THESE NOTES TRY TO ASSESS THE DEEPER CAUSES OF Mr Major's electoral victory in the light of the Silent Revolution which is rapidly changing statecraft now all over the world. It is a lucky coincidence that the coming to power of Mr Major's own government takes place at the same time as the beginning of a new era in the organization of human affairs — the ‘no-more-world-wars’ era and its pragmatic spirit. Thus the readjustments and the innovations which the new British government may set in motion for the recovery of Britain will fit into the global changes already taking place. This, of course, assuming that the world policy-makers take up and strengthen the positive tendencies open now to the world, and the British policy-makers actively coordinate their national efforts with the overall transnational transformation in course, and indeed synchronically make Britain's impact on them. For every little bell tolls now for the world's thee, and the British bell sounds loudly enough.