The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, September 11th, 1928.

Creighton saw earlier than most people that the real question at issue was not whether the Church of England had done this or that in the past, not even whether it had the right to do this and that, but whether there was a Church of England at all.

Figgis, Churches in the Modern State, p. 237

I finished the Congress Paper, Fearne made a copy of it, which I sent to the Congress—Secretary at Cheltenham. I walked round the Park in the afternoon.

D. McCullagh his daughter came to dinner.

I received short letter from Archbishop Söderblom, written 'in the train' to Prague. He says: –

"This new country a stay with Pres: Masaryk have reminded me of what you wrote in the beginning of the war. 'The Slavic nations must have a chance'. They have it now, Checkoslovakia under its great Pres: is the leader – not Bolshevist Russia".

There is always something disconcerting, not to say also frightening, about rehearsals of one's own words. In this case, however, the sentence appears to be sufficiently harmless.

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