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The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II

CHAPTER XXVII
19/43

Said she, to be quite frank and fair: "Mr.Churchill, I must tell you that I don't like your politics.

Yet we must get on together.

You may say, if you like, that this is merely a matter of personal taste with me, as I might not like your--well, your moustache." "I see no reason, Madam, why you should come in contact with either." My talk with Bonar Law: He was disposed to believe that if England had declared at once that she would go to war with Germany if France was attacked, there would have been no war.

Well, would English opinion, before Belgium was attacked, have supported a government which made such a declaration?
Mr.Bonar Law thinks that President Wilson ought to have protested about Belgium.
He didn't agree with me that much good human material goes to waste in this Kingdom for lack of opportunity.

(That's the Conservative in him.) _Friday, April 30, 1915._ Sir Edward Grey came to tea to talk with Mr.House and me--little talk of the main subject (peace), which is not yet ripe by a great deal.


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