[103] See the correspondence published in Appendix B.
[104] He had taken rooms at St. James’s Court.
[105] “The conversion has been swift, but Mr. Asquith has never been slow to note political tendencies when they become inevitable.”—Leading article, Times, December 4th, 1916.
[106] Mr. Herbert Samuel was offered office, and refused. Mr. Montagu finally joined as Secretary for Ireland.
CHAPTER XX
THE SAVING OF ITALY
“Many hot inroads
They make into Italy.”
Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Sc. iv.