of DAVID I.LOYD GEORGE

PREFACE
them I know better than my contemporaries. These I am
doing my best to relate accurately in the following pages.
I make my contribution, not as one who claims to be an
experienced author, but as a witness giving evidence on
what he remembers of these tremendous transactions.
Memory is fallible and I may have made a mistake in
some details. But I shall welcome correction. I have fortified
recollection by a careful perusal of an immense mass of
documents which I accumulated at the time. These I have
chosen and quoted or used with a full sense of the responsibility
resting on every public servant not to reveal or publish
anything which may injure the interests of his country. In
the exercise of this discretion I owe much to the scrutiny of
one of the most efficient and distinguished public servants
of his generation — Sir Maurice Hankey. I owe thanks also
to a great many kind friends who have assisted me by supplementing
and stimulating my memory with their own as to
occurrences where I enjoyed their valued cooperation.
Bron-y-de,
Churt.
August, 1933.
D. LLOYD GEORGE.
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