The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, August 5th, 1930.

I took my departure from 12 Neville Terrace after an occupation of 5 weeks. Ella and Fearne left by the 1.40 p.m. train, but I postponed my exit until the 5.30 p.m. in order that I might see and Ordination candidate in the club at 4 p.m.

I spent the morning at Lambeth where the Resolutions on 'Youth' were under discussion. The subject was 'impossible': and the Report necessarily windy & platitudinous. Neville Talbot moved an addition to the official Resolution, in which he spoke of 'great & romantic' work. I asked what he meant by "romantic": & he told me that if I had lived in S. Africa, & endeavoured to secure just treatment of the blacks by the whites I would know! None the less the Conference rejected it, and also the word 'heroic'.

[struck through] I lunched at the United Service Club, where George Macmillan joined me, & was very friendly. I went early to King's Cross, expecting that there would have been a holiday rush to the north, but there was no unusual number of travellers, and, in point of fact, I had a department to myself. [end]

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