"The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill"
"The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten"
"Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew"