But there is no living politician who watched so intelligently the long beginnings of the war or knew so certainly in the days of tension that war had come, as this modest and gracious gentleman whose devotion to principle and whose quiet faith in the power of simple honour had outwitted the chaotic policy and the makeshift diplomacy of the German long before the autumn of 1914.
This may be said without revealing any State secret or breaking any private confidence: As Sir Arthur Nicolson, our Ambassador at St.Petersburg, Lord Carnock won for England, as no other man had done before him, the love of Russia.

The rulers of Russia trusted him.

He was their friend in a darkness which had begun to alarm them, a darkness which made them conscious of their country's weakness, and which brought to their ears again and again the rumbles of approaching storm.

Lord Carnock, sincerely loving these people, received their confidence as one friend receives the confidence of another.

His advice was honourable advice.