Excerpt from The New Outlook
No one who has recently discussed social or political questions with any of our fellow-countrymen can have failed to notice a deep underlying feeling of irritation and disappointment. It pervades all classes, and though its expression takes different forms, it all comes back to this: We hoped for a changed world ; we were told that the Armistice was the beginning of a new era; poverty, overcrowding, ignorance, preventable disease were to be driven out with the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns; England was to be made a land fit for heroes. But in fact everything is much the same as before. Wages are higher, but so are prices and taxes. We see the same old disputes between capital and labour. Poverty and disease, overcrowding and insanitary dwellings, are as bad as or worse than they were before; and heroes must be easily satisfied if this is all that can be done for them.
Nor is the outlook abroad at all more comforting. A year after the Armistice wars and rumours of wars are still distracting Europe. British troops are, or till very recently were, still engaged in Russia, in the Caucasus, in Syria, in Mesopotamia, in Persia.
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