The Americans here have great houses opened as officers' clubs, and scrumptious huts for men where countesses and other high ladies hand out sandwiches and serve ice cream and ginger beer.

Our two admirals are most popular with all classes, from royalty down.

English soldiers salute our officers in the street and old gentlemen take off their hats when they meet nurses with the American Red Cross uniform.

My Embassy now occupies four buildings for offices, more than half of them military and naval.
And my own staff, proper, is the biggest in the world and keeps growing.

When I go, in a little while, to receive the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh, I shall carry an Admiral or a General as my aide! That's the way we keep a stiff upper lip.
And Good Lord! it's tiresome.