SIR, — Is not the controversy between Mr. Nicolson and Mr. Curry
a little beside the mark? It is possible that Mr. Curry unduly ignores the formidable lions in the path of Federal Union. I have not read his book, and can offer no opinion. But does not Mr. Nicolson err on the other side? He seems overawed by the lions. Yet, having argued that they are an insuperable obstacle in the path, he concludes : "I believe that with patience we can and must achieve some- thing like the United States of Europe" (my italics).
Excellent. But will he tell us how that goal can be reached without some surrender of national sovereignty ; in other words, some measure of federal union?
The lions that face Mr. Curry are the same lions that oppose Mr. Nicolson's "can and must." How does he propose to deal with them in order to translate his imperatives into the
accomplished fact?—Yours, &c., A. G. GARDINER. Princes Risborough.
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