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There is a general understanding that the chief of the

Foreign Office should be exempt from attacks which might interfere with our national prestige and involve him in difficulties with his colleagues abroad. We have differed very greatly from Lord Curzon, but he is a man of enormous experience in affairs, and especially in the affairs of the East, and he has always been sympathetic with America. The mother of tis children was an American from the Middle West. He has always been in his private life in touch with the United States. That, of course., would not necessarily make him a good negotiator, but it certainly prevents him from being an ignoramus.

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