Every once in a while he'd look up at Warburton and say: "Now, what do you think of that ?" That's an amazing good way to get your thought clear and your plans well laid out.

I've done it myself.
I went home and Kipling and Carrie[83] were at lunch with us.

Kipling said: "I'll tell you, your coming into the war made a new earth for me." He is on a committee to see that British graves are properly marked and he talked much about it.

I could not help thinking that in the back of his mind there was all the time thought of his own dead boy, John.
Then in the afternoon Major Drain brought the copy of a contract between the United States Government and the British to build together 1500 tanks ($7,500,000).

We took it to the Foreign Office and Mr.Balfour and I signed it.