After lunching with Emil Fuchs, who is doing a wonderful head of Mr. Cartier, the jeweler, looking like Rameses ... I took Dick up to the Numismatic museum with his sledge, and he toboganned outside. Two hundred people came to my exhibition to-day. It is very amusing, all kinds of cranks introduce themselves to me ... some to say they are Bolsheviks, or Communists, and they hand me literature which gives me news of Moscow! Others who tell me how they hate the Bolsheviks, or the Sinn Feiners, or the Knights of Columbus, and so on.
I am always amused by people who want to kill off all Bolsheviks, all Sinn Feiners, all Germans and all Jews.... It would make for a wonderfully emptier world. Perhaps it would be more peaceful! Anyway, it is very emblematic of the Christian spirit of to-day!
Rather an amusing record has been kept for me of some of the remarks, made by people who come, concerning the Russian busts:
“How ugly.”
“How wicked they look.”
“What noble looking men.”
“Lenin is my hero, I love him.”
“Zinoviev looks like a musician.”
“This is Russian propaganda——”
“This is the most perfect anti-Bolshevik propaganda,——”