"BELOW THE BELT"

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 90, 12 October 1929, Page 8

"BELOW THE BELT"

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—The four Wellington Labour members of Parliament replied last night to Mr. Davy on the subject of responsibility for the Government's unemployment pol- ! icy. Without wishing to enter into the controversy I am drawnr—as probably many other readers felt drawn—to deplore the scurrilous treatment meted out to a political enemy by Messrs. Chapman, Eraser, Semple, and M'Kcen. The Labour Party's greatest enemy is I to be found within itself—extremism. Its representatives' reply to Mr. Davy is the literary counterpart to extremism in polities. It is red literature. Phrases such as the "garbage tin of his mentality," seeks refuge in a noisome accumulation ot puerile personalities and peevish piffle," he foams and raves," "like liquid mud, he can only rise to his own level," mephitic • mountebank mouthings," are the growth of red literature and, like red politics, they carry no weight with the average person. On the contrary, they simply, disgust. They represent an order of political literature which was buried, solar as British politics are concerned,1 laO years ago, and which I < venture to suggest the public do not wish to see resurrected. If the Labour Party are interested in the opinion of those , people who, like myselt though not one of them, at least watch their proceedings with sympathetic interest, they might take this to heart when committing themselves to printthat no amount of cleverness will compensate for the lack of moderation and temperance. The letter in question was headed by y°.n labour Hits Out." I have headed j mine "Below the Belt."—l am, etc., ,„.._., J. GEOttGE. 12th October. /