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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25309, 8 October 1947, Page 8

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Sir,—There is one thing remarkable about Mr Randolph Churchill, or any other European, explaining to us how to behave towards one another, and that is their colossal nerve. Europe at present explains how much they know about behaving towards one another. A few major earthquakes, plus some volcanic eruptions and tidal waves can do for us what Europeans .do for one another.—Yours, etc., H. J. BUTTLE. Darfield, October 7, 1947. Sir,—How many of these people who wish to criticise Mr Randolph Churchill and call him a war-monger for his warnings about the potential threat) from Communism remember the prophetic warnings made by his illustrious father just- a decade ago with regard to the threat from Nazism? In a similar manner was Mr Winston Churchill derided, dubbed a war-mon-ger. What an immensity of suffering would have been saved had but his countrymen and other democratic peoples heeded his words, and by strength warned Hitler instead of encouraging him by appeasement. Is life in the Communist police States so enjoyable that we wish for the same conditions in this country and in the remainder of the British Empire? But perhaps some of these people who write criticising Mr Churchill are the fifth columnists that he warns us about.—Yours, etc., ANTI-RED FASCIST. October 7. 1947.

Sir, —The Trades Council mountain has indeed brought forth a mouse. The Soviet Union’s military or intimidating record involving Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, China, Turkey, Persia, and Afghanistan, and her pact with, the cruel sub-human Nazi regime, 1939, are all shattering evidence confronting this Communistic catspaw, the Trades Council, in the utterly vain whitewashing of Sovietism, including the absurd assumption that “every thinking person” knows that the Soviet Union “had consistently advocated and worked for world peace” (with all the calamitous success of a bull in a china shop)! How long is the Labour Party going to tolerate its Trades Councils being used as stooges for a Communism which is so vehemently attacked by its own big shots from the Prime Minister downwards? Does Labour ever read the voluminous other side, where Soviet victims tell of cruelties and treachery enough to make strong men weep?— Yours, etc., TURNEMOUTSKI. October 7, 1947.

Sir, —If many of these strong unionists would take a genuine interest in world affairs and go and hear Mr Churchill, and take their wives, sons, or daughters of ’teen age, they could judge accordingly-. How many families are educated in’ the home to present-day affairs? Why, the slightest discussion of any overseas affairs seems to rub the wrong way. To speak of foreigners brings resentment from those who have never been out of this land, still in its infancy. To those protesting men I say take more interest in your own homes first, educate your own sons in a broad way, and don’t try to stint the wife of 5s a week and make war in the home.—Yours, etc., x _ MINNIE HA HA. October 7, 1947.

.. Slr -—lt is not surprising that many New Zealanders dislike Mr R. Churchill s speeches. Dreamers hate to have their pleasant dreams disturbed, and young children prefer the fairy stories of some old witch ta stern realities explained by a wise guardian who understands the world.—Yours, etc. _. . . LISSARDA. October 6, 1947.

Sir,—ln attempting to diagnose and Prescribe f . or current world ills. Miss M- G. Davies stresses the need fo>sound’ education. Will she be good enough to expound her concepts of a desirable form of education, and indicate in what respects she deems traditional forms of training to fall short?—Yours, etc. _ . „ WEE MACGREGOR. October 7, 1947.

Sir, —It seems a pity that some among us have so little of the spirit of freedom that they would prevent Mr Randolph Churchill from speaking, when they themselves are free to speak. There were some who, before the war, found fault with his father and were proved mistaken by events. For myself, I am glad that there is a Churchill to follow Churchill, a man fb speak honestly what he sincerely believes, who is not led by the nose by any faction or party, no slave to an ideology. He may be right or wrong; as Tacitus says, there are few who can tell the useful froth the harmful; but he may at least have freedom to speak. As for our noisy Communists, who accuse him of war-mongering, they are easily understood, damnably easily: “Moscow has said so; therefore it is so.”—Yours, etc., PRO BONO PUBLICOk October 7, 1947.