The Henson Journals

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Saturday, November 23rd, 1918.

The Knights returned to London after breakfast. I wasted the morning in making a typed copy of the Speaker's notes on Anson's Parliamentary career. They are by no means conceived in a strain of indiscriminating eulogy. The papers announce that Lord Robert Cecil has resigned office because he cannot bring himself to endorse Welsh Disestablishment. He is no doubt a sincere man, none the less the devotion of the Cecils & their relations is one of the principle causes of the decline of the National Church. The Nation wearies of a church which has shrivelled to the dimensions of a family interest! In the afternoon Moore of St Peter's came to see me. He is somewhat depressed by the departure of the munition girls, who formed so large a part of his congregation. The weather has become damp, and much warmer.

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