Letter from [Ramsay] MacDonald saying he has been asked to go to the war front to take charge of an ambulance section. Thinks he ought to do so as the ambulance is badly needing organisation and it would also perhaps moderate prejudice against our pacifist side. [Glasier Papers GP/2/1/21]

2 December 1914. Diary entry by John Bruce Glasier (1859-1920), Socialist and pacifist.