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MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, NORFOLK STREET, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.2. 23rd December, 1918. Professor Gilbert Murray, 15, More's Garden, Chelsea, S.W. My dear Murray, There is one man who seems to me conspicuously suited to be General Secretary of the League of Nations. It is Lieut.-Col. Edward Grigg, who is at the moment G.S.O.1. of the Guards Division. Grigg was at New College in my time, and before the war was one of the principal members of the Round Table group. His career in the war has been amazing. It was almost a miracle for an ex-civilian to be principal Staff Officer of the Guards Division. He has extraordinary skill in handling men and is in every way a most able and delightful being. If he agreed I believe you would have secured a real treasure. His address is: Headquarters Guards Division, British Armies in France. Failing him I have thought of two other people. One is Major Barrington Ward, who was Maxse's G.S.O.2. and whose address is Headquarters I.G.T., British Armies in France. The other is Lawrence Jones, Lord Grey's sonin-law, who was one of the Oxford boat and was at Balliol.

He has just returned from being prisoner of war in Germany. I am afraid he will not be available, however, for six months, as he is pretty badly broken up. I think either of the two last would do; but Grigg is by far the best, if he would accept. Yours very sincerely, John Buchan