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The Glebe, Penshurst, Tonbridge.
Ap. 27. '15
Dear Mr Buchan,
As a cousin who has once had the pleasure of meeting you. I am sure you won't mind my writing about your charming History of the War, which I am just embarking in.
Will you tell me if you happen to have met with Mr Morel's re-print of his "Ten years of Secret Diplomacy"? - "An Unheeded Warning."
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Your brilliant sketch of German goings-on in Part I. includes an allusion to the Moroccan question in wh. you speak (p.28,29) of Germany as the undoubted aggressor. Most heartily do I hope you are right! But Mr Morel, who quotes chap. & v. from official sources, & whom I know to be a very straight, able & honourable man, takes a different view, & deduces therefrom a
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strong opinion against "Secret Diplomacy". If you have not seen his book, may I send it to you? & will you answer it?
I don't hold with him in believing that secrecy could ever be dispensed with in diplomacy. But ought treaties to be actually signed without the knowledge of the people at large? I remember the Libs. made great capital in '80 out of Dizzy's secret provisions in the Treaty of Berlin.
