THE SERVICE VOTE
Slit,—I venture to send you the enclosed passage from a letter received from my son. He has been an aircraftsman in Egypt, mostly in Cairo, for over three years, and owing to his outside interests has been ;n touch with men of all ranks. I think his expression of opinion is probably representative. If you rare to quote it, I thought others might
be interested.—Yours faithfully, LILIAS M. JEFFRIES. ro Adelaide Crescent, Hove, Sussex.
" I hope Churchill will one day realise how deeply the Servicemen admired—yes, and loved—the magnificent war leader, but how inevitably he represented the social order which is gone. Whatever troubles these post-war years bring, and they will be many and hard, the unemploy- ment and exploitation of labour, added to the utter failure of the Government to prevent the continuation of the 1914-18 German War twenty years later; made a change of Government almost inevitable. It is in the irony of things that Churchill and Eden, the two strong men who saw what was happening in the 'thirties and protested, must
go with their Party which would not. If
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