The Henson Journals

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Friday, May 15th, 1925.

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I do think I did something to shorten speeches. I have always had in my mind what was once said of a famous American orator _ that he was like a train of 15 cars and only one passenger. That is prolixity, and prolixity, believe me, is the child of idleness. If people wd take pains to be as industrious & prudent in condensing & concentrating their remarks as so many seem to be in expanding, embroidering, & exuberating them, I think that in the House of Commons we should have a higher and more effective standard of public speech.

Lord Oxford and the Guild hall. May 11th, 1925. v. Times, May 14th, 1925.

I signed the documents approving a prosecution in the Consistory Court, and inhibiting the incriminated person from officiating in the diocese until the suit had been decided.Then I wrote to the Archdeacon, Lindsay, who had commended the said parson to me, suggesting that he shd induce him to resign his benefice.

Then I settled to work on the Book, and finished the bulk of it. Revision, notes, and a preface remain.

Gore has a letter in the Times answering me. I wrote at once a brief rejoinder. Ella & Fearne went off to York for the G.F.S. festival. I walked round the park.

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