5 JULY 1945, Page 6

Mrs. Churchill's little booklet My Visit to Russia (Hutchinson, is

contains many observations of interest about the particular .obj of her mission—to cement Anglo-Russian friendship on the basis the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund, of £7,o0o,000. which she rais by her personal appeal. But what particularly struck me was o casual statement, unadorned by comment : " The Russians, by way, have given up co-educational schools ; they have decided th the idea will not work." This seems to me a significant indicatio of the way Russian thought is moving. New experiments—eas divorce, abortion for the asking—are tried, found wanting an unhesitatingly abandoned. I do not suggest for a moment that Russ is becoming reactionary, but there is clearly a tendency to react

in certain spheres. 4!