A DEFEATED GENERATION
Sut,—Apparently two conditions effected the self-realisation to which Mr. Rumbold refers. One was the knowledge that we were fighting for our lives. Danger fired the imagination and the will was touched to action. Secondly, the break with an industrial work-wage system which could scarcely stimulate the imagination of a mouse was in itself so startling to most young men—and women—that it strengthened the imaginative drive.
These men and women will indeed, as your contributor says, " miss the triumphs and opportunities that war gave them,"—unless something more inspiring can be put before them than a paternal Beveridge Work- State and a mass of unco-ordinated plans—perhaps more designed to relieve the unemployment " problem " than to build a Britain fit for the inheritors of a great tradition. Only one Party in England has a programme capable both of rousing the imagination, and of breaking for ever with the soul-deadening work-wage slavery, still too often regarded as a sine qua non of civilised organisation. The fighting pro- gramme of the Social Credit Party outlines a Britain regenerated in which every individual may attain self-realisation. Social Credit unlocks the
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