Sla,—In a recent interchange of "news-matter," I was graced with
dilapidated and much-handled Spectator. Deprived of news of h peopleain the Old Country were thinking, it is invigorating to know t the generations of W. M. Crook and "Private" are both thinking all —politically. I refer to "Letters to the Editor" of that issue. It be of interest to you to know that, like "Private, Somewhere in land," those of us serving "in the blue somewhere in the Middle Ea are also giving thought to "Post-War Parties." Unfortunately I nr the earlier correspondence, but, while an ardent young Liberal "Private," am convinced that the " thinking " (not necessarily intellect young people of today ardently desire, and will strive when the comes, to build a political machine to implement existing principles of political parties. I have been amazed by the faithfulness to " honour and colour" during my stay in the Army, and can ariPrec' why Lord Cecil and Lady Violet Bonham Carter find thernsth attached to such opposite parties. At all times they fulfil their duties as "true gentleman and gallant lady" should, but would P their appearance on the same platform down to the fact that as Thsra who once so aptly retorted, when confronted by his opponents. " he was nothing but a Tory in disguise" (he was then an ardent Rad. replied "That the closest thing to a Tory in disguise was a Whig power "! Harold Nicolson's "Marginal Comment" went down T well, but I would remind him that Tommy Atkins will have little for "hate" in the post-war Europe, however their " gallant " allies
He will be more concerned as the P.M. said to Congress last
ern ber "That we owe it to ourselves, to our children and to man- to make sure that these catastrophes do not engulf us for the third ." Of Westminster and present-day debates I am reminded of the of Thucydides—" Realise while there is time, the inscrutable of war and how when protracted it generally ends in becoming a matter of chance ; over which neither of us can have any control, event being equally unknown and equally hazardous to both. The' ortune is that in their hurry to go to war, men begin with blows when a reverse comes upon them, they have recourse to words." tinned success and best wishes for The Spectator.—Yours faithfully,
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