they have a great potential for mischief. They have also a great potential for good, which way they develop will depend to an enormous extent on the sympathy and understanding, which they receive from us. If our first reaction to their utterances is to put them in the wastebasket, we shall get nowhere. If it is to assume that there is really something at the bottom of them and to make a genuine effort to find out what it is, we and they will be able to work together for the good of the country. {Bourdillon, 1942