Letter from London

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British Pacifism The other day, I had a letter from a friend who resigned from the govern- ment last year-a historian of_ the first order, a Member of Parliament for about fifteen years, and, in my opinion, the best political brain we have. He wrote: “I am frightened for my coun- try.” I have just had a letter from a lecturer in economics at the City of London College, a man with an extra- ordinary ft.air. He writes: “I share your pessimism over our present situ- ation, but on domestic as well as on foreign affairs. It isn’t so much that the Russians are outmaneuvering us as that our latent pacifism has cor- rupted clear thinking. In any case, Macmillan strikes me as a feeble and vulgar Foreign Minister and Eden as a nothing. The Government’s a bad team; it lacks courage. Monckton is far too ready for bonhomie, far too reluctant to risk unpopularity. Butler knows what the domestic canker ls, but seems also to fear to speak plainly. It is a Government of Equivocators.

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l..£tter from London

British Pacifism The other day, I had a letter from a friend who resigned from the govern- ment last year-a historian of_ the first order, a Member of Parliament for about fifteen years, and, in my opinion, the best political brain we have. He wrote: “I am frightened for my coun- try.” I have just had a letter from a lecturer in economics at the City of London College, a man with an extra- ordinary ft.air. He writes: “I share your pessimism over our present situ- ation, but on domestic as well as on foreign affairs. It isn’t so much that the Russians are outmaneuvering us as that our latent pacifism has cor- rupted clear thinking. In any case, Macmillan strikes me as a feeble and vulgar Foreign Minister and Eden as a nothing. The Government’s a bad team; it lacks courage. Monckton is far too ready for bonhomie, far too reluctant to risk unpopularity. Butler knows what the domestic canker ls, but seems also to fear to speak plainly. It is a Government of Equivocators.