The Henson Journals

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Thursday, July 29th, 1920.

The whole day was occupied with the discussion of the Resolutions on Women's place in the Church. I moved an amendment in order to raise directly the question whether Deaconesses were, or were not, to be admitted to Holy Orders. The voting went against me, but in the course of the day, the general conclusions went to meet my views. There can be no doubt, however, as the feminist ardour of the Bishops. [In luncheon interval I had some talk with McInnes, the Bishop in Jerusalem, an intelligent man. He gave me rather a startling account of the effect of the Zionist policy in Palestine. The local Jews, who get on well with their neighbours, are opposed to it. It is supported, advertized, & pressed forward in a very unscrupulous way by the Zionist associations of England & America, who are importing numbers of Bolshevistic Jews from Russia & elsewhere, to the scandal & terror of the Palestinian population. Samuel's appointment as British administrator gave a cruel shock to public belief in British good faith: but he was carrying himself with fairness & independence so that he was now more popular with the Moslems than with his own compatriots.]

[I lunched with the Murrays (at 98 Park Street, Mayfair, W.1). Buff was there looking radiant. She retains the curiously attractive "Beatrice Cenci" look which she had as a child. Murray motored me back to the Athenaeum after dinner. There I found Harold Boulton & Joseph Shaw in the smoking room, & had some talk with them before turning in.]

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