this page Permanent Mandates Commission member quoted.—Minutes of the 17th Session, June 3–21, 1930. Official No. C 355, M 147, 1930, VI.
this page Economist.—March 1936.
this page Leopold Amery.—Letter to the Times, May 14, 1948.
this page Balfour, Lloyd George, and Smuts on meaning of National Home.—Peel Report, pp. 24–25.
this page Churchill in press article.—Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 8, 1920.
NOTES TO THE POSTSCRIPT
this page Churchill, “This is the end of the vision.…”—Commons debate on the MacDonald White Paper, May 23, 1939.
this page Leopold Amery, “We decamp ignominiously.…”—Letter to the Times, May 14, 1948.
About the Author
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August, a huge best-seller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. There followed five more books: The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, a collection of essays, and The March of Folly. The First Salute was Mrs. Tuchman’s last book before her death in February 1989.