The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, November 19th, 1924.

I walked to the Athenaeum, & glanced at the papers, of which one, the "Daily Express", had a column on the Dean's foolish tirade in the Cathedral on Mayor's Sunday. The Jesuit, Whitlocke, has him at great advantage. I fear that the good effect of the Sunderland sermon will have been quite destroyed.

I walked to Westminster, & attended the Assembly. After lunching in the Athenaeum, I went back to the Assembly which decided to postpone the debate on Patronage Proposals until the next session. So I came away, and after having tea in the club, walked to Park Lane & called on the Scarbroughs. I had some talk with his Lordship, and then walked back to Lambeth.

The Dean of Windsor arrived after dinner, and I had some talk with him before turning in to bed. He spoke very freely of his brother–in–law, David, whom he called "the most dangerous man in England," & held his appointment to Liverpool to be disastrous. He had inherited 'from his German mother, and Welsh father' a double inheritance of sentiment, was impulsive, reckless, and in himself indubitably a Saint!! This is interesting.

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