Letters of Menzies to family

Start Date
01 January 1938
End Date
31 December 1955
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Physical Context
MS 4936-Papers of Sir Robert Menzies/Class. Consignment received 1993/File 2
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Australia House,  

London, W.C. 2.  

6th August 1Θ38  

My dear Belle,  

You will no doubt have seen my earlier family letters  

which have, am afraid, been not too frequent, but my time  

has been really remarkably fully occupied.  

At the week-end of July 16th Pat and went to stay  

at Cliveden with Lord and Lady Astor. It was very amusing  

party. Lady Astor is good-hearted and dynamic person with  

complete disregard for other people’s corns. All the  

members of the famous Cliveden intellectual set were present;  

Lord Lothian and Lionel Curtis, who are always writing and  

talking on the problems of Government in the world; Sir Thomas  

Inskip, the Minister for Defence Co-ordination; and Geoffrey Dawson  

the editor of The Times.  

On Sunday afternoon we went across to Eton and had  

look at the picturesque old red-brick buildings and the really  

lovely playing fields lying along the bank of the Thames. Â»â€˜e  

attended the school Chapel and were much impressed with the  

cheerful appearance and vigorous singing of the hundreds of boys  

present. Eton is in some ways much more like University,  

the boys enjoy considerably more freedom than the average  

schoolboy would in Australia, Each has his own room and appears,  

of course, magnificently attired in morning clothes and tophat.  

Apropos of this, school costumes have their own special  

rules. Only the boys in the Sixth Form are allowed to wear  

butterfly collars and bow ties, all the others wearing double  

collars and white ties. boy who is member of the school  

Society known as Pop wears dab of sealingwax on his tophat.  

When boy reaches certain stage in the school he is allowed to  

wear trousers that are turned down at the bottom; until then he  

must always wear cuffs on his trousers. Sixth Form boy is  

permitted to wear trvusers of any shade that he likes, the  

result being that they appear in the most magnificent checks.  

Our guide, young Dawson, was really comical spectacle because,  

with his tophat and well-cut morning clothes, he wore pair  

of shoes the soles of which were about half an inch thick and  

covered with football studs. However, this has been going on  

for many generations and nobody sees anything funny in it.  

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