SHOOTING OF ASKARIS
Sir, —My letter was not just blather about British prestige, as A. F. Williams suggests, but encompassed depths which Mr Williams apparently could not fathom. From the tone of some letters, one wonders if the writers were born British, and if so, when and how they went astray. Perhaps A. F. Williams wouldn’t mind being harnessed to a rickshaw, or jumping to the crack of a Nazi whip, or being regimented into a job under the everwatchful eye of the Ogpu; because if any of these people were permitted power as Britain has known it, this could happen here. Britain, with all her faults, has had a broad-minded tolerance and a sense of sportsmanship not properly understood by other nations.—Yours, etc., T BRITISH. January 16, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25085, 17 January 1947, Page 2
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