LONDON, March 11, 1940
 
        The Prime Minister received the Ambassador and myself 
 
in the Cabinet room at lO Downing Street at 8 p.m. Lord 
 
Halifax came in shortly afterwards.
 
     The Cabinet Room, which runs across the back of the
 
house on the ground floor, is considerably smaller than
 
the Cabinet Room in the White House. A green biaze table 
 
almost fills it. The windows look out upon the Park.
 
       Mr. Chamberlain was sitting alone at his place at the 
 
Cabinet table when we were shown, in. He is one man who 
 
does not in the least look like his photographs. He is
 
spare, but gives the impression of physical strength, and 
 
he seems much younger than his years. His hair is dark, 
 
except for a strand of completely white hair across his
 
forehead. In conversation one obtains none of  the "puzzled
 
hen" effect of which one hears so much, and which photo-
 
graphs emphasize. The dominating features are a pair of
 
large, very dark and piercing eyes, and a low and incisive
 
voice.
 
     Mr. Chamberlain read the President' s letter which I
 
at once handed him. I said that he was already fully in-
 
formed of the nature and limitations of my mission, but that 
 
I wished to say to him, as I had to Lord Halifax, that I had 
 
no suggestions nor proposals to offer. As he had seen
 
from the President's letter, I was hear to listen and not to 
 
talk, and that I would be most grateful for any information 
 
he would give me, and for any views he might care to
 
express, for the President's knowledge, as to the possibility 
 
at this stage of any negotiation of a real and lasting peace.
 
                                             Mr. Chamberlain