A Night at the Savile

Last week I was invited to the Savile to hear Simon Heffer talk about Chips Channon’s diaries, of which he has edited two volumes with one more due in September.

More Chips

Chips Channon’s misjudgements about the course of the war and politics make good reading.

Reading the Runes

It’s April 1940; I am 300 pages into Chips, Vol II, 1938 – 1943.

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Channon and Cowles

I have opened a present, received in September, sent by a friend in Oregon; sensibly he used the services of Venetia Vyvyan, across the river, not the pond, in Barnes but I wanted to save it for Christmas.

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