BRITISH POLICY

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 99, 17 December 1943, Page 6

BRITISH POLICY

APPEASEMENT CHARGE

SOVIET DOMINATION SEEN

An allegation that, in spite of her present military vigour, Britain is still dominated by a policy of appeasement^this time of the United States and Russia, instead of Germany—is made by F. A. Voigt, author, and editor of The Nineteenth Century and After, in a signed editorial in the December issue of that journal. This is reported by the London office of the Sydney Morning Herald.

"Russia," says Mr Voigt, "is determined to achieve an effective hegemony, with the (Object of dominating the Central European industrial area and securing access to the Atlantic and the Aegean, and, perhaps, through Slovenia, to the Adriatic. * '

"The foreign policy of a nation is always determined by its governing class, and, if that class is in process of abdication — as England's governing class is—its foreign policy will be a policy ,of appeasement. And today, in spite of her military vigour and initiative, Great Britain's foreign policy has neither vigour nor initiative. It is a policy of appeasement, as it was before the war— appeasement no longer of Germany, but of the United States and Russia. ' ■ ,

Matter Concerns Empire - "Great Britain is committed to Europe, and the preponderance of any one Power in Europe is a matter that concerns Aer future and that of her Empire." Arguing that the Russians have no use for German Communists or Social-Democrats, Mr Voigt points out that the colours used at the opening ceremony of the Free Ger-