The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, September 12th, 1922.

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In spite of the gorgeous sunset, the day was wet and stormy. I wrote a sermon for use next Sunday at West Hartlepool. In the afternoon I walked in the Park with Ernest. More guests arrived at the Castle viz. Mrs Belloc Lowndes & her daughter, President Richmond with his wife and daughter.

Clayton returned from his holiday, William fetched "Beck" from the station. The poor little beast was delighted to get into friendly hands after the novel experience of a railway journey. Cutty disgraced herself by biting Mrs Burgess's nose. The poor lady displayed much good temper, and appeared at dinner with a plastered nose, suggestive of a Monday metropolitan court!

President Richmond told me that the Jews were becoming a menace to America. May had ousted the Irish from control of "Tammany", and were pushing themselves into the Universities. He spoke much, and severely, of President Wilson, who, he thinks, was solely responsible for the fact that the War became an affair of a party & not of the nation as a whole. I asked him about Prohibition, which, he frankly admitted, was in principle unsound. Nevertheless, he was confident that the American people would not go back on the policy, which, in spite of many scandals, was justifying itself in practice. I observed that the President himself drank wine at Dinner.

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