Letter from Desmond Morton to WSC, on the political situation, particularly the Hoare-Laval peace terms. Commenting that he had canvassed friends in Government, who agreed that the terms were "sound", the concessions to Italy were within the limits of the original proposals of the Council of Five. "In spite of certain obvious faults we greatly prefer Italians to Ethiopians, who,...are far from being either Christians or civilised." Stating that Baldwin had sacrificed his friend [Hoare], not because Hoare had made an error, but because he believed "it was the only hope of saving his own skin". Commenting that the name of Baldwin was "mud", and there was an "astonishing reaction" against all politicians. "Were we at all inclined to fascism, now would be the time for a march on London", and that it was for the best that WSC was abroad, and took no part in the debates.