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"... you are a practical pacifist, which is an excellent thing to be."

BR hopes Peter will accept John's invitation for a weekend during the Xmas holidays. BR was "greatly troubled by the fracas, for which I was to blame."

"I don't think you ought say you can't make yourself useful in a house. In these days the social system is changing so fast that you are bound to have to learn; it is not so hard at your age as at mine. And social justice demands it."

BR could speak "to your people" on a Saturday, if before Xmas; he will be much less busy afterwards. Or BR could on Monday the 18th (December 1944), when he has the BBC from 1 to 3:30. "What should be my subject?"

John's people are perhaps a group in the British navy.