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³⁰⁸ Roger John B. Keyes (1872–1945): naval officer & politician; Rear-Adm. 1917; Vice-Adm. 1921; Adm. 1926; Adm. of the Fleet 1930; retd 1935; Nat. Con. MP Portsmouth North 1934–43; kt. 1918; cr. Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge & Dover 1943. See his Naval Memoirs (2 vols 1934 & 1936).Google Scholar

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³¹⁰ Added in pencil: ‘Hitler wants peace’ & he banged the desk!

³¹¹ On 31 January Laval and Flandin had come to London, the result of which was the Anglo-French communiqué of 3 February which expressed the hope that Germany would co-operate in the proposed Eastern and Danubian pacts and join an air pact (by which each signatory would promise to support a victim of aerial aggression by any of the contracting powers) as a supplement to the Locarno agreements.

³¹² George Lansbury (1859–1940): Ed. Daily Herald 1913–22; Lab. MP Bow & Bromley div. of Tower Hamlets 1910–12, of Poplar 1922–40; Ldr of Lab. Party and Opposition 1931–5. See his My Quest for Peace (1938).Google Scholar

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³¹⁶ Margaret Cecilia Dawson (1890–1969): d. of Sir Arthur Lawley, 6^th Baron Wenlock; m. Geoffrey Dawson 1919; a leading London hostess at their home on Regent's Park during Dawson's years as editor of The Times.

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³²² ALK clipped an Evening Standard article of 4 March portraying Geoffrey Dawson as a political manoeuvrer seeking to throw out MacDonald and to take in Lloyd George.

³²³ Horace James Seymour (1885–1978): entered dip. service 1908; Min. in Tehran 1936–9; Asst U-Sec. FO 1939–42; Amb. in Beijing 1942–6; kt. 1939.

³²⁴ (Richard) Stafford Cripps (1889–1952): Lab. MP E. Bristol 1931–50; Solicitor-Gen. 1930–1; Amb. in Moscow 1940–2; Min. of Aircraft Production 1942–5; Min. for Economic Affairs 1947; Chanc, of Exchequer 1947–50; kt. 1930. See his The Struggle for Peace (1936).Google Scholar

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³²⁶ ‘Debit and Credit’ 29 03 1935, p. 17Google Scholar. Dawson noted on the 28th that ‘Leo K returned to the European situation on wh. I'd had a talk w S.B. early in the morning, & between us we probably annoyed the F.O. again!’ Dawson Mss. 39, Bodleian Library.

³²⁷ Britain, France and Italy were scheduled to meet at Stresa on 11 April in order to discuss joint action following Germany's repudiation of her obligations under the Treaty of Versailles.

³²⁸ Italian forces had clashed with the Ethiopians along the Somaliland frontier at Walwal on 5 December 1934.

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³³² ‘The British Role’.

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³³⁴ My dear Sir,

I sent a letter to ‘The Editor’ earlier today on Concessions to Germany. Whether you are able to use it or not, I want to thank you very, very cordially for the noble course you have pursued during this last crisis in European affairs. Your steady, firm but moderate attitude representing the finest traditions of Britain and England is invaluable. With a difference which one need not attempt to define your influence is probably equal to that of a first-rate Minister, and as I read your fine leading articles I think we have found a successor to Castlereagh at last. Be assured that you are on the true road, that you are getting at the hearts, the deepest feelings, of the British people. They have been inarticulate, but your expression of them is giving millions the lead which they have been waiting for.

Yours sincerely,

John Orr

³³⁵ Archibald Weigall (1874–1951): Cons. MP Horncastle div. of Lincolnshire 1910–20; Gov. of South Australia 1920–22; chmn, Royal Empire Society 1932–6; kt. 1920.

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³³⁹ John Coatman (1889–1963): Dir. of Public Info., Govt of India 1926–30; Prof, of Imperial Economic Relations, London School of Economics 1931–4; Senior News Ed. BBC 1934–7, North Regional Controller 1937–49; Dir. of Research in Social Sciences, U. of St Andrews 1949–54. See his Magna Britannia (1936).Google Scholar

³⁴⁰ Letter deposited in The Times archive.

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³⁴² On 16 May Ramsay MacDonald, facing the imminent desertion of his remaining Labour and Liberal friends, which would have reduced him to dependence upon Conservative support, and beset by headaches, insomnia and depression, resigned the premiership. Baldwin was appointed Prime Minister on 7 June.

³⁴³ Kingsley Wood (1881–1943): Unionist MP 1918–43; Postmaster-Gen. 1931–5; Min. of Health 1935–8; Sec. for Air 1938–40; Ld Privy Seal 1940; kt. 1918.

³⁴⁴ Samuel John G. Hoare (1880–1959): Con. MP Chelsea 1910 44; Sec. for Air 1922–4, 1924–9, 1940; Sec. of State for India 1931–5; FS 1935; 1^st Ld of Admiralty 1936–7; Home See. 1937–9; Ld Privy Seal 1939–40; Amb. in Madrid 1940–4; suc. 2nd Bart 1915, cr. Viscount Templewood 1944. See his Nine Troubled Tears (1954)Google Scholar. Hoare had replaced John Simon as Foreign Secretary in the Baldwin Cabinet formed on 7 June.

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³⁵² On 17 September Dawson noted that Harrington-Ward ‘rang up to say that Kennedy had now crocked.’ Dawson Mss. 39, f. 137, Bodleian Library.

³⁵³ On 15 October Dawson noted that ‘Kennedy looked in, but is clearly nowhere near coming back to work. He had seen Dawson of Penn last week.’ Dawson Mss. 39, f. 151, Bodleian Library. Leo and Sylvia then took an extended cruise to the far east, the journal for which may be found in the archive of The Times. It is much more of a tourists' travel diary and contains nothing of political or journalistic significance — possibly because having a break from these preoccupations was the main purpose of the journey.