Had some fun at school, but was unfortunate enough to run against Fr. Dalton as I was turning a corner of the corridor and knocked him against the wall. He was very nice about it. I am getting into a lot of bad scrapes lately. I apologised afterwards, and he was not at all cross as I expected, but told me ‘not to worry’. Great excitement about the matches which are coming off. We are all practising very hard. Was thinking about politics this afternoon. Ireland is a Free State, cut off from northern Irish Parliament, and with Cosgrave as president, Tim Healy, and J. G. Walsh (Fear an Phoist) [the postman] are notable characters. George V is figure-head of England with Baldwin as Prime Minister. Germany is a republic with Hindenburg as president. France is likewise a republic, and is engaged, together with Spain, in trying to crush Abd El Krim, the heroic native chief of Morocco, good luck to him! He is also at war with the Druses in Syria. I thought these notes might be interesting in some years to come.
