Authors: Barbara W. Tuchman
Bible and Sword (53 page)
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Herzl on France.—Bein, p. 116.
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Herzl, “going out of my mind …
.”—Diaries
, June 16, 1895.
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Herzl’s phrase, “a basis of recognized right and not of sufferance,” achieved immortality under other auspices when Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill said in the White Paper of July 1922 that the Jews were in Palestine “as of right and not on sufferance.”
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Herzl, “publicly recognized, legal guarantee.”—Bein, p. 234.
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Rabbi Isaac M. Wise.—Central Conference of American Rabbis,
Yearbook for 1897–98
.
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Rabbi Güdeman.—Herzl’s
Diaries
, January 6, 1897.
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Harzl had not read
Auto-Emancipation.—G
ottheil, p. 89.
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Herzl refused to kiss Pope’s hand.—Weisgal,
Herzl Memorial
.
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Herzl decrees frock coats.—Bein. p. 230.
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Basle Congress: “everyone sat breathless.”—Observer was Ben Ami, Hebrew writer, quoted Bein, p. 232.
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Basle Program.—Cohen, p. 77.
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I.C.A.—Jewish Colonization Association.
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Negotiations with the Kaiser.—Bein, chap. IX.
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Herzl, “England will understand us.…”—Bein, p. 346.
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Herzl, “the Archimedean point.”—Message to Zionist Conference in London, February 28, 1898, quoted Cohen, p. 79.
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Herzl’s interview with Rothschild.—Bein, p. 390.
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Chamberlain, on extending the Empire.—Speech, June 2, 1892.
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Salisbury, “most intelligent Englishman.” — John Raymond reviewing A. L. Kennedy’s
Life of Salisbury, New Statesman and Nation
, April 1, 1953.
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Baron Sonnino episode.—Wickham Steed,
Through Thirty Years
, New York, 1924, I, 163.
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Chamberlain’s thesis, Jews as a “useful instrument.”—Julian Amery.
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Balfour, “It was not Zionism.”—From the Introduction to Sokolow.
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Herzl’s interview with King Victor Emmanuel.—Herzl’s
Diaries
, quoted in Amery.
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Herzl’s letter to Rothschild on El Arish. Bein, p. 390.
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Herzl’s interview with Chamberlain.—This, and the following account of the negotiations with Chamberlain, Lansdowne, Cromer,
et al
, is taken from Amery whose account is based on his own translation of Herzl’s
Tagebüche. See also
Bein, chap. XIII, and Rabinowicz.
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Kishinev pogroms.—Elbogen, pp. 376–89; Dubnow, III, 78.
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Greenberg on British offer involving “political recognition.”—Rabinowicz.
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Text of the Draft Agreement with marginal comments by Lansdowne and Hurst.—F.O. 2 (785) Africa (East) Jewish Settlement, 1903, and is reprinted in full by Rabinowicz.
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Sixth Congress reception of the Uganda proposal.—Weizmann, pp. 83–88; Bein, chap. XIV.
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Herzl, “Don’t do anything foolish when I am dead.”—Letter to Wolffsohn, May 6, Bein, p. 500.
ANTONIUS, GEORGE
, The Arab Awakening, New York, 1939.
ASQUITH, H. H.
, Memories and Reflections, 2 vols., London, 1928.
BAKER, RAY STANNARD
, Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement, 3 vols., New York, 1923.
BALFOUR, ARTHUR JAMES
, Opinions and Arguments, New York, 1928. Preface to Sokolow’s Zionism, 1919. Retrospect, An Unfinished Autobiography, 1930. Speeches on Zionism, ed. Israel Cohen, London, 1928.
BATTERSEA, LADY CONSTANCE
,
Reminiscences
, London, 1922.
CHURCHILL, WINSTON
, Great Contemporaries, New York, 1937.
DUGDALE, BLANCHE E. C.
, Arthur James Balfour, first Earl Balfour, 2 vols., New York, 1937.
GRAVES, PHILIP
, Palestine: the Land of Three Faiths, London, 1922.
GREY OF FALLODON
,
Twenty-five Years
, 2 vols., London, 1926.
HANSARD
, Parliamentary Debates.
HUNTER-MILLER, DAVID
,
My Diary at the Peace Conference
, printed for the author, New York, 1924.
LAWRENCE, T
.
E
., Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York, 1935.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
, Minutes of the Permanent Mandates Commission.
LESLIE, SHANE
, Mark Syke s: His Life and Letters, New York, 1923.
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID
,
War Memoirs
, 3 vols., New York, 1933.
Memoirs of the Peace Conference
, 2 vols., Yale University, 1939 (published in England under the title,
The Truth About the Peace Treaties)
.
MAC MAHON CORRESPONDENCE
,
Parl. Papers, Great Britain
, 1938–39,
Command 5957
, London, 1939.
Also Command 5964
and
5974
covering British policy vis-a-vis the Arabs in the years 1915–18.
MANDATE, THE PALESTINE
, Text, Parl. Papers, Great Britain, Command 1785, London, 1922.
MONTEFIORE, CLAUDE
,
Liberal Judaism and Jewish Nationalism
, London, 1917. (One of many studies representing the Anti-Zionist point of view.)
PEEL, EARL
, Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, Command 5479, July 1937.
RONALDSHAY, EARL OF
,
Life of Lord Curzon
, 3 vols., London, 1928.
SAMUEL, HERBERT, VISCOUNT
,
Grooves of Change
, New York, 1946.
SIDEBOTHAM, HERBERT
, Great Britain and Palestine, London, 1937.
SOKOLOW, NAHUM
. Listed under Chapter XI.
STORRS, SIR RONALD
,
Memoirs
, New York, 1937.
SYKES, CHRISTOPHER
, Two Studies in Virtue, New York, 1953.
SYKES, SIR MARK
, Dar ul-Islam, Record of a Journey through the Asiatic Provinces of Turkey, London, 1904.
SYKES-PICOT TREATY
, The Secret Treaty of London, Command 671, 1920.
WEIZMANN, CHAIM
. Listed under Chapter XVI.
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Balfour, “quite fearless.”—Churchill, p. 205.
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Dugdale, Balfour’s life-long interest.—
Life of Balfour
, I, 324. All subsequent quotations from Mrs. Dugdale are from this book, chiefly Vol. I, chap. XIX, and Vol. II, chap. XI.
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Lady Constance, “talked about the Jews.”—Diary for September 6 and 7, 1895.
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Balfour, “why Palestine?”—Introduction to Sokolow.
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Meeting of Balfour and Weizmann.—Dugdale, I, chap. XIX.
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Weizmann’s boyhood.—
Trial and Error
, p. 26.
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Storrs on Weizmann.—
Memoirs
, p. 439. All subsequent quotations from Storrs are from this book.
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Weizmann’s interview with Balfour.—
Trial and Error
, chap. VIII.
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Balfour’s deathbed.—Dugdale, II, 303.
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Balfour, Zionists as a conservative force.—Quoted Dugdale, II, 158.
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Balfour, speech in the Lords, June 21, 1922.—
Opinions and Arguments
.
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Lady Constance, A. J. B. “hugely interested.”—Letter to Mrs. Yorke, October 17.
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Another book of memoirs about the Rothschilds.—
Lady de Rothschild and Her Daughters
, 1821–1931, Lucy Cohen, London, 1935.
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Anti-Zionist position.—See Claude Montefiore.
Also
correspondence in the
Times
beginning with the Alexander-Montefiore letter of May 24, 1917 and replies from Lord Rothschild, Rabbi Hertz, Weizmann,
et al
.
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Balfour, “ancient antipathies.”—Introduction to Sokolow.
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Lloyd George, reward for Weizmann.—
War Memoirs
, II, 50.
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Samuel, Grey, and Lloyd George discussions.—Samuel, p. 174.
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Grey on “Jewish state.”—Ibid.
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Grey inquiry at Petrograd.—Memorandum of British Embassy to Foreign Minister Sazonov, Stein, p. 138.
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Weizmann meeting with Lloyd Georg
e.—Trial and Error
, p. 150.
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Asquith finds Samuel’s memorandum “distasteful.”—
Memories
, II, 59–60.
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Lord Bertie.—
Trial and Error
, p. 151.
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Asquith believes Lloyd George “does not give a damn.”
—Memories
, II, 65–66.
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Lloyd George on Palestine place names.—
Trial and Error
, p. 152.
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Ormsby-Gore on Sykes.—Leslie, pp. 285–90.
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Kitchener to Sykes.—Sokolow, II, xxvi.
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Lawrence, “I back it.…”—
Manchester Guardian
, May 20, 1935.
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Sykes, “destiny of the Jewish race.…”—Speech at the London Opera House meeting in celebration of the Balfour Declaration, December 2, 1917, quoted in Leslie.
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Foreign Office, “imperative expediency.”—Leslie, p. 250.
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Arab Bureau promises.—MacMahon correspondence.
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Sykes-Picot text
.—Command 671
, 1920.
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Churchill on MacMahon pledge.—Quoted
Peel Report
, p. 20.
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Balfour, “small notch.”—Speech at Albert Hall, July 12, 1920,
Opinions and Arguments
.
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Hussein and Feisal acquiesced.—Hunter-Miller, XIV, 230.
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Mecca newspaper.—
Al Qibla
, March 23, 1918.
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Weizmann meeting with Feisal.—
Trial and Error
, chap. 21.
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Feisal-Weizmann agreement. — Text published in the
Times
(London), June 10, 1936.
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Feisal letter to Americans.—
Tria I and Error
, p. 246.
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Ormsby-Gore in Parliament, speaking as colonial secretary.—Commons debate on Partition, July 21, 1937.
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Lloyd George and C. P.
Scott—War Memoirs
, II, 48.
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Allenby on Weizmann.—Speech at dedication of Hebrew University, reported in
New Palestine
, April 8, 1925.
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Balfour, “You may get your Jerusalem …
“—Trial and Error
, p. 152.
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Times
, “imaginative nervousness.”—Article May 29, 1917 on controversy provoked by Alexander-Montefiore letter.
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Curzon’s position.—Ronaldshay, III, 156–61.
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Sykes to Lord Robert Cecil.—Leslie.
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Shaw explains the English.—From his play,
The Man of Destiny
.
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One of Chamberlain’s biographers.—S. H. Jeyes,
Life of Chamberlain
, p. 256.
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Lord Cromer.—
Modern Egypt
, New York, 1908, II, 109.
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Lloyd George’s reasons.—
Memoirs of the Peace Conference
, II, 726 and chap. XXIII, passim.
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Churchill, “Hardly any step.…”—Commons debate on the MacDonald White Paper, May 23, 1939.
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Lord Mayor of Manchester, Cecil, Sykes, and Dr. Gaster.—All quotations are from speeches made at the London Opera House celebration of the Balfour Declaration on December 2, 1917.
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Lord Snell.—Debate in Lords on White Paper, 1939.
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Cabinet meeting on “tutelar power.”—Ronaldshay, III, 262–65.
Also
Lloyd George,
Memoirs of the Peace Conference
, II, 739–43.
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Weizmann testimony at Supreme Council.—
Trial and Error
, p. 244. Lloyd George,
Ibid.
, II, 748.
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American mission.—The King-Crane mission, Hunter-Miller, XVI, 461.
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Permanent Mandates Commission member quoted.—
Minutes of the 17th Session
, June 3–21, 1930. Official No. C 355, M 147, 1930, VI.
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Economist.—
March 1936.
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Leopold Amery.—Letter to the
Times
, May 14, 1948.
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Balfour, Lloyd George, and Smuts on meaning of National Home.—
Peel Report
, pp. 24–25.
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Churchill in press article.—
Illustrated Sunday Herald
, February 8, 1920.
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Churchill, “This is the end of the vision.…”—Commons debate on the MacDonald White Paper, May 23, 1939.
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Leopold Amery, “We decamp ignominiously.…”—Letter to the
Times
, May 14, 1948.
B
ARBARA
W. T
UCHMAN
achieved prominence as a historian with
The Zimmermann Telegram
and international fame with
The Guns of August
, a huge best-seller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. There followed five more books:
The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China
(also awarded the Pulitzer Prize),
A Distant Mirror, Practicing History
, a collection of essays, and
The March of Folly. The First Salute
was Mrs. Tuchman’s last book before her death in February 1989.