ABSTRACT
The New Easterners of the war period, Leopold Amery leading the way, gave up to the congenial task of designing the revived, and greatly expanded empire which they confidently trusted was about to emerge. Scattered from Baku to Salonika was a remnant of 34,857 men organised in the Black Sea Army. Dunsterville's Armenian allies had already reaped the reward of failure in an ethnic war. The interventions in the south, as in Siberia and the north, had been entirely barren; except, for the fact that irreparable damage had been done to the fabric of Britain's relations with both the emergent Soviet Union and Persia. The Habsburg Empire had collapsed before the end of the war in Europe; the 1917 Russian Revolution had resulted in the break-up of the Russian empire. Lloyd George with Wilson and their allies mounted their country on the tigers they had called into being.
