"I wrote a lot of early letters to Crewe and Grey. ... I telephoned to Buckmaster, and told him to get hold of Simon and make a plan for suspending The Times and Daily Mail."

"The telegrams went, but the offer has been refused... After D. had interviewed both the P.M. and Kitchener... D. took Mr. Davies and me to dinner to the Cecil."

"Went to Strachey’s... to meet Lord Derby, with whom I spent two hours discussing recruiting..."

"Carson, who had resigned from the Cabinet, was there when I arrived."

"I was sitting here... the telephone rang... 'I am speaking for the War Office... We've got very bad news here. . . .' Even then, from some strange lack of imagination, I didn't grasp it was Yvo."