10 DECEMBER 1943, Page 14

THE RISING GENERATION

Snt,—I am not particularly convinced by Mr. Nicolson's suggestion that the rising generation is a forsaken and abandoned one. On the contrary, as far as any generalisation is true, it strikes me as being a remarkably sane generation, combining intellectual honesty with a reasonable sense of values. It will probably be found that disillusioned cynicism ended with Hillary's generation, and will be the exception rather than the rule in the