Some of Lady Avon's friends may have concealed their true views about Suez. For example, Isaiah Berlin assured "dearest Clarissa" that Eden had acted with "great moral splendour", describing his stance as "very brave", "very patriotic" and "absolutely just", while opining to another acquaintance that his policy had been "childish folly". Lady Avon herself recalled that, though she sought to "bolster up" her husband and scanned the newspapers for anything that she thought he ought to know, she did not feel she "knew enough about what was going on to try and interfere in any way". Even so, her knowledge of the inner workings of Government was such that she was able to record in her diary the precise stance, at a critical point of the Suez operation, of every member of the Cabinet:was asked in turn what they felt about going on. Selwyn [Lloyd, Alec Home, Harold Alan [Lennox-Boyd, Anthony Head, Peter [Sir David Eccles, Duncan James Stuart, Gwilym [Lloyd George, and Hailsham were for going on. [Lord Kilmuir, Heathcoat Amory, [Iain Macloed, Bobbety Salisbury, Patrick Buchan-Hepburn were for doing whatever Anthony wanted and Lord Selkirk was unintelligible.