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"es steckte weit mehr dahinter", in
which the king, & Winston & Mosley &
the distressed areas came in & Mrs
S. was only a pretext. The articles
in L'Illustration for 10th of this month
show what peril a well-informed French
writer thought we - and if we, they - were
in, writing just before the actual abdication.
What there is in all this I know not.
I am just thanlful it happened
as it did & to let the incident drop
into oblivion.

I was reminded (by Ld George Scott)
of the story familiar to both of us about Arthur Douglas and
Queensberry (the bruiser). The latter had
quartered himself at Comlongon for
many weeks & after he left, wrote
some letters, which provoked A.J.D.
into writing a hot reply, which wound
up with a resignation of the agency