Nearly all the papers have decided to send their correspondents to accompany Eden: The Times (Reed),

Douglas Reed, assistant Berlin correspondent of The Times, 1929–35 and the paper’s Central European correspondent, 1935–38.

Daily Telegraph (Lennox), Daily Herald (Ewer),

William Norman Ewer.

News Chronicle (Cummings),

Arthur John Cummings, editor of the liberal News Chronicle, 1920–55; reported among other notable events the Metro-Vickers trial of British engineers (Moscow, 1933) and the Reichstag fire trial (Leipzig, 1933).

Yorkshire Post (Catlin),

George Edward Gordon Catlin.

and the Havas agency (Schuman).

Maurice Schuman, attached to l’Agence Havas in London and later Paris, 1935–39.

The Daily Mail needed my personal attention. The editor called on me twice and promised that his correspondent would behave decently in Moscow, so in the end I’ve given a visa to an enormous guy, ‘weighing 24 tons’ and with a very peculiar surname.

We shall see what will come of it. It’s a risk, but it’s worth it. M.M., however, categorically refused to grant a visa to the Daily Express, although I was against this sort of discrimination.