U.S. And Britain

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30043, 30 January 1963, Page 3

U.S. And Britain

Sir,—Contrary to ••Citizen's’* assumption that only the United Stater and Ri»®a are 'capable ot giving large aid to newjy-iodepend-ent nations.” Great Britain has done more to prepare more people for independent self-government than the United States, Russia, or the United Nations. In the evolution of the British ftaptre into a great Commonwealth of free nations, Britain employed to good purpose her unrivalled resources ot experience in the advancement of under-developed Haitians. Neither the United States nor Russia possesses a fraction of Britain’s practical, hard-earned ability to aid emergent peoples. This kind of "know-how” on a world scale cannot be bought with dollars or roubles. During the last 25 yearn, under British guidance, nearly 600 milLon people have achieved sovereign independence as equal partners in a worldwide Commonwealth. There has been no comparable advancement ot Living standards, or of political, social and economic development on such a vest scale, in all recorded history.—Yours, etc., F.C. January 29. 1963.

Sir,—Once again I repeat it was the Communist-backed nationalists and not the Americans who saw to the premature destruction of the European empires. Perhaps B. B. Thompson and others still find it hard to face up to the fact that America leads

the Western aUnoc* and not Thp danHMtinft aod most powerfiM aottaMi throughout hautory have bad others under their aytMze ot iutiatooo. One* it waa BtnlaitK today U is America and Soviet Russia. BeGtoe Am— dram policy towards former colotriai territories is criticised, the critia shcuH ask themselves wtether it is peedembie Bor triose tenStocfes to baotxne Soviet aateWtea working against toe West, or is it better for them to be under American influence and working for the West?— Yours, ate.. CFITZZN. January ,29, 1963.