The deeper implications of evacuation are the subject of thoughtful articles by Denis Gwynn in The Clergy Review and by the Rev. Gilbert Shaw- (of Poplar) in Christendom. Mr. Gwynn sees in the event a challenge and an opportunity for English Catholicism of as great moment as the Irish Immigration; Mr. Shaw sees in it the preliminary stage to a social revolution of the first magnitude which holds immense possibilities both for good and for evil. Both articles should serve to offset the facile idea current in some quarters that evacuation is a ‘leftist plot to divide families and debauch children’—as The Cross and the Plough ironically describes it. ‘ Failed ‘as evacuation is alleged to have done in its immediate purpose, it is still true, as Mr. Shaw concludes, that ‘there can be no return to 1938 . . . The future is pregnant with possibilities. The one thing that is certain is that if the situation is allowed to drift, however good the intentions of those who would muddle through, the end can only be the hastening of the break-up of society.’

The Editorial in Christendom opens with an obvious but pertinent and qualified repudiation of the ‘united nation’ protestations, whose very frequency are perhaps their own repudiation. The point is illustrated by a lengthy critique of one of the Editor’s own more emphatically ‘non-comformist’ contributors. The debate is interesting and, we hope, will continue. Mr. Mackinnon, in drawing attention to the importance of Drucker’s ‘End of Economic Man,’ insists that there is ‘no way back from Hitler.’