Subjects include: worries about Clementine's health; stays by Churchill at La Pausa with Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], and Wendy Reves, Roquebrune [France]; the health of Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill and Diana Bailey]; meeting Aristotle Onassis; visits from [Marguerite] Daisy Fellowes, earlier Daisy de Broglie, R A Butler and [William] Somerset Maugham; work on ["A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"] with Churchill's literary assistants, [Richard] Denis Kelly and Alan Hodge; taking Anthony Montague Browne on as a private secretary; house hunting in the south of France; Clementine's a voyage to Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] with Sylvia Henley; difficulties for the Prime Minister [Sir (Robert) Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon], particularly in defence; taking Toby [the budgerigar] out to France; the health of Pamela, Lady Lytton [earlier Pamela Plowden]; a weekend at Chartwell [Kent], February 1956, and having memories of the battle of Omdurman stirred by watching the film "The Four Feathers"; going to Düsseldorf [Germany] to see Churchill's racehorse Le Pretendant run, July 1956; the build up to the Suez Crisis; concerns about it coming to war, and the hostility of Libya and Jordan; unfavourable national opinion on Suez, and the views of [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [Chancellor of the Exchequer, later 1st Lord Stockton]; the film rights for "My Early Life"; a gift of Rusty the lion; an operation on Rufus the poodle; using a hearing aid; trouble between 'the Prof' [1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann] and Duncan Sandys [Minister of Housing and Local Government] [relating to a planned road in Oxford]; the Government's commitment to sending troops to Egypt; Le Pretendant's win [at Kempton Park, Surrey], October 1956; Randolph Churchill's libel action [against the People newspaper]; starting a new painting at Roquebrune; possibly renting a villa at Monte Carlo [Monaco].