210 Kaiser Wilhehris Plan of Invasion [1908 



angry, and I intended, if there was no sufficient verdict, to call an 

 indignation meeting in the parish. It will now, however, come before 

 the Horsham magistrates, and at the Assizes. 



[N.B. — The motorist eventually got two months. I interested my- 

 self for a while in these motor cases, and I think was instrumental in 

 checking the joy-riding. It seemed to me an invasion of the enemy in 

 our peaceful Sussex weald.] 



il Jth Aug. — Chapel Street. To London to see Hudson, who had 

 written to me that he was hopelessly ill. It was a pathetic letter, com- 

 plaining that he was a man without a creed, unlike me, he said, who 

 had the advantage of being a Catholic. It had been written in answer 

 to one I had sent him about his new book on Cornwall, which is a very 

 good one. But when I arrived at his house in the extreme west of 

 London I found he had gone out. [This was the well-known writer 

 of many admirable books, mostly on birds and on his early life in 

 South America.] 



Meynell, who dined with me to-night, professes to know what the 

 King thinks about the danger of a war with Germany, and what the 

 Kaiser Wilhelm's plan is. Wilhelm, as soon as he is ready for it, will 

 throw a corps d'armec or two into England, making proclamation that 

 he has come, not as an enemy to the King, but as grandson of Queen 

 Victoria, to deliver him from the socialistic gang which is ruining 

 the country. He will then in conjunction with the King dissolve parlia- 

 ment, and re-establish the King's autocratic rule as feudatory of the 

 German Empire. Such is the programme, and the King believes in it 

 as true. 



" 10th Aug. — Professor Browne has asked my advice about Persia, 

 he being in despair at the counter-revolution there. I have written 

 advising that he should go to Constantinople, and get the new Turkish 

 Government to take the Persian Constitutionalists by the hand, and bring 

 about an end of the Sunni-Shia feud. I am advising Farid to make 

 common cause with the revolution at Constantinople. Belloc repeats 

 that Grey has privately promised Egypt shall have a Constitution in 

 two years' time. 



" 14th Aug. — Blanche Hozier writes from Blenheim that her daugh- 

 ter Clementine is to marry Winston Churchill. She says of him, ' yes- 

 terday, he came to London to ask my consent, and we all three came on 

 here. Winston and I spoke of you and of your great friendship with 

 his father. He is so like Lord Randolph, he has some of his faults, 

 and all his qualities. He is gentle and tender, and affectionate to those 

 he loves, much hated by those who have not come under his personal 

 charm.' It is a good marriage for both of them, for Clementine is 

 pretty, clever, and altogether charming, while Winston is what the 

 world knows him, and a good fellow to boot." 



