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PERSONAL.
MINISTRY OF INFORMATION,
NORFOLK STREET,
STRAND,
LONDON, W.C.2.
17th December, 1918.
Professor Gilbert Murray,
82, Woodstock Road,
OXFORD.
My dear Murray,
Many thanks for your letter about America. I
think you are wise not to go.
Now that my official work is nearly over and I
am not implicated in party politics, I wish to say to you
that I am at your service for any work, in speaking or
writing, that I can do on behalf of the League of Nations.
I am every day more convinced that if we do not secure a
workable scheme we shall not have won the war, and we shall
have missed the greatest opportunity in all history. There
is a great deal to fight against, hasty idealism as well as
perverse stupidity, and I want to help. All the enthusiasm
that I have always had for my own brand of Imperialism I
feel now attaches to this creed, and any political work I
do in the future will be done in its service.
May I also thank you most sincerely for all you
have done for this Ministry and my own Department while I