The Henson Journals

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Saturday, February 27th, 1926.

A friend came to seem me on one of the evenings of last week – he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, & the lamps were being lit in the space below on which we were looking. My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words:

"The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life–time".

Lord Grey of Falloden. "Twenty five Years" ii. 20.

I worked at the Sectary Sermon all the morning. After lunch I went to the Eden Theatre where Dr Fisher had an entertainment by her County School girls in aid of the Durham Castle Fund. In the "interval" I made a short speech about the castle. Then I came away, & went into the Park, where I watched football for half–an–hour.

I received a letter from Raine telling me about the debate in the House of Commons over the Shrewsbury Bishoprick Measure. The Resolution was carried by 57 to 33. So now we must make one more fight in the House of Lords.

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