It's a fine race to be sprung from.
All this field of international relations--you fellows regard it as a bore.

So it used to be before my entrance into the game! But it's everlastingly interesting.

Just to give him a shock, I asked the Foreign Secretary the other day what difference it would make if the Foreign Offices were all to go out of business and all the Ambassadors were to be hanged.

He thought a minute and said: "Suppose war kept on in the Balkans, the Russians killed all their Jews, Germany took Holland and sent an air-fleet over London, the Japanese landed in California, the English took all the oil-wells in Central and South America and--" "Good Lord!" said I, "do you and I prevent all these calamities?
If so, we don't get half the credit that is due us--do we ?" You could ask the same question about any group or profession of men in the world; and on a scratch, I imagine that any of them would be missed less than they think.

But the realness and the bigness of the job here in London is simply oppressive.