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India Office,  
                                                            
 
Whitehall.  
                                                            
 
                      30th July, 1942.                      
 
                                                            
 
 
                 My dear Mr. Myron Taylor,                  
 
                                                            
 
 
I think the only way in which I can attempt to answer the interesting  
and vital queries which you raised in your letter of July 21st is to do so  
entirely on my own personal responsibility without attempting to discuss the  
matter with Anthony Eden or any colleague. I have no idea in fact how far   
their minds have shaped on these questions, or how far they would wish any   
halfformed opinions of theirs to be treated as if they were really definite.  
So you must take whatever I say now as purely the view of one who is not   
directly concerned in the formation of British foreign policy, or in the   
         British Government's plans for the future.         
 
                                                            
 
 
I have always myself strongly shared the view expressed by Briand in   
1929 that the problem of Europe requires treating by itself and in both its   
economic and political aspects simultaneously. Indeed, I have always held   
that you cannot separate economics from politics in the future world in the  
way in which the Free Traders of the Nineteenth Century thought you could.   
 Commonwealth, i.e. without any surrender of sovereignties, 
 
                                                            
 
 
Exactly what Europe for these purposes should include seems to me   
        something that cannot be wholly fixed at the