BR has talked with Jourdain about the war and holds the opinion that "... the war was inevitable but was the result of the policy followed by England since the time of Henry the eighth by which peace was insured as a rule by the preservation of a balance of power in Europe: if any group of powers became rather stronger than others, England took the side of the rather weaker ones and could thus pride itself upon championing the weaker side and be sure that its side was in the stronger!"

Re BR's essays on the war. He says not to send him proofs.

Jourdain has sent a photo of the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club with a key to names.