Books from lecture other day arrived ‘Christian approach to Communism’ [by Tiran Nersoyan, an Armenian Christian priest in America] which seems very interesting. zbp zrl zpn
Gramophone after tea—2nd Movement ‘Clock’ Haydn is very lovely. I wish I could write down everything I think. zmu zdw
Saturday 20th
… I read ‘Christian — Communism’ in English—very concentrated and deep, which defies first reading—but all the more satisfying when read. zbp zrl zpn
… After tea I went out by myself on bike to the Gannel—a lovely hazy blue evening with a yellow sunset on the water, the tide being right in. Solitude is enjoyable too for itself. Otherwise I listened to the gramophone … zcy zds zem zmu
Quite good games after supper. Have finished Edgar Snow book on Red China—I’d like recent news. zgn zbp
Sunday 21st
Roger and I went far up Penpoll, finding nice fields and thickets, hearing the chiff chaff, and seeing a common snipe, brown owl and the pair of buzzards. A good morning. Back late for JTC (not sorry to miss it) with king cups and catkins to supplement the blackthorn decoration in our room. zwk zwl zct
… at nine o’clock the Prime Minister speaking. At 9.20, just as he got interesting, we were sent to bed, to my intense annoyance; and with the result of profanity and bitter reflections on the democratic nature of this x school, country and world. zpl zpn zem
Our basin gave up the ghost and parted in twain, the front falling on the floor and, being full of water, drenching the study below. … zac
Monday 22nd
… a school lecture on the war by Capt. Gammon MP. Quite good, in fact very good on the war, but outrageous on the freedom under the Union Jack (it must also be symbolic of power), and untruthful or uninformed about conditions of labour in the USSR—bayonets, told where and how zlu zpn zru zwp
