The memorandum which the late Lord Morley of Black- burn
wrote on his resignation from the Cabinet in August, 1914, is profoundly interesting, and is also a valuable addition to history. It begins at - the moment when Lord Grey of Fallodon had made a " Memorable pro- nouncement " to the Cabinet on the issue 'of war or abso- lute neutrality. Lord Morley says that the pronounee- melit was impressive in its simplicity, " so free from the cassant and over-emphatic tone that is Asquith's vice on such an occasion." Even up to the morning of August 3rd the question of Belgium was " secondary to the pre-eminent controversy of the Anglo-French entente." Meanwhile Sir L. Harcourt was organizing opinion among the neutralists. The contrary opinion was being " openly worked with his best daemonic energy by Winston, with strenuous simplicity by Grey, and sourdement :by the Lord Chancellor—the Prime Minister seeing and waiting."
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