I Do Not Keep A Diary. Never

Of All Political Sacred-cows, Education Is The Most Sacred And The Most Cow-like.

I Would Sooner Receive Injustice In The Queen's Courts Than Justice In A Foreign Court. I Hold That Man Or Woman To Be A Scoundrel Who Goes Abroad To A Foreign Court To Have The Judgments Of The Queen's Courts Overturned, The Actions Of Her Government Countermanded Or The Legislation Of Parliament Struck Down.

I Am The Last Person Whom It Would Be Reasonable To Expect To Leave The Conservative Party.

I Refer To The Misunderstanding Of Soviet Russia As An Aggressive Power, Militaristically And Ideologically Bent Upon World Domination 'seeing', To Quote A Recent Speech Of The British Prime Minister, 'the Rest Of The World As Its Rightful Fiefdom.' How Any Rational Person, Viewing Objectively The History Of The Last Thirty-five Years, Could Entertain This 'international Misunderstanding' Challenges, If It Does Not Defeat, Comprehension. The Notion Has No Basis In Fact... If Russia Is Bent On World Conquest, She Has Been Remarkably Slothful And Remarkably Unsuccessful.

I Do Not Know If The Doctrine That The Nation-state Arose In The 19th Century Was Still Being Taught:;... But It Is Erroneous. The Nation-state Reaches Back Far Into The Origins Of Europe Itself And Perhaps Beyond. If Europe Was Not Always A Europe Of Nations, It Was Always A Europe In Which Nations Existed, And Were Taken For Granted, As A Basic Form Of The State.