It is irritating, of course, to be asked such questions
by well-intentioned people living three thousand miles away from the danger zone. Yet the duty of those of us who love, and try to understand, America is to banish irritation and to increase understanding. We must realise in the first place that the American public have for years adopted what the Prime Minister would call an " emotional " attitude towards this struggle of liberty against violence. For them the issue is a single issue between law and anarchy, between right and wrong. They do not understand why we, who proclaim ourselves to be the champions of freedom, should have made so many compromises with its opposites. For them Manchukuo, Abyssinia, Spain and Munich were sinister diplomatic bargains with the powers of evil. Even today they doubt whether St. George really wants to slay a dragon to whom in the past he has given so many and such nutritious cakes.
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