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     After dinner I talked, at Mr. Chamberlain' s particular
 
request, with Sir Samuel Hoars.
 
     The latter gave me, in diluted form, the same views
 
expressed to me that afternoon by the Prime Minister. He
 
had nothing very significant, and nothing new to say.
 
         Before I left Mr. Chamberlain took me alone into the
 
room where he keeps the sodvenirs of his father. He wished
 
me particularly to see an unfinished bust of Joseph Chamber-
 
lain which he told me was the only really good likeness 
 
ever done of him. As I was leaving he said, "I hope your
 
mission will make it possible for the President to succeed 
 
in his desire to avert this calamity, and to help the world 
 
to save itself. Tell him he has all my admiration, and I
 
shall hope to see you here again in happier days."
 
     As I passed on my way downstairs through the drawing-
 
rooms hung with the portraits of the famous Prime Ministers, 
 
from William Pitt and Walpole down to Lord Salisbury, I 
 
noticed that the only photograph in the rooms was a photo-
 
graph of Mussolini.