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or more, will have to elapse before the old feeling of confidence is re-established.

Our Foreign Office, and War Office too, are badly informed
about the internal situation of Spain, but Kingsley Wood tells me that
the German aeroplane is nowhere compared with the Italian instrument.
The Russian equipment sounds dull and is probably badly handled. Our
Government is violently criticised about its attitude on neutrality,
and upon my word, impartiality has served us badly! We were impartial
in the Chinese-Japanese trouble, then in Abyssinia, now in Palestine &
also in Spain; and the net result is that we seem to have earned the
enmity of China and Japan, of the Italian and the Ethiopian, of Moslem
and Jew, of Communist and Fascist alike. Surely our virtue is ill-rewarded.

I am intrigued by your visit to the "Communal clubs of the
Central-European oddments" in the Prairie cities. Does this mean that,
they are not getting assimilated? There is a curious state of things
in South Africa, which is getting into a regular panic lest further
persecution of Jews in Poland or Germany will be followed by an exodus
to the Cape. All parties combine to deprecate this and to check it by
legislation. Anti-Semitism is growing apace here at home. Many people
delude themselves by thinking it is no more than a fad of Oswald Mosley
and his over-dressed partizans. We have even passed a pretentious bill
to forbid political uniforms. But the real movement of racial hostility