“Threat To Europe”

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31652, 11 April 1968, Page 10

“Threat To Europe”

Sir, —I appreciate the support of “Caractacus,” but do not see how I can be charged with overestimating the power of American propaganda, for I did not remotely discuss this. I am concerned with the ruthlessness of American acts. America could not be expected to accept any decision which was unfavourable to it, and a number of other "western” countries have defied the United Nations while the Communist countries, most unsportingly, have been quick to conform. The nation which incinerated civilians at Hiroshima rather than choose a military target, and which made an interesting experiment of Nagasaki with no possible military motive at all, is a constant menace to Europe. Without Russian determination, Berlin would ne another Tokyo presened solely by American Imperialism.—Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. April 10, 1968.

Sir, —History’s distortion becomes ugly when Varian J. Wilson charges the Americans with making sure that the 52 millions in their and the British zones became safe for Hitler - inspired capitalism. Efforts towards co-operation with Russia regarding its zone, so hastily converted to a Communist State, persevered until 1948. The Western zones then became the German Federal Republic. Mr Wilson may feel “glad” about Austria, but it was not until 1955 that the Russians left, on the condition that it remains neutral. The allegation that the constitutional government in Bonn smells of the Holy Roman Empire, Hitler’s gang, and the almighty dollar at its worst, should be clarified by Mr Wilson. Two days ago “the socialist State of the German nation” was reported from East Berlin to number 12 millions. Why are there 5 million fewer in this phoney “nation” than in 1948? —Yours, etc., A. B. CEDARIAN. April 10, 1968.