23 JANUARY 1942, Page 4

A paragraph in Viscount Samuel's article on the Atlantic Charter

in the current Contemporary states so crisply succinctly an often-ignored political truth that I quote for the benefit of any who may care to lay it up in their minds: " Sonic insist that we have to choose between international anarchy on the one hand and Federal Union on the other. I would subnor that this is a false dilemma. Continually in pplitics we are con. fronted with a choice between A and B, when most of the id of the alphabet may be open." As a general statement of an

important truth the last sentence could hardly be bettered. * * * *