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things might move much quicker than any of us expect or hope for in this line. We would have none of the old men, shibboleths or tags. It would be a plum fresh start, & not a case of reforming ranks or patching up, & I'm certain once the country trusted us, you would be Prime Minister in two elections. I am convinced one could get the circulation up to ½ million in no time, & it would go on growing like a snowball, & we should have our organisation going before anybody else started. I think everybody would come with you, bar the old party scoundrels. This is probably all drivel to you, & you have

long ago thought out your programme & got it all cut & dried, but I should like to have another talk to you sometime. Don't you go into those trenches again. I look like being unable to get out before March, & it may be over by then, in which case I shall have to live in this world somewhere, & if people like you are not about then to get hold of us & show us how we can start to remake England, then I for one do not want to live. I trust none of the old party men. Would to heaven I was properly educated, but we can all help I suppose in someway or another. I'm sure I'm only 1 of a million who feel like this. But I wander. Now don't you think that we should have made a big start (by we I mean all honest & sincere men) if there was a paper that people trusted & which they felt had no axe to grind. We are putting that "Officers Appeal" in next week, going to press tomorrow

Monday, and we want to make as few a mistakes as possible from then onwards. I think we want to get the touch of being absolutely sound & yet knowing a good deal, moderate at all times, & as Vincent says you are the man. The Wind Vane as I have told O'neill who writes it, wants to be so that it gives the working man something he can understand & make him think that he knows something or has an idea that his mates, who have not read it, have not got, so that he can hold out to them, & manifest the depth of his knowledge. But I won't go on; I just ask you to think it over & see whether you think something big cannot be done. I feel it to be most important work, but unfortunately I am not the man. Nobody would know it was your brain until the right time & then you would sweep the country. Will you read over "The Officers Appeal" & if any alteration occurs to you would you ring up Ger[ar]d 4283 & tell Vincent. I shall be up tomorrow

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& if you could give me ¼ an hour in the afternoon or anytime Tuesday we could discuss matters, if you could see your way in directing this paper, so that it is ready for you when the time comes. At present we want to make it helpful to the masses, & if properly done I believe in 6 months time any honest man will be able to talk to ½ million or even a million other honest people of all classes. Look what [Horatio] Bottomley has done & he's a wrong 'un, & people are fed up with him. but there seems nobody else for them to turn to.

With renewed thanks & hopes that you will see your way

Yours sincerely

George.H.Drummond

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I go up for a board next week or week after & I want to leave the paper in safe hands, and feel it is worth taking a lot of trouble over.