Hardinge of Penshurst: A Study in the Old Diplomacy

400 Pages·1980·14.309 MB·English

by  Briton Cooper Busch

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Hardinge of Penshurst

Hardinge of Penshurst
A Study in the Old Diplomacy
by
Briton Cooper Busch
The Conference on British Studies
biography Series
Volume I, New Series
Published for the Conference on British Studies and Indiana
University at South Bend by Archon Books
1980
Archon Books
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Busch, Briton Cooper.
Hardinge of Penshurst.
(Biography series; v. 1)
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Hardinge, Charles Hardinge, Baron, 1858-1944.
2. Great Britain—Foreign relations—1901-1910.
3. Great Britain—Foreign relations—1910-1936.
4. Diplomats—Great Britain—Biography. 5. Viceroys—
India—Biography. I. Title. II. Series: Biography
series (New York); v. 1.
DA566.9.H29B87 327.2’092’4 [B] 80-16537
ISBN 0-208-01830-1
All rights reserved
First published 1980 as an Archon Book,
an imprint of The Shoe String Press, Inc.,
Hamden, Connecticut 06514
©Briton Cooper Busch 1980
Printed in the United States of America
Contents
List of Illustrations 6
Series Preface 7
Introduction
9
I Making of a Diplomat 13
II Royal Road to Success 43
III The Russo-Japanese War 73
IV Triple Entente 99
V Triple Alliance 129
VI The Delhi Durbar 163
VII Last of the Old Raj 191
VIII India and the War 223
IX The Foreign Office and the War 251
X Paris and Retirement 283
Abbreviations Used in Notes 317
Notes 318
Select Bibliography 357
Index 368
List of Illustrations
Hardinge of Penshurst frontispiece
Third secretary in Constantinople facing 160
Winifred, Diamond, Alec, and Edd
House party at Sandringham
Reval, 1908
King George V and Queen Mary leaving Delhi
King George V and Lord Hardinge
Viceregal splendor: Hardinge’s record tiger
Delhi before the bomb
Delhi after the bomb
Ambassador Hardinge receives Lloyd George
Lord Hardinge in retirement
Map of Delhi 205