1. Erik Goldstein Winning the Peace: British Diplomatic Strategy, Peace Planning and the Paris Peace Conference 1916–1920 (Oxford, 1991) p. 98.
2. Harold Nicolson Peacemaking 1919 (Constable, 1937) p. 26.
3. Goldstein Winning the Peace pp. 279–86. M.L. Dockrill and Zara Steiner The Foreign Office at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 International History Review vol. 11 no. 1 January 1980 pp. 55–86 take a generally pessimistic view of Foreign Office influence but provide some good examples of the parts played, particularly by junior diplomats, and are fierce in their defence of Crowe. So are Sibyl Crowe and Edward Corp Our Ablest Public Servant: Sir Eyre Crowe 1864–1925 (Merlin Books, 1993) pp. 366–73. They also support the role of the Office p. 322.
4. Blanche E.C. Dugdale Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour 2 vols., vol 2 (Hutchinson and Co. 1936) p. 200. Antony Lentin The Treaty That Never Was: Lloyd George and the Abortive Anglo-French Alliance of 1919, in
5. Judith Loades (ed.) The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (Headstart History, 1991) pp. 117–18 and n4. Dockrill and Steiner The Foreign Office at the Paris Peace Conference, pp. 67–8.