A Higher Form of Killing (58 page)

 
“His Majesty . . .
Lusitania
”: Quoted Bailey and Ryan,
The Lusitania Disaster
, p. 320.

 
“I look . . . misery.”: Quoted MacMillan,
Peacemakers
p. 173.

 
“Charles I . . . execution.”: Quoted ibid., p. 174.

 
“The firing . . . Nations.”: Quoted Willis,
Prologue to Nuremberg
, p. 138.

 
“Who . . . today?”: Quoted MacMillan,
Peacemakers
, p. 388.

 
“Modern history . . . effect.”: Horgan,
Parnell to Pearse
, p. 276.

 
“to wither . . . hour.”: J. Terraine,
White Heat
, p. 160.

 
“psychological . . . resistance.”: F. Haber,
Funf Vortraege
, p. 37.

 
The calculations on relative losses are in Griffiths,
Battle Tactics of the Western Front
, p. 43.

 
“to do so . . . wars.”: Quoted S. Lindqvist,
A History of Bombing
, item 96, London: Granta 2001.

 
“it is a matter . . . the West.”: Quoted D. S. Richards,
The Savage Frontier
, p. 163.

 
“I do not . . . tribes.”: Churchill Papers, Churchill Archive, Cambridge, 20/23/13-82 – Papers Relating to Gas Attack 1919–1920.

 
“Special sprayers . . . fell.”: Quoted K. Coleman,
A History of Chemical Warfare
, p. 47.

 
“weapons of mass destruction”: Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Gordon Lang.
The Times
(London) in an article headed “Archbishop’s Appeal,” December 28, 1937.

 
“The man . . . through.”: Quoted Grayling,
Among the Dead Cities
, p. 148.

 
“bombing . . . 1914–18”: Sir A. Harris,
Bomber Offensive
, p. 176.

“that psychological . . . released.”: Meeting of the Target Committee for the atomic bomb, May 10–11, 1945, MED file 5D roll 1 M1109, NARA.

 
“under . . . boulder.”: Quoted Charles,
Between Genius and Genocide
, p. 204.

 
“When D-Day . . . there.”: Quoted Harris and Paxman,
A Higher Form of Killing
, p. 63.

 
“I want you . . . women.”: PREM 3/89.

 
we should gas japan: This and other newspaper headlines are quoted in Harris and Paxman,
A Higher Form of Killing
, p. 118.

 
“It has . . . humanity.”: Attributed to Einstein, “The Quotable Einstein,” ed. A. Calaprice.

APPENDIX—THE
LUSITANIA
CONTROVERSIES

 
“That story . . . disposed of.”: Mayer (T). Judge Mayer’s Opinion . . . straightjacket”: The quotes in these two paragraphs are from Mayer (O).

 
“it is most important . . . USA with Germany.”: Churchill to Runciman, February 12, 1915, Runciman papers and Gilbert,
Churchill,
companion volume 3, p. 501.

 
“England . . . bring on trouble.”: The kaiser’s comments are reported in Ambassador Gerard’s telegram to the State Department, May 6, 1916,
Foreign Relations of
the U.S. 1916 Supplement
, p. 260.

 
The
U-27
’s war diary is in file RM97-680, German military archive, Freiburg.

 
The
U-20
’s war diary is in file RM97-578 German military archive, Freiburg.

 
Michael Byrne’s comments about his search of the ship are in his letter of June 1915 to Secretary of State Bryan, NARA.

 
The information about Canadian troops and about Robert Matthews is in a letter from P.A.O. Chaplin, Senior Research Officer, Directorate of History, Canadian Ministry of Defence to P. B. Ryan, 10 June 1974, Hoover Institution, supplemented by author”s own researches in the Cunard archives.

 
Dudley Field Malone’s testimony is given in Savage,
Policy of the United States,
vol. 2, pp. 333-34.

 
The supplementary cargo manifest was given out at the New York Custom House and reported in the
New York Times,
June 3, 1915, although some have claimed it was kept secret for many years.

 
The calculations about shell weight are by P. O’Sullivan and are given in his book
The Lusitania, Unravelling the Mysteries,
p. 100.

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