The two-fold trouble is--( 1) a difference between Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) and Lord Fisher--about the Dardanelles campaign and (I dare say) other things, and (2) Lord Kitchener's failure to secure ammunition--"to organize the industries of the Kingdom." Some even declare K.of K.( they now say Kitchener of Kaos) is a general colossal failure.

But the prevailing opinion is that his raising of the new army has been good work but that he has failed with the task of procuring munitions.

As for Churchill, he's too restless and erratic and dictatorial and fussy and he runs about too much.

I talked with him at dinner last night at his mother's.

He slips far down in his chair and swears and be-dams and by-Gods his assertions.