19 NOVEMBER 1937, Page 42

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — I think many under-thirties

will be grateful to you for instituting this series of articles ; for it seems to me that it will clearly demonstrate three things : (t) We are yet uncertain and undecided as a whole about modern problems, however eager to make up our minds about them ; (2) the various, often conflicting, ideologies now popular—the Com- munist's, the Oxford Grouper's, the Liberal's, the Fascist's, the Scoutmaster's—each contain some elements at least that we should all consider good and worth emulating ; and (3) the outline of common ideals for which modern youth could fight wholeheartedly probably lies in a synthesis, usually obscured, of the best elements in those ideologies.—Yours, &c.,