ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I DESIRE TO RECORD MY THANKS AGAIN TO MR F. W.
DEAKIN AND Mr G. M. Young for their assistance before the Second
World War in the preparation of this work; to Professor Asa Briggs
of Leeds University, to Mr Maldwyn A. Jones of Manchester
University, and to Mr Maurice Shock of University College, Oxford,
who have since helped in its completion; and to Mr Alan Hodge, Mr
Denis Kelly, Mr Anthony Montague Browne and Mr C. C. Wood. I have
also to thank many others who have kindly read these pages and
commented upon them.
For permission to include a quotation from The
Oxford History of the United States acknowledgment is due to
the Oxford University Press.