SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL AND THE RUSSIANS

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27538, 21 December 1954, Page 3

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL AND THE RUSSIANS

Sir. —O. M. Brundall’s charges of “clouding the issue” spring from his own scrupulous avoidance of facts, and reliance on “smearing” of any government that even softly treads on the toes of big business. Recently the technique was used effectively to overthrow the huge majority, mildly reformist, government of Guatemala in the interests of the American United Fruit Company—7o per cent, of the population being promptly disfranchised. It was the British and French Tories who handed over the Czech people to the “kind and humane” Nazis, not the Soviet. It was big business which collaborated with the Nazis, not the working people. In the words of Mr Zilliacus, former Labour member of Parliament for Gateshead, the regime “is the unaided work of the undivided Czechoslovak working class, acting through its trades unions and political parties.” How does your Correspondent reconcile his belief with the fact that defeated Finland is still capitalist?—Yours, etc., JOHN STEPHENS. December 20, 1954.