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that are moderate and that will appeal to moderate minds in all countries. He
<add>specifically</add> set forth five or six things he thought necessary to be done and, strangely
enough, conservative that he is, we scarcely disagreed at all. A more liberal
sea policy, bordering on my plan for the freedom of the seas, which indeed, he
was good enough to say he had obtained from me during my last visit here. He
thought it would be necessary to give Germany an assurance as to our future
economic policy which would not in any way restrict German trade. He was mo-
derate in all his ideas and, if I have time, I shall see him again and try to
use his influence to bring about a more rational sentiment.
Lansdowne is a great gentleman. He has what Grey and Balfour have and
yet something more. Not in intellect, not in character, <add>not from <del/> having for a background an ancient and distinguished lineage</add> but in manner and
that intangible, indefinable air which comes <del/> <add><gap reason=�illegible�></add>
November 15, 1917.
Wiseman and I decided this morning to read the riot act to Mr. Lloyd
George. He told someone yesterday that he did not believe he would go to
the Paris Conference. Wiseman and I believe he will. I asked Wiseman to
ring up Lord Northcliffe and tell him if Lloyd George did not go to the Con-
ference I would not go myself and I would advise the French Government to call
it off. I asked him to say to Northcliffe that if this were done, it would
have a disastrous effect throughout the Allied countries and would exhilarate
Germany.
George, upon the impulse of the moment, has created the Supreme War
Council and now he does not think it necessary to have the main conference. He
is mistaken, and I shall insist upon it going through as scheduled, not indeed,
for what it may do in its deliberations, but for its moral effect.
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