QUAKERS AND THIS WAR.
[To THE EDITOR OP TR! ..sramros."3 Srn,—Your note to my letter of last week describes my "ignorant and arrogant" remarks about our diplomacy as based on the "ill-informed grumbling" of one public man, and the "chatter" of another. It is right to say that this is not so. My opinion on the Morocco affair is derived from Mr. Morel's Ten Years of Secret Diplomacy, a carefully written and well-documented work, issued as a new edition by the Union of Democratic Control for a shilling, and, so far as I know, unanswered. I think you would find it very informing: and I cannot plead " ignorance" for my view, how- ever perverse. The arrogance must be a matter of opinion. To be just, one has to guard against one's strong bias for one's own people, and I am proud to believe that Great Britain has nothing to fear from a judgment scrupulously just, and that history will make of our share in this tragedy a 'creditable record, and place the blame mainly elsewhere. But you will not wish me to argue the question at length.—I [If Mr. Graham will refer to the Spectator of June 8th, 1912, p. 910, be will find expressed there our view of Morocco in Diplomacy, by E. D. Morel (" The Dreams of Mr. Morel"). We show in the aforesaid notice that, instead of Mr. Morel's book being authoritative, it is a black jungle of prejudioe- " a muddy mixture of pride and ignorance."—En. Spectator.]
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