The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, July 19th, 1927.

We left Lake End at 10 a.m., and motored to Bishop Auckland by way of Penrith and Appleby, arriving at the Castle about 10 minutes before 2p.m.

The papers announce that the new Regius Professor of Modern History in Cambridge is to be George Macaulay Trevelyan. It is an excellent appointment and I was able to send him an entirely sincere letter of congratulation.

Buchan sends me 'with the Author's compliments' his new novel, 'Witch Wood'. He is certainly the most versatile genius of my acquaintance: and also one of the most loveable of men. In this combination he is the true successor of Sir Walter, with whom in his type of mind & composition he presents many points of likeness.

"Bolshevism is the result of the transference of Jesuit maxims to revolutionary tactics: its spirit is the same as that of the ecclesia militans of Ignatius Loyola. In both we find the principle that the end justifies the means: with the Jesuits the existence & prosperity of the Order and of the Church, with the Bolsheviks, the Soviet régime & the dictatorship of the proletariat is the end to be attained by all means …. If we are really to call Bolshevism a branch of Jesuitism, we should have to style it perhaps 'a barbarous Jesuitism'".

Fülöp-Miller. P. 283

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