Subjects include: French and British air strength, the Air Ministry giving out misleading figures and the possibility that [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] did not want to know the truth; a stay with Maxine Elliott at Chateau de l'Horizon, and with [Marguerite] Daisy Fellowes [earlier Daisy de Broglie] at Cap Martin in the south of France, January 1938, including a dinner with the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII] and Duchess of Windsor [earlier Wallis Simpson]; Churchill's worries about the political situation in France; realisation of the poor state of the Royal Air Force; editing volume IV of the biography of 1st Duke of Marlborough; work on the archive room and cottage at Chartwell [Kent] and news of the rose garden and livestock, including the escape of the black swans and trouble with the parrot, July and December 1938; a case involving Duncan Sandys's possible prosecution under the Official Secrets Act [after he asked questions in Parliament on national security]; attacks against Chamberlain in the Beaverbrook press; sales of "Arms and the Covenant"; public opinion about Britain in the United States; work on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", December 1938; concerns about Clementine's health; support for Churchill in his Epping constituency [Essex]; the chances of war; a crisis in the Government, with some Under-Secretaries threatening to resign; the birth of Edwina Sandys; Duncan Sandys's and Randolph Churchill's plan for a new political party; [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon]'s refusal to rejoin the Government unless it changed course; Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames]'s goat-breeding project; the death of [Clementine's former fiancé], Sir Sidney Peel.