Butler's problem in reconciling 'the common duties of your profession with the higher instincts of your nature.'; Blunt will not blame him for taking paid employment in the Army; Blunt has never been 'a peace at any price believer'; but the British Empire presently recognises only self-interest, due to 'mongrelising of the race through the admission of all sorts of foreign elements into our body politic.'; Blunt belongs to a 'remote generation' and has 'no business to be living at all in the XXth century.'; his father fought in the Peninsular War, was wounded at Corunna; glad Lord Curzon speaks out against Russian aggression against Persia