A column by Geoffrey Levy in Saturday's Daily Mail cited a diary entry Ralph Miliband made at 17 during World War II, in which he despaired at the complacency of the British and their mistrust of foreigners.
In the piece, Levy cited a diary entry that Ralph Miliband wrote when he was seventeen years old, having just fled the Nazis, in which he ruminated on the fierce nationalism, even jingoism, of the Brits: "They have the greatest contempt for the Continent.
Last month Clarence House (the Queen and Prince Charles attend on alternate years) suddenly decided to pull out of the royal film performance, citing a "diary clash".
Mr. Bagley cites a diary entry made by Young's brother-in-law and Indian interpreter, Dimick Huntington, after a meeting between the Mormon leader and Paiute chiefs on Sept. 1, 1857.
The new Labour leader, who is chairman of the group and had been listed as a guest speaker at its meeting in London, cited a "busy diary" but said he remained "very much committed" to the group's aims.
Mr. Standen cited a recent photo diary from Fashion Week, which included a candid image of Axl Rose taken very late into the night and one of Stefano Pilati's dogs asleep on his couch.
But he cites a crammed diary and suggests the 69-year-old Absolutely Fabulous star meet his deputy mayor for transport and chief of staff.
Re "Should Hospitals Allow Fast Food?" (Business Diary, June 16), which cited a study showing that more than a third of the nation's top hospitals have fast food on the premises: As a registered nurse, I adamantly oppose fast food being served in hospitals.
John Bridcut, in an interesting book about Britten's relationship to children, cites a 1954 pocket diary of Britten's where he has entered his personal details as they were when he was 13, including his bicycle number and his National Savings registration number.
On the facing page Sebald cites a passage from the diary of a man named Friedrich Reck, who shortly before the end of the war was sent to Dachau by the Nazis and died there of typhus.
Within a few months, the original group of writers was then whittled down to 11, partly so that the journals could be easier to track in an in-depth manner – but also because so many of the diary keepers dropped out, citing a lack of motivation and the challenges of keeping a journal.
