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and it is always represented that I am getting in a knock-out
blow. The consequence is that the French representatives are
afraid to be reasonable because they fear it will again be said
that I have defeated them, Our people do not regard the
meetings in this way, and, so far as I am concerned, my only
object is to make the best possible arrangement in the interests
of all concerned. The whole thing is most unfortunate.

29™.—Lunched with Winston. Dixon, editor of the
Christian Science Monitor, was there. We had a long talk about
Christian Science. Winston knew nothing about it and asked
Dixon to give him an account of the principles of the religion,
Dixon made a lucid statement regarding the nebulous theories
of this sect.

Winston showed us his pictures and said that painting is
the joy of his life—that, until he began to paint, his mind was
always preoccupied with politics. Now, with his paint-brush
in his hand, he could forget everything.

3 IST (SUNDAY).—To Chequers. L. G. is going to the
Conference in Paris after all. He told me the French have
urgently desired him to go, as they think that, unless he goes,
it will be thought there is a rift between Great Britain and
France.

We talked of the trials and tribulations of public men.

L. G. : You have to be inured to attacks. I have been
attacked for thirty years. I don't remember a single year in
which I have not been attacked. Of course for many years I
was only a small man, and the attacks were of a different
calibre, but they were great attacks to me all the same. I have
got used to it, but should not care to begin the experience at
the age of fifty. One wants to begin young 1

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