GRIM BELLIGERENCY
—Mr. Harold Nicolson has touched on a fundamental failing in war effort—the lack of any spirit or zest in the prosecution of this for freedom and democracy—words used so often and understood little. Surely our propagandists could substitute for the empty an and the dull hatred produced by fear a call to drive the war successful end so that a new war may be declared, a war in which civilised nation can fight side by side against disease, against alor and against the stupidity that has landed the world in the nt mess. And this dramatised idea of a new and constructive if properly developed, would perhaps animate the word freedom;
d perhaps give " democracy" a touch of reality, so that it would only be, but seem, worth fighting for.—Your obedient servant,
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