12 MARCH 1943, Page 14

EXPANSION BY RESTRICTION

Snt,—As far as he goes, I agree with every word which Mr. Oscar Hobson writes under the above heading in your issue of March 5th. With the exception of Major R. A. C. Radcliffe, in his most excellent article, "Hack from the Services," in your issue of February 5th, what the majority of writers on this and kindred subjects appear to overlook, however, is the fact that many of the best brains of the country are at present in the Services, many of them overseas. These people are, at present, too busily preoccupied with the actual winning of the war to give much deep thought to the future. Nevertheless, the underlying anxiety is there. They have always before them the things which were allowed to happen aftet the last Great War, and I think we may rely upon them to see that no mysterious "They,"—who has slept throughout the war in his nice warm bed,—will be allowed to dictate too freely on