The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, October 7th, 1919.

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I was almost speechless with a calamitous cold. In the morning I started work on the Edinburgh article by reading the Report of the Archbishops Fifth Committee of Inquiry on 'Christianity & Industrial Problems'. That Report is now being issued in leaflets, & made the basis of a serious agitation. Its dominating spirit was evidently supplied by Messrs Lansbury and Tawney and their episcopal shadows, Gore, Talbot, Kempthorne and Woods. The inevitable working–men, Kemp & Mansbridge & the brace of Unionist cranks, Lord Henry Bentinck & Mr W. C. Bridgeman assist in the same direction. It is certainly a matter for surprise & regret that the Archbishop should commend this dangerous pamphlet in a "Foreword" conceived in a very exalted strain. After lunch we motored to Walford–on–Wye, and looked at the church & vicarage. On my return I wrote to the Lord Chancellor recommending Mr Ruthven Murray as a suitable man for appointment to that parish.

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