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millions of people like us allowed such men to lead
us to where we are today. It is perhaps as well that
countless people today are too politically unconscious to
realize that the loss of their husbands + sons + fathers
in the last war, was quite in vain, because they
themselves have allowed the present situation to come
to pass. I feel tolerably certain that the big mistake
made by you + I (in particular, because you + I are
better than most other people) in that we have far too
much respect + even reverence for the people in
high places. Whereas, in reality, they are just very
ordinary bloody people with those particular faults
mentioned above + who have acquired the habit of
ruling + I know very well that my contact such
as it has been, with my superiors in the army , has
assisted me to this view. Really, I think now
that our whole system of Government is all wrong
- but I do not feel like trying to make myself
clear, a difficult job in any case at the moment.
What other news have I ? Really none, my
darling. I have written myself into a better mood,
thank God. but there is so little to tell you. I should
like to think of something funny, in order to
make you laugh, but there has been nothing really.
I think I will now read childhood Boyhood +
Youth in bed + finish this tomorrow. that book
has a further advantage, as you wrote such a dear
inscription on the fly leaf. Kisses my darling - XXX H.