22. After meeting Hitler in 1936 he compared Mein Kampf the Magna Carta and called Hitler “the resurrection and the way” for Germany (Roberts, The Holy Fox, 69).

23. Lloyd George’s papers in the Library of the House of Lords, G/4/5/48. In June, Lloyd George said to his secretary that he was “not going with this gang. There will be a change. The country does not realize the peril it is in.” On 6 June Churchill tried again, after having consulted Chamberlain as well as Halifax. But Lloyd George again refused.