WAR GUILT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 63, 11 September 1943, Page 6

WAR GUILT

Sir, —In a paragraph under this heading in Monday's "Post," Mr. F. L. Frost, the Labour candidate for New Plymouth, at a meeting in Waitara, is alleged to have quoted his own written statement that "Chamberlain and Hitler were equally responsible for the war."

No more cruel and untrue statement could have been made by a responsible party politician. If Mr. Frost will obtain a copy of "The Unrelenting Struggle," war speeches by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, he will see that on November 12, 1940, that greatest of all British Prime Ministers gave his opinion of the late Neville Chamberlain. One quotation will suffice to contradict Mr. Frost's accusation: "It fell to Neville Chamber lain in one of the supremest crises of the world to be contradicted by events, to be disappointed in his hopes, and to be deceived and cheated by a wicked man.

. . . What was that faith that was abused? They were surely among the most noble and benevolent instincts of the human heart—the love of peace, the toil for peace, the strife for peace, the pursuit of peace even at great peril and certainly to the utter disdain of popularity or clamour. . . . We can be sure that Neville Chamberlain strove ... to save the world from the awful devastating struggle in which we are now engaged."

Your readers will surely take the testimony of Winston Churchill rather than the wild unsubstantiated statements of Mr. Frost.—l am, etc.,

BIRMINGHAM,