Subjects include: the General Election; Churchill's and Randolph Churchill's constituency campaigns; [Arthur] Christopher Soames's duodenal ulcer; tensions in Randolph's marriage to June Churchill [earlier June Osborne]; work on Volume IV of the war memoirs; Chartwell [Kent], including the black swans, improvements in the farms, particularly Bardogs, the cattle, the stud farm, "the sulky, ill-mannered cat" and Rufus the poodle; the racehorse Colonist II's entry in the Winston Churchill Stakes; sending paintings to the Royal Academy summer exhibition; the follies of Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary]; a stay at Marrakech [Morocco], December 1950; painting; a dinner with Thami El Glaoui [Pasha of Marrakech]; work on Volume VI of the war memoirs; the situation in Korea.