LONDON, March 13, 1940. 
 
I dined with Mr. Chamberlain at 10 Downing Street.
 
The Ambassador and Pierrepont Moffat went with me. The
 
other guests were Sir Ssmuel Horne, Home Secretary,
 
Mr. Winston Churchill, Lord Newell, Major Clement Attlee, 
 
Sir Archibald Sinclair, and Mr. R. A. Butler, Parliamentary 
 
Under Secretary of the Foreign Office, understood to be 
 
Mr. Chamberlain' s paticular protege.
 
     I sat between Mr. Chaberlain and Mr. Churchill. I 
 
spoke with the latter about the security zone about the 
 
American Republics, and of my regret that the British 
 
Government had not adopted the wise course of agreeing 
 
to it in principle, with whatever reservations they con-
 
sidered indispensable, provided Germany likewise agreed 
 
to respect the Zone. Mr. Churchill said he agreed; that 
 
he had not known of his Government's reply, and that there 
 
were "too damned many lawyers in the Foreign Office". I 
 
said to Mr.Chamberlain and to Mr. Churchill that I 
 
believed they would find that the American Republics 
 
were becoming more and more determined that the Zone was 
 
here to stay, and I hoped that a way could be found to 
 
prevent any misunderstandings with regard thereto.
 
     Mr. Chamberlatn was a particularly agreeable host. 
 
We talked of his frequent visis to the Endicott family 
 
at Danvers, Massachusetts, whom I had also often visited; 
 
of his interest in forestry, and of his efforts to rejuven-
 
ate the official residence of the Prime Minister at Chequers.
 
He was greatly pleased when I told him of my great admira-
 
tion as a young man for his father.   He spoke to me with 
 
deep emotion of the latter.
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