After he had turned to me with a charming apology, I then inti-
mated that I also had made an attempt at conflation on which he
might care to cast his eye while we waited for his document to be
completed, and pulled my copy from my portfolio. The General
read it carefully and after a moment or two said, 'I believe this
will do very well.' And suggesting two small alterations, to which,
of course, I immediately agreed, he even proposed that it should
be placed before the meeting as our joint production. I had to
explain that such a proceeding would be contrary to the protocol,
but offered, if he would be good enough to accept the responsi-
bility for it, to hasten to Great George Street and have it multiplied
in time for the meeting which began at 10 o'clock. That was
accordingly done and I may add that when the paper was dis-
cussed the General with his usual generosity of mind rather
shocked some of those round the table by revealing my partici-
pation in its construction. Not all those present had the same view
of it that he had, but the discussion ensured that when the first
Committee met to draft the Preamble at San Francisco that docu-
ment was the only one that was then laid before it.

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