Index Compiled by the Author Abdul Hamid: Kaiser kisses cheek of, Air policy-continued 342 Cairo Conference, S44-s, s46, S47, Abdullah, Emir (later King) : and Trans­ sso-I ; and Transjordan, S 77; and the jordan, S02, SII, SI4, SI8, SI9, S24, cross-Desert air route, s77-8o; and S32, sg6 n. I, S4S. SSI, SS2-4; his Iraq, sg6, 796-7, 79g-8oo, 8oi, discussions with Churchill in 802-4, 8o6, 8Io, 8I I; proposed for Jerusalem, ssg-62, s6g-70, S72; Palestine, 6gs; proposed .against any Churchill defends his settlement with, possible Irish Republic, 7os, 72s-6, S76, s8o; possible time-limit to his 74I ; and the Geddes 'axe', 769, 770; rule, s8g; 'amenable to reason', s88; and the Chanak crisis, 8go, 834, 8ss, and Churchill's Middle East policies, 8s8, 868-g; 'a flying Terror', gio sg6, sg8 Air raid warnings: Churchill's advice on, Abrami, Leon: Churchill protests about, 27-8 272, 273 Alexandretta: Churchill 'hot for an Addison, Dr Christopher: and expedition to', 33 Churchill's return to the Cabinet, Alfonso XIII of Spain: Churchill's IS-I6, 24, 2S, 26, 28, 32; and the message to, ro8; at Deauville, 790 Clyde munitions dispute, 3S; and the Allenby, General Sir Edmund: ordered skilled workers' dispute, SI; and the to attack, 84; in Egypt, S22, S37, munition workers' strike, I27-8; and SS2 the continuation of the Coalition, Alliance Aeroplane Works: industrial I 6o n. I ; and British policy towards dispute at, I24-S Russia, gog, 3I7, 33s; and Ireland, Allison, James: 866 664-s; and Churchill's abilities, 894 Alsace-Lorraine: 'the symbol & test of Admiralty: Churchill seeks to defend his victory', 63; a possible compromise on, work at, I-g, 6-7, 8-I I, IS, 7so-g 7I; to be evacuated, I64; its restora­ Aga Khan: urges Britain to make peace tion essential, I 7 I with Turkey, 498 Amery, Leopold: and Churchill's return Agar, Lieutenant: awarded the Victoria to the Cabinet, go; and the allocation Cross, go8 n. I of guns, so, s I ; and Churchill's visit to Air Board: Churchill's possible Chair­ France in March Igi8, 88, IOI; gives manship of, 23-7 Lloyd George advice on Churchill's Air policy: 67, I Ig, I44; Churchill future, I7S; Churchill willing to responsible for, I97-2I8; and the accept as an Under-Secretary, s26; 939 940 INDEX Amery, Leopold-continued Asquith, Herbert Henry-continued takes part in the Under-Secretaries' I9I6, 674; praises Churchill's Irish revolt, 788 n. I speech, 720; 'very upset', 766; 'he has Anderson, Sir John (later Viscount suffered more than we have', 767; 'a Waverley): and Ireland, 686-7, 867 wounding sight', 786; and the political Anderson, William: on Churchill's crisis of October I922, 855; criticizes 'quality of imagination', 57 the 'amateurs in Downing Street', Appeasement: Churchill an advocate of, 8s8; answered by Lloyd George, in Europe and Russia, 385; in Ireland, 864-5 470, 664; in Turkey, 48o; in the Asquith, Katherine: I35 Middle East, 5I3, 598; in Europe, Asquith, Raymond: killed in action, 6o8, 609; Churchill's plan for, involv­ I35 n. I, 766 ing Russia, 760; Churchill praises Asquithians: 'kind & friendly', I 3; Loucheur's 'good plans of', 79I; Churchill 'loath' to associate with, Churchill has 'no other object in I8; prepared to challenge Lloyd view', 897 George, I 67; Dundee a stronghold of, Arabs, the: to be deserted, 7I; and the I69; Churchill's advice concerning, San Remo conference, 482; and the I 76; Churchill's public criticisins of, Jews of Palestine, 484; their rebellion 765-7; their possible future, 772; and in Mesopotamia, 490-7; and the the Labour Party, 794; pushed into Turks, SOI; and Transjordan, 502; fourth place in the I922 Election, 888 Churchill on the need to appease the Australia: and the Chanak crisis, 825-6, 'sentiment' of, 5I3; Britain's promise 828--g, 846, 852 to, 528; Churchill's alleged 'low opinion of'' 540; attitude to the Jews, ss8-g; Bagge, (Sir) J. Picton: 338 'groundless apprehension' among, 56 I; Baird, MajorJ. L.: I9D-I, 788n. I protests against Zionism of, 562-4; Baker, Newton D: 9o-I, 99 Jewish attitude towards, s67; as Baldwin, Lucy: 864 soldiers, s6g-7o; 'angry', 57I; clash Baldwin, Stanley: 352 n. I, ss6, 768; with Jews, 585-6; Churchill critical and the fall of the Coalition, 864, 867, of, 586-7; and Churchill's Palestine 870 policy, s88-g, 594-s. 596, 597-8, Balfour, A. J (later Earl): Churchill 6I5-62; and 'the necessity of killing writes to, 37; 'rather uninterested', Jews', 645; 'a kindly and well­ 8I; 'ridiculously optimistic', 82; and disposed people', 645; and the Iraq Allied intervention against the Bol­ Treaty, 8o7, 8I8, 855-6 sheviks, 226-7, 243, 247-8, 249-50, Askwith, Lord: 702 252, 255. 304, 32I, 323, 356, 4I3-I4, Asquith, Arthur: I03, 766 423, 428, 439; and Ireland, 455, Asquith, Herbert Henry: Churchill 457; and Turkey, 473; and Britain's criticizes Government of, 6; and the promise to the Jews, 5I3, s64-s. s68, Dardanelles Report, 8-g; and the 6I9, 62I, 624, 627, 635, 644, 649, 6so; Secret Session (I9I7), I6; and and Greece, 6 I o; and the danger of Churchill's return to the Cabinet, Conservative hostility to Lloyd 30, 3I; Churchill writes to, 103-4; George, 794-5; and Iraq, 807, 8I2-I3; seeks return to two-Party system, I59; and the fall of the Coalition, 867, 870 'having a rough time', I74-5; should Balsan, Colonel: 762 be assuaged, I 76; critical of the anti­ Balsan, Consuela: 762 Bolsheviks, 357; and the Amritsar Banbury, Sir F. G. (later Lord): 208, debate, 4IO; and the crisis ofDecember 694. 738 INDEX 941 Barnes, G. N.: and the skilled workers' Black, Sir Frederick: 33 dispute, 53, 58----9, 64-6; and British 'Black and Tans': origins of, 456, 458; intervention in Russia, gog, 312, actions of, in Ireland, 458----9, 460, 3 1 4 462-g,46s-6,467,468-9,664, 706-7; Barnes, General (Sir) Reginald: 54, 68, to go to Palestine, 635, 647, 682; in 155 Palestine, 868 Barton, Robert: 676 Blenheim Palace: 5, 148, 175 Baruch, Bernard: and U.S. munitions Bliss, General: 103, 243 production, 49-50, 59; and Chilean Blumenfeld, R. D.: 815, 895 nitrates, 142 Blunt, W. S.: 150, 682 Baxter, Sir George: 170 Bolsheviks: seize power in Russia, Beardmore, Sir William: 35 66 n. 1, 75; their continuing suc­ Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet Sir David cesses, 166; Churchill an implacable (later 1st Earl): 198, 213, 370, critic of, 219; and the murder of 372-3, 388, 67o, 769, 834, 84o, 843 Captain Cromie, 224-5; 'bloody and Beaverbrook, 1st Baron: 'You have done wholesale butcheries', 227; 'a mere immense service', 123; 'you are fraction of the population', 229; 'the making a mistake', 16g; and Bol­ enemies of the human race', 246; shevism, 220; and Churchill's 'hostil­ 'foul baboonery' of, 257; 'like the ity' to Lloyd George, s8I-2; and the vampire', 270; Churchill wants gas death of Churchill's daughter, 612; used against, 274; 'that foul combina­ and Ireland, 687; Churchill's holiday tion of criminality and animism', 278; with, 761, 762, 764; describes democrats or murderers ?, 355; cannot Churchill's tendency 'all to the Right', be 'suppressed by the sword', 356; 773; believes Churchill is 'determined Churchill describes work of, 365; to resign', 778; presses Churchill to their growing respectability and desire go to Deauville with him, 788; for peace with England, 368; Churchill awaits Churchill at Boulogne, 789; denounces methods of, 375; Churchill taken ill, 78g-go; and the. General believes they represent 'a force of Election of 1922, 874; and the search order', 377; and negotiations with for a clear fiscal policy, 8gg Britain, 391, 397-8, 400, 412; Chur­ Beckenham, Harry: 750, 871 chill 'violent against', 413; advance Bell, Alan: murdered, 449 into Poland, 414-22; driven from Bell, Gertrude: at the Cairo Conference, Poland, 425-7; 'this nest of vipers', 549.556 429; 'this vile group of cosmopolitan Bellairs, Carlyon: 404, 408 fanatics', 440; and Turkey, 478, Belleek: 'battle of', 726-31, 736 610; and the Jews, 484; threaten Bellman, (Sir) Harold: Churchill's Persia, 49o-1; effect of Churchill's 'courage and eloquence', g2 hostility towards, 506; and the Jewish Benckendorff, Constantine: g68 immigrants in Palestine, 543, 568, Benn, W. Wedgwood: 201,202,206 573, 585-6, 6r6-17, 618, 647, 647, Bertie, Sir Francis: reports on Churchill's 6so, 6s8; 'these Jew Commissars', 'peculiar' views, 7o-1; votes against 760; and the British Labour move­ Balfour Declaration, 650 n. 2 .ment, 774; Churchill's bitterness Beynon, General Sir William: 403, 410 towards, 779, 782-4, 784-5; and the Bin Saud, see Ibn Saud Chanak crisis, 844; Churchill con­ Birdwood, General Sir William: 68, trasts philosophy of with his own, 902; 154 'a league of the failures, the criminals, Birkenhead, Lord: see Smith, F. E. the unfit, the mutinous .. .', gog; 942 INDEX Bolsheviks-continued Cavan, Lord--continued 'committing unspeakable atrocities', and the Chanak crisis, 82g-3o, 832, 906 835. 838, 854 Bombs and bombing: 54, 72, 137, 149, Cave, 1st Viscount: 162 156, 455, 490, 494, 585, 610, 705, Cecil, Lord Hugh (later Baron Quicks­ 796-7, 8o1, 810, 913 wood): 212, 694, 702 Bondfield, Margaret: 834 n. 1 Cecil, Lord Robert (later Viscount): and Bonham Carter, Sir Maurice: 138 the Bolsheviks, 224, 226, 230; and Bonham Carter, Violet: 277-8 Ireland, 706; and the political crisis of Borden, Mary: 235 1922, 855 Borden, Sir Robert L.: 230, 581 Chamberlain, Austen: and the demobil­ Boyd, General (Sir) G.