A NEW EXPORT TRADE.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 27 July 1933, Page 15

A NEW EXPORT TRADE.

TO THE EDITOB OF THE TRESS. Sir, —Now the closure has been applied to this little discussion, my communist friends and opponents must excuse my brief farewell. There are no fewer than four of them, and 1 have not the courage to ask for space for a courteous reply to each. And then we must remember that "The Press" has been generous to us in the latitude it has given. Let me say to "Justice" that the distinction between the Soviet system and the Comintern does not interest me and does not affect this discussion on an export trade in the communist ranters who weary us at outdoor meetings and In the correspondence columns of newsDaDers. We want to

get rid of these noisy ones, and I am, willing to do my little bit towards j that fine work for the public interest.; He again proves to his own complete, satisfaction the supreme excellence ui the Soviet system. He should thank j me for being so willing to help in sending our communists to their! earthly paradise. But would they go? 1 I "hae my doots."' "Seeking the Truth" is a lady who, cites the cases of three communists: she knows. I do not doubt her story. Her three men are all admirable, but; I would wager that as against such! cases you will find at any communist ; meeting that the majority are of the' type I have described—men who will j neither work nor want, but continue j to get along somehow as parasites on j their fellows. Every sensible person! knows that is true. It has been my own experience. I have known a few; good men who professed sympathy; with the Soviet, but they were not; of the noisy ones I refer to—and they | were, for all their goodness, cranks' and faddists. I agree with "Anti-Bluff" that bothj the Soviet and its opponents have i specialised in lying on a wholesale: scale, but in that particular form the ; Soviet and its supporters are easily supreme. Again, like all his fellows,, he wanders from the point at issue! and gives us eulogies of the Soviet and all its works. That has, nothing to do with the projected export trade. And the eulogies are heavily discounted when we remember the reluc- j tance of the eulogists to go to the land i of their dreams. We have all read 1 how the Hutt communist' who con- i sented to be exported- has begun to raise new conditions. We expected that. Brought up by a challenge, they hedge or act like racecourse welsh ers. Is it any wonder decent people withhold respect from such characters. Mr J. H. Robinson is as irrelevant as the others. The discussion is not on the perfections or defects of the Soviet, not on the best means of sending to Russia, which they profess to adore, a mob of flatulent demagogues who weary us with their clamour. 1 am not classing my opponents in that mob, but they must often feel shame for their cause if they listen to the advocates who propound it—and evidently live by the game. If there are really good, level-headed pro-Soviets in our midst, why not take the advocacy from such riff-raff and present a reasoned case, which the intelligent man will listen to and consider, even if he docs not approve of it? Here we part, but it may be that we shall "meet at Philippi." In the meantime, the Mayor, I hope, is taking the hint. Perhaps he consulted with the Mayor of Hutt when he was in Wellington last week.—Yours, etc., CIVIS. July 26, 1933.