Jowett and I went at 10AM to the Foreign Office to ask Lord Robert Cecil to “facilitate” the process of getting passports so that we might leave tomorrow for Berne… we had stated on our application form that we were going to an “International Labour conference.” I argued with him in vain.

3 September 1915. Diary entry of John Bruce Glasier, socialist and pacifist [Glasier Papers GP2/1/22]. This week’s war: 57.