They grow all kinds of fruit in hothouses, and (I can't explain this) good land in admirable cultivation thirty miles from London sells for about half what good corn land in Iowa brings.
Lloyd George has scared the land-owners to death.
Party politics runs so high that many Tories will not invite Liberals to dinner.

They are almost at the point of civil war.

I asked the Prime Minister the other day how he was going to prevent war.

He didn't give any clear answer.

During this recess of Parliament, though there's no election pending, all the Cabinet are all the time going about making speeches on Ireland.