6/41 He is a very capable fellow.' The last I saw of him was on the Saturday afternoon when I met him in St james's Street and offered to shake hands. He told me that my uniform was a pollution, and made a speech to a small crowd about it. As he departed there was just the suspicion of a wink in his left eye. On Monday I read that he had gone off, and the papers observed that our shores were well quit of him. I had of course to get a Foreign Office passport to leave England, but after that my connection with the Government ceased. |