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===His politics and relations with Government=== While in London, he stayed at the central location of [[Nottingham Place]] from where he could gather news intelligence on European developments. Would the government declare war? Scott recorded that the German ambassador had been deceived into believing that Britain would stay outside the conflict. But liberal policy always accentuated one of "continuity" of free radicals at its heart.{{Elucidate|date=November 2016}}<ref>Letter to E. D. Morel, 18 Aug 1914; Wilson (ed.), Scott's ''Diaries'', p. 101</ref> But for Scott the Cabinet remained too reluctant to act, too timid, clearly an indication of his movement towards [[Ramsay MacDonald|MacDonald]] and [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]. They espoused a pacifist position in Britain, which he was warned was "pro-German".<ref>From: Sir Otto Trevelyan, 13 Sep 1914; p. 105</ref> He was a friend of the radical [[Charles Hobhouse]] MP, who was not in the War Cabinet. Scott turned his paper into a pacifist weapon against entering the war, and he lobbied the cabinet as well. His leaders denounced a "conspiracy to drag us into a war against England's interests", arguing that it would amount to a "crime against Europe" and warning that it would "throw away the accumulated progress of half a century".<ref name="TravisGuardian">Alan Travis, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/02/sp-first-world-war-manchester-guardian-uk-neutrality "First world war: how the Manchester Guardian fought to keep Britain out of conflict: A hundred years ago this weekend, on the eve of war, the newspaper argued passionately in a series of editorials for UK neutrality", ''The Guardian'' Aug. 2, 2014]</ref> On Tuesday, 4 August 1914 β the day the king declared war β [[David Lloyd George]] told Scott, "Up until last Sunday only two members of the Cabinet had been in favour of our intervention in the war but the violation of Belgian territory had completely altered the situation".<ref name="TravisGuardian"/> Although a lifelong liberal, Scott had a troubled relationship with Lloyd George. Perhaps most instructive of his communicating skills was the introduction he made of [[Chaim Weizmann]] to Lloyd George. He struck up a remarkable friendship with the Jewish Γ©migrΓ©, whose intellectual brilliance and business savvy was lately attracting the attention of even the Tory Press and senior ministers. Scott wrote regularly in the ''[[New Statesman]]'' dealing frankly and openly with the [[The Future of Palestine|Samuel Memorandum]]; they would all come together in Downing Street for a top-level summit on the Palestine Question.<ref>{{cite book |authorlink1=Jonathan Schneer |last1=Schneer |first1=Jonathan |title=The Balfour Declaration : the origins of the arab-israeli conflict |year=2012 |publisher=Random House Trade Paperbacks |isbn=978-0812976038 |pages=131β137 |edition=Random House trade paperback}}</ref> But Scott also investigated [[Sir Roger Casement]]. His story was linked to [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]]' Dublin builder [[Batt O'Connor]], who more than any Irishman had served to hide Collins's presence from the [[Royal Irish Constabulary|RIC]].<ref>Wilson (ed.), ''Diary'', 15 March 1915; Wilson (ed.), pp.119-121</ref> In Ulster [[Joseph Devlin|Joe Devlin]] warned the Left of the impending violence should they not heed the warnings contained in the newspapers about the coming military occupation. The [[Curragh incident]] had profoundly shocked the establishment in Ireland; on 27 July 1916 Scott would hold just a one-off meeting with [[Nevil Macready|General Macready]], [[Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading|Lord Reading]] and Lloyd George in the aftermath of the [[Easter Rising]].<ref>''Diary'' entry; pp. 222β3</ref> Scott was gregarious and frequently met at the [[Reform Club]] and with his left-wing friends at the [[Bath Club]]. His membership involved serious friendships with other editors, including [[G. Lowes Dickinson]], but his closest political intimate was Irish leader [[John Dillon]]. They shared a socialist ambition for home rule, pacifism, conscriptionism{{clarify|date=June 2023}} and feminism.
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