British spies

Press, 27 November 1979, Page 16

British spies

Sir. — Poor Anthony Blunt, savaged by Margaret Thatcher, whose party under Baldwin and Chamberlain favoured blitzkrieg against the Spanish people by Hitler and Mussolini. There were no profits for private enterprise in saving Spanish democracy. Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement was not cowardice, but support for big business, so that British supplies for Hitler continued into 1939, while all news of horror camps was censored. In 1941, well after the Battle of Britain, I saw little sacrifice by the wealthy in England, and in South Africa, with no rationing except petrol (but I drove cars powered with cane spirit, or ethanol, at tenpence a gallon), shortages were ameliorated by diverting New Zealand meat and Australian butter, while German industry was kept going with industrial diamonds through Angola. Hitler’s entire nickel requirements went through Switzerland from New Caledonia. Where was the real treachery? — Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. November 24, 1979.