28 JULY 1950, Page 5

A lot of the resolutions are pure verbiage, a few

are sensible and constructive. But the general effect is of a large number of small- minded people with little grasp of realities, scant sense of responsi- bility, uncompromising intolerance towards anyone whose outlook differs from theirs and envy of everything (except responsibility) that they think anybody else has got and they haven't. I suppose that in practice most of these resolutions are drafted and passed by rather tiresome busybodies, for I really can't believe that so many of my fellow-countrymen are such dreary, covetous, impractical fools as would appear from this document.