Don Martin started his second month reporting from London. He will be there up to early March when he moved to France. Will there be more air raids? A submarine will sink the Tuscania. Enjoy! Reminder: click on three redlines at top right and then click down arrow next to Archive to see all the earlier posts.
Don Martin diary entry for Friday, February 1, 1918:
Don Martin diary entry for Friday, February 1, 1918:
Spent most of the afternoon in the office. Saw Colonel [John] Buchan [Director
of Information] and Lord Robert Cecil,
foreign secretary. Both had tea while they were talking to the correspondents.
[Lord Robert Cecil was at
the time Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and already developing a
concept for the League of Nations. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937
for his League of Nations work.]
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Lord Robert Cecil
In the evening Milton Snyder of the Sun, who has come to London to
relieve Welliver came in the office. Sat around lobby till 1 a.m. with Ben
Russell and a chap named Mortimer Bryans of Chicago. Still find
the British pessimistic over war outlook. They seem to think next 3 months will
be the crucial period of the war.
Got letter from Commodore [Bennett]
saying my expenses will be paid, with my salary through N.Y. office.
Weather
raw and cloudy. No raid weather.
The New York Herald published on February 1 a
war cartoon in reaction to a report that beer production was being halted in
Germany.
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