[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford144","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Jul 21st","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford144","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Anglo-German","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford144","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford144.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffWhat you say about Roy Jenkins and the\ndeath penalty links up with what is fundament-\nally wrong in this country. IT NO LONGER MATTERS\nWHETHER ONE IS VIOLENT,LAZY,RUDE OR INEFFICIENT.\nA sentimentally paternal and permissive society\nsays:\"Oh well,the poor dears can\u2019t help it,that\u2019s\nthe way they\u2019re made\" As you remark pseudo-\npsycholology. Naturally,the thinking then goes like\nthis \"strike down your friends as they\u2019ll xxxxxxx\nprobably try to remain friendly, anyway; and\ngrovel to your enemies.\" I\u2019ve been reading a very\ngood book:John Hander\u2019s OUR GERMAN COUSINS and\nI\u2019d like to quote what he says about Appeasement\nin the 30* s:\n\n....the roots of Appeasement lie deep: they lie\nin the English penchant for wishful-thinking,\nthey lie in English easy-goingness and toler-\nance, they lie in that insularity which for\nthe greatest part of our history has been our\ngreatest boon,but which over the past century\nhas proved,arguably,our greatest curse.\n\nThat\u2019s only one of dozens of brilliant observat-\nion on Anglo-German relations, xxx attitudes and\nhistory. I bought the book for Herta but have\nread it avidly myself.\n\nWell,that a\u2019 the noo. See you Wednes. at\n\"Gaiety\".\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n\nNice p.c. from Jack\n","Type":"Text"}}]