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Green Wood Gate, Ashdown Forrest,
Sussex, England.
July 14, 1919.
I have written nothing in the diary since the day after the signing of
the Peace Treaty at Versailles.
What I have done since is: I motored to Boulogne on Sunday afternoon,
June 29th, spent the night there and crossed the Channel on Monday the 30th
and came directly to this place to visit my friend, Frank Trumbull of New York.
I went almost immediately to London to get in touch with Sunderland House, the
temporary home of the League of Nations.
On Saturday, July 5th, I motored down to Ichens Abbas near Winchester
to visit Edward Grey. He has a cottage there which he uses as a fishing lodge
when he wishes to be in seclusion. It is a <sic>primative</sic> place, nothing more than
a "shack" but covered with roses and surrounded by beautiful lime trees. He
has no room for guests, but puts them up at "The Plow" a near-by inn.
We had many long and intimate talks. At last we were able to say "the
war is over". He told me many things which were of interest because they bore
directly or indirectly upon some of the happenings in Paris, and some of the
English public men who had to do with the making of the Treaty. It was inter-
esting to hear him say that Lloyd George and Winston Churchill were the only
two members of the British Cabinet before the war who were persistently against
increasing armaments either by land or sea.
Another interesting thing he told me was that when he was in the Cabi-
net as Minister for Foreign Affairs, there was never a thought of competing with
the United States in naval armaments. The United States was never taken into
consideration when "two keels for one" was the policy regarding other countries.
He said they did not fear war with the United States, and they did not wish to
compete with us because they realized that we could beat them, having more money
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Green Wood Gate, Ashdown Forrest,
Sussex, England.
July 14, 1919.
I have written nothing in the diary since the day after the signing of
the Peace Treaty at Versailles.
What I have done since is: I motored to Boulogne on Sunday afternoon,
June 29th, spent the night there and crossed the Channel on Monday the 30th
and came directly to this place to visit my friend, Frank Trumbull of New York.
I went almost immediately to London to get in touch with Sunderland House, the
temporary home of the League of Nations.
On Saturday, July 5th, I motored down to Ichens Abbas near Winchester
to visit Edward Grey. He has a cottage there which he uses as a fishing lodge
when he wishes to be in seclusion. It is a |
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