His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.

Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.

Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.