THINGS THAT PLEASE ME
“I have culled a Garland of Flowers--
Mine is the string that binds them.”
* * * * *
Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive
Officiously to keep alive!
(When catching Submarines).
* * * * *
Seest thou a man diligent in business--he shall stand before Kings--he
shall not stand before mean men.
* * * * *
God who cannot be unjust,
Heedeth all who on Him trust.
Them who call on Him for aid,
Anguish shall not make afraid.
Trust him then in life. In death
He can give thee Living Breath!
After death the Life now thine
He can make the Life Divine.
* * * * *
I never bother to bother about anyone who doesn’t bother to bother
about me!
* * * * *
[Illustration:
[_Portrait by J. Mallia & Co., Valetta._
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET, 1899–1902.]
“Put on the impenetrable armour of contempt and
fortitude.”
* * * * *
When danger threatens and the foeman nigh,
“_God and our Navy!_” is the Nation’s cry.
_But_, the danger over and the Country righted,
God is forgotten and the Sailor slighted.
* * * * *
Never fight a Chimney Sweep; some of the soot comes off on you.
* * * * *
Pas de Culte sans mystère.
* * * * *
Ode to an Apple--
Newton saw an apple fall,
Eve an apple did enthral;
It played the devil with us all,
The Devil making Eve to fall.
* * * * *
“Liberty of Conscience” means doing wrong but not worrying about it
afterwards.
* * * * *
“Tact” is insulting a man without his knowing it.
* * * * *
Even a man’s faults may reflect his virtues.
* * * * *
Sincerity is the road to Heaven.
* * * * *
I thought it would be a good thing to be a missionary, but I thought it
would be better to be First Sea Lord.
* * * * *
Think in Oceans--shoot at sight.
* * * * *
Big conceptions and Quick Decisions.
* * * * *
Napoleonic in Audacity.
Cromwellian in Thoroughness.
Nelsonic in Execution.
* * * * *
“Surprise” the pith and marrow of war!
* * * * *
Audacity and Imagination beget surprise.
* * * * *
Rashness in war is Prudence.
* * * * *
Prudence in war is Imbecility.
* * * * *
Hit first! Hit hard! Keep on hitting!! (The 3 H’s).
* * * * *
The 3 Requisites for Success--Ruthless, Relentless, Remorseless (The 3
R’s).
* * * * *
BUSINESS--Call on a Business man in Business hours only on Business.
Transact your Business and go about your Business, in order to give him
time to finish his Business, and you time to mind your own Business. [I
had this printed on cards, one of which was handed to every caller on
me at the Admiralty.]
* * * * *
The Nelsonic Attributes--
(_a_) Self Reliance.
(_b_) Power of Initiative.
(_c_) Fearlessness of Responsibility.
(_d_) Fertility of Resource.
* * * * *
Originality never yet led to Preferment.
* * * * *
Mediocrity is the Road to Honour.
* * * * *
Repetition is the Soul of Journalism.
* * * * *
No difficulty baffles great zeal.
* * * * *
The Pavement of Life is strewn with Orange Peel.
* * * * *
Inconsistency is the bugbear of Silly Asses.
* * * * *
Never Deny: Never Explain: Never Apologise.
* * * * *
“To defy Power that seems omnipotent ...
Never to change, nor falter, nor repent.”
(SHELLEY.)
* * * * *
Cardinal Rampolla got his Hat at a younger age than any preceding
Cardinal. Asked to account for his phenomenal success, he
replied:--It’s due to 3 things:
{ asked for }
I never { refused } anything.
{ resigned }
* * * * *
The best scale for an experiment is 12 inches to a foot.
* * * * *
Dread Nought is over 80 times in the Bible (“Fear Not”). So I took as
my motto “Fear God and Dread Nought.”
* * * * *
Moltke wrote as follows:
“A clever military leader will succeed in many cases in choosing
defensive positions of such an offensive nature from a strategic
point of view that the opponent is compelled to attack us in them.”
* * * * *
In looking through a packet of ancient papers I find some youthful
thoughts of my own and some others which evidently I thought very
choice.
“Anything said before a lecture muddles it.”
“Anything after weakens it!”
* * * * *
“There is nothing you can’t have if you want it enough.”
* * * * *
The following extract is from Blake:
“He who bends to himself a joy,
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity’s Sunrise.”
* * * * *
Dean Swift satirized the vulgar exclusiveness of those who desired the
infinite meadows of Heaven only to be frequented by the religious sect
they adorned on earth:
“We are God’s chosen few!
All others will be damned!
There is no place in Heaven for you,
We can’t have Heaven crammed!”
* * * * *
Lord Dalling (Sir Henry Bulwer) codified his life in axioms and
phrases. His intimate friend, Sir Drummond Wolff, says so. (By the way,
Wolff’s father was a marvellous Bible scholar. I heard him preach the
sermon of my life: it was extempore, on “The Resurrection.” A great
friend of his told me that Wolff did really know the Bible by heart.)
These are Lord Dalling’s sayings; he quotes Talleyrand for one of his
rules of life:
“Acknowledge the receipt of a book from the author at once: this
relieves you of the necessity of saying whether you have read it.”
Again this is excellent:
“You cannot do anyone more good than by trying unsuccessfully to
do him an injury.” (Mr. Labouchere gave me the same reason for
attacking me in his paper _Truth_.)
“Nothing is so foolish as to be wise out of season.”
“The best trait in a man’s character is an anxiety to serve those
who have obliged him once and can do so no more.”
* * * * *
Nelson’s Ipsissima Verba.
“Do not imagine I am one of those hot-brained people who fight at
an immense disadvantage without an adequate object ... in a week’s
time I shall get reinforcements and the enemy will get none, and
then I must annihilate him.”
It was not “Victory” that Nelson ever desired. It was “Annihilation!”
* * * * *
Moses, Gideon and Cromwell.
Moses and Gideon were each of them summoned straight from their simple
daily task to go and help their fellow countrymen, and both were able
to perform the task allotted to them in spite of their first great
doubts of their fitness for the work. The figure of Moses looms through
the Ages as gigantic as the Pyramids, and nearer home and in a lesser
sphere stands our English Cromwell, the Great Protector!
“I would have been glad,” said Cromwell, “to have lived on my woodside
or kept a flock of sheep rather than have undertaken a government like
this.” And yet in the end he had undertaken it because he said he “had
hoped he might prevent some imminent evil.”
* * * * *
Suffragettes.
The nine Muses were all women.
The three Graces were all women.
* * * * *
A great philosopher has stated that a woman can be classed under two
categories:
1. A mother, a mistress and a friend; or,
2. A comrade and queen and child.
A woman is really rooted in physical reality, and all the above six
attributes of the philosopher always live in her.
Thus the Song of Solomon produced a passionate commodity, but it
required the Mary Magdalene of the Gospel to express the _summum bonum_
of a woman of “Greatly Loving.”
In the first prayer book of A.D. 1549 there was a Collect for her! No
other woman had a Collect except the Virgin Mary.
Emotion, self-surrender, selflessness, immortal courage, wondrous
physical beauty! Mary Magdalene was a great human reality. It is quite
obvious she was no debauchee or her Beauty would have failed, nor could
she have been a “hardened” sinner or she would have scoffed!
What was her history? What caused her lapse? Who was her Betrayer?
“Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much. Verily I
say unto you, Wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in the whole
world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a
memorial of her.”
And is it not very striking that St. Peter, who dictated St. Mark’s
Gospel, records in the 16th chapter, verse 9, of St. Mark, that the
first person in the world to whom the Saviour showed Himself after His
Resurrection was Mary Magdalene?
“Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, He appeared
_first_ to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. And
she went and told them that had been with Him as they mourned and
wept. And they, when they heard that He was alive and had been seen of
her, believed not.”
* * * * *
A Sun-Dial that I Love.
Que Dieu éclaire les heures que je perds.
(May God light up the hours that I fail to light.)
* * * * *
Though hidden yet from all our eyes,
He sees the Gideon who shall rise
To save us and His sword.
EPILOGUE
MOUNT PISGAH
It is stated that the historian, Lecky, O.M. (I assisted at the
operation of his receiving the Order of Merit) gave more thought and
time to the book of his last years, “The Map of Life,” than to any
other of all his works, and it is said that for three years he kept on
revising the last of its chapters.
The book was derided to me by a literary friend of great eminence as
being “The Pap of Life!” I read its last chapters with great avidity.
If for nothing else, the book is worthy of immortality for the reason
that it so emphasises those great words of Dryden as being appropriate
to the close of a busied life--
“Not Heaven itself upon the past has Power,
What has been has been, and I have had my hour.”
Whenever (as I often do) I pass Dryden’s bust in Westminster Abbey I
invariably thank him for those lines.
Mr. Lecky urges his readers to leave the active scenes of life in
good time and not to “Lag superfluous on the Stage” (I believe Mr.
Gladstone recommended this also, but didn’t do it!).
To illustrate Mr. Lecky we have that great and splendid Trio of
Translation to Heaven at the very zenith of their powers. Elijah was
hurrying along (that great, hairy, weird old man) so that Elisha could
hardly keep pace with him, and he is suddenly caught up in a Chariot
of Fire to Heaven! I ask, “Was not Nelson’s leaving this earth quite a
similar glorious departure?”
“Partial firing continued until 4.30 p.m. when a victory having
been reported to Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., and
Commander-in-Chief, he THEN died of his Wound.”
Moses (with whom I am now more particularly concerned) also left this
life in a similar glorious way, for God was his companion when his
Spirit left this Earth, and it markedly is recorded of Moses that--
“His eye was not dim,
Nor his natural force abated!”
Mr. Lecky doesn’t quote my three men above. I consider them superior to
Noah, Daniel and Job, who are the three named in Scripture as being so
dear to the pious man. Ezekiel, chapter xiv., verse 14.
I reiterate that the advice of the derided Lecky seems to me excellent,
to leave active life at one’s zenith, and thus anticipate senility.
The Archbishop of Seville is a lovely story by Cervantes. All Spain
came to hear him preach. Indeed he had to preach every day, the crowds
were so great, and he said to his faithful Secretary: “Tell me when
you notice me waning, for a man never knows it himself.” The Secretary
did so, and the Archbishop gave him the sack! Yes! The Archbishop had
passed the Rubicon, and this dismissal was the proof. Having this fear,
I left Office on my birthday in 1910, though for a few short months
in 1914 I enjoyed the “dusky hues of glorious war,” and exceedingly
delighted myself in those seven months in arranging a new Armada
against Germany of 612 vessels, and in sending Admiral von Spee and all
his ships to the bottom of the sea.
The following much-prized lines were sent me on the Annihilation of
Admiral von Spee’s Squadron off the Falkland Islands on December 8th,
1914. He had sunk Admiral Cradock’s Squadron five weeks before. The
“Dreadnought” Battle Cruisers, “Inflexible” and “Invincible,” sent
to sink von Spee, made a passage of 14,000 miles without a hitch and
arrived just a few hours before von Spee. It was a timely arrangement:--
From the President of Magdalen College, Oxford, Sir Herbert Warren
(Professor of Poetry).
Merserat Ex-spe Spem, rediit spes, mergitur Ex-spes.
“Von Spee sent the ‘Good Hope’ to the bottom: hope revived; he is
sunk himself, without hope.”
From Mr. Godley, the Public Orator at Oxford University.
Hoc tibi Piscator Patria debet opus.
“Your country owes this exploit to you, O Fisher!”
But that Great Providence, that shapes our course, rough hew it how
we will, ordained my departure from the conduct of the War. Amongst
the masses of regretful letters at my departure I choose one from an
Admiral then 88 years old, who satisfies the great Dr. Weir Mitchell’s
dictum of the clear brain becoming clearer with age. This Admiral
annexed a Continent for England, abounding in riches in New Guinea; but
he got no thanks; and England gave away his gift. But his name lives
there. I conclude with his letter:--
DEAR OLD FISHER,
It is marvellous how all variations of our lives are unravelled by
Divine Inspiration that cannot err.
“No one can ‘hustle’ Providence.”
(That’s one of your sayings!)
Think of Moses!
“He was the truest warrior that ever buckled sword.
He the most gifted Poet that ever breathed a word:
And never Earth’s Philosopher traced with his golden pen,
On the Deathless Page, truths half so sage as he wrote down
for men;
Yet no man knows his sepulchre, and no man saw it e’er,
For the Angels of God up-turned the sod and laid the Dead Man
there.”
Moses saved his people. He prepared them for the conquest in which
he was to take no part. He was the meekest man on earth, yet he
could be the most ruthless!
Doubtless you saved England at the Falkland Islands.
Doubtless you prepared our Fleet for this war! (Nothing to boast
of! You the clay in the hands of the Potter!) And it seems likely
that some Joshua will reap what you have sown! Yet history will
put it right.
“O lonely grave in Moab’s land! O dark Beth-Peor’s hill!
Speak to these curious hearts of ours and teach them to be still!”
Ever faithfully yours,
(Signed) J. MORESBY.
FOOTNOTES
[1] “This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and
reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the
mark.”--_Phil._ iii. 13, 14.
[2] Sir Julian Corbett, the author of the wonderful “Seven Years’ War,”
wrote to me in past vituperative years as follows:
“Yesterday I was asked if it were _really_ true that you (Sir
John Fisher) had sold the country to Germany! I was able to assure the
questioner that the report was at least exaggerated. It is often my
fortune to be able to quiet minds that have been seriously disturbed
by the unprecedented slanders that have been the reward of your
unprecedented work.”
[3] See letters at end of this chapter.
[4] On hearing of von Tirpitz’s dismissal I perpetrated the following
letter, which a newspaper contrived to print in one of its editions. I
can’t say why, but it didn’t appear any more, nor was it copied by any
other paper!
DEAR OLD TIRPS,
We are both in the same boat! What a time we’ve been colleagues,
old boy! However, we did you in the eye over the Battle Cruisers
and I know you’ve said you’ll never forgive me for it when bang
went the “Blucher” and von Spee and all his host!
Cheer up, old chap! Say “Resurgam”! You’re the one German sailor
who understands War! Kill your enemy without being killed yourself.
_I don’t blame you for the submarine business._ I’d have done the
same myself, only our idiots in England wouldn’t believe it when I
told ’em!
Well! So long!
Yours till hell freezes, FISHER. 29/3/16.
I say! Are you sure if you had tripped out with your whole High
Sea Fleet before the Russian ice thawed and brought over those
half-a-million soldiers from Hamburg to frighten our old women that
you could have got back un-Jellicoed?
R.S.V.P.
[5] “A Naval Lieutenant, 1914–1918,” by Etienne, 1919, pp. 48 _et seq._
[6] _Note._--These are the names of the three first great Battle
Cruisers of the Dreadnought type.
[7] On January 2, 1915, Russia asked for a demonstration against the
Turks in order to relieve the pressure they were putting on the Russian
forces in the Caucasus. Next day the War Office cabled a promise,
through the Foreign Office, that this should be done. Before he sent
the cable Lord Kitchener wrote to Mr. Churchill: “The only place that a
demonstration might have some effect in stopping reinforcements going
East would be the Dardanelles.”
[8] “The dramatic scene which followed may one day furnish material
for the greatest historical picture of the war. Lord Fisher sat and
listened to the men who knew nothing about it and heard one after
another pass opinion in favour of a venture to which he was opposed. He
rose abruptly from the table and made as if to leave the room.
“The tall figure of Lord Kitchener rose and followed him. The two stood
by the window for some time in conversation and then both took their
seats again. In Lord Fisher’s own words: ‘I reluctantly gave in to Lord
Kitchener and resumed my seat.’
“Mr. Asquith saw that drama enacted, and Mr. Asquith knew that it arose
out of Lord Fisher’s opposition to the scheme under discussion. But
he allowed his colleagues on the Council to reach their conclusions
without drawing from the expert his opinion for their guidance. The
monstrous decision was therefore taken without it. But they all knew
it--such a scene could not occur without everyone knowing the cause.”
[9] It must be emphasised here, as well as in regard to Lord
Kitchener’s statement to the War Council dated May 14th, 1915, that
Lord Fisher considered that it would be both improper and unseemly for
him to enter into an altercation either at the War Council or elsewhere
with his chief Mr. Churchill, the First Lord. Silence or resignation
was the right course.
[10] This was the Armada of 612 vessels authorised by Mr. Lloyd George
as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
[11] At my entreaty a far better man went, Admiral Sir Reginald
Henderson, G.C.B. He is a splendid seaman and he devised a splendid
scheme.
[12] This was written in December, 1908, and our Fleet and ships were
always dogged in the war by them.
[13] There are statues of Franklin and of Robert Falconer Scott
in Waterloo Place; but neither of these displayed his heroism in
naval action. They were each peaceable seekers--but what on earth
good accrues from going to the North and South Poles I never could
understand--no one is going there when they can go to Monte Carlo!
[14] In the following selections, words between square brackets are not
part of the original letters.
[15] N.B.--These very motor boats here described sank two battleships
of the Bolshevists only the other day. _See_ Chapter IV.--F. 21/9/19.
[16] _Then after this came the 15-inch gun; then the 18-inch gun,
actually used at sea in the War; and then the 20-inch gun, ready to be
built and go into the “Incomparable” of 40,000 tons and 40 knots speed,
on May 22nd, 1915--F._ 21/9/19.
[17] “The New Teaching,” edited by John Adams. Hodder and Stoughton.
[18] This shows how badly advised the Navy was by the India Office, _as
under 3 feet was vital_, and the order was given accordingly.
[19] Eighteen days going through Departments.
[20] Mr. Yarrow had technical charge of the whole business and was the
sole designer--and there was no paper work whatever.
[21] All this action on the same day.
[22] All the rest of the required action taken in 4 days.
Index
A
Abdul Hamid,55;
the Pope and, 91 _et seq._, 204, 205
Aboukir Bay, French Fleet in, 161
Adalbert, Prince, 230
Adams, John, editor of “The New Teaching,” 251 _n._
Admiralty clerks and the Naval War Staff, 102 _et seq._
Aircraft, 124 _et seq._
Alcester, Lord, 140
Alexandra, Queen, 12, 20, 198, 238
Alfonso, King, 237–238, 258
Americans, 221 _et seq._
Anderson, Mr. J. W. S., 111
Angell, Mr. Norman, 126, 211
Arbuthnot, Sir R., 60
Arnold-Forster, Rt. Hon. H. O., 169–171, 179
Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., 42, 50, 58, 59, 70, 74, 196, 199
B
Bacon, Admiral Sir Reginald, 104, 128
Baddeley, Mr. V. W., 111
Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., 36, 64, 82, 182, 210
Barnaby, Sir Nathaniel, 253, 255;
letter to Lord Fisher, 256–257
Barnardo, Dr., 160
Bartolomé, Admiral Sir Charles de, 104, 270
Battenberg, Prince Louis of, 168
Beatty, Lord, 37, 40, 121
Beilby, Sir George, 116
Beit, Mr., 4, 33, 34, 182
Benbow, Admiral, 163
Bernstorff, Count von, 210
Bieberstein, Marschall von, 204, 205
Birdwood, General Sir William R., 82
Bismarck, Prince, 229
“Blücher,” sinking of the, 149–150
Booth, General, 160
Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir R. L., 218
Botha, General, 136, 263
Boys, Admiral, 168
Bridgeman, Admiral Sir Francis, 246, 247
Bridgman, Mr., 92
Bright, John, 23, 100, 223, 225–227, 256
Bristol, Marquis of, 258
Brock, Commander, at Zeebrugge, 50
Bryce, Lord, 205
Buckle, Mr., 181
Bulwer, Sir Henry, _see_ Dalling, Lord
Byron, Lord, 92, 102
C
Caillaux, M., 209
Caldwell, Major-General Sir Charles, 83, 84
Callaghan, Admiral Sir George A., 37, 39
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H., 42, 176, 182, 183, 256
Canning, Sir Stratford, 95
Carden, Admiral Sir Sackville H., 79, 82
Cartagena, 237–239
Cavendish, Lady Frederick, 260
Cawley, Lord, 56
Cervantes, 282–283
Chalmers, Dr., 153
Choate, Mr., 17
Churchill, Mr. Winston, 36, 41, 50, 52, 55–59, 63, 64, 66, 67, 71–73,
81, 124, 127, 183, 196, 198, 206, 207, 212–214, 246
Clark, Mr. Champ, 202
Clarke, Sir George, 16, 165, 169, 173, 179, 196
Clemenceau, M., 209
Corbett, Sir Julian, 2 _n._, 101
Cornwallis, Admiral, 163
Cradock, Admiral, 135, 136, 283
Crease, Captain, 104
Cromer, Lord, 56, 60, 70, 76, 94
Cromwell, Oliver, 107, 278
D
Dalling, Lord, 265, 277
“Daniell cell,” the, 140
Daniels, Mr. Josephus, 225
Dardanelles, the, 49 _et seq._
Denbigh, Lord, 10
Depew, Mr. Chauncey, 224
Dilke, Sir Charles, 16
Disraeli, 25, 101
Dogger Bank incident, the, 65, 71, 94
Dryden, 281
Dumanoir, Admiral, 162
Dundonald, Lord, 146, 163
E
Ellison, General Sir C., 165, 166
Empress Marie, 198
Esher, Lord, 5, 12;
letter to Lord Fisher, 13, 33, 34;
Lord Fisher’s letters to, 165 _et seq._
F
Falkenhayn, General von, 97
Fisher, Mr. Andrew, 61, 69
Fitzgerald, Admiral, 263
Flint, Mr., 110
Franklin, Benjamin, 163 n
Frederick the Great, 34
French, Lord, 57, 58, 69, 169, 172–174, 188
G
Gard, Mr., 122
Gardiner, Mr. A. G., 53
Garibaldi, visit of, to the “Warrior,” 150
Garvin, Mr. J. L., 187
German Emperor on Lord Fisher, 33, 182
Girouard, Sir E. P. C., 166
Gladstone, Mr., 41, 42, 244, 259, 260, 261, 282
Gladstone, Mrs., 260
Godley, Mr., 283
Goschen, Viscount, 107, 139
Grand Duke Nicholas, 52, 79
Granville, Lord, 205
Greene, Sir Graham, 111
Grey, Lord, 18, 96, 189, 190, 205
Grierson, General, 172
Guazzo, Steven, 35
H
Haddock, Commodore, 144, 145
Haig, Lord, 172
Haldane, Lord, 102, 104, 106, 209
Hall, Admiral Sir S. S., 269–271
Hall, Admiral W. H., 103
Hall, Rear-Admiral Sir William Reginald, 85
Hamilton, Sir Ian, 83, 215
Hamilton, Lady, 158
Hamilton, Lord George, 242, 243, 244
Hankey, Sir Maurice, 58, 64, 74, 194
Hanotaux, M., 187
Harcourt, Sir William Vernon, 186, 216
Hawke, Admiral Lord, 163
Hawthorne, 115
Henderson, Admiral Sir Reginald, 105 _n._
Henderson, Mr. Arthur, 47
Hertz German submarine mine the, 130, 151
Hertzog, General, 136
Hildyard, General, 169
Hindenburg, Field-Marshal von, 74, 106
Hood, Admiral Sir Horace, 104
Hood, Admiral Viscount, 60, 163
Hornby, Admiral Sir Geoffrey Phipps, 65–66, 71, 93, 228
House, Colonel, 45
Howe, Admiral, 163
Hush Hush ships, 98–101, 243, 258
I
Inge, Dean, 61
Ingenohl, Admiral von, 32
Inglefield, Admiral Sir Frederick S., 168
Ismay, Mr. 145
Isvolsky, M., 182, 187, 233
J
Jackson, Admiral Sir Henry B., 40
Jellicoe, Lord, 30, 31, 36–40, 64, 74, 105, 208–210, 270
Johnson, Abraham, 148–149
Jones, Commodore Oliver, 146
K
Kelly-Kenny, General, 174
Kelvin, Lord, 143, 193, 251 _et seq._
Kerr, Lord Walter, 140
Key, Sir Cooper, 143
Kiamil Pasha, 93, 95, 239
Kiel Canal, the, 19, 130, 131
Kiderlen-Waechter, von, 204
Kiernan, John, 147–148
King Edward, 1 _et seq._;
letter from author to, 3–4;
his tact, 5–7, 25, 51, 113, 117, 184, 186, 187, 191, 192, 198–199,
203, 207, 211, 225, 226, 232, 234, 236, 237, 260
King William, 229
Kitchener, Lord, 50, 52, 57, 59, 65, 67, 74, 79, 80, 83, 104, 105,
176, 198, 199, 241
Knollys, Sir Francis, 3, 20, 21, 171, 193
Knox, Mr. Philander, 205
Kruger, Paul, 169
Kuropatkin, M., 187
L
Labouchere, Mr. Henry, 265–267
Lambert, Mr. George, 267
Lansdowne, Lord, 82
Latimer, Bishop, 120
Law, Mr. Bonar, 82
Learmonth, Admiral, 132
Lecky, Rt. Hon. W. E. H., 281, 282
Leishman, Mr. John G. A., American Ambassador to Germany, 204, 205
Lincoln, Abraham, 261, 262
Lister, Lord, 250
Lloyd George, Mr., 55, 56, 59, 81 _n._, 131, 186, 204, 213, 215–217,
223
Loubet, President, 12, 236
Ludendorff, General von, 32, 97, 106
Lyttelton, Sir N., 65
M
McClintock, Admiral Sir Leopold, 143
McCrea, Mr., 222
Macgregor, Sir Evan, 111
McKenna, Mr. Reginald, 41, 43, 44, 62, 186, 193–197, 199–201, 206, 207
McKenna, Mrs. Reginald, 43
Mackenzie, Sir Thomas, 61–62, 70
Macnamara, Dr. T. J., 42, 44
Madden, Admiral Sir Charles, 104
Magee, Archbishop, 151
Mahan, Admiral, 5, 37, 187, 216
Maxim, Sir Hiram, 227, 228, 250
Maxse, Mr. Leo, 182
Maxwell, General, 172
Mears, Sir Grimwood, Secretary to the Dardanelles Commission, 61
Merchant Navy, the, 119–120
Milne, Mr., 139
Mitchell, Dr. Weir, 284
Moltke, Field-Marshal Count, 229, 230, 276
Moresby, Admiral J., letter to Lord Fisher, 284–285
Morgenthau, Mr. H., 84
Morley, Lord, 216, 262
Munro, General Sir Charles, 85
Murray, Mr. George, 199
Murray, Sir Oswyn, 111
N
Naples, Queen of, 158
Napoleon, 18, 44, 162, 201
Naval War Staffs and Admiralty clerks, 102 _et seq._
Nelson, 18, 25–27, 51, 66, 105, 107, 109, 111, 117, 142, 147, 158
_et seq._
Nicholson, Field-Marshal Lord, 65, 85
Nicholson, Mr. W. F., 103
Northbrook, Lord, 156, 157, 244, 245
O
O’Connell, Daniel, 260
Oldenburg, Grand Duke of, 229, 232
Olga, Grand Duchess, 231, 232;
letter to Lord Fisher, 233–234
Oliver, Admiral Sir Henry, 104
Orde, Sir John, 244
Orloff, Prince, 2, 234
P
Palmerston, Lord, 203
Parker, Sir Hyde, 66
Parsons, Sir Charles, 249
Pepys, Samuel, 111
Perrin, Mr. W. G., 111
Petersen, Mr., 119
Phillips, Mr. J. F., 111
Pitt, Mr., 18, 36, 203
Plumer, General, 32, 172, 174
Pohl, Admiral von, 29 _et seq._
Pohl, Frau von, 30–32, 105
Polsonare family, the, 152
Pope, the, and Abdul Hamid, 91 _et seq._
Probyn, Sir Dighton, 20
Q
Queen Alexandra, 12, 20, 198, 238
Queen Victoria, 156, 157
R
Rawlinson, Sir Henry, 119
Redesdale, Lord, letter to Lord Fisher, 14
Reich, Herr von, on “Dreadnoughts,” 14 _et seq._
Reid, Sir George, 199
Reval, 231 _et seq._
Rhodes, Cecil, 34, 35
Richmond, Captain, 104
Ridley, Bishop, 120
Roberts, Lord, 53, 183
Roch, Mr. W. F., 62
Rodney, Admiral, 163
Roon, Count von, 229
Roosevelt, Mr., 23
Rosebery, Lord, 27, 44, 49, 55, 138, 158, 162, 248
Rothschild, Lord, 244
Rousseau, M., 187
Rozhdestvensky, Admiral, 107
Runciman, Mr. Walter, 44
Russia, Emperor of, 191, 251
S
St. Vincent, Lord, 181
Salisbury, Lord, 94, 204
Sampson, Admiral, 225
Samuel, Mr. Herbert, 42
Samuel, Sir Marcus, 116
Sanders, Marshal Liman von, 85, 97
Scapa Flow, 31
Schreiner, Mr. G. A., 84
Schwab, Mr., 270
Schwartzhoff, Gross von, 105, 106, 212
Scott, Mr. Robert Falconer, 163 _n._
Scott, Sir Percy, 248, 249
Seely, General, 216
Selborne, Lord, 170, 245, 246
Shipbuilding, new, inaugurated by Lord Fisher, 86 _et seq._
Sinclair, Commodore Hugh Paget, 267
Slade, General F. G., 174, 175
Smith, Sir F. E., 183
Smith, Sir Thomas, 250
Smith-Dorrien, General, 169, 172, 174
Some Personalities, 242 _et seq._
Southey, 249
Special Missions, some, 229 et seq.
Spee, Admiral von, 36, 78, 135, 136, 283
Spencer, Lord, 242, 244, 245
Stead, Mr. W. T., 35, 170, 171, 197, 249, 262, 263, 264
Stolypin, M., 187, 231, 236–237
Stopford, Sir F., 172
Submarines, Lord Fisher’s Memorandum on, 88–90
Swift, Dean, 276
T
Taft, Mr., 202
Tall, Isaac, 151
Taylor, Bishop Jeremy, 114
Tennyson-D’Eyncourt, Sir Eustace, 257–259
Thomas, Mr. Holt, 125, 126
Thompson, Mr., 224
Thomson, Sir William, _see_ Kelvin, Lord
Tirpitz, Admiral von, 16, 29 _et seq._, 97, 184
Togo, Admiral, 107
Treves, Sir Frederick, 249–251
Troubridge, Sir Thomas, 155, 161
Tryon, Sir George, 146
Tweedmouth, Lord, 5
Tyrwhitt, Sir Reginald Yorke, 170
V
Villa Vieja, Marquis de, 233
W
Walker, Sir Charles, 111
Warburton, Eliot, 27
War Council Meetings, Lord Fisher’s notes of his special intervention
at, 78 _et seq._
Ward, Sir Joseph, 193
Warren, Sir Herbert, 283
Washington, George, 223, 226
Watts, Dr., 114
Watts, Sir Philip, 187, 257–259
Weymouth, Admiral, 122
White, Mr. Arnold, 263
White, Sir William, 95
Wilmot, Admiral Sir S. Eardley, letter to Lord Fisher, 129
Wilson, Mr. A. K., 199, 206
Wilson, Sir Arthur, 102, 183, 194, 195, 197, 200, 246, 247
Wilson, Mr. Havelock, 119–120
Wilson, President, 202, 222
Wolff, Sir Drummond, 277
Woolward, Captain Robert, 144
Y
Yarrow, Sir Alfred, 116, 268 _et seq._
Yelverton, Sir Hastings, 231
Z
Zeebrugge, 50, 58, 75, 79, 81, 119
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