... 0 (frequently aided by Lord Wellington House sections Geoffrey Butler =:f .... Eustace Percy, 1915-16) Stephen Gaselee (1915-17) a'Ef (1916-171 Miles Lampson ... tD Ronald Roxburgh (1915-16) 2 :r (1916-17) Alfred Noyes a.; (1916) 0 ... (frequently aided by Lord =:s~ Eustace Percy, 1915-16) (b) Department of Information (Feb 1917-Jan 1918) SUPERINTENDING CABINET MINISTER Lloyd George (Feb-Sep 1917) Edward Carson (Sep 1917-Jan 1918) I DIRECTOR John Buchan-Private Secretary: 1 Stair Gillion I l I l AND LIBRARY [INTELLIGENCE STAF~ ADMINISTRATION-ALLIED I~RT I ~u~~;-~~TAFFJ AND NEUTRAL PROPAGANDA Assistant Director Financial Assistant Director Deputy Director Charles Masterman Comptroller Major-General Lord Hubert Montgomery ~-·--I Edward Gleichen I -, I -1 Books Distribution Pictorial Art t~- Pamphlets Publications ATFO ABROAD Newspapers Exhibitions USA USA Ronald Roxburgh Geoffrey Butler Far East and Moslem H. A. Goode World Arthur Willert lan Hay Stephen Gaselee PRESS, CABLES AND CINEMA I Italy and Switzerland P. G. A. Smith I Alec Randall T.H.Lyon Greece, Balkans and W.H.Smith Assistant Director Rumania T. L. Gilmour Leonard Whibley I -~ Dominions r ------ Arthur Vincent Press Cables/Wireless Cinema Articles Films ~ .... Diagram taken from Beaverbrook Papers At House of Lords (c) Ministry of lnfonnation (1918) N MINISTER OF INFORMATION s Lord Beaverbrook r-~-~ ------~-- ---- - 1 Private Secretaries Director of Propaganda Secretary to Ministry Raymond Needham Sir Roderick Jones . H.E.Snagge Major A. N. Holt I Assistant Secretary ~ I <I> I I ~ Establishment Controller Officer for 1n"~ Officer of Contracts Publicity t:) :;::: ~ for Liaison with Assistant to Controller of Personal 5· Controllers for Controller .? other countries USA and Dominions Foreign Office Director and Propaganda ,_. Stephen Gaselee Chief of Staff Lord Rothermere I ,_.<..o (later replaced by G. H. Mair ,--- - -- l Lt Col. C. A. Bryan) ,_.t Chairman of Officer in Oc I committee for charge of Deputy Controller entertaining facilities Major Evelyn Wrench American I soldiers and r sailors Officer in Chief Officer in Chief, USA Dominions (no name given) Colonel Elliot Diagram taken from Beaverbrook Paters F/2A/1 Notes CHAPTER 1. IRELAND AND PRE-WAR BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY 1. Casement diary, quoted in Rene MacColl, Roger Casement (London, 1960) p. 115; Patrick Keatinge, A Place among the Nations. Issues of Irish Foreign Policy (Dublin, 1978) chs 1-2. 2. Denis Gwynn, The Life and Death of Roger Casement (London, 1931) p. 141. 3. Geoffrey de C. Parmiter, Roger Casement (London, 1936) pp. 104-5. 4. Balfour to White, 12 Dec 1900, Balfour Papers, Add. MS 49742. 5. Devlin memorandum, c. Feb 1914, Lloyd George Papers, C/20/2/6; Hansard, HC, 19 Mar 1914 (ux, 2296). 6. Philip G. Cambray, Irish Affairs and the Home Rule Question, 2nd edn (London, 1911) p. 133; Garvin to Sanders, 21 Jan 1910, Balfour Papers, Add. MS 49795. Some months later, Balfour assured Garvin that he gave 'full weight' to such 'external influences', but rejected Home Rule as a solution (ibid.). 7. Garvin to Chamberlain, 20 Oct 1910, and Chamberlain's reply, 21 Oct 1910 (copies), Joseph Chamberlain Papers, 27/52177. 8. Sir Almeric Fitzroy, Memoirs, 2 vols (London, 1925) II, 507. 9. A. T. Q. Stewart, The Ulster Crisis (London, 1967) p. 226. 10. George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England (London, 1966) p. 105. 11. Irish Churchman, 14 Nov 1913; Felician Prill, Ireland, Britain and Germany, 1871-1914 (London, 1975) pp. 110, 115, 117; Goschen to Nicolson, 19 Nov 1913, Nicolson Papers, FO 800/371; Alfred Noyes, The Accusing Ghost or Justice for Casement (London, 1957) pp. 36-7; Stronge to Hugh Montgomery, 29 Aug 1918, Montgomery Papers, 0627/436/37. 12. Evelyn Wrench, Geoffrey Dawson and our Times (London, 1955) p. 80. 13. Memorandum by poet, Alfred Graves, 27 Oct 1915, regarding earlier conversation with Carson, Redmond Papers, MS 152.61(2); Tim Healy, Letters and Leaders of my Day, 2 vols (London, 1928) II, 558. 14. Prill, Ireland, Britain and Germany, p. 113. 15. Harold Nicolson, Sir Arthur Nicolson. A Study in the Old Diplomacy (London, 1930) p. 401; Nicolson to Mallet, 30 Mar 1914, Nicolson Papers, FO 800/373. 16. Sir C. E. Callwell (ed.), The Diaries of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson (London, 1927) 1, 139, 141, 146. 203 204 Notes 17. Nicolson to Goschen, 30 Apr 1914; Buchanan to Nicolson, 2 Apr 1914; Buchanan to Grey, 3 Apr 1914; and Nicolson to Buchanan, 21 Apr 1914: Nicolson Papers, FO 800/373. 18. Zara Steiner, The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy, 1898-1914 (Cambridge, 1969) pp. 153, 139-40, 152. 19. Hardinge to Nicolson, 28 Mar 1914, Nicolson Papers, FO 800/373; Hardinge to Lord Sanderson, 22 Aug 1912, 13 May 1914, 26 Nov 1912, 17 Aug 1911, 12 Jan 1911, 9 May 1912, 10 Mar 1914 (copies), Hardinge Family Papers, U 927/Zi 19; Hardinge to Nicolson, 19 Nov 1913, Nicolson Papers, FO 800/371. 20. Sir Charles Petrie, The Life and Times of Sir Austen Chamberlain, 2 vols (London, 1939-40) I, 342. 21. The Times, 11 Mar 1914; Cromer to Milner, 10 Mar 1914, Milner Papers, G17. 22. Sam Cunningham (Ulster Unionist) to Milner, 7 Sept 1914 (reporting Crawford's claim), Milner Papers, G17; Crawford to Montgomery, 8 Jan 1918, Montgomery Papers, D 627/437117; Montgomery to Bishop John Gunn (Mississippi), Jan 1919 (copy), Montgomery Papers, D 627/438/2. 23. Nicolson to Goschen, 27 Apr 1914, Nicolson Papers, FO 800/373; draft FO telegram to European consuls, FO 371/2185; Hansard, HC, 28 and 29 Apr 1914 (LXI, 1590, 1761). 24. Spring-Rice to William Tyrrell (Grey's Private Secretary), 25 Mar 1914; Grey minute, n.d.; Tyrrell to Spring-Rice, telegram, 28 Mar 1914; and Spring-Rice to Tyrrell, 30 Mar 1914: Grey Papers, FO 800/84, 1. 25. Percy minute, 21 July 1914; Bennet to Grey, 25 May 1914; and Birrell to Tyrrell, 11 June 1914: FO 371/2185. 26. Spring-Rice to Tyrrell, 30 Mar and 13 Jan 1914, and Spring-Rice to Grey, 30 Mar, Grey Papers, FO 800/84, 1. 27. Willert to Henry Wickham Steed (European editor of The Times), Willert Papers; Percy minute, 15 July 1914, FO 371/2187; John Devoy, Recollections of an Irish Rebel (New York, 1929) p. 393. 28. Charles Seymour, The Intimate Papers of Colonel House, 2 vols (Boston, Mass., 1926) I, 201; Spring-Rice to Grey, 13 Apr 1914, Grey Papers, FO 800/84, 1. 29. Arthur Willert, Washington and Other Memories (Boston, Mass., 1972) p. 54. 30. D. C. Watt, Personalities and Policies. Studies in the Formulation of British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (London, 1965) p. 31. 31. Stephen Gwynn (ed.), The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, 2 vols (London, 1929) I, 38, and u, 279; Balfour to Lord Derby, 25 June 1918, Balfour Papers, Add. MS 49743; Arthur Willert, The Road to Safety (London, 1951) p. 90; Langley minute, n.d., on Spring-Rice to Grey, 24 Jan 1918, FO 371/2153. 32. Spring-Rice to his wife, 31 July 1914, Spring-Rice Papers, 2/10; Spring Rice to Newton, 9 July 1914, quoted inS. Gwynn (ed.), Spring-Rice, I, 209. 33. Lansdowne to Spring-Rice, 22July 1914, ibid.; Wrench, Dawson, p. 103; G. H. Mair (Manchester Guardian correspondent) to his editor, C. P. Scott, 23 July 1914, C. P. Scott Papers, Add. MS 50908. Notes 205 34. Henry Wickham Steed, Through Thirty Years, 1892-1922, 2 vols (London, 1924) 1, 392; Reginald Pound and Geoffrey Harmsworth, Northcliffe (London, 1959) p. 461; James W. Gerard, My Four Years in Germany (London, 1917) p. 63. 35. Denis Gwynn, The Life of fohn Redmond (London, 1931) p. 349. 36. Lord Riddell's War Diary, 1914-18 (London, 1933) p. 5; David Lloyd George, War Memoirs, 2 vols (London, 1938) I, 416; Prill, Ireland, Britain and Germany, pp. 132-3. 37. Maurice Hankey, The Supreme Command, 2 vols (London, 1961) I, 152. 38. Roy Jenkins, Asquith (London, 1964) p. 323. 39. Winston Churchill, The World Crisis, 1911-18 (London, 1923) p. 193. 40. S. Gwynn (ed.), Spring-Rice, I, 210; Blanche Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, 2 vols (London, 1936) II, 114. 41. Lord Beaverbrook, Politicians and the War, 1914-16 (New York, 1928) pp. 24-5. 42. Asquith to St Loe Strachey, 11 Aug 1918, Strachey Papers, S/11/6/22; Anita Leslie, Mr Frewen of England. A Victorian Adventurer (London, 1966) p. 194 (on Grey's denial); Zara Steiner, Britain and the Origins of the First World War (London, 1977) pp.