THE CROSS AND THE CRISIS [To the Editor of THE
SPECTATOR] SIR,—I am sorry Mrs. Richey is shocked, but I really do not think I can plead guilty. For she is shocked by my "facile conception of Democracy and Dictatorship as embodying respectively the forces of good and evil." But this is not at all my conception, and I never said it was. My article does not so much as mention democracy, nor was democracy in my mind when I wrote it ; and how she contrives to extract from the article such a conception, I do not know. I certainly identified evil with "the several dictatorships of Europe," but this is not to suggest that democracy is always and every- where good—a proposition so obviously untrue as not to be worth the space necessary to disclaim it. By the identification Of evil with Fascist dictators I am prepared to stand. After all, there is no criminal in all the world who has as much blood on his hands and misery on his soul as they have.—Yours
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