2110-5-12-16

St. Stephen's House, London, S. W. 1.

21st April, 1932

My own darling,

Your letter this morning greatly distressed me. What has happened to my letters? I wrote you on Tuesday night and also yesterday morning. I suppose your coyness about it made me forget it. I send you the little present I meant to give you this weekend. You must buy yourself a definite present with it. Every blessing go with you. It looks as if Gran and company were having better weather, though it is still too cold.

Certainly I will come back the night the boys go away, but which night is it? You say Thursday the 27th, but the 27th is a Wednesday! Anyhow, I will come back either day.

I had a busy day yesterday. I saw Duncan about Marnie'e affairs. He is really a very good fellow. Then I took the Chair at a meeting of Members of Parliament about proposals for a Film Institute, and had great difficulty in explaining things to some very stupid Members. Baldwin and I dined together in a corner of St. Stephen's Club and discussed many things. He is rather anxious about the P.M's health.

The debate was a good one. Robert Horne made an excellent speech, and Amery was quite good, and Walter Elliot finished up in a strain of admirable jocosity. He would have made a far better Budget speech than Neville. Did I tell you Noel's description of

Amery's style of speaking? - "Like a housekeeper telling a ghost story to the cook."

To-day I have to sit on this Sky-writing Committee all morning. I am lunching with Siepman of the B.B.C., and then I have many interviews. In the evening we are having our Group dinner.

I will not be back tomorrow until the 4.45 train, as I must raise the Palestine question in the House. My Jewish colleagues have left me alone, as it is now the three days of the Feast of Pentecost.

Much love. John