On the night of 14^th November Haldane told Churchill that he was to take the train the next day and that he was to start at dawn. “’Would I come with him?’ He would like it if I did! Out of comradeship and because I thought it was my duty to gather as much information as I could for the Morning Post, I accepted the invitation without demur” said Churchill. Atkins on the other hand said, “I simply would not go. My instructions were to follow the war on the British side and that, if after having put my paper to great expense, I got myself on the wrong side, I should be held very much to blame”.