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1934

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Monday 15 January I was amazed today on opening The Mail to find that Rothermere has gone Fascist. I hope this doesn't mean trouble, for I shan't truckle to the devil, and I am too much of a democrat to be a Fascist, though too much of a disciplinarian to be a democrat in any but the vague Walt Whitman sense.

Thursday 25 January On the 16th Jan the children were at John Simon's house for a party. I collected them on a dank wet night and J.S. was himself on his doorstep, looking dangerously like his own butler. We exchanged words and I took my bairns home. On the way I said to a sleepy Edward

‘Well, how did you like the Foreign Secretary?’

‘Which was the foreign secretary?’

‘The bald headed gentleman.’

‘Oh, I didn't notice the bald headed gentleman, but I liked Felix

the cat that the conjuror brought.’

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 11 , December 1998 , pp. 56 - 69
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1998

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