BOMBS ON BABIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 8

BOMBS ON BABIES.

"Truth at all •Cost*" can have the following mouthful for nothing. In the first place, as to the bombing of babies. we have the fact: (a) That it was a Lloyd George-Churchill Government (the two men who are now the leaders of the English Left campaign against Franco) which decided, in 1917, that the bombing- of the rierman civilian population must be regarded as incidental and inevitable, the same pair pursuing the Mime course in their Black and Tan campaign in Ireland, only more so; and fact (b) that, to the bombing business, there is. nothing to choose, between the Republicans and Franco, the Republican bomb on the market place at Cabra, on November 9, resulting, for instancy, in the death of 36 women and children. In the second place, as to blockading food ships, we have the fact (a) that it was a Lloyd GeorgeChurcliill Government that instituted the blockade against Germany in the Great War, a policy which resulted in the death rate from starvation of 1000 Germans daily, children being first reduced t-o skeletons with the ghastly symptoms of hunger madness; and the fact (h) that it was Stalin of Moscow ■who. at the time cf the 1932-33 Russian famine, blockaded the peasants of Russia—that ia to say. stopped wheat from being imported— which resulted in millions of peasants dying from starvation in conditions of indescribable horror; some of the pictures of this diabolical crime are available in Dr. Ammende's book, "Human Life in Russia," obtainable at the Public Library. In the last place, we have the fact (a) that Franco's Government, according to the judgment of Lord Justice Slesser, constituted a sovereign State, competent to wage war; and the fact (b) that nobody has yet been able to prove that Franco has done anything that would not be done without compunction by any Brass Hat in the British Army. fci short, if Franco is a blackguard. then we are all blackguards. IRISH.