Disraeli: a picture of the Victorian age

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          <ptr target="ukred-30697">Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943
	F. E. Pollard in the chair.  &lt;br/&gt;

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. &lt;br/&gt;

[...] &lt;br/&gt;

6. Edith Smith opened the evening of miscellaneous readings by reading part of a 
short story “The Man with No Face” by Dorothy Sayers. She left the murder 
mystery tantalizingly unsolved, but gave us a clever and amusing picture of the 
occupants rightful and encroaching of a  1st-class railway carriage. &lt;br/&gt;

7. Mary Stansfield read from a collection of letters written by Freya Stark entitled 
“Letters from Syria”. These were written some years ago in an atmosphere of 
peace &amp; tranquility. A particularly beautiful description of the writer’s first sight of 
the Greek Islands recalled to F. E. Pollard his voyage there with Charles 
Stansfield, about which he gave us some interesting and amusing reminiscences. 
&lt;br/&gt;

8. Arnold Joselin Read Boswells account of his first meeting with Johnson and then 
“My Streatham Visit” by Frances Burney in which she describes meeting Johnson at 
Thrale Hall and records some of the conversation at the dinner table. &lt;br/&gt;

9. [...] we listened to F. E. Pollard reading about “The Functional Alternative” from 
a pamphlet published by the Royal Institute of International Affairs entitled “A 
Working Peace System” by David Mitrany. The author suggests that in Post-War 
Europe we should pursue a line of action similar to that adopted by President 
Roosevelt in America in 1932/33. This started a lively discussion during which it 
became apparent that federal union does not function in the Pollard family. &lt;br/&gt;

10. Reverting to more tranquil times Howard Smith read from André Maurois’ “Life 
of Disraeli”. This led to the suggestion that Parliamentary speeches of today might 
be improved if they contained more personal venom &amp; we were assured that 
Eleanor Rathbone is doing her best to liven things up. &lt;br/&gt;

11. Muriel Stevens read from The Autobiography of a Chinese Girl” by Hsieh Ping-
Ying. This proved to be a suitably soothing and uncontroversial ending to a most 
varied and interesting evening. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;

[signed as a true record by] Howard R. Smith
6/10/1943 [at the club meeting held at Frensham: see Minute Book, p. 161]</ptr>
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