Graf Spee
Sir, —Considerable resentment, apparently, has been aroused in England because the Germans have named a former British ship the Graf Spee. What hypocrites we can be at times! Apart from the fact that, so far as is known, there was nothing dishonourable in the career of either of the original Teutonic nobleman of that name or of the pocket battleship that succumbed in the River Plate, how many names are blithely commemorated in the British Navy and elsewhere whose associations may well have offended the susceptibilities of other nations? And anyway, why should any grown-up nation care a fig about such childish trivialities?—Yours, etc, ILAM. February 13, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28820, 14 February 1959, Page 3
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