1. H. Spenser Wilkinson, Thiry-Five Years (London,1933), PP. 189–94.
2. A.J. Marder, British Naval Policy 1800–1905 (London, 1940), p. 12.
3. H. F. Wyatt and L. G. H. Horton-Smith, The Passing of the Great Fleet (London, 1909), p. 213.
4. G. F. Shee, The Briton’s First Duty (London, 1901), pp. 62, 124, 181.
5. For a fuller account of the National Service League, see A. Summers, ‘British Militarism before the Great War’, History Workshop, 2 (Autumn 1976).