The Henson Journals

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Friday, June 22nd, 1928.

I wrote to Lord Phillimore sending him a copy of the draught resolution which I had sent to the Archbishop. After breakfast I walked to the Athenaeum, & wrote to Lord Wolmer, sending also a copy to him. Then I attended a meeting of the Street Offences Ctee. In the Home Office. We discussed the Report, but didn't make much headway. I lunched with Dashwood at the Old University Club, where I saw Chelmsford and Graham Harrison. I called on the Headmaster of Westminster, and discussed the situation. He had small conception of its gravity, & seemed to think it natural that the Bishops should act on Inskip's suggeston & send forward a 'non–controversial' measure!

I dined with Lord Darling. Lord Iddesleigh was the only other guest. He is a quaint little white–headed man, who has become a Papist, but talks intelligently. He said that he had been for two years in America as a schoolmaster, and had formed the lowest estimate of American morals. His description of the "petting parties" to which he was invited accords with Judge Lindsey's account of American fashions. I was back in Park Lane by 10 p.m.