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Waldorf Astor 2nd Viscount Astor. Typed Letter Signed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food to Mrs. B. Le Cras defending Sir Eyre Crowe against the charge of being too soft on the Germans.

19487 — On letterhead of the Ministry of Food Palace Chambers Westminster London S.W.1. 23 January 1919. 1p. 4to. In fair condition on lightly aged and worn paper. His reply to her letter has been delayed by his 'absence in Paris on official business'. He is 'satisfied that the attacks upon Sir Eyre Crowe are based upon entire ignorance of the facts'. Crowe 'has always held strongly anti-German views and expressed himself officially in this sense as long ago as 1908'. Astor understands 'that the Kaiser personally requested his removal from the Foreign Office for this reason on more than one occasion'. Nobody has ever questioned Crowe's 'great ability' and Astor does not think she has 'any reason to fear that his appointment is not greatly to the advantage of this Country'. Mrs Le Cras had been one of Nancy Astor's agents during her election campaign of 1919. On letterhead of the Ministry of Food, Palace Chambers, Westminster, London, S.W.1. 23 January 1919. unknown