Jingo Hypocrisy

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 31, 1 August 1923, Page 4

Jingo Hypocrisy

On Monday morning; the ■ ,"N4J Times" 'leading! article /oerjated tha United Stjates for a muinber of ail j lieged deficiencies. Afep-brdr'mg. to \m ["Times" the tragic conditions qM tainfeig in th,e Near Bast which, M every informed person knows, are ty res-lilt of Lloyd conspiracies and despotisms, must be' largely attributed to the United Slates owing to thvslr refusal to accept a mandate over Armenia!. Tiity takes the biscuit for hypocrisy. For years politicians of the Lloyd George variety, pulpiteers ami capitalist' piviss editors combined to ' the belief that among the miain bods for Britain's war against Tarkey was the des?r e "to save Christian' Armenia from the horrors of perlodidj massacre. But when the war was ■over, and Britain had the power to "attempt something on behalf of the Armenians, she, or rather her blacw scuard politicians, were quite cor. tent 'to let them go to the devil. Tha Armenians only came into the pl<jl ture during the "peace" negotiate cm when the Allied politicians propose! «.n American mandate over them, ani 'this not unselfishly, but because tbe| possessed noth'ng which Franco aril Britain could steal. As Com man del jiCemvorthy blurted out in the Com! j mens: "There is no oil in Armenia!! | America has sins enough in all conf I science, but the "Times M would "jj J better clearing up the rascal?i'-es o| the British doorstep. I