BRITAIN DEFENDED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 43, 20 February 1942, Page 6

BRITAIN DEFENDED

DOROTHY THOMPSON ARTICLE

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Reci 1 p.m.) . NEW YORK, Feb. 19. In the "New York Post" the noted columnist Dorothy Thompson, in" a stirring article, today replies to critics of Britain over Singapore. ■ ' '*Yes, I read Cecil Brown [a Columbia Broadcasting Corporation commentator], and so did Goebbels," she says. "He's quoting him all over the place. "Yes, I know the show in Singapore wasn't so good. Yes, I know they didn't follow the scorched earth policy! "You can't feel worse about it than I did.. Just the same, I can't stand the cackling. "Who's calling who names? Is this war in the Far East the fault of the British? We talked for a year and a half-^-Ham Fish [the Hon. Hamilton ■Fish,: Republican, New York, a leading isolationist], with a German agent .'in his office, the America First Committee, • fiddled with Nazi agents— about, whether this was our war. SUPPORT FROM LONDON. "The British supported us in the Far East, not we the British. Do you remember Pearl Harbour? Were we so hot at Pearl Harbour? .'"Have you heard the British say a word against the.. Americans? Did they crow over Pearl Harbour? Did they ■tush into print ito talk about our smugness and complacency? "You don't, know what England means, my friend. England is very tired, and England is old, yet though it slay me I tell you this: England is the last refuge of the civilised soul. "In the hour of her greatest distress, her greatest disaster, I, an American, write these lines to England, and I say to England: 'In spite of Singapore, I sing with you, "Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free," and I sing with you "There'll Always be an England, and England will be free."'"