The Henson Journals

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Saturday, February 15th, 1919.

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The "Daily Graphic" reporter came to me at the Athenaeum, and "interviewed" me on the subject of the miners, having taken occasion from the few observations which I made in the Convocation. For a quarter of an hour I improvised flatterous platitudes for his benefit. Then I walked to S. Andrew's, Wells Street, and had some talk with Knight. He told me that he had had speech with Lord Wolmer, & found him extremely confident as to the prospects of the "Enabling Bill". He was shown a list of 300 members of parliament, who had promised to support it. The plan is to get the Bill hustled into law this year. I cannot believe that this is possible, & yet the situation is so extraordinary that I cannot feel very sure about anything. I undertook to write something for the "Times" forthwith. After lunching at the Athenaeum, I went off to Paddington. Just as I was leaving, Curzon drove up, & I exchanged a few words with him. "How are things really going?" I asked: "Oh, well enough", he said, "if we cd get rid of Wilson. He's well enough, of course: but also a terrible nuisance!" I can understand that the presence of a doctrinaire, equally impracticable and powerful, must be enormously disconcerting to the diplomatists. The League of Nations scheme is drafted & published.

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