p.

2.

they are lazy & easy going - they make no real war
effort - they behave like animals sexually, the married
ones as bad if not worse than the single ones - the latter
of whom I could understand & sympathise with
them having girl friends & sleeping with them but
not standing in queues for the same whore in
the same brothel - & they nearly all without
exception, when the war is over, will go back to
England, & be perfectly content to carry on their old
useless lives & never think for a moment again of
how this war came about & what is going to be
done to prevent it all happening again.

There seems to me to be a tremendous scarcity of
men with honest minds, unselfish & good living, &
who at the same time have brains & ability &
energy & ambition & who at the same time
have consciences & right ideas. And so long as
our country is ruled by people whose only qualities are
money and for influence and/or family, on the one side,
& other people who have brains & energy but which
are exerted to their own ends - so long will we
continue to slide into troubles & conflicts & wars,
& all the misery & destruction which they bring
with them.

To come back to myself a little - I find myself beaming
rather priggish & very impatient of inefficiency & ineffectiveness
& complacency & general gutlessness & general
unsuitability. This may be wrong, as it is difficult &
perhaps rather revolting to imagine a world in
which everybody was not deficient in those