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I think some of the issues relating to the latter and less compelling part of the book have to do with its being more recent for Vera and as a result both less synthesized and internalized and with her shorter perspective on events. Moreover, from our vantage, we know how ultimately futile the various Congresses and the League would turn out to be and it's less interesting as a result compared to the war, of which we still feel the reverberations a century later.
I can sympathize with George, even though his edits hurt the book. I remember reading that years (decades) later, Vera was startled to learn that he felt as if he always came in second to the memory of Roland. She said there was no comparison between the shadowy lover of her girlhood and the full partner of her maturity and father of her children, but one can see why George felt that way. I can't be the only one who winced a bit at Vera's wanting a bridal bouquet of the flowers Roland gave her.
It was obviously a difficult marriage, understandably so. Winifred was part of their household (and who of us would want a spouse's BFF as permanent tenant?) and George had to make serious sacrifices in regard to his career, even giving up his tenured position at Cornell (a prestigious American university, for the non-Yanks) when they couldn't make the transatlantic partnership work with Vera spending time in New York. There were infidelities on both sides. Just saying that I can see his point of view, too!
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