1. Thomas Jones, Whitehall Diary Volume 1: 1916–1925, ed. Keith Middlemas (London: Oxford University Press, 1960), p. 266 (diary entry; 22 January 1924).
2. Donald Sassoon, One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century (New York: The New Press, 1996), ch. 2.
3. Interview with John Fisher (grandson of Andrew Fisher 1862–1928, Prime Minister of Australia in 1908, 1910–13, 1914–15 and a minister in the world’s first Labour government in 1899), University of Sydney, 21 November 2003. For a photograph of Andrew and Margaret Fisher with Ramsay and Margaret MacDonald with their daughter Joan in 1911, see David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald (London: Jonathan Cape, 1977), between pp. 352 and 353.
4. Robert Rhodes James (ed.), Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 18971963, Vol. HI: 1914–1922 (New York and London: Chelsea House in association with R. R. Bowker, 1974), p. 2921.
5. Harold Nicolson, King George V: His Life and Reign (London: Constable, 1984), p. 384.