5 JULY 1946, Page 4

I am indebted to my friend and contemporary Ovid (my

longevity secures me an abnormal number of contemporaries) for an exhorta- tion which at the moment seems apposite. Duly Englished (by Viscountess Grey of Falloclon) it runs: 0 Janus! give us, peace ;

Eternal make peace-makers ; Nor let the arbiters of peace Their work abandon.

Well, I will do my best. But as for making peace-makers eternal 1 have my reservations. To perpetuate some of the present ones might make Armageddon' too certain.

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