LONDON, March 13, 1940
 
     With the Ambassador I called upon Mr. Lloyd George
 
his apartment at 10:00 A.M.
 
     I had not seen Mr. Lloyd George for 17 years, but
 
he has changed very little in the intervening period,
 
although he has now reached the age of 77 years. He is
 
alert, mentally very keen, and minutely familiar with 
 
every detail of both British domestic affairs and British 
 
Foreign Relations. The only sign of his increasing years
 
is shown by his tendency to talk of earlier years, and
 
his extreme loquacity.
 
     I was with him for nearly two hours.
 
     Mr. Lloyd George immediately referred to the present
 
war as the most unnecessary war, the most insanely stupid
 
war, that had ever been forced upon England. He referred
 
to Mr. Chamberlain as a "third-rate incompetent", whom he
 
himself, when Prime Minister in 1916, had tried out as
 
Director General of National Service, and had been forced
 
to dispraise for sheer incapacity after a try-out of six
 
months.
 
       He said that Great Britain had blundered into this 
 
war because of the egregious mistakes in policy of her 
 
recent Governments. He stated that there was no reason,
 
from the standpoint of either Great Britain or France,
 
why Germany should not unite under one Government the
 
Germanic peoples of Central Europe, or why Germany should
 
not obtain and enjoy a special economic position in Central
 
Europe, and, at least in part, in Southeastern Europe. If
 
the German people were thus granted the recognition of
 
their racial unity and of their economic security, such
 
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