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Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Has been working on the Old Age Pensions Bill. Has discussed the Penrhyn ...,

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Has been working on the Old Age Pensions Bill. Has discussed the Penrhyn case with Haldane before breakfast that morning, but he is not at all optimistic. Has had his 'elaborate opinion' printed confidentially. May be unable to reach Caernarvon on Thursday as he is totally absorbed by the pension scheme.

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Has been prevented from playing golf by the snow, and so has been ...,

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Has been prevented from playing golf by the snow, and so has been working on Old Age Pensions on which he is to speak in the House on Monday. The previous night's Court was 'banal & futile in the extreme'. Megan derives great pleasure from the preparations for such functions.

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. 'Haldane just returned from Balmoral. Said the King was very excited over my ...,

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. 'Haldane just returned from Balmoral. Said the King was very excited over my attack on Philip Snowden. Had the passage specially marked. Then Prince of Wales came in. He also full of it. They were delighted more particularly with passage about Liberal party remedying grievances of all classes & not merely of one. Laughed heartily over my taunting Snowden with being a Tory!' Asquith is to go to Balmoral that day. They are preparing for an election in January. There is, therefore, no intention to push the Budget through in a hurry.

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Had very successful days in the Commons and at Oxford. 'My capture of ...,

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Had very successful days in the Commons and at Oxford. 'My capture of the party yesterday over Married Couples was quite the best thing I have ever done in the House'. In all the married couples cost no more than £334,000, '& I have rallied all the party with that concession to resist further pecuniary demands'.

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Had spent three hours with the officials of the Inland Revenue and is ...,

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Had spent three hours with the officials of the Inland Revenue and is going now to play golf with Sir Francis Edwards. Has been investigating Estate Duty, discovering that the Exchequer is deprived of much revenue every year. Dick's progress. Includes a note from Margaret Lloyd George: family news.

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Had a long audience with Edward VII this afternoon on the Budget - ...,

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Had a long audience with Edward VII this afternoon on the Budget - 'He was very nice'. After D. Lloyd George had cleared up a few points, the King 'seemed delighted & told me to come to see him whenever I liked. He gave me a cigar out of his pocket & said it was so much easier to talk when we were smoking. I must keep him in tow'. The Committee stage of the Budget has been most successful. Dined last night with Lord Robert Cecil who was 'very amused at my chaf of Balfour'.

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. 'Got on well with Kitchener. Great driving force but no mental power - ...,

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. 'Got on well with Kitchener. Great driving force but no mental power - that is my reading of him. Hard eyes - relentless - without a glimmer of human kindness'. Is looking forward to seeing William George the next day or Tuesday. Pities R. O. Davies - 'Considerable gifts neutralized by still more considerable defects'.

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Goes to Brighton the next day. 'The Lords are in for it. I ...,

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Goes to Brighton the next day. 'The Lords are in for it. I am delighted that at last I have succeeded in manoeuvring them into this position. My Limehouse and Newcastle speeches & my Nation article more especially were deliberately designed to drive them into this imbecility. If our men act with common prudence & courage the Peers are done for & that barrier to progress will be a ruin'.

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