New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1934. First U.S. Edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. xii, 435 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some pages have edge tears. George Allardice Riddell, 1st Baron Riddell (25 May 1865 – 5 December 1934), known as Sir George Riddell, Bt, between 1918 and 1920, was a British solicitor, newspaper proprietor and public servant. Riddell went into the newspaper business. By 1903 he was managing director of the News of the World and also owned other newspapers. A close friend and ally of David Lloyd George, he was knighted in 1909, on the recommendation of H. H. Asquith During the First World War, he liaised between the government and the press and represented the British press barons at the Paris Peace Conference and later peace conferences. For these services he was created a Baronet, of Walton Heath in the County of Surrey, in 1918 and raised to the peerage as Baron Riddell, of Walton Heath in the County of Surrey, in the 1920 New Year Honours He was the author of several books, among them Some Things that Matter (1922), Lord Riddell's War Diary, 1914–18, and Lord Riddell's Intimate Diary of the Peace Conference and After. He was not impressed by his contemporary, Winston Churchill. Lord Riddell was the official British press delegate at a series of important international negotiations beginning with the Peace Conference at Versailles. The present book carries the story from the Peace Conference through to November, 1923, when he abandoned the diary habit. Racy and revealing, Lord Riddell's Diary is one of the important commentaries on the stirring and unhappy years immediately following the war. More