POLITICAL ISSUES.

Evening Star, Issue 23352, 23 August 1939, Page 18

POLITICAL ISSUES.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —“ Equilibrium ” says I have not refuted his arguments. I certainly have; but on his part he has sidestepped all mine. Let him answer mine in sequence. What about that, £750,000,000 remitted to France and Italy? Who has financed Hitler and who is granting the credits for the huge increase of iron ore supplied since the Munich debacle so ably set forth tonight by Mr MacManus? Concerning Sir John Simon, neither be nor any man on earth is worth £40,000 per annum, and if bo is a Cabinet Minister be is paid for it, and bis business goes on; it has not put up the shutters. I would take on bis Cabinet iob to-morow for £SOO per annum. Millions of men between 1914 and 1918 sacrificed not

£40,000. but their lives, for anything from 2d to Is a day, and if “ Equilibrium ” will read the Book of Job ho will find the devil said to God: “Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath, will he give in exchange for his life.” Would Sir J. Simon change places with the conscripts at Is Gd a day? I think the verdict reeontlv given at Dartford in favour of Mr *V. Bartlett among others disproves the statement that the country was united in support of the Chamberlain Government. “ Equilibrium ” asks what would I suggest should be done. The question is What should have been done long ago. not with an umbrella, but a pen. Mr Chamberlain should have stood by the signatories of the League, not the aggressors. If he had the desire to stretch both the left and right wing the direction of the flight should have been not Munich, but Paris, Prague, and Moscow. What would “ Equilibrium ” think had Mr Penes flown to London and coerced Mr Chamberlain to hand over Lancashire to Hitler? If the Chamberlain policy in 1938-39 is right, then “ appeasement ’* and not war for “ gallant little Belgium ” should have been the policy in TOM. Honesty is the best policy for all time.-—I am. etc,, COM.KCTIVK SIXI'JiJTV, August 23.