lord birkenhead was one of my father's best friends. he was called ethi smith and he was a most brilliant. brilliant advocate and became lord chancellor and was eventually made of birkenhead the interesting thing about their great friendship was in those days differences between parties made a very great eat of difference and my father was then a strong radical and if he smith was a high tori and a lot of tourism liberals simply wouldn't consort or speak but father always kept his friendships across the party lines. next photograph is a your father and the independent antisocialist candidate in the abbey division of westminster by-election with clementine. oh, isn't that a good photograph now, that's the photograph that has been seen very little indeed until i was looking for pictures for this book. i hadn't found it. i and i think it was my picture researcher who produced it and i think it's a wonderful photograph. i think it tells you such a lot about them. look there's my father obviously telling my mother something and she's listeni

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