p.

4.

men under their command.

I think that these will have to be an end to
this "officer class" business both in the army & in
civil life - that there will have to be a great
deal of ruthlessness to bring about this end. I don't
mean a revolution or bloodshed or any such thing.
Better that it takes longer & avoid these horrors -
but it must not take too long, or else it will
be too late, & there will also be the danger
of the charge not taking place at all - or
else it going as far & then sliding back again.
But I do think that there will have to be
a big upheaval in the country & big shaking up
which will bring the best & most able men
to the top where they can govern & run the
country & the counties, the cities & the towns & the
villages & the districts & the companies & the
firms.

I'm afraid this is all pretty jumbled & disconnected
darling - but I have not martialled my thoughts
for the letter, they are not particularly coherent
anyway. Partly because my main job is running
this Coy & not planning the future of the world
& partly because I have nobody to whom I can
really talk. But perhaps you will get the
hang of my state of mind & I hope you will
feel that you are more or less with me: