"Norta-Cuma Datty News"
Dear LP.,—Even though bearing in mind the exhortation by H.M. Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, "not to allow our minds to be deflected by hypothetical things that have not arisen," which he declared in winding up the House of Commons debate the other day on Far. Eastern events, I am nonetheless assailed with a gnawing doubt concerning the tall end of Reuter's summary published by your collaborators, Reuter's report quotes Mr. Anthony Eden, H.M. Foreign Secretary, as closing with. these words:
To tal: now about what will be included and excluded from the Brussels Conference in advance will be most unwise. We have a definite agenda given us by the League, and the proper procedure to follow is, in consultation With other signatories of the Treaty, who will all be present, to do the utmost lying in our power to discharge its mandate."
The italics in the last lines are mine. I might add that Mr, iden's ultimate and perhaps most cryptic remark of all, as Reuter reports it, is that, "It the conference fails, then we shall enter into a mew situation, which we shall have to contemplate.
What I want to know and seek from your experts on F.O. business, is if this is all evidence of a new tendency in Christendom or a fresh approach to Buddhism, Nirvana and all that? Or not? If so, what? Also, why?
ALOYSIUS M. HIMMELBACHSTEIN JR.
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P.S, Could you alo ask Little Audrey about all
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