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4 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN FRIDAY JANUARY 7 1955 Letters to the Editor Eooks of the Day VICTORIANS By A. F. Thompson THE YEAR OF THE BOMB 4 -F Victorian People. By Asa Briggs. Odhams.

men like Smiles. Thomas Hushes, anti J- To Editor 0 the Manchester Guardian Sir, Your leading article "The Year of the Bomb is as heartening as Mr Isaac Deutscher's contribution of two days before was demoralising. Mr B- 1 oS- Trollope and how these values, con- Recosnising the complex variety of an fident and cohesive, moulded and age so rigiriiv labelled Victorian, and con- limited the radicalism of reformers like fining himse'lf to the years between 1851 Roebuck. Bright, and the trade unionist than light, a policy no: of hope but despair. We should neither a unilateral banning of the bomb nor a preservation ot it to our advantage, but international control ot it the power there to frighten off aggression either by East or by Vet.

Oniy along that line can the world find its security The worid may not listen to the voice of reaon anv more r.han Cntholir and land 1867. Mr Briggs has taken Lvtton iwe Vnd Bageho aswe" as the irre! Strachey aavice Row out over sponsible like Disraeli, took for granted that great ocean of material, and lower a certain basic stability, political and down into it, here and there, a little social. But after 1867 the brief, ore-bucket, which will bring up to the light carious balance disaooeared. and doubts of day some characteristic specimen." and difficulties increased, a a npvj pra Protestant in the sixteenth century listened to the moderating advice of "Erasmus, but the worid is doomed if the policies advocated by your leader of December 31 are no: stopped in time. Yours The result is a most readable and infor- opened.

"For some the Victorian age Colin Hindley. 16 Kendal Road. Holcombe Brook. Bury. You admonish your readers to have the strength of the early Christians who were ready to face death, if necessary, for their 1 faith.

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commanders have argued for the use of atomic weapons in war. It is in this mood." he writes. that Moscow has watched intently Moscow does not believe and finally If the decision on the use of some atomic weapons is eventually lef to N.A.T.O. 's Supreme Commander (or. as Moscow sees it, to an American general) the Soviet policy-makers are likely to see this the confirmation of their worst fears.

Those fears mav be unjustified. u-liolly or in part my italicsl. but this does not prevent them determining the Soviet attitude." I suggest that this type of appreciation of the cold war is doubly presumptuous. Mr Deutscher, one may suppose, does not enjoy the confidence of Soviet policy-makers. Nor, equally, is he entitled to make the innuendo that the Soviet Government is partly justified in fearing American or British aggression with atomic weapons.

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Sutherland. Three Assumptions Sir, Your leader of December 31 Is based on three unprovable assumptions ll) That Russia and the Communist world are more likely to use the hydrogen bomb than is the Western World (2) That the balance ot advantage in air-power is likely to remain on our side; and (3) That it is a Christian duty to be prepared to suffer extinction from a hydrogen bomb attack provided our allies have the weapons to give a knock-out blow to the enemy and thus preserve Western civilisation. The first assumption means a mind made up to a world divided, a mind convinced the enemy is Russia, and a fear of Russia and of what communism might mean to the West that is greater than any fear of the hydrogen bomb. Such an assumption, indeed, ignores the fact that not only did the Western world first manufacture an atomic weapon and use it. but that in the history of the Western world no moral scruple has ever restrained a great national Power from pursuing its aims and interests to the uttermost.

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240. 21s. The revival of Dryden and Pope, after have inflicted death and suffering on others in the spread o'f their faith, a position which it seems the Communists and other lotalKarinnijrns are now usurping. If ive are to be like the early Christians should we not all become pacifists, and for those of us who cannot go the whole way with them is it not better to advpeate the'aboli-lion of all atomic weapons and then fight communism face to face and. if needs be.

die fighting, rather than risk an atomic war in which few would have any chance of fighting and the end of the human race is Leonard Cmiru (Northenden. Manchester). You are right to distinguish between those so-called pacifists fmore correctly termed passivis's) "who are moved only by fear of beinir victims of a hydrogen bomb" and pacifists "who are ready to suffer for their faith." You go on to lax-bare one of the crucial misunderstandings between pacifists and non-pacifists when you write about "being ready to fight rather than submit to Communist rule." but I am not sure that you have made it sufficiently dear that the pacifist alternative to fighting is not submission. If this country were to become pacifist and. if in spite of our changed attitude, there were a Russian invasion.

I should hope it would be met by a Churchillitin but nott-tiioloir courage resist domination. I know one can envisage immense practical problems in this idealistic action and it might involve immense personal and national but I believe it would end the things we fear and would give the better chance of saving our civilisation. To quote again: "The early Christians were ready to face death if necessary for their faith we too should have that' strength." I agree. If only we had But it is not the strength that risks an atomic strategv of defence ihat is the reaction of fear. Only good can overcome evil.

Can we ever accumulate enough good on a national scale Doctor (Hertfordshire). This Last Impasse I have never read such defeatism. After reading your leader there is no hope. All Inferno. Unfortunately the rest of the book, much of it about Byron's views on Pope, is baffling.

Sympathetic China 00 as 1 am to ms upholding of Byron's Gd, net ILLOTSON OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS a century of comparative neglect, has claim that Pope is the moral poet of be-jn going on for about thirty years, all civilisation I find myself lost in the True. Mr Robert Graves has recently of Dr Wilson Knight's' argument, i 4.1.. which is repetitive, obscure, and ulti- rejected both as mere hacks of the age Qn'the of obsequiousness," but most readers of mysteries of the occult tradition. Here poetry are now ready to accept them as and there brilliant notions flash out. true servants of the Muse.

Whether soon to be lost in a cloud of Nietzsche, we like one as much as the other is less Rudolf Steiner. and Californian Yoga, certain. To my mind, Dryden is a To the converted Dr Wilson Knight's marvellous translator and song-writer, thesis may be clear, even self-evident with little original to say, while Pope but the unconverted may applaud the is a great poet, possessing an immense critic and deplore the prophet, fecundity of imagery, who combines Mr Kenneth Young's biography, intense social and moral realism with though it contains no such brilliant a magical power to re-create the central insights, is a helpful attempt to present myths of our civilisation. But some Drvden's life and works against their distinguished critics, led by Mr Eliot, background. The publisher's claim that would place them in the reverse order it makes full use of important recent we ought, then, to welcome any new research, largely by American scholars," books that may help us to make up our need not be taken too seriously, since minds.

anyone who writes such a book is bound Dr Wilson Knight has written some to use the vast amount of American of the most inspired pages of Shake- scholarship available. Nor are the spoarean criticism of. our time and some Americans to be blamed for Mr Young's of the things he says about Pope are as inaccurate bibliography, misquotation good as appreciative criticism can be. of Horace, muddling of Hobbes's dates, Included in his book is a long essay and other errors. Mr Young belongs which first appeared in The Burning to the Had you been walking down the Oracle" in a remarkable tribute Strand in 1688 you might have seen a to Pope's genius, in which he goes figure school of biographers.

Some straight to the living heart of the may prefer to have their facts presented poems and shows great sensitivity to in this semi-fictional manner, but 'tis Pope's use of language. He is particu- not to everyone's taste. I'Gad. The second assumption means that peace can only be preserved by keeping a potential enemy in order by the threat of a superior weapon. The answer to that, surely, is that in the history of the Western world no State cr group of States has ever found its security in one superior weapon or preserved the peace by threat of it.

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(DEPI. RESPECTABLE In William III and the Respectable Revolution (Cumberlege for Harvard University Press, pp. 271, 3Gs), Professor Lucile Pinkham, of Carfeton College. Minnesota, oilers a new interpretation you are prepared to saennce is your miserable life thousands of men have been doing that since time began, and what has it got us The hydrogen bomb You are not prepared to sacrifice your position. money, your ideas, your behaviour just your lire in order that we might preserve what we have, under the patriotic banner of Christian individuality! So Christian we cannot even admit when we are wrong.

or if we might be wrong we cannot turn the oilier cheek, not even to a Communist barbarian who is lacking in Christian advantages but certainly not devoid of the knowledge that everything is liable to be destroyed because of intolerance, false prestige, and fear. A terrible yet awe-inspiring material scientific change is in process but where is the change of heart in humanity. To continue this human experiment a change of heart must come one thing is certain, (here are no signs in the Manchester Guardian leaders. Just think of all the brains in the world, all the great leaders, and not one of them can devise or bring about a solution to this last impasse James Robixson (New Maiden. Surrey).

I entirely agree with the concluding words of your leading article. I believe that, like the early Christians, we should meet opposition, and persecution if need be. not with fear and retaliation but with love, in the certainty that God is on our side. This attitude, however, seems to me to be in contradiction to the view taken earlier in your article, where you say "To think in terms of using atomic weapons is horrible but it must be done." I cannot think that Jesus, or even the early Christians, could have accepted such a view. Joan Hewitt (Hitchin).

I hardly think that a Japanese or Asiatics in general would agree that only Communist Powers are capable of using hydrogen bombs as threats, or in reality if considered expedient. They, if not you. still remember Hiroshima. C. R.

Goodali. Chiswick). He who has not rounded off his pieal with these biscuits Paul Klee died in 1940, famous, after a and cheese, has not dined FORTT'S ORIGINAL BATH MVEM prtTlimP lifetime of incessant work that was of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Her fQU 1v, ihesis is that this was "a palace revolu- admtred but not-so felt the analytical Uon t.arried throllgh a critics understood. Since his death the politicians who were more interested in process of understanding and the even acquiring offices than in protecting con- more arduous process of explaining him stitutional rights.

It was not achieved Sold by leading grocers, confectioners and stores Christians were ready to face death if necessary for their faith." it is forgotten that the martyrs were too Christian either to indict death themselves for their faith or even to die that others might do it. To that extent, then, the assumption of a Christian sanction to a policy of hydrogen bomb defence is very much weakened. It was with groat regret that I read the sentiments of this article. As chairman of an organisation in Burv and district which in three summer months secured over thirteen thousand signatures in favour of high-level consultations over the question of the hydrogen bomb. I also regret the change in attitude over this question between April and December.

In April lhc House of Commons was unanimous that (he bomb should be dealt with, and the Foreign Secretary himself said that against this vast issue all other problem dwindled into insignificance." let in the next nine months everv effort was merely concentrated on Western defence and by December it is only Her Majesty's Opposition that wants the bomb dealing with. The Government now desires the bomb that in a mistaken outburst of humani-tananism it formerly deprecated. Our American allies want it. Western Europe wants it. And the Manchester Guardian justifies it.

This, to me. is darkness rather Non4 genuine wfihout'thii Trade Mark I has steadily increased in volume and by nor did it benefit the Common tomoo until, in the larger of these two people the long struggle that began 1 1 BETTER TRY COLLET'S JJX The perfect 1 New Year Resolution take i CHINESE books, one finds a bibliography cover- at Runnymede turned once more in nig fourteen closely packed pages and favour of the heirs of the baronial class enumerating 232 books and articles, and for a century and a half the country Even Blake has not attracted so much was more completely in their grip than pious homage or tempted so many ever before." Cynicism and not ardent interpreters. morality was the keynote to the change That this should have happened was of rulers, and political corruption sttc- inevitable. for Klee, more than any ceeded it. Thus the title to the book other modern artist, not merely stimu- the respectable revolution is ironic lates his critics but demands an entirely the right people look part in it from new kind of critical approach.

Yet after the wrong motives. reading these two books one begins to One is not aware that any historian doubt whether the medium of words is had seen the revolution of 1688 as a of much value except as an indication rising of the common people, compar- that the kind of writing that will able. say. with the French or Russian "explain" Giotto or Rembrandt is revolutions. And.

of course, it is always quite useless for Klee. The fact is that easy to find in such a change motives CHESS No. 297. PROBLEM By C. J.

Morse. London (On'otjial B'-iek '11 Klee himselt has said ana written 01 auiuiuun auu gieeu. dui uiu noi for 1955 FIRST HI Ill For those who delight in Chinese 1 art and writing and for those 1 who have yet to be delighted this cultural magazine is without equal Sketches, articles, folk songs. AMPUTATION AND LONGEVITY Final Conclusions From our Political Correspondent The final conclusions of (he medical committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Ernest Rock Carling, that has been examining the effects of amputations and the wearing of artificial limbs on the health and expectation of life of those injured are published this morning. The committee finds that amputations and artificial limbs do not produce effects on the body as a whole which may initiate or aggravate cardiovascular disorders fo any significant extent.

mi Zf': for Machine Tools -k Sheet Metal Working Machinery Boilers Power Plant -k Contractors' Plant Process Plant Hydraulic Plant Plastics Machinery Steel of any description almost everything that needs saying, not about his art but about his own creative processes. The kind of profound analytical philosophy that Mr Haftmaim brings to bear on Klee's mind and work is impressive but only partially illuminating and the far more detailed documentation the reader will find in Will Grohm.mn's monumental book is even more impressive, but one is reminded of earlier attempts to weigh, photograph, and embalm the human soul. Klee's essence, like a wili-o'-the-wisp. escapes from their elaborate critical apparatus and disappears, giggling, into the empyrean. None the less both books are important.

Will Grohmam-i's, with its indexes, its mass of carefully sorted information, and its wealth of illustrations in colour and half-tone, will now become the standard work to which students will have to refer and in which colour prints, operas and complete novels are included in its 200-odd pages, bringing to life the spirit and tradition of China from the earliest Dynasty right up to the 1 present day much the same statesmen continue to govern the country as before If so. what had they been afraid of surely the Roman Catholic camarilla And while it may be true that the common people did not play much part, the fact remains that James II's policy was opposed by the vast majority of all the clashes that mattered in the counties the gentry and the yeomen as well as the baronage. Though by looking at the subject with fresh American eyes Professor Pinkham gives us a salutary jolt, one is not convinced that her knowledge of British history both before and after the period in question is full enough or that she has made out her case. M. P.

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4iu. so 1, is a work comparable in scale and in the high standard of its scholarship with the great American editions of seventeenth-century parliamentary proceedings. It describes the House of Commons in its year of peaceful revolution, touching only lightly on the members' later careers and the alignments of the Civil War and Interregnum. The most controversial aspects of the subject are therefore avoided. The biographies are further restricted exile has less terrible consequences than it has for the writer, to whom it must mean the loss of his readers and any attempt to give him, if only through translation, a new public must have our sympathy and support.

An excellent essay by Storm Jameson on this man with his tongue cut out launches 21 stories, 27 poems, and six essays by writers of fourteen nationalities and very varied sorts of exile. Of these the poems, mostly translated, fare worst the essays best (outstanding is Madariaga's on Spain's contribution to the West). The stories deal largely with themes of escape, persecution, and violence, and it would be interesting to know whether such subjects were chosen deliberately for this volume, or whether exiled writers do in general dwell so persistently on their unhappy past. If, as it is hoped, this book becomes an annual volume, it may gain enough editorial confidence to show the diversity, the astonishing resilience of mi rurrml affairs firn) lifrrnturp ALEKIHNE'S DEFENCE in flip nhv I by the omission of information available in the Dictionary of National Biography or in the various regional histories of a a a 0 a ewiew parliamentary representation. These When it's Talbot Stead there's control behind these bars self-imposed limits may irritate those 21 QR-QI 23.

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Kt-Kt3; p. Some members of the committee thought that within the limits of the statistics available there was evidence of some slight excess of cardio-vascular disease as compared with the normal population, with fewer deaths from other causes. But the committee as a whole sticks to the view expressed in an interim report published in April, 1951, that this disease has not occurred more frequently, to a significant extent, among the causes of death in those who have lost a limb than in those with serious leg wounds who have not suffered amputation. In some circumstances, states the report, the wearing of an artificial limb is found to be an increasing burden as age advances. Those who feel this may deserve individual reconsideration, though other clasnes of pensioner will also find their disabilities more burdensome with the passage of time." Comparisons The committee makes this comparison of mortality rates of 100 amputees alive in 1930, 25 had died by 1950, compared with 23 of the corresponding general population of 100 wounded pensioners that is non-amputees alive in 1930, 26 had died by 1950 compared with 24 of the corresponding general population.

To reach its final conclusions, the committee hoped to have the results of the medical examination of some 4,500 limbless pensioners and 1,000 wounded pensioners, for which the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance had made arrangements. The report states It is regrettable that the figures obtained by the examination of living amputees failed to provide statistically significant evidence largelv because of the failure of a considerable number of those, in what was intended to be a representative sample, to attend for examination. So far as it goes, the evidence obtained discloses no excess of high blood pressure among amputees and no material excess of cardio-vascular disease." The Rock Carling Committee, which was set up in July, 1950. published an interim report in April, 1951, and a final report in January, 1953. The conclusions published to-day are the result of pathological and clinical research undertaken later to check variations in particular groups that had been noted.

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