LONDON, March 11, 1940.
 
        I dined with Lord Halifax in his apartment at the 
 
Dorchester Hotel. He had to meet me the Marquess of Crewe, 
 
for half a century a prominent leader in the Liberal Party; 
 
Lord Snell, the leader of the Labor Party in the House of 
 
Lords; Anthony Eden, the Secretary of State for the 
 
Dominions; Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for War; Sir. John 
 
Anderson, Minister for Civilian Defense; Sir Dudley Pound, 
 
First Sea Lord, and Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under
 
Secretary of the Foreign Office.
 
     At dinner Lord Halifax asked me confidentially to
 
remember always in my conversations with the Prime Minister
 
that Mr. Chamberlain had undergone the most harrowing human
 
experience of which a statesman could conceive as a result
 
of the Munich episode, and that as a result his point of 
 
view was necessarily affected in all that related to Brit-
 
ish policy towards Germany, and in particular towards the
 
members of the present German Government.
 
     After dinner, to my amazement, Lord Halifax conducted
 
a seminar. He placed me opposite to him in the drawing-
 
room, and ranged all of his guests facing me. He said that
 
he would call upon them all so that they might freely ex-
 
press to me their views of the present situation, and of
 
the possibility of the reestablishment of peace in Europe.
 
     Lord Crewe was the f irst to speak. He said that he
 
thought I should realize that feeling in England today was
 
far more bitter towards the German people than it had been
 
at any time during the Great War. This remark threw a good
 
deal of consternation into some of the other guests, and 
 
Lord Halifax hurriedly interrupted to say that he thought 
 
there might be some divergence of opinion on that point,
 
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