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say anything, and Mr. CHURCHILL was struck by this and said: You see, Herr BENS hes written to 1 me. He's asked for my advice and for my assistance; for ay help. © But what advice, Sir, I returned? What assistance ean 1.375 offer? Here am I, said Mr, CHURCHILL thumping himself on °4.- the blue boiler suit that he was wearing, here am I, said --. Mr. CHURCHILL, an old man without power and without party. What help shall I give? What assistance can'I offer? Wha answer can I return?, Because answer I shall, and must, y=. but what shell I proffer? And I t felt T anid” the right ptinign ‘hing at that moment. vie NA ea oe : I said to Mr. CHURCHILL: “Don't be 60 , downhearted.: Offer him your eloquence. Stump the country, I said. Make * speeches. Awaken people, I said, addressing him as though ° eo he was me. Awaken people, I said, to the issues at stake, * : I said, and he was rather pleased by that I think; but you a5 see he warmed and said: Abh-hh-h...e., yes, Yos, mY Sloquence; ; that indeed Herr BENES can count on in full and some would Pa : say in overbounding measure. But, Mr. BURGESS, what other help have z ‘to Ofte What else is there? What can I give, and I didn't say |: ~ anything at this point because I. shot my diplomatic bolt: * by my fortunate recollections of the word eloquence a moment + before and had nothing to say at all, and, therefore, did not : You are silent Mr. BURGESS. You are rightly ° silent, What else? What else? What else have I to Jeter? One thing he said. One thing. I didn't say, “What's that?” It wasn't necessary, One thing, he said, my son RANDOLPH. © RANDOLPH, Who is already, I trust, a gentleman, is training to be an officer. So there was nothing necessary to be said after that, and as fer as I can remember for the third . time in telling this story, this is the moment at which the conversation about Munich Week stopped, - “ We had a bit of mtual hatred about CHAMBERLAIN and about SIMON and I now put on record something I'd forgotten in the two previous versions that HAROLD NICHOLSON ; ee and I used to go to the same club; olubs rather, HAROLD'B =". club, The Travellers, and my club, the Reform, and follow