The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, October 22nd, 1930.

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Charles went with me to Darlington, where I took the early train to King's Cross. On arriving there, I took a taxi, & went to 21 Park Lane, where I dropped my bags. Then I went on to Westminster, & visited the hairdresser, after which I went to Lambeth, & attended [the much–talked of Commission on Church and State. They are, of course, to be undivulged to the public until the meeting of the Assembly in November.

There came to dinner the new Commander–in–Chief in India – Sir Philip Chetwode & his wife, and Mrs Rochford Maguire, with all of whom I had much pleasant conversation. He (the General) is not very cheerful about India – "I am more afraid of the people at home, than of the people of India." He thought that the Soviet Government was stable in Russia, & spoke highly of the Red Army.

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Commission on Church and State
Chairman	[symbol]	Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Bishops	[symbol]	Archbishop of York
	[symbol]	Bishop of Carlyle
	[symbol]	Bishop of Chichester
Clergy	[symbol]	Dr Weekes, Master of S.S. Coll. Cambridge
		Canon Vernon Storr
	[symbol]	Canon Hellins
Laity	[symbol]	Lord Selborne
		Lord Balniel.
		Sir Ernest Bennett
	[symbol]	Viscountess Bridgman
	[symbol]	Sir C. Grant Robertson.
		Prof. E. F. Jacob.
Lawyers		Sir Lewis Dibdin
		H. B. Vaisey
	[symbol]	Sir P. Baker–Wilbraham Bt

I think it is not a bad team. Perhaps it had been wiser not to have a Cecil as Chairman: and certainly Lord Selborne can hardly be said to bring an open mind to the question: but, mainly, it is a fairly representative and respectable team.

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