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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 amaz-
ing. 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: Head-
quarters 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 son-
in-law, who was one of the Oxford boat and was at Balliol.