Czechoslovakia

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31774, 3 September 1968, Page 14

Czechoslovakia

Sir, —Futile as it may seem, this correspondence exists mainly for people to register a protest at the rape of Czechoslovakia. It Is hardly time for sarcasm, vendettas, or blatant insults. “1.5. T. a self-elected arbiter of “useful and intelligent letters,” has found epistles of such quality between my “magisterial omniscience” and the “amusing absurdities” of “Vostock.” “LT.” at the time of another subject presumed defunct but now reincarnated found my letter “more than ordinarily obtuse,” also among a particular batch, and was also observed “to make it abundantly clear to the meanest intelligence.” “1.5. T. in his endeavour to illustrate other “facets of the situation” does so by irrelevant retrospection to events of 20 years ago. Quo Vadis, Russki, Rumania! If so, it will be no bloodless coup.—Yours, etc., GEORGE KELLY. August 31, 1968.

Sir, —My prediction of a week or so ago that the invasion of Czechoslovakia was the prelude to further operations by the Bolshevik marauders appears to have been well founded, and there is nothing to stop the further progress of this evil force—or is there? Reinforcements by the West of men and materials will prove useless against the Russian hordes, and the only deterrent capable of stopping the further plundering of defenceless countries is to supply the nation they dread the most— Germany—with nuclear weapons and the means to use them. This will obviously raise cries of horror from the multitude of United Nations supporters, the churches, and all Soviet sympathisers throughout the world, but the alternative can only be the enslavement of the free world by easy stages until someone will eventually be obliged to press the fatal button to put us all out .of our misery.— Yours, etc., L.G.W. September 2, 1968.