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October 1918

from DIARY

Edited by
David Dutton
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Tuesday, 1st October

Saw Baron d'Erlanger. It was only just to make his acquaintance. He is an enthusiast about the Channel Tunnel and seemed to want my assistance in putting the matter forward. I told him that however sympathetic I might personally be towards the scheme it was a matter in which I could only express an opinion if so instructed by my Government and whatever opinion they had would be the one that I should have to support. He is not at all well looked on here and is supposed to have been very pro-Bosch but he has been very good to the Leave Club. He owns a big hotel here which he has given them free of all expense and contributes very largely to it so from our point of view we have every reason to be grateful to him.

Afterwards M. Maklakoff the so called Russian Ambassador came to see me. For what passed see attached letter to Mr. Balfour.

Luncheon. Mr. Henry Burton, Minister of Railways and Harbours, South African Representative at the Imperial conference; Mr. G. W. Pilkington, Private Secretary, Mr. C. du P. Chiappini, Mr. E. Oppenheimer, 3 people with him. Reinach, Sevastopoulo, and Mr. Gifford a well known American who is a great friend of Baker the Secretary of State for War.

Very amusing luncheon. The principal topic of discussion was the point of view that Europe as a whole looked upon the Black races as compared with the point of view of those in America and South Africa who have to live with these races.

Chiappini is the most talkative man. He has been the Commercial Agent of South Africa in England. He was a Boer who fought against us and lost an arm but he is more British than the British and his hatred of Germany was more intense than anybody's I have ever met. Burton and his party have really had a remarkable time. Coming to England they ran into one of their own destroyer escorts with the result that the depth charges exploded and blew the fore part of the vessel up. Going back they were on the Galway Castle, were torpedoed and were 8 or 10 hours in an open boat before being picked up.

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Paris 1918
The War Diary of the British Ambassador, the 17th Earl of Derby
 , pp. 234 - 311
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Print publication year: 2001

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