The Mood Is Sober

THE stirrings in the Foreign Office seem invariably to lead to microscopic results. This is unfortunate, he- cause this is the time to broaden and deepen dialogues with our neighbours, to get out of the old grooves of suspicion and fear. The comings and goings between Islamabad, Beijing and Delhi are described as assisting 'normalisation'. This may well be so, but we need more precise difinitions of what is normal.