The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire (55 page)

1
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre,
O Jerusalem!
(Simon and Schuster, 2007), p. 197.

2
John Glubb,
Into Battle: A Soldier's Diary of the Great War
(Cassell, 1978), p. 186.

3
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb,
War in the Desert: An RAF Frontier Campaign
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1960), p. 94.

4
Trevor Royle,
Glubb Pasha: The Life and Times of Sir John Bagot Glubb, Commander of the Arab Legion
(Little, Brown and Company, 1992), p. 137.

5
Ibid., pp. 213–14.

6
Ibid., p. 209.

7
Ibid., pp. 201–02.

8
Ibid., p. 271.

9
Ibid., p. 268.

10
Collins and Lapierre, op. cit., p. 197.

11
Sir John Bagot Glubb,
A Soldier with the Arabs
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1957), p. 5.

1
The Dutch East India Company and the Swedes had also shown some interest in Australia, but the former thought it likely to be unprofitable and the latter's plans never left the drawing board.

2
Marjorie Barnard,
A History of Australia
(Frederick A. Praeger, 1966), p. 69.

3
Voting rights for Aborigines similarly varied by colony.

4
New Zealand was not far behind with a casualty rate of 59 percent, compared to 51 percent for Britain and 50 percent for Canada. These figures come from Frank G. Clarke,
The History of Australia
(Greenwood Press, 2002), p. 109.

5
Barnard, op. cit., p. 510.

6
Clifford Kinvig,
Scapegoat: General Percival of Singapore
(Brassey's, 1996), p. 2.

7
Technically the
Repulse
was a battlecruiser and the
Prince of Wales
a battleship.

8
Jeremy Black,
A Military History of Britain: From 1775 to the Present
(Praeger Security International, 2006), p. 137.

9
John H. Chambers,
A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands
(Interlink Books, 2004), p. 227, an excellent book for students who would like to learn more about the area.

10
Robert Andre LeFleur,
China
(ABC-CLIO, 2010), p. 354.

11
James Morris,
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
(The Folio Society, 1992), p. 114.

12
Ibid.

13
Noel Barber,
The War of the Running Dogs: How Malaya Defeated the Communist Guerrillas, 1948–1960
(Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2004), p. 323.

1
G. M. Trevelyan,
British History in the Nineteenth Century
(Forgotten Books, 2010), pp. 139–40.

2
Maurice Collins,
Raffles
(John Day Company, 1968), p. 45.

3
Ibid., p. 125.

4
Lady Raffles,
Memoir of the Life and Public Service of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
(James Duncan, London, 1835), vol. II, p. 54.

5
Geoffrey Treasure,
Who's Who in Late Hanoverian Britain
(Shepheard-Walwyn, 1997), p. 196.

6
A shipwreck, among other hindrances, got in the way.

7
Steven Runciman,
The White Rajahs: A History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946
(Cambridge University Press, 2009), p. 51.

8
Nigel Barley,
White Rajah: A Biography of Sir James Brooke
(Abacus, 2009), p. 32.

9
Ibid., p. 59.

10
Brunei became a formal British protectorate in 1888; it achieved full independence in 1984. Labuan became a Crown Colony in 1848 and became part of Malaysia in 1963.

1
From Blamey's remarks accepting the surrender of the Japanese 2nd Army at Morotai, Indonesia, 9 September 1945.

2
Australia had only recently formed a national army; previously each Australian state had its own defense forces.

3
D. M. Horner, “Blamey and MacArthur: The Problem of Coalition Warfare,” in William M. Leary, ed.,
We Shall Return!: MacArthur's Commanders and the Defeat of Japan
(The University of Kentucky Press, 2004), p. 24.

4
Ibid.

5
John Heatherington,
Blamey: The Biography of Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey
(F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1954), p. 88.

6
Ibid., p. 143.

7
Robert Leckie,
Delivered from Evil: The Saga of World War II
(Perennial Library, 1988), p. 462.

8
Excerpted from Blamey's speech accepting the surrender of the Japanese 2nd Army at Morotai, Indonesia, 9 September 1945.

9
Heatherington, op. cit., p. 233.

1
Margaret Shennan,
Out in the Midday Sun: The British in Malaya, 1880–1960
(John Murray, 2000), p. 319.

2
John Cloake,
Templer: Tiger of Malaya
(Harrap, 1985), p. 15.

3
Ibid., p. 29.

4
Max Hastings,
Winston's War: Churchill, 1940–45
(Knopf, 2010), p. 364.

5
Cloake, op. cit., p. 167.

6
Shennan, op. cit., p. 321.

7
Templer organized the Ibans into the Sarawak Rangers. See Cloake, op. cit., p. 247.

8
Harry Miller,
Menace in Malaya
(Harrap, 1954), pp. 208–09.

9
Noel Barber,
The War of the Running Dogs: How Malaya Defeated the Communist Guerrillas, 1948–1960
(Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2004), p. 244
.

1
See Anthony Montague Brown,
Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill's Last Private Secretary
(Indigo, 1996), pp. 302–03.

2
Richard Toye,
Churchill's Empire: The World that Made Him and the World He Made
(Macmillan, 2010), p. 120.

3
Winston S. Churchill,
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
(Fontana, 1985), p. 12.

4
Ibid., pp. 66–67.

5
Winston S. Churchill,
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War
(Seven Treasures Publications, 2009), p. 95.

6
Churchill used this phrase in a speech in 1897. Toye, op. cit., p. 5.

7
It was seditious Hindus he had in mind when he once burst out, “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.” Quoted in Barnes, John and Nicholson, David, eds.,
Empire at Bay: The Leo Amery Diaries 1929-1945
(Hutchinson, 1988), p. 832. Outbursts like this have been used to make the case that Churchill was somehow culpable for the Bengali Famine of 1943. But while Churchill might at first have been dismissive of reports of famine in Bengal—blaming it on Indian incompetence—and annoyed by requests for the diversion of wartime resources to deal with the disaster, it is clear that Churchill himself eventually realized that strong action had to be taken to mitigate a famine of catastrophic scale, which the British were already trying to alleviate. The cause of the famine was not Churchill or the British Raj, of course, but a combination of natural disaster and the Japanese occupation of Burma, from which Bengal previously received much of its rice.

8
Richard Langworth, ed.,
Churchill by Himself: The Definitive List of Quotations
(Public Affairs, 2008), p. 143.

9
Toye, op. cit., p. 145.

10
Norman Rose,
Churchill: The Unruly Giant
(The Free Press, 1994), p. 208; Churchill insisted he was “what I always have been—a Tory Democrat,” or someone “conservative in principle but liberal in sympathy.”

11
Robert Nisbet,
Roosevelt and Stalin: The Failed Courtship
(Regnery, 1988), p. 48.

12
Sir Arthur Bryant,
Triumph in the West: Based on the Diaries of Lord Alan-brooke
(Collins, 1959), p. 304.

13
See Nisbet, op. cit., pp. 100–01.

14
Toye, op. cit., p. 192.

15
An excellent book on this is Robin Neillands,
A Fighting Retreat: The British Empire, 1947–97
(Coronet Books, 1997).

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Brunei

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Burma–83, 185, 192, 340, 353

Burton, Sir Richard Francis

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“End of the Beginning” speech

Lament of

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Collet, Philibert

Collins, Larry

Collins, Michael

colonialism

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anti-Communism

“hearts and minds” campaign

Company, John

Comte de Rochambeau

Concert of Europe