ABSTRACT
What, then, is the real basis for the attitude which maintains a state of incipient war against the Communist country? Historically, one may see in it a repetition of the panic created among the English ruling classes by the French Revolution. In the course of last century, however, the dreaded words ‘Liberty, Fraternity, Equality’ did come to seem harmless enough. Now the Communists have, in effect, revived the once ominous creed with 70promises of how, by the destruction of capitalism, it may at last be rendered effective. They have challenged our time-honoured rights of property, and every year of the success of the Communist régime makes the challenge more unanswerable and more dangerous. It is the voice of a great fear which speaks through British policy and public opinion. Do we then in our secret hearts feel there may be some measure of truth in the Communists’ conviction that our Order of Society has become out of date and is destined to be replaced by something better?
