User talk:Lord Milner/sandbox/Lord Milner's Life Timeline

Unverified claims

Author Hochschild says:

• 23 Jan 97: Alfred records in his diary, "to Brixton...to see C." [Packenham references LM's papers of 23 Jan 97, and says he left for South Africa two days later. However, Alfred left three months later, on 17 April. [unverified, keep in talk]
• October 1901: Alfred used his influence to prevent Emily Hobhouse from entering into South Africa; she was forced home on a troopship. (pg. 37) [unverified, keep in talk]
• June/July 1916: Emily Hobhouse travelled to Berlin, she met with the German Foreign Minister, and returned to England (29 June) with suggestions of prisoner exchanges and a peace treaty where Germany would return Alsace and Lorraine. She spoke with many people, including Alfred, but was ignored. Meeting with the enemy was not a crime, but Parliament made it a crime after her trip. (pgs. 218-219) Hobhouse's activities made a lasting mark on Stephen Hobhouse, the son of her cousin. Stephen became a Quaker, he forfeited an inheritance, he refused the draft in 1916, and was sent to prison. (pg. 221) [part of this was used, but the rest is irrelevant. It's worth holding on to]
• As a member of the new War Cabinet, Alfred received word from a Ministry of Munitions intel unit that workers were unhappy and might strike. (pg. 249) [can't find the date, keep]
• Spring 1919: The author says Violet Cecil was often in Paris during the peace negotiations because of Alfred, and they visited Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau. (pg. 356)[unverified, keep in talk]
• Alfred made 7 trips to France during the Paris Peace talks. (pg. 357)[unverified, I know of only 5; keep in talk]
• 22 Jun 22: The author says Alfred rushed to the aide of Henry Wilson's widow the day he was assassinated. (pg. 361)[unverified, keep in talk]

From "Passchendaele, The Unknown Story", by Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson, New Haven: Yale, 1996

• 19 Jun 17: Alfred said it would be worth the loss to Britain of half a million soldiers if the Belgian coast was taken from the Germans. (pg. 39) [unverified WPC minutes; keep in talk]

From "Lord Riddle's Intimate Diary of the Peace Conference"

• 1, 2 March 19: David Lloyd George tells George Riddle that Walton Heath will become historic, that the unified command was settled there between himself, General's Wilson & Haig, and Lord Milner. pg. 27

From unknown sources:

• 14 Jul 18: Maurice Hanky drafted a letter for Lloyd George, to be sent to Georges Clemenceau, that said Lloyd George unified the chain of command. The letter may have been sent, but I can't find a copy of it.

• Post 1932: Germans desecrate the graves of Alfred's mother and father.

• Post 1938: Violet says the Third Reich counterfeited papers of Alfreds.