The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, May 26th, 1931.

A fine, rather sunless, & very warm day. I worked at the sermon for the Cathedral and (after a fashion) finished it.

In the afternoon I walked in the Park. Paine, who is in charge of the building work here, tells me that the men whom he is employing are far better workers than the men whom he employed in the South, that they are respectful, & do an honest day's work. Moreover, he is able to enforce the rule that there shall be no smoking during work.

The papers give prominence to a Resolution of the British Legion at its annual conference affirming the value of Remembrance Day, & ordering 'that a copy of this resolution be sent forwarded to the Prime Minister and to the Bishop of Durham'. A certain Mr Larkins of Maidstone who proposed the resolution informed the Conference that 'the reference to the Bishop of Durham had been inserted at the instance of a "Padre" who was 100 per cent disabled'. The Rev. Hugh McMullan of Norwich said ‘that it would be more dignified if the proposal to send the resolution to the Prime Minister & the Bishop of Durham were deleted.' However the original form of the resolution was adhered to.

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