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Dr. F. DENGLER'S SANATORIUM BADEN-BADEN
12th October 1913.
My dear John, I hope you will not mind my writing to you to ask, what you gather to be the situation with regard to Home Rule. So far as we can tell from the newspapers the whole question seems to be in the melting pot, espeicially after the speeches of Winston and F.E.
I don't somehow see Redmond endorsing Winston's speech, nor Devlin, and at the
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same time I see less likelihood of my having to shoulder the musket for Ulster than before. You hear so much of what goes on behind the scenes that I feel I must write and ask for news.
I wonder if Grey's letter has had much effect. I have always understood that a certain section of the Unionist Party has been in agreement with his
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views on the question of Federalism. I can't help thinking we are getting much nearer the question.
I do hope you will not mind my bothering you like this. It seems to me as if the whole political situation has been altered in the last week or so, and what one cannot help feeling is that the Government are taking their courage in both hands to defy Redmond if they see the smallest chance of
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agreement with us.
I really must congratulate you on "Montrose". It is one of the best books I have ever read, in fact I have read it twice. I think he was the greatest Scotchman who ever lived and that is saying a good deal.
We are very busy doing the cure here, and I have lost a stone in 2 weeks, which is not bad. Bice is also doing very well. She sends both you and Susie her love.
Yours ever
J. Cecil.
