AN AGREED FOREIGN POLICY
SIR,—Might I avail myself of your columns to appeal to the two main parties of the Coalition to try and reach an accord on Foreign Policy before the General Election? Under the provisional arrangements announced by the Prime Minister, the country would be governed by a " Ministry of Caretakers " for anything ,up to six months. During that period, coming, as it inevitably must, at a vital stage in the reconstruction of Europe, events abroad will not stand still. And yet a Foreign Secre- tary of this country, acting merely as a stop-gap between two governments, will be unable, effectively, to represent what he conceives to be the true interests of Great Britain. No foreign government will take into account a policy which may be reversed before the year is out.
Our allies will have no corresponding disadvantage. If Mr. Churchill's estimate of the war in Europe is approximately correct, the United States' Administration will have three more years to run, while the Government of the Soviet Union does not apparently change.
If the leaderslof the Conservative and Labour Parties could agree on a joint Foreign Policy, then the Government of the Interregnum could speak for a united nation during five or six critical months.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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