Thomas Marlowe,the editor of the Daily Mail for 27 years complained that "journalism has been killed by newspaper owners".

http://spartacus-educational.com/Thomas_Marlowe.htm

The Daily Sketch (February, 1948)

The State medical service is part of the Socialist plot to convert Great Britain into a National Socialist economy. The doctors' stand is the first effective revolt of the professional classes against Socialist tyranny. There is nothing that Bevan or any other Socialist can do about it in the shape of Hitlerian coercion.

http://spartacus-educational.com/Lhealth48.htm

Sylvia Henley, letter to Anthony Morton Henley (9th May, 1915)

As we went to bed, the PM said he must show me his room. I was rather against this, as his affectionate nature gets the better of his wisdom, as you know. But there was no gainsaying him. We were standing talking, his arm around me, of books... I knew for certain he would exact a kiss from me, and knowing this I was glad it should be one of sympathy for that part of his life that I know about. And I told him how much love and sympathy I felt for him and kissed him - he can't do without affection... To me it is always a blot that the PM cannot like one without the physical side coming in so much. I should like him so much better if he held my hand and did not paw so much.

http://spartacus-educational.com/Sylvia_Henley.htm

In November 1914, Reginald Hall, director of Naval Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy, received reports that the German authorities were using the postal system to communicate with agents in Britain. He brought this to the attention of Vernon Kell, the Director of the Home Section of the Secret Service Bureau. Hall insisted "that all foreign mails are opened and that no secret messages gets through". Hall was told that the government was unhappy even with the existing level of censorship. Hall then went to see Winston Churchill, who agreed to provide £1,600 to fund this new system of censorship.

Three weeks later, the Home Secretary, Reginald McKenna, discovered what Hall had done. McKenna had a meeting with Hall and told him that the penalty for tampering with the Royal Mail was two years in jail. However, when Hall explained the problem he gave permission for the opening of letters to continue and funds were found to employ 170 men to open letters that had been posted abroad.

http://spartacus-educational.com/SShallW.htm

Churchill on Bevan's plan for the NHS. "he will be as great a curse to his country in time of peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war."

http://spartacus-educational.com/TUbevan.htm

Violet Asquith on the marriage of Venetia Stanley and Edwin Montagu.

Curious and disturbing news reached us on Wednesday evening of Montagu's engagement to Venetia... Montagu's physical repulsiveness to me is such that I would lightly leap from the top story of Queen Anne's Mansions - or the Eiffel Tower itself to avoid the lightest contact - the thought of any erotic amenities with him is enough to freeze one's blood. Apart from this he is not only very unlike and Englishman - or indeed a European - but also extraordinarily unlike a man... He has no robustness, virility, courage, physical competency - he is devoured by hypochondria - which if it does not spring from a diseased body must indicate a very unhealthy mind. As against this he has imagination, ambition, fire in his stomach (my favourite quality!) and real generosity and powers of devotion. A better friend than lover I should say.

I asked Montagu about the religious difficulty - he replied "we can get round that". I have since learned that by getting round it - he meant Venetia going through it. This shocked me to the marrow. To renounce England and Christianity - even if one has never held it - at the dead bidding of foul old Lord Swaythling and to secure his filthy £10,000 a year - for that to renounce one's religion and take on a new one - become a Jew - seems to me the most impossibility, squalidly cynical antic.

It is true that Venetia believes nothing - has no spiritual "apprehension" whatever - but she then is not entitled to masquerade as a believing of the case. She seemed quite calm - rather cheerful than happy - admitted she felt no "glow" about it and used one phrase which haunted me "there was nothing else much there". I cannot help feeling she would have done anything else if there had been.

http://spartacus-educational.com/Edwin_Montagu.htm

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Lawrence Jones on Venetia Stanley: "Venetia had dark-eyed, aquiline good looks and a masculine intellect. I delighted in her and we were close friends; but she permitted herself, in the morning of her youth, no recourse to her own femininity. She carried the Anthologies in her head, but rode like an Amazon, and walked the high garden walls of Alderley (her family's home in Cheshire) with the casual stride of a boy. She was a splendid, virginal, comradely creature, reserving herself for we knew not what use of her fine brain and hidden heart."

http://spartacus-educational.com/Venetia_Stanley.htm

Havelock Ellis: "The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."

http://spartacus-educational.com/TUhavelock.htm