EAST EUROPE
Sir, —I support the contentions of “A.H.S.H.” in your last Wednesday’s issue. Surely not since the great Belgian melodrama of 1914 have we been subjected to such maudlin sob-hooey as we have had this last few weeks. The technique bears all the evidence of a wilful subsidy to violence, treachery, and general mayhem, under the influence of a wonder drug called freedom. Thus everything can be forgiven and absolved because it is “popular.” What a filthy heresy this is can be seen by applying it to our own history. But to a people whose freedom-drugged conception of history is limited to about two years infancy, our own bloody suppressions of revolts in Scotland, Ireland, India—and even in Australia we had Eurekawell, one is born every minute, for ignorance.—Yours, etc., COLONEL PRIGG. December 23, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28160, 26 December 1956, Page 3
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136EAST EUROPE Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28160, 26 December 1956, Page 3
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