p.

6.

not the guts & initiative to make a decision & allow
them to come here. There is quite enough suffering &
sudden death in the world today, without our so called
ruling classes contributing to it with their peculiar
mixture of idleness, snobishness, & ineffectuality.

I had a very sweet letter from your ma three days
ago (dated Jan 8~ - & your last one is Dec 30~. it is
infuriating) - she told me how well & pretty you
looked. & she was [enrolling?] Maxie. I like her
letters very much - they are so much more interesting
& human than my own mother's. I have also had
from her a Xmas number of the sporting & Dramski
which, at 2/6, is a big waste of money - & a very
pleasant calendar. She was telling me that you & I
must take an interest in our local politics after the
war. & that this would be the stepping stone to greater
things. I suppose you have been talking to her,
darling. In any case, I quite agree. & I hope to
goodness we can do something. I know that I feel
extremely strongly, & even violently, about things at the
moment. And far more than wanting to see [shot?],
Hitler & Mussolini & their Japanese counterpart - I
want to shoot Baldwin, & Simon, & Chamberlain, if
the miserable man were still alive. Those men, &
many others with them, are undoubtedly responsible for
the fact that Germany was ever allowed to get to a
position to begin this war. And it was not a case
of making mistakes - it was down right dishonesty &
selfishness, coupled with the usual [admixture?] of
idleness, snobishness & uneffectuality. And you & I