10 MAY 1940, Page 16

SIR,—" Federal Union" are apparently to be the blessed words

to be used to replace "Collective Security," to ensure that we shall again weaken ourselves after this war, and thereby make it quite certain that another war will soon take place for which we shall once against be unprepared.—Yours faithfully, P.S.—I trust that you will approve of this letter as being a model of war-time economy, and yet saying all that is necessary.