"Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government."
"No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris."
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Source: In conversation with Anthony Eden, 23 December 1935, following Samuel Hoare's resignation as Foreign Secretary on 18 December 1935, in Earl of Avon 'Facing the Dictators' (1962) pt. 2, ch. 1
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