BEVERIDGE AND A.B.C.A.
Sur,—As writer of one of the letters to which Mr. Harold Nicolson refers may I publicly express appreciation of his outstanding "Marginal Comment" in your issue of January 22nd on the A.B.C.A. Beveridge Report pamphlet? In so doing I know that I am but voicing the whole- hearted gratitude of those thousands of my generation who as war-time soldiers are giving of their best and who ask merely to be treated by the civil community as equals and co-partners in the common strife. Mr. Nicolson's admirable broad-mindedness and depth of understanding are all the more refreshing when contrasted with Sir James Grigg's inadequate statement to the House of Commons this week. That a matter of such national importance as the Beveridge Report should be viewed from the angle of " possible political controversy " (to quote the War Minister's words) is, to put it mildly, a depressing augury of the loudly proclaimed parliamentary debate which our soldiers have to await before discussing the subject in their A.B.C.A. periods.—Yours faithfully, CORPORAL. London.
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