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Northcliffe came in and then General Bliss, M. Lavisse, Will Irwin and others.
I have no time to relate their business but it was all comparatively unimportant.
Lord Reading called after lunch to discuss some details to tomorrow's conference
I congratulated him over being made an Earl. He was good enough to say that I
was largely responsible for it.
I went to the Foreign Office at six o'clock. Lloyd George, Balfour, Orlando,
Sonnino, Clemenceau and Pichon were present at the meeting. We discussed the
procedure for tomorrow's conference. M. Pichon had a protocol arranged which
did not seem to me at all practicable. I made a <del>different</del> suggestion for some-
thing different which Balfour enthusiastically supported and to which Sonnino
agreed, and it was finally decided upon.
I thought that at all our meetings we should be cordial and sympathetic
to the delegates from the smaller countries and try to make them feel that we
were deeply concerned in their welfare.
Pichon thought committees could be formed by tomorrow afternoon. I
replied that our members on the committees could be selected within ten minutes
after I returned to the hotel.
I took Balfour back to the Crillon, and he put Sir Eric Drummond in
touch with Gordon, and in a few minutes he and Drummond had the committees ar-
ranged.
The London Times of yesterday in a long editorial says:
"The attendance of a representative of the United States distinguishes this
conference from all which have preceded <del/> it. The presence of Colonel House at
a gathering of European statesmen convening to decided the most vital problems
of the world war, is an immense event in the history of mankind."
We dined with Mr. and Mrs. James Hazen Hyde. There were seventeen pres-
ent. If I had known the dinner was to have been so large I should have de-
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Northcliffe came in and then General Bliss, M. Lavisse, Will Irwin and others.
I have no time to relate their business but it was all comparatively unimportant.
Lord Reading called after lunch to discuss some details to tomorrow's conference
I congratulated him over being made an Earl. He was good enough to say that I
was largely responsible for it.
I went to the Foreign Office at six o'clock. Lloyd George, Balfour, Orlando,
Sonnino, Clemenceau and Pichon were present at the meeting. We discussed the
procedure for tomorrow's conference. M. Pichon had a protocol arranged which
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